(Sponsor Event) Think With Ink™ - LizardBrain

Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 - Friday, January 9th, 2026
Reston, Virginia

Click here for more details and to register.

Think With Ink™ is Lizard Brain’s 3-day premiere graphic facilitation workshop. This is an intensive workshop that covers the essentials of using visuals to facilitate a group process. The workshop covers three areas:

Technique: Markers, paper handling, color use, lettering, drawing, forms, levels of information, listening for synthesis.

Models, Methods, and Tools: visual energizers and icebreakers, meeting principles and ground rules, and visual tools for brainstorming ideas, comparing ideas, and collaboratively deciding the way forward.

Experiential Practice: hands-on practice designing and leading facilitated modalities.

This workshop is meant for:

• The facilitator who wants to build a repertoire of visual tools,
• The graphic recorder or sketchnoter who wants to expand into graphic facilitation,
• The team member who wants to bring visual, participatory methods to the team,
• The consultant who wants to help clients think through problems in a visual manner, or
• The visual thinker, the whiteboard salesman, the data visualizer, or anyone that sits in the intersection of visuals and helping others solve problems.

Each participant will receive:

• Textbook
• Sketchbook and sketchnoting materials
• Handouts summarizing key practices
• Set of markers
• Roll of twenty-five-yard paper

This hands-on, practice-driven workshop will give you everything you need to graphically facilitate groups through the toughest challenges.

The next in-person running is in Reston, Virginia, January 7-9, 2026.

Click here to find out more about the workshop. If you have questions, feel free to email us at chris@lizardbrain.com

FAQs

Will this teach me to graphic record?

• Graphic recording is large-scale visual notetaking for groups. Graphic facilitation is using visuals to help move a group through a process. Although you can apply many of the graphic facilitation methods in Think With Ink to graphic recording, we will focus on visual group processes rather than on the aesthetic side of graphic recording.

• Yes!

• Please bring questions, comments, stories, favorite tools, examples, experiences, and a willingness to learn and share with others!

• For any questions, please contact me! brian@lizardbrain.com.