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VIDEO REVIEW: Designing Facilitation Agendas Using SessionLab
SessionLab takes the guesswork out of manipulating times and blocks of content to create an easy-to-follow agenda for facilitating...
Vickie Smith
Dec 21, 20203 min read
Book Notes: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There
Marker in hand, I stand by my blank wall of paper, ready to grab the first creative insight from amongst the group. The participants, a...
Lauren Green
Dec 15, 202010 min read
VIDEO: Virtual Facilitation in 18 Minutes (a Lizard Brain Workshop)
Facilitating online is different but it doesn't have to be worse. In this 18 minutes "campfire" session held as part of the ASPEN...
Lauren Green
Dec 7, 20201 min read
What Anchors Your Career? 8 Ways We Connect to our Work
Often the things that are important to us in our work are not echoed by the organizations we work in. We each have unique values when it...
Lauren Green
Nov 30, 20206 min read
VIDEO: Everything You Need to Know About Coaching
Which of these resonates with you? I need help making sense of my career or future. I want to learn new behaviors or mindsets that will...
Vickie Smith
Nov 19, 20203 min read
Mastering the Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback
I hate feedback. I have received poorly-delivered feedback that has left me with many a feedback scar. I tend to show physical symptoms...
Lauren Green
Nov 3, 202010 min read
A Visual Template for Remote Communications Planning (designed in Mural)
How well is your team or organization doing with communicating change? For most, communications is an afterthought, but how a change is...
Lauren Green
Oct 15, 20205 min read
Build Your Brand Part I: Brand Statements
My biggest struggle with identifying my brand was finding a niche. As a facilitator and coach, it’s in our nature to include. Finding a...
Lauren Green
Sep 27, 20207 min read
COMING SOON: Build Your Brand Book: Personal and Business Branding Workshop
Most of Dancing with Markers® pre-COVID business leads came from seeing our work in action, live and in the room. Now, our work is...
Vickie Smith
Aug 27, 20202 min read
Dancing with Mural (and Google Docs)
You’ve taken workshop after workshop. You’ve watched countless YouTube videos. You’ve joined every Slack channel you can get your thumbs...
Lauren Green
Aug 23, 20209 min read
Listening Made Simple Part II: 3 Skills for Listening to Others
When we've learned how to listen well to ourselves, we can listen to others from a place of curiosity. We start by listening to our own...
Lauren Green
Aug 10, 20208 min read
VIDEO: Lauren's Origin Story
Watch Lauren's origin story of discovering and creating a career in visual note-taking. Then read on to learn ways you might build your...
Vickie Smith
Jul 30, 20202 min read
Listening Made Simple Part I: Listening to Ourselves
Listening is a muscle that is hard to flex, but it is the first step in starting important conversations we need to have. Remote work...
Lauren Green
Jul 27, 20207 min read
Self Coaching Activity: Designing the Journey (Personal Road Map)
Most people who start coaching want to jump into designing the future right away; however, the road map is not the beginning of the...
Lauren Green
Jul 15, 20205 min read
Self-Coaching Activity: I Am My Future Self, Right Now (Personal Visioning and Goal Setting)
A personal vision is a picture of our future self taking root in the present. It must be inspirational and energizing. It needs to have a...
Lauren Green
Jul 5, 20206 min read
Self-Coaching Activity: Self-Affirmations and Setting Boundaries with Others
When we become clearer about how we make decisions, a new need surfaces. The need to say no and set boundaries when something doesn't...
Lauren Green
Jun 17, 202010 min read
Self-Coaching Activity: Crafting a Personal Mission Statement
A mission statement is a reminder of what is of core importance to you. Crafting a mission statement is about choosing consciously to...
Lauren Green
Jun 17, 20205 min read
Self-Coaching Activity: Contracting with Yourself
There are two people who matter in a personal contract, you now and you in the future. A personal contract is operating agreements that...
Lauren Green
Jun 9, 20203 min read
Self-Coaching Activity: Creating a Personal Decision-Model
Making personal and intentional decisions means saying no to the wrong things, so that you can say yes to the right things. What's wrong...
Lauren Green
Jun 7, 20206 min read
Starting a Bullet Journal: How to Task Mindfully
This is a long read. You may like to listen to the first part, then scroll ahead to "Getting Started." The Bullet Journal Method invented...
Lauren Green
Jun 6, 20209 min read
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