Visual Facilitation Workshop
Think with Ink™
Uplevel Your Visual Facilitation Skills
Think with Ink™ is a 3-day interactive workshop helping facilitators, consultants, and team leaders integrate visuals into group processes - so you walk into a meeting with the skills to help you and your team make better decisions.
January 7 - 9, 2026
9 - 5 PM
Herndon, VA
Are You Just Surviving Through Horrible Meetings?
If you’re frustrated by pointless meetings where everyone talks in circles and nothing actually happens, you’re not alone.
This workshop is for you if:
You’re tired of participants’ lizard brains hijacking the meeting and derailing the conversation.
Every time you attempt to move the group to a decision, the devil’s advocate raises a minor concern and goes Godzilla on the rest of the meeting.
You need help navigating the meeting monsters and just wish you could pull something out of your backpack of tools and skills to help.
And if you’re being honest, you’re secretly wondering if it’s time to make a shift and start retooling your skills because it's such a struggle you’re looking to prepare for what’s next.
There has to be a better way.
Imagine Gaining the Skills and Confidence to Make Meetings Move
You walk into your next meeting knowing how to make ideas visible, guide collaborative work, and move the group through the process.
AND, you know building your visual facilitation skills gives you portable and durable skills to strengthen your current work and position you for future growth.
Just Imagine:
When the conversation is heading toward collision, you whip out the markers, sketch out what you’re hearing, and get everyone on the same side of the table solving the problem.
The visual template you designed for the meeting anchors the group process and guides the conversation.
You move forward with the materials and essential visual skills ready to pull out of your backpack so that you can support your team and your career growth.
Are you ready to build your visual facilitation skills?
ABOUT
The Think with Ink™ Workshop
January 7 - 9th, 2026
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9 AM - 5 PM
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Herdon, VA
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Wednesday - Friday,
January 7 - 9th, 2026 | 9 AM - 5 PM | Herdon, VA | Wednesday - Friday,
What You Get from a Think with Ink™ Workshop:
Three Days of Learning and Practicing Visual Facilitation Skills
Over the three-day in-person intensive, you’ll build the skills (and muscles) to lead visual, high-impact sessions so that you build the confidence to apply your new skills right away.
Day 1: The Visual Fundamentals
It’s not about being an artist, it’s about being a visual translator.
You’ll learn techniques to start building your visual skills including lettering, drawing, using color in a meaningful way, organizing levels of information, and how to listen for synthesis.
You’ll also get the materials you’ll need to start implementing your new skills right away and tips on how to use them. Your visual facilitation starter kit includes a textbook, large-format sketchbook, sketchnoting materials, large sticky notes, tape, handouts including visual templates and explainers, markers, a paper-cutter, and a 25-yard roll of paper.
Day 2: Facilitation Models, Methods & Tools
You’ll walk away with frameworks you can use immediately in workshops, strategy sessions, and client meetings.
Learn about:
Visual energizers and icebreakers to support your session,
Meeting principles and ground rules to use in every meeting,
Visual tools for brainstorming, comparing ideas, and collaboratively deciding on a way forward.
Day 3: Design & Practice
No one wants to practice a new skill for the first time in a meeting with their boss. Today is the day to get hands-on practice applying your skills, including:
Creating visual templates and agendas
Designing and leading visual facilitation experiences, experimenting with structure, flow, and visual storytelling.
Getting your markers on the wall as you learn by doing, because that’s how facilitators grow.
Think with Ink™
The Think with Ink™ workshop gives you everything you need to uplevel your visual facilitation skills so that you are ready for what’s next.
Take advantage of this chance to learn and build powerful skills to help you - and your team - make better decisions without struggling through horrible meetings.
Think with Ink™
Wednesday - Friday, January 7 - 9th, 2026
9 AM - 5 PM
Herndon, VA
$2,500
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What’s included:
Three full days of in-person, interactive training with a Master Certified Facilitator, Brian Tarallo, Lizard Brain.
Visual Facilitation Starter Kit including textbook, large-format sketchbook, sketchnoting materials, large sticky notes, tape, handouts including visual templates and explainers, markers, a paper-cutter, and a 25-yard roll of paper.
Nourishment: Lunch, snacks, and beverages.
Introducing Your Facilitator
Brian Tarallo
Brian Tarallo is the Managing Director of Lizard Brain. He is a Master Certified Professional Facilitator specializing in helping leadership teams, consultants, facilitators, coaches, and visual practitioners make better decisions, run better meetings, and grow their visual facilitation skills.
He created Think With Ink™ because he knows what it’s like when the lizard brain derails an important meeting and understands the power of visual facilitation to shift the dynamic and move a project forward.
His direct and interactive approach to training centers the participant’s learning needs and delivers practical and research-backed modalities to help participants expand their toolkit and make an impact.
Brian is the author of Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings and has as many certifications as he can collect.
Learning Visual Facilitation Skills is a Game-Changer.
Are you ready?
Think with Ink™ is designed to help you grow professionally as a visual facilitator and gives you skills that will support whatever career trajectory you pursue.
The real risk isn’t investing the time, energy, and money in upleveling your skills with Think with Ink™ - it’s staying stuck in horrible meetings fighting monsters when you could do so much more.
FAQ:
Q: I’m not sure if this is for me. Who is this for?
Think with Ink™ is for anyone who wants to build a repertoire of visual tools, bring visual and participatory methods to a team, or help clients solve problems in a visual manner.
This workshop is for coaches, facilitators, team members and leaders, consultants, and visual thinkers.
Q: What if I want to learn how to graphic record?
Graphic recording is large-scale visual notetaking. Visual [or Graphic] facilitation is using visuals to help move a group through a process. Although you can apply many of the graphic facilitation methods in Think With Ink to graphic recording, we will focus on visual group processes rather than on the aesthetic side of graphic recording.
Q: This is a good chunk of time and money! Is it worth it?
We understand. Making the case to your boss (especially if you’re your boss!) about the value of investing in your professional development can be challenging. But consider the impact three-days of intensive hands-on training will give you for your future career. Visual facilitation skills are durable, transferable, and powerful tools that will give and give for years to come.
Also consider the cost of continuing to struggle with team meetings, not making decisions, and attending calls where the conversation circles for an hour and ends up nowhere.
Think with Ink is a practice-driven workshop giving you everything you need to visually facilitate a group through the toughest challenges.
Sounds like a good deal to us.
Q: How many people will be in this workshop? How much individual attention will I get?
The capacity of this workshop is 24 people, so each participant will receive plenty of individual feedback and support.
Q: What do I bring to the workshop?
A willingness to learn new skills, practice in a safe space, and share with others. Feel free to bring your stories, favorite tools, examples, and experiences.
Working with markers and ink means you might end up with a few ink stains so wear clothes you’re willing to learn in.
You might also bring a water bottle and a layer.
Q: Where is the workshop? Is there parking? What about metro access?
The workshop is located in Herndon, VA near the Dulles Airport. There is ample complimentary parking and it’s a short walk from the Innovation Center Metro.
Q: What happens after I sign up?
You’ll get a welcome email and more logistical details.
Q: What about payment plans? What about refunds if my plans change?
Please reach out if you’d like to arrange a payment plan. All payments must be completed before the beginning of the workshop.
No refunds will be issued within two weeks of the workshop.
Q: What if I have more questions?
Please email Brian at brian@lizardbrain.com if you have any questions or would like to jump on a call to see if this workshop would be a good fit.