A participant in a workshop that I led drew the above picture to describe the role he played in his company’s process:
Do drawings help members of a team to better reveal their point of view?
In my experience, they do.
But more importantly, the process of drawing with virtually no constraints helps the drawer reveal their point of view to themselves better than when they are required to use prescribed symbols.
A drawing is a channel for conceiving and conveying ideas. Interpreting the picture with words provides the drawer with yet another channel for conceiving and conveying ideas. Increase the number of channels someone uses to describe something and you help them conceive more ideas and increase their ability to successfully communicate them.
A drawing is revelation.
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