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Oh My!

Last year I had the pleasure of presenting a iii-hr workshop with Sandra Dirks and Elena Urizar for the IFVP conference hosted by Neuland. This year, we are bringing it back with more tools, more facilitation tips, and making ourselves available to y'all in Beyond the Screen on June 24, 10am MDT/6pm CEST. A lot has happened over the last year, nosotros take all been busy learning, designing, navigating, and manifesting. We bring it all and more in this session.

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Listening

Listen Upward! When I started in the field, listening was the last thing I thought I needed to improve yet I learned apace that information technology is THE virtually important part of the process! Information technology's the invisible super power we take that informs our work. If yous accept taken i of my advanced lettering courses, you have heard me talk about the "Speeds of Lettering" and information technology's relationship with the speed of everything else nosotros do. Listening is the FASTEST matter nosotros do after thinking.

Now, while I don't teach listening, I highly recommend three professionals in our field and their listening models:

• Sophia Liang who presented her model in Mind, Alphabetic character, Draw Together
  
• Kelvy Bird and her piece of work in G enerative Scribing
  
• Brandy Agerbeck and her upcoming workshop Visual Listening
  

Brandy will teach you lot the 10 Listening Keys in language that signal exactly how what you hear fits into the big picture you are drawing.

I recently met with Brandy and nosotros talked about her listening model and I shared how information technology supported my intuitive way of listening past using the Keys for what I call anticipatory listening. They help guide my compositions when graphic recording and listen to where the conversation wants to become when facilitating.

IMPORTANT: Y'all can register today, June i to go your workshop kit in time. June ten is your concluding day to register for the June 12 live workshop.

In addition to listening, if yous are starting out in this field, I recommend studying with the masters, those who have extensive experience in the field, and know how and what to teach co-ordinate to what is needed to bring value to clients. You take seen me recommend teachers over the years because I made it a point to learn from the best in our field. This is the beginning time I get to recommend a teammate who I had the pleasance of working with while on the Visioneering Team in Washington, DC.

When I first met Lauren (aka @DancingWithMarkers), I wanted to be like her in many ways. She has it all: organizational evolution, facilitation, visual skills, and the street cred to dorsum it all upwards. I've seen her thrive in the toughest of situations and I know the generous personal side of her too. With all of the courses offered online that I recommend, Lauren just entered the scene with her Introduction to Facilitating with Visuals. You can get $50 off by using the coupon lawmaking PRESALE.
If you desire to learn more than, attend this Launch Party June 1! 5pm EDT

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Lettering

Since the Pandemic hitting, the calligraphy community wondered if our annual briefing would happen. We have been inundated with online courses this by twelvemonth and accept had to acquire and then much near didactics and learning in the virtual surroundings. Then came Legacies III! Directed by Angie Vangalis of the Texas Lettering Arts Quango, she was the commencement to step up and organize a professionally run virtual calligraphy conference in North America. The 39th International Lettering Arts Briefing is giving over 50 professional instructors the opportunity to offer ane-, 2- and iii twenty-four hour period workshops and mini-sessions July 2-11. The variety of offerings accommodates to all skill levels. And sessions will be recorded for you to access someday over the next year.

I'g excited to be involved in 2 ways:

1. Every bit Tech Host Wrangler, I have offered training and support to those who wish to tech host alive sessions at the conference. You tin can sign up for The Art of Tech Hosting for Calligraphy Guilds hither. While this online form is full of resources for those tech hosting for the briefing, it is likewise open to anyone who wants admission to the resources. Information technology includes several how-2 videos, files used for tech hosting, and a tech hosting playbook. Gain from sales do good the Texas Lettering Arts Council, a major provider of calligraphy resource that help continue the craft alive for future generations to enjoy.
2. I am also teaching a live session, sponsored by Neuland, Learn to Sketchnote! on Fri, July two. Participants of this session volition receive Neuland Markers and other fun swag direct from me! All registrants for the conference and my course (you can sign upwards for i or both) are eligible to enter the giveaway where together Neuland and I are giving over $ane,000USD worth of markers, supplies and online lettering courses. Sign upward and the raffle link will be shared with yous.

