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Category Archives: communication

What’s going on …?

The word ‘woke’ has been demeaned, disparaged and weaponized. Its original meaning needs reclaiming.

Real world support …

The Australian government’s social media ban for under 16 year olds began this week.

Le pouvoir caché de la pensée systèmes …

Le pouvoir caché de la pensée systèmes – Gouverner dans l’urgence climatique – The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking – Governing in the Climate Emergency.

The 2020 book by Ray Ison and Ed Straw has just been translated into French by Houda Khayame. This meant that the 27 diagrams and illustrations that I had developed with Ray Ison needed to be translated and the French words and text integrated into the originals. Alas, my schoolboy French … but a number of translation sites were so helpful.

One of the group, Franck Varenne acknowledged the team involved with the French version.

… for the book, click here.

Nurturing stars …

Illustrations created in collaboration with Parry Agius, Linking Futures, for Star Dreaming -holistic athlete development. The dark emu image is used in each picture. These graphics illustrate preparing indigenous players for the Australian Football League AFL – which involves much more than just the player…

Other sketch drawings…

Tapping the staff resource …

Cartoons from the Auditor-General’s Department ( South Australia) ‘world cafe’ style workshop for all staff to workshop thoughts and ideas to help develop the department’s new Strategic Plan; held in Adelaide, 12th March, and facilitated by the wonderful Denis Picton, Oztrain. One key message was to better promote the range of work that the department does and its value to the community – it is annoying to staff that the department is often confused in people’s minds with the Tax Office…

Each staff member had a ‘passport’ to be stamped as they moved from table to table – each table tackled a particular aspect of the department’s work…

Leading the change …

Cartoons from Best -practice leadership in proactive prevention of workplace sexual harassment, University of South Australia–Our Watch, November 24th.

The big picture – making sense of it all graphic recording at the event was created by Elise Motalli…

Stories tell …

The Sydney International Storytelling Conference, June 2-4. Israeli-born Noa Baum gave the keynote presentation on how she is working on bridging the divide between Israelis and Palestinians. Listening with heart and mind, accepting dissonance and uncertainty.

And two days of moving stories, and workshops. These conferences are wonderful treats.

And three cartoons done after the event to illustrate Caroline Welkin’s piece about the conference for Fact and Fiction Magazine.

Last day …

Pro Bono news finishes today. Here is the last cartoon.

Preparing to Thrive …

Cartoons from Adelaide Botanic High School‘s student free staff development day, 10th March. Sessions included ‘Literacy to Thrive’, ‘Teaching and Learning Cycle’, ‘Talking to Learn’, ‘Vocabulary’ and ‘AI in Education‘.

From gender equity to gender equality …

.id informed decisions provides demographic analysis from the Australian Census data for local government. Cartoon illustrating their latest blog post Interactive chart: new data brings new opportunities for gender equity analysis.