A virtual learning platform bringing visual thinking to business.
In a world overflowing with information, words alone often fail to capture the depth and breadth of ideas.
Since 2011, Think in Colour has been helping people unlock magic by transforming the abstract into the tangible, the complex into the simple, and the ordinary into the extraordinary.
In 2024, we want to share all our magic tricks with you.
Enter: Vivid Learning Academy - a comprehensive professional development course to help professionals improve how they understand and communicate information in a way that really sticks.
This course is for anyone who regularly has to communicate and capture ideas, facilitate groups, collaborate or consult with others.
Welcome to Vivid Learning Academy
Take a peek at what's waiting for you inside the Academy!
"I am so excited to see these workshops being made available. Partnering with Jessamy Gee for Critical Conversations has enriched our ability to communicate complex ideas in ways that make the experience more engaging and accessible for our network of school partners.
We've also relished Jessamy teaching a summer course at New Roads School for the last few years. Our students and faculty have not only enjoyed these courses immensely but it's enhanced their ability to capture and communicate complex ideas more effectively.
I couldn't endorse these workshops and Think in Colour more highly."
- Mark Vicker-Willis, New Roads School / Critical Conversations
What you're getting with this course
- 12 month access to the Vivid Learning Academy Platform
- A bunch of awesome templates and resources
- 10% discount on one-on-one coaching with Think in Colour
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10% discount on purchases from Graphic Gear
Course Outline
- 1.1 Secret: We’ve been using pictures to share information for 40,000 years! (0:53)
- 1.2 Hack: Colour and images
- 1.3 Hack: Images = speed
- 1.4 Hack: Get 6 x better memory recall!
- 1.5 Secret: Why we love handwritten notes (1:20)
- 1.6 Hack: Feelings & memory (0:28)
- 1.7 Activity: How could you use visual thinking to enhance your thinking, collaboration or communication? (2:50)
- Test your Learning (1:18)
- 4.1 Secret: Colour is your secret weapon (0:18)
- 4.2 Hack: Use colour to give you the feels (1:11)
- 4.3 Activity: Test the feels
- 4.4 Debrief: Test the feels
- 4.5 Hack: Colour conventions
- 4.6 Secret: You don't have to use ALL THE COLOURS
- 4.7 Activity: Creating your own colour key
- 4.8 Debrief: Colour Keys
- Test your Learning
- 6.1 When & how to use visual translation (3:11)
- 6.2 CARATA: The secret formula for visual translation (8:12)
- 6.3 CARATA in practice: The Three Little Pigs (8:51)
- 6.4 Activity: Visual translation (3:01)
- 6.5 Activity: Visual translation continued (1:16)
- 6.6 Metaphors
- 6.7 Activity: Metaphors as thinking tools
- Test your Learning
About the Instructor - Jessamy Gee
As one of Australia’s leading Graphic Recorders, Melbourne-based Jessamy Gee has developed a unique skill set in listening, synthesising, capturing and communicating information visually.
She is the Founder and Director of Think in Colour, Founder and former President of Graphic Recorders Australia, author of ‘GR’s Best Mate’ and co-author of ‘The World of Visual Practice’. In 2018, Jessamy was the keynote speaker at the inaugural VizConf Conference in Melbourne. In 2020, she became the first Australian Director to serve on the Board of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP). In January 2021, Jessamy took over the role of Chapter Host for CreativeMornings Melbourne, serving the creative community of Melbourne through to March 2024. In 2024, Jessamy is on a mission to build the next generation of visual thinkers - working closely with schools and the education sector to unlock new ways of thinking and learning through visual thinking and communication.
Since launching Think in Colour in 2011, Jessamy has become internationally renowned for her work, and has serviced a diverse range of clients all around Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the United States and Europe across the corporate, community, education and government sectors.
Jessamy has captured talks by some of Australia’s leading minds including former President of the Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs, former Greens leader Bob Brown, advertising personality Todd Sampson, actor Madga Szubanski, academic and presenter Waleed Aly, Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel and former Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon, as well as revered international thinkers such as futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil, and originator of lateral thinking, Edward de Bono.