Y'all have the liberty to annals for:

• The total conference with your choice of 6 different packages here: https://web.cvent.com/event/73efe082-5c95-4a75-bdde-1fb0065a3349/websitePage:bc2062df-66b1-48c2-af9b-170ac6182e76
  
• Mini-classes only here: (90-infinitesimal and 3-hours sessions, discounts for conference attendees) https://web.cvent.com/consequence/73efe082-5c95-4a75-bdde-1fb0065a3349/regProcessStep1?rt=Mh-UX_oqZ0Gt02zawfTWbQ
  

Sessions are size limited to ensure quality of learning experience. Not all sessions volition go considering of number of registrations so please be sure to sign up early! At that place volition likewise exist daytime and evening lectures, presentations and social activities. Experience the culture of the calligraphy community at this upshot!

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Leadership

Here are iii books I accept been reading that have informed and inspired my professional development.

Larn Lead Lift Wendy Ryan
Imagine a world where people love going to piece of work thanks to leaders who are inspiring and supportive, and who create a culture that lifts each team member up. If this has non been your experience, yous are non alone. There are, all the same, companies and leaders that atomic number 82 and elevator their team and their organizations. Larn Lead Elevator was written to inspire leaders and give them a framework for being / becoming great leaders who create teams where every person is valued and encouraged to fulfill their potential. The kind of workplace yous are excited to enter each mean solar day.
https://www.learnleadlift.com
Not still available in audio.
I live in this civilization by working with the author and dearest it. I highly recommend this volume!

Rare Brood
Authors Sunny and Ashleigh are on a mission to take up arms against conformity by pushing the boundaries of concern every bit usual.
https://rarebreedleaders.com/quiz
Available in audio, do not recommend listening, the narrator's tone doesn't marshal with the message.
If you are like me: artistic, expressive, a divergent thinker, there are gems in this book yous will likely relate to. Have the quiz to see if you align.

How to be an Inclusive Leader Jennifer Brownish
A step-by-step guide for the personal and emotional journey we must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone is welcomed, valued, respected, and heard.
https://jenniferbrownspeaks.com/inclusive-leader-book
Available in audio, recommend.

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How I channeled my "inner zombie" to letter for a commission.

It was something I never imagined I would say or exercise. Who knew that we have an inner zombie?

When my friend, colleague, and facilitation mentor Brian Tarallo reached out to me for back up of his new volume, Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings I was thrilled and frightened simultaneously. I knew I would have to venture into a world unfamiliar to me full of monsters, mummies, scary creatures and zombies.

At the time, I didn't know I had it in me and then I looked to what I did know. And the source of inspiration—Brian's creative direction:

Think "Plants vs. Zombies"

We used to play this game when I lived in DC.

What if the Scary lettering style I came upward with for Halloween met the fun-loving hand of Twinkle ?

Both designed with the Neuland FineOne Art (brush nib marker). It's a fan favorite for illustrators only has been a bane for some lettering artists. I honey the claiming of designing lettering styles with it.

When designing a lettering manner, I employ the advice I got from Dana Wright when we were in a mastermind together while working on our books: "Write, THEN edit." It worked for my volume, Lettering Journey . Information technology's a technique I utilize for my morning pages. And it'due south something I accept practiced to find my—and assistance others detect their—signature style in my premier Level Upward Your Lettering workshops. So I applied "Write THEN edit" to what I now call Zombie Mitt .

First I reviewed my notes for both lettering styles and took special annotation of the attributes.

Pictured above: Exemplars from Scary Letters and Twinkle. You tin spotter the Scary video from 2017 here. And you can notice the Twinkle video with Sandra Dirks hither. Both are free and come with PDF downloads.

