Neuland social media correspondent Sandra Dirks will host me online May 16, 2018 from 12:00-1:00 EDT, as part of an “Ambassador Tour” series. During the hour, I’ll talk about Levels of Scribing and we’ll have a practice round, followed by Q&A.
Join through the live facebook event stream here. The session will be recorded – and we’ll make that available too.
Meanwhile, here is a sneak peak DOWNLOAD from the book Generative Scribing, if it helps to follow along with written text. Enjoy!
Here is the recording of the February 8th participatory Zoom session, hosted by Otto Scharmer, where I shared some background of my visual practice, talked about generative scribing, and answered questions from the group.
To learn more about the book, visit this page. To purchase it right away click here. To write a review on Amazon – well, I’ll leave that up to you, and thank you in advance. 🙂
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Today’s great challenges call us to (re)arrange our interior dimensions to more adequately meet current, external realities. Working from the inside out, by unpacking my professional experience over the past thirty years, I propose that “generative scribing” is one practice to aid with this larger cultural and personal transition.
Scribing is a visual practice where an artist maps out ideas while people talk and can see the drawing unfold in front of their eyes. The drawing establishes connections within content, aids with insight, and supports decision-making. It’s essentially a language that weaves words and pictures to facilitate group learning and cultural memory.
Generative scribing advances this practice by extending the range of the practitioner to an entire ecosystem and drawing with an attunement to energy. A generative scribe calls particular attention to an emerging reality that is brought to life by, and for, the social field in which it’s created.
This book is for current and future scribes, with an aim to expand the possibility and impact of their efforts. It is for a broader audience, too, for those whose “pens” take shape as kitchen utensils, gardening rakes, community leagues, city planning, national policy-making—you name it. This is a book for anyone who cares about how we exist together as human beings, for anyone who wants to explore their interior functioning, for anyone who seeks to approach the world anew.
You can order the book here on Amazon. More ordering methods to come.
These figures are from the appendix and correlate with various chapters. Enjoy!
Last month just outside Hangzhou, I was part of an annual “happening” that brought together over 80 burgeoning and experienced visual practitioners from all over China. I could not keep up with the high volume of social sharing on WeChat, where there were dozens and dozens of amazing videos and photos posted. But here are some of my favorites – representing the spirit of beauty, collaboration, and fun i witnessed.
Here, too, are slides from a brief presentation I gave on scribing. The intent was to set some global and historical context for the gathering and community. I expect a bit of clarification and pushback on my accuracy and interpretation of this practice! Please comment and help flesh out this picture.
Note: As of Dec 12, i have amended the file, based on Matt Taylor’s helpful reminder of prehistoric drawings. I also found an old journal from 1983, when I studied for a few weeks in the Dordogne region of France and saw some of the 15,000 year old cave paintings. Funny, my notes are all text – but it was an art program. (Download a .pdf file here)
From the Edx / MITx / Presencing Institute MOOC u.lab: Leading From the Emerging Future, final digital images originally scribed on 16′ long blackboard during 60-90 minute live, broadcast sessions…
Co-Evolving session, December 14, 2017:
Crystallizing-Prototyping session, November 9, 2017:
Presencing session, October 19, 2017:
Co-Initiation session, September 21, 2017:
And here are the visual reviews for each phase of Theory U, created on an iPadPro with the ProCreate app, Photoshop, and a Bird font.
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