Visual Friends Radio - The Visual Facilitation Podcast Show
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingExploring how visualisation changes thinking, learning and collaboration
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Visual Friends Germany
November 20, 2020 05:00 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBMarcel van Hove shares story with us about his move back to Germany from Australia, and the birth of Visual Friends Germany. We discuss how as an entrepreneur and small business owner he has grown his Australasian business to a global business, Younito the new visual collaboration training created this year, and also how he's found niche opportunities during the global pandemic such as creating new training content to upskill German teachers to successfully use visualisation and technology t...
Younito
November 05, 2020 03:48 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBVisual Friends proudly announce their latest visualisation and collaboration training offering and visual dictionary app, Younito. We talk with Marcel van Hove and Danny Low of Visual Friends about where the idea for Younito came from, how it was developed, through to how it is implemented in class today. A visual dictionary app, aptly named Younito, has also been developed to compliment not only the training, but to share these unique sets of icons and templates with the wider visual com...
About #Scribeforward with Heather Martinez and Angelique McAlpine
May 20, 2020 02:21 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBOur conversation with two amazing generous visual practioners Angelique McAlpine and Heather Martinez about their initiative #ScribeForward. This is a unique and important project, born during the pandemic, to amplify and promote the work of visual practioners all over the world who currently volunteer their time and professional skill at events benefiting humanity.
About #Scribeforward with Heather Martinez and Angelique MacAlpine
May 20, 2020 02:21Our conversation with two amazing generous visual practioners Angelique MacAlpine and Heather Martinzes about their initiative #ScribeForward. This is a unique and important project, born during the pandemic, to amplify and promote the work of visual practioners all over the world who currently volunteer their time and professional skill at events benefiting humanity.
A Time of Change
April 24, 2020 03:45 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBA time of change is upon us, like none we have seen for generations. A time of vulnerability, but also opportunity too. In this episode of Visual Friends Radio we're joined by Marcel van Hove and Danny Low of the Visual Friends team to talk about how they're focusing on adaptability, innovation and channeling their creative power during the current pandemic.
Global Icon Jam
March 16, 2020 04:20 - 20 minutes - 27.5 MBWhat could be better than an Icon Jam? A Global Icon Jam! We talk with Brisbane based Bikablo trainer Danny Low, Auckland based Visual Coach Yuliya Schamrel, and Visual Facilitator and Bikablo trainer Gill Cromhout from Breaking Ground Learning and Development in Cape Town about this exciting collaborative intercontinental event held in January 2020.
On Bikablo Advanced with our trainer Danny Low
February 17, 2020 00:25 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBInterview with our Brisbane trainer Danny Low about Visual Friends' new training - Bikablo Advanced. What you will learn, who it is useful for and how this traninig has come about.
On courage with graphic scribe, illustrator and visual facilitator Alice Edy
November 29, 2019 04:24 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode we are talking to a talented graphic scribe, an illustrator and visual facilitator Alice Edy about courage. Alice dared greatly and ended up scribing for Brene Brown herself. She tells us how overcoming fear has helped her create important career opportunities for herself, shares her advice about preparing emotionally for a scribing session and gives us her tips about failing publicly and how you can't grow creatively without making mistakes. We loved talking to Alice abo...
Kate Baxter on using the graphic skills to live your dream
October 17, 2019 02:59 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBIn the latest episode of Visual Friends podcast we interview talented and fabulous Kate Baxter – a recognised expert in the global community of visual practitioners and an amazing graphic facilitator with passion for all things digital. Learn about how Kate, a reluctant and shy scribe with background in fine art, went from thinking she can’t do it to successfully scribing for big clients all around the world. Find out what helped her transition from scribing on a white board to nailing it as...
Helping yourself and others through the power of the pen by Sarah Firth
September 03, 2019 09:12 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBI met Sarah Firth when I moved to Australia the second time in 2013 and she was for me THE graphic recorder and I admired and still admire the great art she produces. Sarah is an award-winning comic artist, graphic recorder, writer and animator based in Melbourne. We learn how she grew up in Canberra and later travelled the world. We hear about sketchnoting and how it helped her to focus in school. How she started to have a career as an artist and how she got into graphic recording around 20...
Yuliya and Marcel about our new 60 day coaching program
May 23, 2019 06:44 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBAn interview with Visual Friends co-founder, Marcel van Hove and one of our visual coaches, Yuliya Schamrel about a new and exciting program for our students - The 60 Days of Coaching. If you ever wanted to take visualisation skills to the next level, refresh your bikablo technique or develop a work related visualisation project, this is for you. Hosted by Natalia Tsygankova.