Pictured below: Taking my favorite bits of each mode to create new attributes for Zombie Hand .

And then I took inspiration from these creepy hands illustrated by Marker Monlux:

Then I closed my eyes, went deep within to channel my inner zombie. I imagined myself as…

A floppy-headed zombie with a crooked smile and a twitch in my writing arm. Where I lacked the ambition for brains, I fabricated up for it in my hunger for letters.

With the mark in my hand, I begin to write out the chapter titles for the book. My body moved and twitched the entire time. I liken the experience to lucid drawing only with a frightening twist.

The letters came out wonky: dissimilar sizes, widths and rotated. But somehow awkwardly yet successfully in relationship with ane another.

I scanned and vectorized them before placing them on the pages that I laid out, inspired past Brian's expansive knowledge of facilitating online meetings and Mark Monlux's impeccable representation of monsters.

The book is a thrill to read and a must have for anyone meeting online. Which is simply almost everyone…who isn't a swamp monster.

To learn more and social club several copies of this must-have book, visit: https://www.survivingthehorrorbook.com/

Change…

Are yous prepare for alter?

I love this quote by John C. Maxwell:

Change is inevitable… growth is optional.

Because change is going to happen no affair what, it'south upwardly to usa to determine how we want to handle, react to, or manage it.

In my early on 20s I was resistant to change because I didn't know how to manage it. Then after 20 years of working at it then beingness on a change management team for 3 years, I now have the tools to surf modify like a pro. And in some cases even prompt information technology if needed.

Maxwell goes on to suggest…

To abound yous must see the value in yourself to add value to yourself and others.

You have to desire to grow and change. Sure, change will happen eventually but one thing I have noticed in myself and others who are trying to figure out where they are in the midst of then much unprecedented ambiguity and change is they don't know their value and/or may non be expressing or demonstrating it to others.

I'm watching a lot of my visual practitioner colleagues leave the field and others struggling to stay in information technology. And I have wondered (with gratitude) why this past year has been easier for me than virtually and more successful than any previous year of my career. I distilled information technology downward to 3 things that are applicable to anyone and tin be repeated and scaled. And one differentiator.

3 Simple Steps you tin accept to apply value to your practice so yous may grow:

1. Take inventory of your skills and strengths.
2. Determine what is needed in the globe right at present and what aligns with your desires.
3. Start expressing your value right away! On the next call, email you write, or project you suggest, highlight what yous will bring (skills and strengths)and how that will assist your client run into their needs.
   

+ane Differentiator

I reviewed my emails and notes since March 2020 and I establish that I practical Steps ane & 2 in the commencement calendar month of the pandemic and have been applying Footstep 3 since. Later on talking with a few trusted colleagues who have experienced varying degrees of success this yr, I realized my differentiator is that I have been preparing for this moment well-nigh of my adult life. No, I didn't know there would be a pandemic, only I have been training for a time when "Plan A" wouldn't work out. Nor Plan B so I went to Plan Z. And that's Steps i & 2. The absurd thing is, anyone tin can practice these three steps anytime, starting now. And if you start now, you tin can have the same differentiator in the future.

Then while the world changes effectually us, nosotros have a selection. Where do we want to grow and when do we want to start? If you lot often see the world as a fast moving carousel and aren't sure when to hop on, the thought can be dizzying.

That's why I offer one:1 coaching and have created a series of workshops to assistance parse out what's possible by sharing my methods. I will be focusing on these more this year and funneling a few of the courses I have offered in the past into new efforts.

Want to larn more? Bank check out Appreciative Productivity or learn more than near how I facilitate here. While the Deep Dive is over, Jill Greenbaum and I are considering offering it again in the fall.

