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DAN HEATH - April 1, 2010 How do you avoid that bullet-riddled PowerPoint presentation that everybody loves to hate? Here are three ways (presented without bullet points). What is the biggest mistakes that presenters make? That the audience cares about what they have to say! More on stories that stick at: http://www.fastcompany.com/heath/

IdeaPaint transforms virtually anything that you can paint into a high-performance dry-erase board. The possibilities are endless. You can apply it to hallways, conference tables, desks or doors

photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/ Jonathan Haber is a personal coach with a fascinating mash-up of interests and clients, including meditation, yoga, wellness professionals, coaches, artists and facilitators. His post on 101 Ways to Get More Coaching Clients is a list of ideas that are helpful to any facilitator, consultant, coach or creative practitioner, whether re-booting a client base or building one from scratch. Examples: 17. Create a competition with your friends and family. Whoever gets you the most referrals, you will donate to their favorite charity in their name. (this way everybody wins) 25. Offer a reporter from your local paper free sessions in exchange for a write up. It will not only talk about you, but contain their own personal experience as well. (work with your own coach on the pressure of “giving them great value under pressure”.) 45. Fight your gremlins about where...

From TED 2009: Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?

Hello friends, As visual practitioners we all believe in the power of visuals to create engagement and clarity. At the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference we are the next 12 days using this power to help WWF create clarity around what is happening at the conference and what a good deal and agreement may look like. We invite you to help us bring a lot of visuals into the negotiations and out to the public and hereby raise the understanding and prove the power of visuals. "If we (the visual community) are what the world has been waiting for, what might be our unique contribution?" As some of you remember from the IFVP Santa Fe and Chicago gatherings over 2 years I voiced something in the lines the above. COP15 is happening the next 10 days - sealing a deal to prevent global...

via www.fastcompany.com Great slideshow using wonderful collage painting to illustrated these ideas for keeping creativity flowing in constrained times.

Join Dan for his first public visual thinking conference. This is the complete two-day version of visual training that Dan has delivered at Microsoft,eBay, Boeing, Gap, Kraft, the US Navy, and theUnited States Senate.$1,095. Register Here. https://www.regonline.com/thebackofthenapkin_march2010 Kabuki Hotel, San Francisco Attendees receive: Two full days of hands-on visual problem solving The Back of the Napkin Expanded Edition Unfolding the Napkin Workbook Personal whiteboard and drawing tools For full details, visit The Back of the Napkin.com. Dan's two new books available Dec. 30! The Back of the Napkin Expanded Edition Larger format. Color. New & updated material. Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures Completely new "how-to" visual method guide. Dozens of self-guided visual exercises. Introduces the 4 unwritten rules of visual thinking.

This post from Steve Davis of Master Facilitators Journal describes the subtle art of knowing when to apply pressure to catalyze movement and when to allow openness for people to struggle.