Cartooning for Trainers and Presenters

Have you ever watched someone draw a cartoon right in front of you – to help explain a point, or just to bring an idea to life? If you have, you’ll know what a powerful method of communication a simple drawing can be.

If you’re a trainer, presenter, teacher, facilitator, consultant or coach, and you’d like to be able to draw cartoons to help you get your message across, then this is the workshop for you.

Day workshop: Cartooning for Trainers and Presenters

This is a hands-on workshop for people who want to be able to:

• use the simplicity of cartoons to get across complex ideas and information
• improvise with cartoons to bring more spontaneity and humour into their facilitation and training
• design materials that appeal to a variety of learning styles
• produce entertaining and memorable visual aids, in advance or on the spot.

In the workshop you will learn the fundamentals of cartoon drawing with an experienced professional cartoonist and trainer. This includes how to draw your own ‘live’ cartoons, and how to develop your own visual metaphors to help get your message across.

Discover that you can draw after all, and that you can use drawing to make your communication and training really distinctive!

Workshop outline

In the morning session we explore what drawing really is, and why everyone can do it! By the end you will be able to draw your own people and animals, expressions, objects and contexts, and you will have the know-how to develop your cartooning as far as you want to take it.

The afternoon session is about ‘thinking like a cartoonist’ and applying your drawing skills in your work. You will develop cartoon ideas that will be immediately useful to you, and you’ll be able to practice live cartooning within the supportive framework of the group. The group is kept small to guarantee everyone individual attention and constructive feedback.

This workshop can be commissioned as an in-house workshop or a team awayday and can be tailored to suit you. Contact us to find out more…

We occasionally offer it as an open workshop – please get in touch to register your interest.

And now read some feedback from our cartooning workshop participants…

“An engaging day full of learning, new ways of thinking and great fun! I recommend it unreservedly.”   (Andrena Cumella, Senior Fellow, Organisational Development, Office for Public Management, London.)

“Every trainer/facilitator should attend this workshop. Invaluable.”
(Barry Bond, Transition Partners)

“A very stimulating, enjoyable and effective workshop – rapidly builds confidence and ability”.  (Rupert Eales-White, management consultant and author)

“Thanks so much for the workshop. It was a real energiser for me.  I really enjoyed the drawing and the experience of discarding judgmental thoughts for the day.  I loved the sensitive way in which you facilitated the process. I will be very happy to recommend you to colleagues and clients, and would love to do another workshop.”
(Marj Setters, Chrysalis Learning and Development)

I ran a two day workshop for a high-powered group over the last few days and created my flip charts with as much ‘cartoony stuff’ as possible. It was impactful and interesting to see how I could get the ‘essence’ of the points across with minimal words and I enjoyed being creative with the materials. The MD when commenting said. “Is this your style of communicating?”  I said yes, (defensively) and he said “It’s FANTASTIC!” So thank you both!  (Mike Kean, Director, ASK Business Development Limited)

“The workshop was stimulating, professionally run and, most importantly, great fun. It was particularly helpful in taking us skilfully through many of our self-doubts about drawing through both individual and group exercises. I can heartily recommend it to anyone in teaching or training who want to give more visual (and witty) impact to their repertoire.”  (David Jaques, formerly head of L&D at Oxford Brookes University)

“I really enjoyed the training day and have been proselytising its virtues to my colleagues ever since. I have found myself thinking about using cartoons in lots of different settings and ways. I can’t wait for the autumn and the chance to try out the techniques and strategies we used. It was definitely the best training day I’ve ever had.”
(Jennie Naidoo, University of the West of England)