Helping others change…
Take a moment to think about how a mentor, role model, or coach has profoundly impacted your life. My mind immediately goes to Ballad DuBosch and the many times something she said or did fabricated me think, "Whoa!"  Or how each fourth dimension she placed a bee tool in my hand changed the trajectory of my career. Carol is i of the lettering sweethearts from For the Honey of Lettering and Lettering with the Masters and is the inspiration behind the Giving and Receiving page AND has inspired many to do the same. I used to volunteer my time to teach lettering to the homeless in my customs as a way to relax, focus and every bit role of a culinary programme for those studying to go bakers and decorate cakes. Now because of the pandemic, I don't have access to that community so I'one thousand seeking out those who lack accessibility. I need your help! If you know of someone who would benefit from the inherit benefits of lettering, delight ship them my way. To larn more well-nigh my scholarship programme, please click here.

Talking nearly alter…
I accept recently taken on the role, Manager of Design and Visualiztion at Kadabra. It's been my dream to exist office of a women-led team that utilizes my skills as a visual and virtual facilitator. The company's values are closely aligned with my own and I'1000 continually pinching myself when I see with these women leaders. They are my mentors, colleagues and friends.

At the same time, this new role is taking up more than of my fourth dimension and then I wanted to announce that I will still be offering live sessions on Tuesdays merely you may be seeing fifty-fifty less of me on social media and other online appearances. It'southward time to do the work needed for society and humanity.

This March and April may be the last time I offering these classes this year. I don't know if I will offer them once again in the time to come. So if you missed out on the last 2 European Lettering Tours and want in on what I shared there before it goes abroad, delight sign up for the upcoming courses. I'm offering them as a packet:

Lettering Back-to-Basics Vacay + Level Up Your Lettering

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Annotation: Lettering Back-to-Nuts starts Tuesday!

I have no European Lettering Tours planned for the future. I practice have a trip to Germany and the United kingdom planned when it'due south safe to travel over again. Only the workshops I volition be offering are much different than I accept ever offered before. So this is the last fourth dimension I volition be teaching my hierarchy formula in this manner. Learn more hither.

And of course you can still alphabetic character with me every calendar month In Arrive Your Lettering Year. Hint: the same coupon lawmaking gets you $100USD off too! 100FRIEND

The seeds have been planted and nourished. The seedling has broken out of its casing and is most to break the surface of the earths crust. And when it does, it's up to us to determine the direction in which it will abound. Despite its speed, change is inevitable. What steps are you taking today in order to manage it then that you may grow?

I'd love to know what's working for yous.

3 Tips for Improving Your Handwriting

In commemoration of Handwriting Day, celebrated annually on January 23, hither are a few tips to help you.

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Notice the right tool for the chore


If you lot are interested in lettering or improving your handwriting but don't make messages for a living or equally a hobby, yous might be wondering what type of tool is all-time for you. Chances you prefer monoline tools like pencils or a specific type of pen: fountain, rollerball, felt tip, etc.

Experienced Calligraphers may have a handful or a studio full of favorite tools that include broad edge, brush, pointed pen, and many other tools.

Beginning Calligraphers may have a few tools they like based on the scripts or styles they know. Many calligraphers purchase their tools here.

Visual Practitioners who work with markers on newspaper have professional person-form markers manufactured past Neuland available to them in many dissimilar nibs, sizes, colors, and types of ink.

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Take your time and make the fourth dimension to acquire, improve and grow

While Visual Practitioners work very quickly, they get-go need to learn:
lettering way forms that will support their rapid capture style
torso dynamics for how they volition be working and the muscle groups they need to appoint to accept repeatable, scalable letters that are legible
eye/hand coordination at dissimilar speeds of working

Calligraphers work very slowly to larn and master letterforms that require a lot of command.
 This results in beautiful artwork or decoration.

For adults who desire to better their handwriting, they can do good from learning just 1 lettering mode to inspire and influence their lettering style. I recommend learning How to Write similar an Architect or Italic from Ballad DuBosch.

