Draw

Graphical presentations have a positive impact on our ability to think, analyze, be creative, remember, and feel. That makes the use of graphical elements an obvious choice in your work-life. Yet many of us fear and avoid drawing.

This book examines the mental barriers built up against drawing and explains why we should do it anyway. It teaches how you can easily learn to draw simple icons, and build drawing skills to make you a better, more interesting graphic recorder, facilitator, meeting leader, or teacher.

Graphic facilitation is not about pretty drawings, nor are they pieces of art. It is about initiating internal and external dialogue and communicating in an ancient yet new way.

This book will guide you in building your toolbox of graphical elements and combining them in unique ways to convey your message and add magic to processes in professional contexts.

Lise Grastrup is a professional graphical recorder. Through graphic recordings, visual presentations, info-movies, and training courses, she works with companies to help strengthen their communication with graphic facilitation.
She also offers a range of courses in graphic facilitation (traditional and online).

You can supplement this book with the free workbook and other training material on her website: lisegrastrup.com.

This book examines the mental barriers built up against drawing and explains why we should do it anyway. It teaches how you can easily learn to draw simple icons and build your toolbox of graphical elements. It also teaches how to combine them in unique ways to convey your message and how you add magic to processes in professional contexts.

The vitamins I needed

"Lise Grastrup has done it! Her new book, draw, is a detailed guide to graphic communication, presenting basic and more advanced skills and techniques. Lise describes 16 superpowers of graphical communication: Read them, and I am sure you will be convinced it is time to hone your drawing skills from childhood and use graphical communication in your work.

With a very comprehensive and well-structured table of content, it is easy to find exactly what you need to freshen up. I love the way she stresses that the drawings do not have to be pretty. So true! What it boils down to is this: get started and keep using it. For me personally, this book definitely will help me keep my drawing skills alive."

- Mille Wilken Bengtsson, assistant professor and company owner

Qualified and inspiring help

"For those who want to learn or develop their graphic skills when recording or facilitating meetings and processes, qualified and inspiring help is now accessible. In the book 'Draw' Lise Grastrup guides you through a tangible and illuminating learning course teaching you how to use the new tools in different contexts.

With logically constructed chapters 'Draw' helps you prepare upcoming processes in your own style. We cannot grasp words in the same way as drawings: Lise Grastrup has illustrated the book and thus effortlessly given us the direct path to our mind and memory, which just makes you want to get started right away!"

- Dorte Bøg Kongsbach, pedagogical consultant

Great DRAW-model to guide you

"Fantastic! ´DRAW' is a book that emphasizes the powers of graphical facilitation by giving amazing inspiration, creative drawings and templates - with great energy! It offers examples and comments and not least graphics that makes you want to draw!

As a leader of a big department I often facilitate different processes in order to generate reflection upon new projects, team-development etc. Therefore the DRAW-model is very useful and will be part of my professional toolbox from now on: It combines general knowledge about the structure of processes with graphical facilitation and visualization. Thanks!"

- Birgitte Arild Nielsen, Department Manager