Become a Visual Practitioner!

Whether you're a project manager, a process improvement expert, or a digital product developer, our online Visual Practitioner training course can help you level up your skills and create more effective, engaging, and sustainable solutions.

No prior knowledge required! We'll guide you through the basics of visual thinking and show you how to turn complex information into simple, memorable visuals and diagrams. With our help, you'll be able to make your presentations stick, your trainings more engaging, and your projects more agile.

Join the hundreds of people we've trained over the years, and discover the joy and fun of thinking with a pen. We offer individual training courses, webinars, video courses, and comprehensive training programs for different levels of knowledge. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced visualization pro, we've got you covered.

Learning goals

The Visual Practitioner Certification training program covers a range of topics that are designed to help participants develop their visualization skills and become proficient in using visual thinking and communication to solve problems, facilitate learning, and drive engagement.

The program includes an introduction to visual thinking, hands-on exercises to build material awareness and develop the visual alphabet, and training on visual literacy and the use of colors, shadows, composition, typography, and flip chart hacks.

Participants will also learn how to use emotions and energy to facilitate learning, and explore the neuroscience of visualization, including the double coding theory, representational systems, and thinking styles.

The program includes training on visual coaching, facilitation, teaching, and storytelling. By the end of the program, participants will be equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to become effective visual practitioners and use visual thinking and communication to create more agile projects, engaging trainings and workshops, and impactful presentations.

Program

Introduction

• 00 - 01 - Welcome Visual Practitioner (3:35)
• 00 - 02 - Introduction (5:52)
• 00 - 03 - Who are your Visual Practitioner Trainers? (4:00)

Start to Draw!

• 01 - 00 - Start to Draw! (2:20)

Build your Material Awareness

• 01 - 01 - Material awareness (2:54)
• 01 - 02 - Pens on paper and whiteboard (2:33)
• 01 - 03 - Exercise on paper (2:12)

The Visual Alphabet

• 02 - 01 - The visual alphabet (16:55)
• 02 - 02 - Visual alphabet exercise (2:09)
• 02 - 03 - Visual alphabet warm-up (3:39)
• 02 - 04 - The meaning of lines (2:36)
• 02 - 06 - Direct attention with arrows (3:31)

Visual Awareness

• 03 - 01 - Visual literacy (4:03)
• 03 - 02 - Visual literacy exercise (0:48)
• 03 - 03 - Build your visual library (3:46)

Draw toons!

• 03 - 04 - How to draw cartoons (3:42)
• 03 - 05 - How to draw cartoons exercise (0:40)
• 03 - 06 - Draw for speed exercise (6:59)
• 03 - 07 - Draw for speed (2:15)
• 03 - 08 - Drawing lines exercise (0:43)
• 03 - 09 - Draw more dynamic (2:35)
• 03 - 10 - Draw for speed exercise (1:09)

How to use colors and shadows

• 04 - 01 - All about colours (4:53)
• 04 - 02 - All about colours exercise (0:54)
• 04 - 03 - The magic of shadows part 1 (3:54)
• 04 - 04 - The magic of shadows part 2 (5:39)
• 04 - 05 - Add depth with layers (6:15)

Create focus using composition

• 05 - 01 - Guide attention with faces (3:22)
• 05 - 02 - Guide attention with shadows (1:49)
• 05 - 03 - Guide attention with movement (4:30)
• 05 - 04 - Use boxes to frame content (7:07)
• 05 - 05 - Box-to-box exercise (6:44)
• 05 - 06 - Visually cluster exercise (1:17)

How to improve your typography

• 06 - 01 - Typography basics (11:16)
• 06 - 02 - Typography exercise (0:53)

Flip chart hacks

• 07 - 01 - Where you stand when you draw (1:51)
• 07 - 02 - Use letters instead of words (2:39)
• 07 - 03 - Bring images, words and audio together (2:12)
• 07 - 04 - Flip chart magic (3:00)

Using emotions and energy

• 08 - 01 - Add fun to facilitate learning (6:34)
• 08 - 02 - Emotional exercise (2:24)
• 08 - 03 - Winkels exercise (1:11)
• 08 - 04 - World of mouth exercise (1:12)

The Neuroscience of Visualisation

• 09 - 01 - Double coding theory (4:03)
• 09 - 02 - Representational systems (9:17)
• 09 - 03 - Structure of the brain (10:23)
• 09 - 04 - Representational systems mindgame exercise (2:59)
• 10 - 01 - Perception with Steff & Karl (16:40)
• 10 - 02 - Perception and thinking styles (6:39)

Be a Visual Coach

• 12 - 01 - Visual Coaching Process (3:41)
• 12 - 02 - Visual Coaching Demo (15:55)
• 12 - 03 - Visual Coaching Exercise (1:31)
• 12 - 04 - Visual Coaching Exercise 2 (2:13)
• 12 - 05 - Visual SCORE (8:46)

Be a Visual Facilitator

• 13 - 01 - Roles with Steff & Karl (5:49)
• 13 - 02 - Game (12:38)
• 13 - 03 - Divergence and convergence (4:31)
• 13 - 04 - Three Point Attention (5:29)

Be a Visual Teacher

• 14 - 01 - Create your visual templates (7:31)
• 14 - 02 - Empathy Map (2:08)
• 14 - 03 - Feedback (3:20)
• 14 - 04 - Goals (4:44)
• 14 - 05 - Visualising models exercise (1:48)
• 15 - 01 - Welcome flipchart by Karl (14:21)
• 15 - 02 - Welcome flipchart by Steff (7:12)
• 15 - 03 - Welcome flipchart exercise (1:01)

Be a Visual Storyteller

• 16 - 01 - 5 principles of visual storytelling (17:38)
• 16 - 02 - 5 principles of visual storytelling exercise (1:10)
• 16 - 03 - Presentation diamond with Steff & Karl (5:57)
• 16 - 03 - Visual Storytelling Structures (14:05)
• 16 - 04 - Visual storytelling structures exercise (2:32)
• 16 - 05 - Visual storytelling darts exercise (2:14)
• 16 - 06 - Movie Poster visual energyzer (4:29)

Visual Practitioner Certification

• 17 - 01 - Wrap up (2:33)
• 17 - 02 - Visual Practitioner Certification (2:37)