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Embrace your personal style

We take been writing letters since earlier we started making memories. So we have some letters that we take written the aforementioned our entire life. Nevertheless, there are some letters that vary each fourth dimension nosotros write them. You can aspire to make your letters consistent and a corking way to get-go is to learn the most common letters used in your language. 
The most mutual letters used by English natives are ETAOIN SHRDLU. You tin notice common messages used by other languages here.

What is your favorite tool to write with? Who do y'all write for: for you or others? What would you say is your biggest joy of writing?

For more information on how to amend your handwriting and lettering skills, check out www.LetsLetterTogether.com. I hope to alphabetic character with you lot soon!

Why We Must Acquire How to Thrive in a Earth of Dichotomies

Despite a tumultuous twelvemonth, discover where you landed at the end of 2020. Was information technology in a swamp or quicksand? On the back of a bucking bronco? Like a cat, have you handed back on your feet? Or has it been pretty stable for you lot?

Regardless, stand firm and feel the ground beneath you ascent up. Imagine yourself standing in a plateau. You have a wonderful vantage point from which to cull a new management.

Whether you need guidance from the depths or help creating a vision, I'm hither to support. Check out www.vizcoach.com.

I have had the pleasure of working with the Motto team on a couple of projects this month and I love this quote by Sunny  Bonnell. She is an extraordinary copywriter whose words affirm and inspire. Consider the quote and what it means to you.

Dipping a toe in the fast-paced, idea-generating river of brand marketing is plenty to make anyone's head spin. Working with Motto has inspired a series of mildly-related personal writings that will go along me busy for a flake.

Why Nosotros Must Learn How to Thrive in a World of Dichotomies

Blackness Lives Affair.
And yeah, while all lives affair, we have to work together to dissolve the systems of oppression and write and adopt policies that liberate. It will take all of us and now is the fourth dimension.

Create the world we desire to live in.
In lodge to do this, we must do and so collectively and as individuals.

"Be the change we want to see in the world." - Ghandi

Starting in small pockets: families, communities, teams, companies, etc. create shared visions and strategies for a better world than the one that just dissolved behind us. If this seems also overwhelming, then continue to do the right thing everyday: taking intendance of others, practice micro inclusions, small steps that your future self will thank you for.

Forget the new normal.
People want stability, but at what price? If we "go back" what accept nosotros learned? Yes, definitely honour those who came before united states AND create a new future for ourselves. I beloved the question posed by Trendwatching in their "21 for 21" commodity.

"How can you leverage the build-back-ameliorate momentum and explore responsible new business opportunities?"

Subsequently some thought, what actions will you take and how volition y'all build these topics into your decision model?

Need some assist processing 2020 and planning for 2021?
I share a tip on how to handle it all in this video starting at the 8:40 mark.

Books I've read recently

How do y'all learn about interesting books? I similar to ask leaders what they are currently reading. When I asked Wendy Ryan, CEO of Kadabra, one of the books she mentioned was:

I'm Nevertheless Here: Black nobility in a world made for whiteness
by Austin Channing Dark-brown. Spoiler Alert: your listen will be blown in the showtime couple of pages. This book will claiming your thinking in a gentle way. The audiobook is read by the writer, which makes information technology and so much more than intimate. This book will give you the opportunity to explore your assumptions and challenge y'all to do the right affair, ever.

And through a few projects with Motto I'g also reading:

Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Unlike
Unfortunately NOT read by the authors, Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger—I recommend the difficult copy over the audiobook (as the narrator does not do the content justice). The volume comes with an accompanying quiz you tin can have here.

I'd love to know…which Rare Breed virtue are you?

The Best of Me
I recommend listening to David Sedaris every bit he reads his books. Information technology gives you a meliorate sense of his vulnerabilities. This book, dedicated to his brother Paul, is hilarious and incorrect in the typical Sedaris family way. I love listening to him talk nearly his childhood equally I retrieve the time I met Amy Sedaris in person as she defenseless me rummaging through her purse.

That story is for another time.

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