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Reilly Dow and Erin Gordon are back with another thought-provoking NOVA Scribes: The Visual Practice Today and What It M...
06/19/2026

Reilly Dow and Erin Gordon are back with another thought-provoking NOVA Scribes: The Visual Practice Today and What It Might Become.

As visual practice expands across facilitation, recording, strategy, and sensemaking, the way our work manifests—in person and online—is becoming increasingly diverse. In this session, we will explore examples of our practice from different contexts and reflect together on what anchors the field, specifically focusing on what may be stretching or redefining it. Rather than prescribing answers, our conversation will be guided by a fundamental question:

Is visual practice defined by how we work, what we produce, or by what it enables?


Build a Bridge is one of my favorite team activities. From Interaction Associates, it gives teams a challenge, then has ...
06/17/2026

Build a Bridge is one of my favorite team activities. From Interaction Associates, it gives teams a challenge, then has them assess their performance based on Results, Process, and Relationships. And it takes less than half an hour from start to finish.

Check the comments to learn the process.





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This one’s a COVID carryover that we still like to use. Not everyone is a hugger, not everyone likes to shake hands. Ske...
06/10/2026

This one’s a COVID carryover that we still like to use. Not everyone is a hugger, not everyone likes to shake hands. Sketch a quick poster instructing participants to “Bump Elbows” and answer a prompt.


There is still time to register for Think With Ink™!Think With Ink™ is a 3-day interactive workshop helping facilitators...
06/06/2026

There is still time to register for Think With Ink™!

Think With Ink™ is a 3-day interactive workshop helping facilitators, consultants, and team leaders integrate visuals into group processes, so you walk into a meeting with the skills to help you and your team make better decisions.






Join Reilly Dow & Erin Gordon today for a great NOVA Scribes discussion:  Raising Future Scribes: Helping Young People F...
06/05/2026

Join Reilly Dow & Erin Gordon today for a great NOVA Scribes discussion: Raising Future Scribes: Helping Young People Find Their Visual Voice & Creative Confidence.

How did you find your visual practice? Or how did it find you?
Many of us find our visual practice later in life, often by accident. What if we intentionally nurture it earlier? What might happen then?
This session contemplates how we can kindle visual thinking and creative confidence in younger generations—whether as parents, educators, mentors, or practitioners. Together, we will reflect on how visual expression forms part of identity, how environments shape creative confidence and how we can support young people in using visuals as a way of thinking, communicating, expressing, and meaning-making. We'll close with practical approaches for encouraging visual practice in everyday settings for the young and young at heart.



June is Pride Month, and we’re honoring the history behind the celebration.Pride began as a response to erasure, harassm...
06/04/2026

June is Pride Month, and we’re honoring the history behind the celebration.

Pride began as a response to erasure, harassment, and exclusion. The 1969 Stonewall Uprising helped shift the national conversation around LGBTQ+ rights, and the first Pride march followed one year later, on June 28, 1970.

For us at Lizard Brain, Pride connects deeply to the work we do every day. Visual facilitation is about making ideas visible, helping people understand one another, and creating rooms where everyone can contribute with clarity.

Pride reminds us that visibility matters far beyond a whiteboard or meeting room.

It matters when people are able to name who they are. It matters when communities preserve their own stories. It matters when workplaces, teams, and leaders choose safety, respect, and belonging over silence.

This month, we celebrate LGBTQ+ communities, honor the activists who made Pride possible, and recommit to creating spaces where people are seen, heard, and valued.

Pride is visibility in action.







The Business Model Canvas is a visual template that represents an entire business on a single piece of paper. A LOT of i...
06/03/2026

The Business Model Canvas is a visual template that represents an entire business on a single piece of paper. A LOT of ink has been spilled over it already, so I’ll just summarize it in the context of facilitation. It’s a fantastic activity to run with groups that are orienting to their own mission or purpose. Newly formed teams, teams that have experienced a lot of turnover, or teams that have been handed a new mission from higher ups.



If you have ever sat through a meeting where the conversation went in circles, a few voices dominated the room, and ever...
05/29/2026

If you have ever sat through a meeting where the conversation went in circles, a few voices dominated the room, and everyone left without clear decisions or next steps, you know how frustrating bad meetings can be.

There is a better way.

Think With Ink™ is an interactive visual facilitation workshop from Lizard Brain designed to help facilitators, consultants, coaches, team leaders, and visual thinkers make meetings more focused, collaborative, and productive.

Click here to register 👉 https://bit.ly/4nzq9VL

Some people become bumblebees. Bumblebees don’t like to stay put at any one table or group. They flit from discussion to...
05/27/2026

Some people become bumblebees. Bumblebees don’t like to stay put at any one table or group. They flit from discussion to discussion. They serve an important function because they cross-pollinate ideas from group to group. You may be a Bumblebee.

Some people become butterflies. Butterflies may not join any group or table at all. Butterflies tend to congregate around the coffee service, or maybe outside on the patio. They also serve an important function by creating centers of non-action, where silence can be enjoyed, or some new, unexplored topic may arise. And if we’re very lucky, these may be the taboo topics: the topics that aren’t safe to include in the agenda. You may be a Butterfly.

Why don’t end-of-meeting action lists get acted on? Why don’t next steps… get stepped on?Action lists and next steps don...
05/22/2026

Why don’t end-of-meeting action lists get acted on? Why don’t next steps… get stepped on?

Action lists and next steps don’t take reality into account. They get written on a blank flipchart that fails to consider the real demands of day to day jobs.

One way around this is to draw up a large calendar of the next two or three months. When it comes time to plan next steps, write them on the calendar. Include the context of other demands on time: performance reviews, vacations, end of quarter tasks, whatever. That way, your team will have a more realistic view of what can happen by when.

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