Melaine D'Cruze about Visualising Learning for Kids
March 12, 2019 09:47 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBMelaine D'Cruze has been a visual thinker all her life. Through her school years and her career, she always took visual notes and doodled to focus and to remember ideas. She didn't know that there was actually a professional field for visual thinking until one day when she discovered the TED Talk from Sunni Brown, Doodlers, unite! Melaine read the book, subscribed to an online course from the Doodle Institute, read several books and through that became a very good sketch note taker. She ...
Let's letter together with Heather Martinez
February 07, 2019 11:59 - 1 hour - 107 MBA couple of words about Heather Martinez. Heather likes to live in the countryside and currently lives in Durango, Colorado in the USA. Heather is a visual practitioner and graphic recorder but is also an Agile guy like me or Danny. She spends a lot of her time running virtual lettering classes for visual practitioners on LetsLetterTogether.com where you can improve your lettering skills on a 1:1 based via Zoom. Additionally, she will be offering 2 online courses associated with her new boo...
Danny Low from Visual Friends about Visualise Legal Contracts, Agile Coaching & Kung-Fu
November 27, 2018 12:39 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBLet me introduce to you Danny Low. Danny is not only a bikablo® trainer and partner at the Visual Friends. He is also a very good friend of mine and in many ways, we are very similar. We talk a bit about that but we forgot to talk about one great story. So in the early days when I met Danny, he told me that he will take time off and travel with his family around the world. He told me that he would like to pass on some of the experiences he and his wife Anna had and to show the kids the world....
Dean Meyers - Be Brave and Iterate
November 13, 2018 10:27 - 1 hour - 55 MBDo you remember the time when Apple was founded or maybe have seen the movie ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’? Until I met Dean, I never had met a person who worked at Apple at that time when the first Macintosh and with that the first graphical user Interface (GUI) was released to the world. Dean knew that someone had to explain this new GUI-thing and therefore probably was one of the first trainers on the planet to teach how to use a GUI. What strikes me when talking to Dean is his wide rang...
Sunni Brown - Believe in Yourself and Design Your Life (Part 2 of 2)
September 22, 2018 04:37 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThis is the second part of the interview with Sunni Brown record on the 18th of September 2018: In the first part of this episode, you learnt a lot about Sunnis Brown's life and her early years as an entrepreneur from strangling to make a living to be one of the top speaker and best-selling author in the field. We followed her journey step by step, from working for the Grove, one of the first visual thinking consultancies on the planet before she moved to Austin, Texas where she started he...
Sunni Brown - Believe in Yourself and Design Your Life (Part 1 of 2)
September 21, 2018 13:07 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBIn this new episode, you will learn a lot about Sunnis Brown’s life and her early years as an entrepreneur from strangling to make a living to be one of the top speaker and best-selling author in the field. For example, when Sunni was quite young she wrote to her mum a letter and told her that she either wants to become a doctor or - if that doesn’t work the president of the united states. This might seem like a funny kids letter but this letter has guided Sunni through her life. Not growin...
Jill Greenbaum about how to coach teenagers to find the right college
September 09, 2018 09:17 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBImagine the following: In order to make the most of the opportunity to attend a visual practitioner conference for the first time - you write a book, bring it along and sell it there. This might sound a bit crazy but this is exactly what Jill Greenbaum did when she attended her first IFVP conference in Pittsburgh in 2012 and it has worked out quite well as Jill is selling her book “How to Major in You and Find the Right College” ever since. But of course, Jill didn’t write a book out of the...
How to spark the visual revolution inside your company
February 23, 2018 14:43 - 6 minutes - 5.63 MBYou probably agree with me when I say you can’t change people! Even if you have the best idea on the planet not everyone will stop working in the old way and jump onto the new idea immediately. If that would be the case all people in the Tech-Industry would be Lean-Agile-Design-Thinking-Visual Facilitators. So what can we do to inspire others and facilitate change? First, let’s talk about why not everyone follows you… Every Person is Different I often experience that people might not liste...
John Hibble about how to become an awesome group facilitator
December 04, 2017 10:49 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBI think I have to confess something to you guys. April this year I recorded an amazing podcast with John Hibble about his venture, The Facilitation Starter. John Hibble is an experienced facilitator with more than 10 years in the field. After I recorded this podcast in April my life became quite busy as I started building a house in May and had a newborn baby in July. That is the reason why this podcast stayed on my hard drive for quite a while. Now it's time to unveil this great conversatio...
