Visual Practitioners
A visual practitioner can come in many forms - we're a diverse field of live visual note-takers, creative harvesters and pattern finders. At the heart of what we do is:
Surface latent information with a variety of different tools and methods, including illustrations, diagrams, icons, drawings, maps and storyboards.
Communicate ideas using visuals that increase both comprehension and retention of information.
Stimulate creative thinking and inspire people to think in unconventional and innovative ways.
Strengthen Relationships by helping people see that their ideas are being understood. Diversity becomes an asset when the bridge across difference isn't lost in translation.
About Kate
Kate’s work as a Somatic Scribe and culture creator is in service of supporting social ecologies to know themselves intimately. Their work uses image, symbol, story, intuition and ancestral memory to activate the wisdom in a collective towards decolonial healing. They are a founding member of the Ecoversities Alliance where they serve as a writer, researcher and curator of transnational conversations about queer pedagogy. Currently making home on Maskoke territory in the city of Atlanta, Kate is a xicanx, queer unschooling parent-in-community. They are a capoerista, drag performer and devoted student of Black feminism, fungi, and love.
The Crow's Journey
There are as many great ideas out there as there are stars in the sky, and a lot of folks get uncomfortable here, clinging to old ideas and not knowing how to make sense of unorganized information. But solutions to big problems necessitate collective meaning making, and that requires creativity, collaboration and critical thinking.
Crows, known to be the smartest bird on earth, are fabled to be navigators of the liminal. Folklore from around the world tells of crows moving between worlds and realms, comfortable in seeing the world from many perspectives. When we use imagery like this to tell stories, suddenly a sky full of random data points becomes a set of constellations. We find relationships and map them, giving our world order and meaning.
So when you find yourself navigating through a conversation that's rich and complex, exploring back alleys and side streets of a big idea and getting lost in the chaos of random points of data strewn across the sky, remember that the fastest way from point A to point B is to tell a story about it. Zoom out and map the patterns of a constellation - meaning made collectively - and get to the point as the crow flies.