Breathing exercises and techniques promote mindfulness, wellness, can help ease pain, and supports mental health.

Since 2016, we've taught hundreds of facilitators how to be at their best online. We just updated The Virtual Facilitation Workshop in August 2020 to apply the realities of living in an online world. In this 3-hour interactive, online workshop, we’ll cover best practices and activities for facilitating groups online.

NOVA Scribes is about to have its busiest season, with more events than ever! These are filling FAST!

A blended or meeting is whenever you have the hybrid approach of some people meeting in a room together and others dialing in with web-conferencing software or over the phone. Blended meetings are also a really bad idea…

We’ve shared plenty of advice on how to have good online meetings. We thought we’d take a different angle and share our favorite pet peeves. Continuing our series on tips for virtual meetings, here are six ways to guarantee your online meetings will be absolutely terrible.

Open Space is a meeting format that sets up multiple simultaneous discussions on whatever topics you have interest and energy in. You suggest the topics for multiple breakout discussions, then you participate and discuss those topics with others that share your interest.

How would you like to a scholarships to attend the upcoming International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP) online conference for free? This year, NOVA Scribes is sending 5 of its members to attend IFVP.

If you’ve got a 30-minute to 3-hour workshop, training, or facilitated process you’re working on and would like to pilot before delivering it to a live studio audience, NOVA Scribes might be the place.

Lizard Brain stands alongside the peaceful protesters around the nation, desperate for change, exhausted from generations of unjust treatment, without proper consequences for those guilty of crimes against their fellow man.

Malgosia has written an accessible, easy-to-use, step-by-step guide on digital scribing: the art of electronic illustrated note taking. She demonstrates using an iPad Pro and Procreate, which are fast becoming the industry-standard for digital scribing. Having said that, except for the most technical tips, the techniques she shares are universal.

This is it! This is the last call to register for any of our Virtual Facilitation Workshops! We’re down to the wire with only a few spaces left for the last seven sessions.

The world of fitness has tapped into a workout model designed to maximize results through balancing performance and rest. In this article, we apply the HIIT model to virtual meetings in an effort to help everyone do their best work from home.

Lizard Brain, in partnership with the Ringel Group and Dancing with Markers, has launched five new Virtual Facilitation Workshops. After completing any workshop, you’ll receive a promotion code to participate in as many of the other workshops as you like at a 25% discount.

Lizard Brain, in partnership with the Ringel Group and Dancing with Markers, is launching five new Virtual Facilitation Workshops. We took what our participants said were the most valuable parts of the original Workshop and designed fresh perspectives on them. If you participated in the Virtual Facilitation Workshop, you’ll see a few familiar concepts, but you’ll also see new practices, tools, methods, and modalities.

The meeting should not be the first time your participants are using the technology platforms! Here's a few things you can do to get participants up to speed on the tech BEFORE the meeting.

It’s episode 4 of Virtual Pizzazz for Teachers, the series of videos we’re creating for teachers and instructors. We’re sharing our best tips on how to bring what you do in the room online.

Here’s episode 3 of Virtual Pizzazz for Teachers, the series of videos we’re creating for teachers and instructors. We’re sharing our best tips on how to bring what you do in the room online.

My colleague Rae Ringel and I are launching a series of quick videos for teachers and instructors. We’re sharing our best tips on how to take what you do in the room and bring it online.