Introduction into Symbolic Thinking (Part 2/2)
July 24, 2017 10:26 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis is the second part of the interview with Antonio Meza. In the first part we talk about Antonio’s life story and his career as an NLP (neurolinguistic programming) trainer and coach. We looked at the combination of NLP and graphic facilitation and how to record sessions using an iPad. In the second part Antonio gives you an introduction into symbolic thinking. Everyone uses symbolic thinking and we don’t have to learn it. For example a person with hanging shoulders and a sad face would...
Combination of Graphic Facilitation with NLP (Part 1/2)
July 24, 2017 10:24 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBAntonio Meza is born in Mexico and have been drawing and sketching his whole live. He started his career as a cartoonist animating stick figures between 2 key frames across the screen. He moved to Paris where he studied communication science and became a trainer and coach for neurolingoistic programming (NLP). In the first part Antonio introduces you into NLP and the science behind language patterns, body language and our eye movements. We clarify misunderstandings about NLP and talk about ...
Visualise your work and increase your happiness
June 15, 2017 12:06 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBA couple of weeks ago I had the chance to speak to Jim Benson in Melbourne. We met in a hotel restaurant and talked about why visualisation of invisible knowledge work is so powerful and why it can increase the happiness of you and your co-workers: We start with giving you an introduction into Personal Kanban and help you to create your own Personal Kanban board. We explore why limiting the work in progress is so powerful and what might happen when you take on to much work at the same time. ...
Welcome to the bikablo® USA Tour 2017
April 21, 2017 13:11 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBCarola and Frank are an amazing team. They met through the bikablo® Akademie in Cologne and became a couple. Carola always had the idea of travelling the US and maybe working there one day. So when she met Frank they put their energy together as a couple and made it possible. For me this is an amazing story where you can see what a couple can do when they combine their strength and make things happen. In the interview we talk about it in detail. How it all started with a vague idea. How th...
Introduction into Executive Coaching
April 06, 2017 12:02 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBJaya Machet has seen the world: She grew up in Mumbai, India and moved with her family to Switzerland when she was a teenager. She studied German and French before she joined Nokia Treasury in Geneva. More than 10 years ago she decided to move back to Asia and picked Singapore as her new home. After all Jaya describes Singapore as the “the Switzerland of Asia”. Through her work at Nokia she got excited about executive coaching and graduated with a Masters of Counselling from the Monash Univer...
How to create your own sketchnote video?
January 09, 2017 04:19 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBToday's guest is Matthew Magain, founder and chief doodler of sketchvideos.com.au. A lot of my students ask: “How can I create my own sketch video” and I am very happy that Matthew opens his big draw of tricks and tips to share his insights with you. After Matthew gives us a bit of background about how he started with sketchnoting as a teacher in Japan we talk about sketch videos in detail. We talk about your first setup and what is essential for a high quality recording. What the pre-produc...
The Evolution of Product Management with Nick Coster from Brainmates
September 22, 2016 01:52 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBToday I talk to Nick Coster. Nick founded Brainmates together with his wife Adrienne Tan more then 12 year ago. Brainmates is one of those companies who are not very big but very professional. Their special field is product management. We talk about the evolution of product management. How the role of product management evolves when the organisation scales up and the CEO can’t be the product manager anymore. Nick describes the role of a product manager as the chief storyteller in a company....
bikablo® Radio - Natalie Nelson about the Future of Education
August 13, 2016 00:41 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBToday I have the honour to bring to you Natalie Nelson. Natalie is the principal at Ashburton primary school. Natalie tells her story of how she started on a journey to transform the school to a place of future education. Her approach is quite different to many others. She calls it design from the inside out. We talk about what it means to grow up in our complex world of today. What skills the kids need to learn which (by the way) are far beyond reading, writing and maths.
bikablo® Radio - Introduction to Design Thinking by Patrick Sharbaugh
July 19, 2016 05:49 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBToday I have the honour to have Patrick Sharbaugh with me. Patrick works for the LUMA institute, a training provider that enables companies and individuals to be more creative. He teaches design thinking and in this interview he gives us an introduction into the world of design thinking. We talk about creative problem solving, visual languages and what it means to have the customer in the centre of your solution design. But first of all, let me introduce to you Patrick. Patrick grew up in C...
bikablo Radio with Keith Greaves about the Beautiful World of Big Group Facilitation
May 23, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBA couple of weeks ago I was running the first visual facilitation garage. This advanced workshop has been around in Europe for a while and now we start this advanced class for people who have participated in the fundamentals class in Australia as well. When you start something new, you start something small and so Keith Greaves attended as the only attendee at the first visual facilitation garage in Melbourne in May. Keith and I had a great time together working in the garage. We had 4 hours...
