Draw It Before You Say It

Our sector speaks in technical language, and that language is precise, accurate and often impenetrable to the people it is meant to serve. In this episode of Cognitio, Tim Boyle hands the microphone to Jessamy Gee, founder and director of Think in Colour and Australia's first IFVP certified master visual practitioner. Jessamy works as a graphic recorder, translating complex discussion into a visual record while it is happening, across healthcare, security, agriculture and public consultation. She makes the case for why visuals change comprehension, memory and emotional connection, runs a short drawing exercise you can do while you listen, and explains how she captures emotionally charged lived experience without flattening it into a data point. Presented close to complete, as she delivered it.