Marcel van Hove shares story with us about his move back to Germany from Australia, and the birth of Visual Friends Germany. We discuss how as an entrepreneur and small business owner he has grown his Australasian business to a global business, Younito the new visual collaboration training created this year, and also how he's found niche opportunities during the global pandemic such as creating new training content to upskill German teachers to successfully use visualisation and technology to work remotely.

Visual Friends proudly announce their latest visualisation and collaboration training offering and visual dictionary app, Younito.

We talk with Marcel van Hove and Danny Low of Visual Friends about where the idea for Younito came from, how it was developed, through to how it is implemented in class today. A visual dictionary app, aptly named Younito, has also been developed to compliment not only the training, but to share these unique sets of icons and templates with the wider visual community. Younito is available through the Android and Apple app stores for anyone to download and access a free subset of the Younito icons and templates to start.

Our conversation with two amazing generous visual practioners Angelique McAlpine and Heather Martinez about their initiative #ScribeForward. This is a unique and important project, born during the pandemic, to amplify and promote the work of visual practioners all over the world who currently volunteer their time and professional skill at events benefiting humanity.

A time of change is upon us, like none we have seen for generations. A time of vulnerability, but also opportunity too. In this episode of Visual Friends Radio we're joined by Marcel van Hove and Danny Low of the Visual Friends team to talk about how they're focusing on adaptability, innovation and channeling their creative power during the current pandemic.

What could be better than an Icon Jam? A Global Icon Jam!

We talk with Brisbane based Bikablo trainer Danny Low, Auckland based Visual Coach Yuliya Schamrel, and Visual Facilitator and Bikablo trainer Gill Cromhout from Breaking Ground Learning and Development in Cape Town about this exciting collaborative intercontinental event held in January 2020.

Interview with our Brisbane trainer Danny Low about Visual Friends' new training - Bikablo Advanced.

What you will learn, who it is useful for and how this traninig has come about.

In this episode we are talking to a talented graphic scribe, an illustrator and visual facilitator Alice Edy about courage.

Alice dared greatly and ended up scribing for Brene Brown herself. She tells us how overcoming fear has helped her create important career opportunities for herself, shares her advice about preparing emotionally for a scribing session and gives us her tips about failing publicly and how you can't grow creatively without making mistakes.

We loved talking to Alice about how stepping outside of the comfort zone allows you to direct and shape your career in an exciting and unique way.

Podcast notes: during our interview conversation Alice mentions Brene Brown, Heather Martinez, Kelvy Bird and Jessamy Gee.

In the latest episode of Visual Friends podcast we interview talented and fabulous Kate Baxter – a recognised expert in the global community of visual practitioners and an amazing graphic facilitator with passion for all things digital.

Learn about how Kate, a reluctant and shy scribe with background in fine art, went from thinking she can’t do it to successfully scribing for big clients all around the world. Find out what helped her transition from scribing on a white board to nailing it as a digital graphic facilitator. Kate shares advice on how to develop your own style and deal with difficult topics, talks about the challenges of this profession and what you need to succeed in this job.

We hope you’ll find it as interesting as we did. Enjoy!

I met Sarah Firth when I moved to Australia the second time in 2013 and she was for me THE graphic recorder and I admired and still admire the great art she produces. Sarah is an award-winning comic artist, graphic recorder, writer and animator based in Melbourne.

We learn how she grew up in Canberra and later travelled the world. We hear about sketchnoting and how it helped her to focus in school. How she started to have a career as an artist and how she got into graphic recording around 2010. She shares amazing stories about a major accident she had and how she got back into daily life using sketchnoting again while she was in the hospital.

Today she uses her skills to in very challenging environments, she likes to work for non-for profit organisations, for example, to work with people to overcome trauma. Sarah shares some tips about how you can improve your drawing skills over the years to become a rockstar in the field of graphic recording. With that please enjoy the episode and we look forward to welcoming you in person at VizConf on the 19th of October 2019.

An interview with Visual Friends co-founder, Marcel van Hove and one of our visual coaches, Yuliya Schamrel about a new and exciting program for our students - The 60 Days of Coaching. If you ever wanted to take visualisation skills to the next level, refresh your bikablo technique or develop a work related visualisation project, this is for you. Hosted by Natalia Tsygankova.