The purpose of the wheel of life exercise is not to make our wheel balanced in all aspects, but to identify areas where we might feel out-of-balance.

Is your client or team feeling stuck? The wheel of life is one of the first coaching tools I learned over 16 years ago. With this powerful tool, you can quickly identify the domains in your life where you feel out-of-balance. For this example, we used the ten domains from Michael Hyatt's Full Focus Planner (Intellectual, Social, Emotional, Vocational, Physical, Avocational, Marital, Financial, Spiritual and Parental) to represent one way of looking at the big picture of your whole life.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Take a moment to pause and reflect on your life.
• Give yourself permission to honor your whole self.
• Identify domains in your life that might need more focus.

MATERIALS:

• Paper
• Pencil
• Neuland Orbits Circle Template
• Neuland Fine One Outliner
• Colorful Markers

TESTIMONIALS

"I use “Wheel of life” in my coaching sometimes....

 I recently asked my community this question and created a visual of their responses. I thought I would take a moment and talk you through the process of how to use this activity on your own or with your team.

"What to do when you need to recharge?"

I’m curious, what works for you? I’d love some more ideas for my self-care transformation tool kit.

Here is a visual I made from the responses so far as well as the step-by-step of how you can use this activity too.

1. Draw a picture of yourself and a battery.

2. Make a list of the ways you recharge.

3. Add some visual icons.

This is a great activity for individuals & teams. It is great to learn from each other how to recharge at the end of a long day.

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Whenever you are ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

 1. The Visual Facilitation Online Course + Playbook: Unlock an engaging toolbox filled easy-to-use visuals. You will learn how to create memorable visuals...

 I love using visuals for coaching. The past two weeks I have opened my calendar for mini Private Coaching Sessions and the conversations have been amazing. I wanted to highlight one specifically around how to use visuals when coaching clients.

"How do you use visuals when your client is deflated?"

This was such a good question and a perfect opportunity to use visuals to facilitate a deeper conversation about how to help your clients get their good ideas off the ground. And why it is important for your client to separate themselves from their ideas.

Whenever you are ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

 1. The Visual Facilitation Online Course + Playbook: Unlock an engaging toolbox filled easy-to-use visuals. You will learn how to create memorable visuals for your coaching calls, in-person events or even your online course.
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 2. Private Coaching Sessions: Are you feeling stuck in your business?...

Welcome to the 2022 Working Virtual Guide. Want to know what microphone I use, how I switch my camera from forward facing to drawing from above, to showing my iPad? Watch this week's FREE video lesson from the Center for Visual Facilitation and you will learn about it ALL!!

In today's lesson, I'm going to share with you my pro-tips for setting up your lighting, your camera and your microphone. Your virtual background has the ability to bring 80% of your energy when you are working online. So let's make it AWESOME!

Looking good on ZOOM is essential to your businesses success and a necessity to stand out as a leader. The graduates of the 8 Week Intensive who have mastered their studio set-up have had the most success this years not only maintaining their clients but growing their businesses.

Click this video link to watch the virtual tour of the exact set-up I have in my studio right now.

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What is Visual Facilitation and how might you use it in your career? Here at the Center for Visual Facilitation we offer a unique learning pathway for Facilitators, Trainers and Leaders who are ready to take their career to the next level as a Visual & Virtual Champion.

I had the wonderful privilege of speaking at the "Power of Visuals' weekathon. Here are some of the things I covered to explain the power of Visual Facilitation and how you might want to add this skill to your toolkit as your head into next year.

I started my talk by sharing some of the visual templates I use for Visual Facilitation. Visual Facilitation is a powerful tool for critical thinking, problem solving and strategic planning. 

We looked at some of the visual templates and how you can use them to add different kinds of meaning. For example this drawing of a four team members could be used for team building, identifying the strengths of different team members or this template could be used to...

Practice makes perfect. And it takes a lot of work to make something look so easy. 

I began my career as a Graphic Facilitator for Ernst & Young in 1996 and over the years I have evolved into an Innovation Strategist partnering with others to bring ideas to life. I absolutely love working with individuals and teams applying my creative superpowers to think through processes, strategies and new products.

In this mini lesson, I want to introduce you to a mini lesson on how to use visual thinking to work through strategies yourself. It all starts with getting your ideas on paper. But how do you do that?

So many people say to me, "Whatever you do don't ask me to draw, I'm terrible."

I promise you Visual thinking is not about drawing; it's about IDEAS!!

I created a mini lesson using 6 simple icons you can use to start to unlock your creative thinking skills too. Are you ready to start getting your ideas on paper?

Whenever you are ready, there are 2...

In business we often talk about transformation and as a visual thinking expert, I am always looking for metaphors that match the word. When you think about transformation it is such a huge concept and does not happen overnight. Today I want to introduce you the Iceberg Metaphor we use in the Center for Visual Facilitation. The Iceberg is a great visual metaphor you can use for transformation.  With the iceberg,  there are elements above the water that everyone can see, but there is so much more of the iceberg under the water that people can't see from the surface.

When you look at the iceberg, at the very top is your purpose which represents the impact I want to have in the world. The next layer is your dream client... who are the people you want to serve? Below that are the products & services that you offer your clients.

Then we arrive at the bottom layers, which are very important elements to running my business...