David Sibbet - Visual Consulting: Designing and Leading Change

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This book is dedicated to all the visual facilitators,
consultants, and activists working to make their
organizations and communities more collaborative,
creative, and compassionate places to work and live,
and to Hannah, Thom, Val, Jerda, Phil, and all their
children as they face the new challenges ahead.

Figure I.1

Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity, was a best seller in 2009. It's been translated in more than a dozen languages and stimulated many to begin consulting practices using these methods.

Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance followed in 2010 and explained how teams using visual facilitation function over time. It also explains the underlying Theory of Process that informs this and other process models designed by David Sibbet.

Visual Leaders: New Methods for Visioning, Management & Organization Change came out in 2013 in full color. It guides leaders on how to think about developing personal visual literacy and guide their organizations to become visually adept.

) builds on prior books, but assumes a more general level of understanding of the purpose and power of visualization than when the series began. Since Visual Meetings was published an entire body of literature has emerged with an ever-widening delta of practitioners, and attendant confusions about how these methods really work in practice.

Figure I.2

Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change explores the integration of visual facilitation, dialogic practice, and change work, as practiced by co-authors David Sibbet and Gisela Wendling, Ph.D. It introduces a new Seven Challenges of Change model.

A deeper purpose for writing Visual Consulting emerges from our experience of current events on local and global levels moving very quickly in complex and polarizing ways. We believe there is a need for practitioners who can be constructively involved in responding to these challenges and help guide change using the tools that visualization and dialogic practice provides. Both of us authors are fully engaged in long-term projects working on organizational and community change, often combined with supporting practitioner development. We feel called to share what we are learning more now than ever. We are eager to reach consultants in general who are becoming aware of the power of visualization, but also to visual practitioners who are awakening to the possibility of using their skills to help design and facilitation change in a more expanded way.

As with the other books, what we are sharing is based on experience enlivened by relevant theory. We know practitioners need concepts and light scaffolding to guide their developmental work, and specific, useful practices that can be applied. And we also know that reading stories of how these approaches work in actual practice can bring the theories, skills, and approaches to life.

We are integrating three fields of practice in our conception of visual consulting: Visual facilitationDialogic practiceChange work (). Each of these fields has disciplines, associations, literature, practices, and special language. What makes it possible to integrate them is they share a need for process awareness and process thinking.

Figure I.3

Visual facilitation is my (David Sibbet,) lifelong passion with decades of organization and community consulting across multiple sectors. I, Gisela Wendling, have spent my professional life researching and supporting change work with a continuous focus on integrating the principles and practices of dialogue in my work. We are excited to introduce readers to several new visual frameworks that have been especially powerful with our own work in this regard. One is the Consulting Framework for Respectful Engagement that will help consultants of any type understand their roles and the type of relationship they hope to establish with clients.