Bikablo® Advanced
Go further with your visual skills by learning advanced storytelling & visual facilitation techniques.
Available in-person or online
Visual storytelling and live capture here I come!
With bikablo basics training under your belt and your commitment to visual work it’s time to kick things up a notch.
Humans, emotions, and stories are embedded into your work, and you’re looking for more ideas and tips to bring those elements to life in your visualizations. Sharing ideas and information needs to be memorable and you know that storytelling and visualization can be a powerful combination to really make your ideas stick. Static figures are great for simple ideas, but you have bigger ideas and you want to get better at creating expressive characters to enhance your visual storytelling capabilities. You learned so much in the basics training you know you could advance your skills quickly if you just had more structure and support.
As a visualizer, you walk into meetings with your markers in hand and easily capture key information, but something still nags at you when you step back and look at what you drew. The details are there, but it feels incomplete — like there should be more visual hierarchy and structure. There are elements of importance, but they just don’t stand out. You’ve integrated many of the go-to icons you learned in the bikablo basics program, but want to go beyond the basics and start creating rich pictures and vivid imagery.
Just like you generate better ideas and solutions in groups and teams, you know you can expand your visual skills when you learn in a setting with other visualizers. You’re itching to be back in a creative space with others who see the value of visuals as much as you do.
I understand where you're at and I know you’re thinking there must be more to learn, more skills in visualization that you can layer on top of the skills you already have. If this is true — let me show you how.
With the bikablo foundations now part of your repertoire, you’re ready to immerse yourself in more visual skill development. You’re keen to learn and understand how to build the structure of stories and incorporate visual skills to make your own visual scenes, storyboards, or comics. Maybe you’ve seen or purchased the bikablo emotions book, but want to understand the principles and concepts behind these characters to create your own expressive characters for the stories you want to tell.
You’re excited to learn different ways to design and structure stories, to take problems, issues and challenges you encounter on a day-to-day basis and convert them into an exciting narrative. Your company or clients talk about taking a more human-centered approach to how you work and generate solutions, wouldn’t it be great to feel confident in building visual stories on the fly based on conversations you are having? Think about how memorable these outputs could be instead of boring documents and spreadsheets. And stop for a moment and pause — realize that you could actually be paid to draw stories and comics — who would've ever thought that was possible?
Visuals are powerful when the right visual concept immediately “clicks” for the viewer. In the world of bikablo, we call these pictures ``key visuals” because they accurately depict a key or vital concept. You know key visuals could enhance your visualization capabilities. You're looking for ideas, inspiration, and support to expand your abilities to create unique, meaningful, rich pictures.
You are ready to learn more skills and strategies to capture ideas in live settings helping others effortlessly navigate and make sense of information.
Take your bikablo skills to the next level. Go from a bikablo novice to a confident bikablo visualizer.
Bikablo Advanced
The Training
(available in-person or live online)
Bikablo Advanced is a two-day in-person training course that builds on the foundations of bikablo basics to extend your skills in visual storytelling and live capture.
In two days, you’ll learn the basic structure of stories and how to bring them to life with visuals. You’ll also deepen your ability to capture information in live settings such as meetings, conversations, and presentations.
Bikablo advanced is available as an in-person or a live online experience. Bikablo advanced can be delivered in-house for a group of 8-12 people or as a private 1-on-1 offering. Check out the FAQs below for additional information. Upcoming training dates are listed below. For online sessions, the program is spread out over 4 days.
What’s covered in the 2-day bikablo advanced training?
Day 1 - Visual Storytelling
(8 hours)
A quick review of bikablo basics content to refresh your knowledge.
Draw and play with bikablo® emotions figures to bring your stories to life.
Create a basic visual story integrating emotion figures and other elements of the bikablo technique.
Explore the Hero’s Journey and story spine concepts used as a framework to construct your own narratives.
Experiment with various storytelling templates to sketch and design your own visual stories.
Learn how to draw faces using the “Muppet” technique to create detailed drawings of people to enhance your visual stories.
Day 2 - Live Capture
(8 hours)
Expand your visual vocabulary by combining emotion figures with other visual concepts.
Learn about the various applications of visualization and visual thinking to chart your own path as a visual practitioner.
Take your writing to the next level through advanced lettering techniques to create attractive headlines.
