Reflection – Visualization

Challenge & Selection

The visualization or visual thinking tool is one of my favorite tools that I consider very important  when working with a team in which we all need to be connected and focused on a single  purpose, currently I work teaching and sharing philosophy where I use visual thinking to be able  to express in drawings what I really want to say, all this information becomes more  understandable for everyone, by using drawings and colors it is also possible to internalize all  the information even more, I try to show in the drawings not only people but also animated  objects, animals, situations or abstract drawings that are related to the concept that I want to  represent, currently I am continuously attending workshops dictated by Visual Thinking School  here in Peru, which help me a lot to continue using this tool.

Application

I made use of a template to be able to draw a concept, the template is divided into small boxes  in one of them we scribble to free the hand, then in another box we write words that are  associated with the general concept, then we have a grazy four in which We will draw animals,  a situation, an object and something abstract that has some relation to the general concept,  using the associated words previously written, then a general drawing is made by associating  the previous drawings and words, the whole process was timed, as a result we had A much more  concrete drawing and explaining it served to support the understanding of all people, this  exercise I developed with other colleagues using the same concept and measuring time, it was  great all our graphics were different but always pointing to the initial concept.

The Sketchnote Handbook is one of my favorite books as it helped me get started in the world  of sketchnoting and visual thinking.

Insight & Approach

What I have learned with this template is to have different points of view for the same concept  which is very important to reinforce your understanding in this case of a CONCEPT, where it can  not only be represented with people but with animals, objects or situations, The most valuable  and important part of the activity was the knowledge and learning shared throughout the work  process, it was possible to identify in which of the tables we had greater complications and in  which we required more time to be able to specify the entire workforce, so each one of us ended  up with much more knowledge in relation to the concept we choose as the main one. This  visualization activity helped us to have many more activities and to infect the rest of our  colleagues.

