Invite participants to practice drawing the five symbols: circle, rectangle, triangle, spiral, star person. 5 min. Figure A Apple Freeform can leverage distinctive features of devices. Here, the drawing tools in Freeform on an iPad Mini are used to create a sketch that will then be inserted into Freeform on a MacBook Air. Figure B Google Jamboard not only supports all sorts of collaboration tools on a standard board; it also allows you to add up to 20 additional frames. Drawing Together can serve as a powerful Liberating Structure to get everyone’s thinking started about the team or group. Invite everyone to draw their teams' journey and include the challenges they faced. Or draw the current state of the team. Optionally, share the drawing via Impromptu Networking or a simple 1–2–4-ALL, and afterward create the team compass. 8. Connect “Drawing Together” to “Heard, See, and Respected”

Freeform lets you leverage the capabilities of your Apple devices, as shown in Figure A. On an iPhone or iPad, you may use the camera to either take a photo or scan a document and add it as an item into your Freeform file. With Jamboard, collaboration isn’t limited to a single board. You may add additional frames, such as the frames shown along the top of Figure B. In fact, you may add up to a total of 20 frames within a single Jamboard file. This capability may make it easier to group or sort ideas, such as notes associated with different aspects of a project. Drawing Together can serve as a perfect starting point for Conversation Cafe. For example, ask participants to draw their personal journey or challenges, and share it via Conversation Cafe afterward. 7. Use it as input for “Generative Relationships STAR” As always, I’m eager to learn from your experiences as well. How have you used Drawing Together? What works best for you? What other strings of Liberating Structures have you tried? Let’s learn and grow, together! About Drawing Togethermin) Debrief important patterns with the whole group. What was it like to have your drawing interpreted by someone else? Whose interpretation was actually quite close to reality? What are some obvious patterns you noticed?

Collaboration tools on each of these three major platforms let you draw, type, add images and much more. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic For visual facilitation of a meeting or conference, where drawings are created as the conversation unfolds Apple Freeform, Google Jamboard and Microsoft Whiteboard, each explained briefly below, all allow you to draw and type on a virtual rectangular shaped space. This sort of unstructured sketching helps many people explore ideas or clarify concepts. When drawing with other people, these visual tools may help encapsulate or explain essential points and sequences. Use as a template a progression from status quo, through call to novelty, discovery, validation, early adoption, and spread Computer tablets can be used instead of paper for participants to learn how to tell a story with the five symbols on their tabletsInstead of using verbal language as its medium for interaction, Drawing Together makes use of constrained visual language with five purposefully abstract symbols. Steps to facilitate Drawing Together You can view work from these sessions by searching for #DrawingTogetherGM on most social media platforms.