Discover a simple, flexible strategy for capturing content in real time in a clear and structured way.
Apply everything you’ve learned in a final project.
What you’ll learn in bikablo® advanced.
In just two days of advanced training in the bikablo® Advanced course, you will…
Learn how to create visual stories incorporating bikablo emotion figures and muppets characters.
Learn a simple approach to constructing your own stories based on the framework of the Hero’s Journey.
Walk away with more than 15 different visual templates you can use to build and create stories.
Discover how to deepen and expand your visual vocabulary to create key visuals and rich pictures.
Deepen your lettering skills, create visual hierarchy, and capture information live.
Visualization and visual thinking is for everyone!
I’ve taught professionals who work as; consultants, facilitators, educators, trainers, coaches, project managers, scrum masters, user experience, and service designers this training who have all found many ways to integrate these skills into their work.
What do you get in bikablo advanced?
Bikablo Advanced
Bikablo® StarterSet Advanced (pictured left): You receive the official bikablo starter set, which includes 4 visualization markers and an exclusive 30-page starter booklet that summarizes the key principles, content, and techniques of the training. (Note: for online training, starter sets are shipped approximately 2 weeks before the training)
Photo documentation of the training will be provided in a digital format after the training to use as a reference.
A certificate confirming your participation in the training and a list of the content covered in the course.
An invitation to join the online bikablo® alumni community where you can access further resources, links, tips, visual inspirations, and connect with other visual practitioners around the globe.
Neuland discount: bikablo has an exclusive agreement with Neuland. When you complete the course, you receive a one-time 15% discount on a range of products (excluding. books; cannot be used in combination with other offers or discounts)
If you are skeptical…
Even if you’ve attended a bunch of visual meet-ups and bought all the books you could find on visual storytelling and graphic recording, there are still a lot of valuable things I can teach you. Bikablo® is based on more than 15 years of experience and the bikablo global trainer community has more than 40 professionals. This training was created by a collection of experienced visualizers who’ve distilled their best tips and tricks to learn these specialized visualization skills.
Bring bikablo to your workplace
Bikablo basics training makes a great professional development workshop for companies like yours looking to infuse some creative thinking into the workplace. For in-house or private group training, please contact me at jill@jilllanger.com for pricing.
Ready to join me for bikablo advanced?
Full Advanced Course
(In-Person Calgary, AB)
2-day Advanced course combines skills in Visual Storytelling & Live Capture.
Dates: Fall 2023
Location: TBC
DAY 1: Visual Storytelling
Date: TBC
DAY 2: Live Capture
Day 2: TBC
*Please arrive 5-10 minutes early so we can start on time.
INVESTMENT (Early Bird) : $1600 CAD + GST
(TBD)
INVESTMENT: $1750 CAD + GST
(TBD)
Visual Storytelling (Day 1 Only)
(In-Person Calgary, AB)
Day 1: Learn techniques for sharing stories using visualization skills.
Dates: Fall 2023
Location: TBC
DAY 1: Visual Storytelling
Foundations
Bikablo Emotions
Storytelling Templates
Muppet Characters
*Please arrive 5-10 minutes early so we can start on time.
INVESTMENT (Early Bird): $850 CAN + GST
(TBD)
INVESTMENT: $925 CAD + GST
(TBD)
Live Capture (Day 2 Only)
(In-Person Calgary, AB)
Day 2: Learn techniques for capturing information in live settings.
Dates: Fall 2023
Location: TBC
DAY 2: Live Capture
Creating Key Visuals
Advanced Lettering Techniques
Layouts for Live Capture
Final Project
*Please arrive 5-10 minutes early so we can start on time.
INVESTMENT (Early Bird): $850 CAN + GST
(TBD)
INVESTMENT: $925 CAD + GST
(TBD)
Registration Process
Step 1: Click on the “Register Now” button below your selection and I will receive an email about your request to register.
Step 2: Within 2 business days, you will receive a confirmation email from me and I will provide the details for payment (e-transfer or credit card via PayPal).
Step 3: 1 week before the training, you’ll get an email with all the details to prepare for the training.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Meet Your Visual Facilitation Trainer
I’m a visual facilitation trainer who helps people who want to create more creative and engaging spaces by teaching them skills to tap into their creativity and facilitate more effective, meaningful, and engaging conversations.
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