bikablo® Radio Insight - How to Keep Practising After Attending The Visual Facilitation Training
April 03, 2016 09:42 - 6 minutes - 12.3 MBIn this episode I talk about the first day back at work where you need to find a way to apply the new skills in your day to day job. We talk about positive psychology and how you can motivate yourself to progress your visual journey every day in the office. Additional we introduce the visual facilitation garage. An advanced visual facilitation workshop where you can meet people who are on the same journey as you. This workshop will be help every month in Sydney and Melbourne and is hosted in ...
bikablo® Radio - Christiane Anderson from AGL about the use of bikablo® in a business transformation
March 06, 2016 02:49 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBI don’t know about you but I see many companies who put a lot of whiteboards inside their offices and I am not sure yet that they know how to make best use of them. Todays guest is Christiane Anderson, she works as an Agile Coach at AGL. AGL is one of the major energy providers in Australia. AGL was founded in 1837, lit the first gas lamp in 1841 in Sydney and has built Australia’s largest solar plant in 2015. Today AGL is listed as one of top 50 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange (...
bikablo® Radio Insight - How A Community Of Practise Helps You To Grow Your Skills
February 21, 2016 05:37 - 7 minutes - 6.81 MBAttending the bikablo® visual facilitation training is only 50% of the deal. You need to apply it and keep practising on your day-to-day job. One of the best ways to improve your visual facilitation skills is by learning from each other in a community of practise. In this short episode I talk about different communities of practise I have been part of in my career and would like to invite you to join the bikablo® graduates group on LinkedIn.
bikablo® Radio Insight - Helping others with a pen and improve your company culture
February 02, 2016 11:47 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBHelping others is natural to us but asking for help is sometimes difficult to many. The reason behind lays in the way we grew up, how we were raised and not at last in a school system that was focused on competition and performance not on collaboration and creative thinking. However, todays challenges in business lay in the ability to solve complex problems together as a team and for me one of the most important steps to become a strong team is to overcome the fear of asking for help and embr...
bikablo® Radio - David Landry about Agile Transformations using bikablo® Drawing Technique
January 06, 2016 08:52 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBI would like to ask you a question! Can you image you walk into a company and tell everyone to change the way they work? Maybe even question their values? Or find a new vision for what this company would like to achieve? That is what an agile transformation often is about. Today I speak to David Landry. He works as a principle consultant at Elabor8 and he took a Melbourne University together with his college Andrew Thorpe on this agile journey. The way they have facilitated this agile tra...
bikablo® Radio - Shaping Ideas With Brandy Agerbeck from Loosetooth.com
November 22, 2015 12:43 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBThis episode is a great personal career story of Brandy Agerbeck from loosetooth.com. Brandy gives an insight into her career including how she started as a knowledge worker with the MG Taylor model and how she went on her own as a graphic facilitator a couple of years later. She gives insights into her work including the Brandyfesto, Draw Quad and the process of writing her new book "The Idea Shapers". We talk about her TEDx Talk in Windy City in 2013 and chat about the future and where vis...
bikablo® Radio Insights - How to solve conflicts and improve the company culture
November 03, 2015 06:05 - 9 minutes - 4.39 MBIn this episode you will learn how to solve conflicts between two software development teams and bring people back on track to collaborate and be awesome. This episode is inspired by my experience working with teams everyday. In the following story I will learn: • How to prune out any negative emotions? • How to keep the positive attitude? • How to create a shared understanding of a problem? • Creating options to solve the challenge? • How to get the team back into the driver seat and pass...
bikablo® Radio - Much More to Explore in the World of Visualisation with Martin Haussmann
September 23, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBThis episode takes you on a journey and looks beyond the horizon: We start with a comprehensive introduction into the world of visualisation and how different people get started with visual facilitation. We then go down the rabbit hole into group facilitation and conflict solving through drawing together. When we come out again, we take you more than 12 years back in history and talk about the early days of visualisation when bikablo® wasn't known at all. How the systematic bikablo® technique...
How Nicole Brand became a Visual Leader
September 23, 2015 00:00 - 10 minutes - 9.41 MBIn this episode Nicole Brand shares her story how she became a visual leader: I had the fortune to work with Nicole Brand for the last 18 month on a daily basis. I saw her progressing from not feeling confident enough participating in meetings to the point where people follow Nicole's lead into any meeting room and come along on her visual journeys. I have never seen a steeper learning curve in terms of visual leadership than Nicole's before - I hope the podcast inspires you as much as Nicole...