Language

Spanish

Start date

January 2025

Frequency

Evening

Fruition

On campus

Duration

5 days

Credits

25 Hours

Course Coordination

Javier Royo

Price

€750

Stand out in your professional field with this intensive course with which you will improve your communication skills.

With the Visual Thinking Bootcamp: Creativity, Methodology and Presentation You will learn techniques and exercises to find creative solutions to problems using drawing, text, diagrams and other visual representations. 

In the age of visual information, the Visual Thinking methodology is a valuable tool to improve communication or the way to process information, as well as generate innovative ideas in a wide variety of fields: education, graphic design, advertising, marketing, corporate communication…. 

The differentiating element of this course is that it offers an evolution of the Visual Thinking methodology by integrating specific creativity techniques into learning.

Information to decide

A five-day workshop with which you will learn to improve your communication skills and to respond with innovative ideas to the challenges of your day-to-day work. 

Your learning will focus on the development of exercises and challenges that cover topics such as motivation, the connection of ideas, the organization of information, etc. It also includes techniques to find creative solutions to problems through drawing and other types of representations.

A course designed for anyone interested in communicating complex ideas, making them simple and understandable through drawing, text and graphics: 

  • Professionals from any professional sector who are dedicated to innovation in processes and results

  • Communication and marketing specialists.

  • Professionals or students in the graphic field (designers, illustrators, photographers) or communication (journalism. Humanities)

  • Graphic facilitators

  • Educators, professors or people from the academic field 

  • Social workers and collaborators or workers in social organizations 

  • Human Resources Technicians 

To take this course it is not necessary to know how to draw or have knowledge of software.

Together with the acquisition of technical knowledge, this workshop will help you to break through some of the most common problems when it comes to communication, such as the impostor syndrome, the blank page barrier, etc. It will also help you simplify ideas and organize them visually, as well as prepare attractive presentations of them. 

Taught by Javirroyo, the knowledge acquired can be applied in a wide variety of professional fields, as it stimulates creativity and motivation and facilitates collaboration and exchange between teams.

Syllabus

MOTIVATION AND CONFIDENCE

Why do we stop drawing?

Ikigai as the first graphic representation



UNLOCKING

The blank page 

The impostor syndrome

Being wrong and spontaneous



INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL THINKING

What is Visual Thinking?

Examples and tools/skills.

Drawing / Texts / Diagrams / Images / Systems



INITIATION TO DRAWING (LEVEL -1)

Mastering the basic skills of drawing, texts and diagrams



CREATIVITY

What is creativity?

The importance of procrastinating

Creative process through drawing: Procrastinate > Think > Draw > Share

Systemic language vs linear language



LEAVING THE COMFORT ZONE

Unexpected concepts



EMPATHIZE

Why is empathy important?

Mastering drawing skills



SIMPLIFYING IDEAS

Style? No: Your creative voice

Path to simplification. Less is more (sometimes)



Organizing information visually

Formulas to organize information



Organizing the Visual Presentation

Organizing a story (structure)

Storytelling



Sharing different and powerful ideas

Connecting with others. Ideas to transcend paper

Faculty

Javier Royo

Course Coordinator

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