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.
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‘.
Some of the cartoons drawn at the UNICEF -Pacific Early Childhood Development (ECD) forum, 22-25 February, Nadi, Fiji.
The first Pro Bono news cartoon for 2023.
And for a review of the last 10 years cartooning for Pro Bono – A decade of sketching the Sector.
The Power to the People Conference, a partnership between The Bank of Ideas and Community Minds, was held in Bankstown NSW, Australia, 27th & 28th October. Some cartoons from the sessions:
Day one
Day two
The Health Excellence Accelerator Lab (HEAL) in the QUT Design Lab has been working with Clinical Excellence Queensland (CEQ) to bring design thinking to wicked problems across Queensland Health. Eighteen projects were presented at a symposium this month showcasing the value of putting designers into healthcare. The event was followed by a workshop stepping through the process of human centred design. The on-the-spot cartoons attempted to capture just something of the tumble of ideas.
A three second story. The Story Conference Work. Health. Well-being: creating change one story at a time, is less that two weeks away. Discover more about the conference program and the wide range of workshops – including Pictures of Health: 3 second stories (presenter Simon Kneebone).
The Story Conference Melbourne 2019 is only a month away. It is ‘themed on the many differing and useful ways that Story and Narrative techniques provide approaches and impacts for work, health and well-being’. See here for videos from earlier Story Conferences, and testimonials.
View the three day program here for links to over 30 workshops and events – including my workshop Pictures of Health- 3 second stories.
Cartoon recording at the final Waterways of the West – Community Vision deliberative democracy gathering, with strong indigenous voices, completing the communities’ vision and priorities for the waterways of Melbourne’s west until 2070.
Some of the cartoons drawn at the Power to the People Conference, 15-16 August, an annual conference created by The Bank of Ideas – celebrating Asset Based Community Development (ABCD).
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 