Idea Mapping

In April of 2009 I taught two Idea Mapping Workshops at Boeing. A few days ago I received an email from Gordon Kranick with this portrait attached. Here was Gordon’s message to me: “Tired aerospace engineer finishes art project for rejuvenation 2.5 months later!  Your class was on 4/28 and I found the half finished […]

Every September I teach several 3-hour Idea Mapping Workshops for the students and faculty of MTSU (Middle Tennessee State University). Numerous participants have wished that they could attend the full 2-day version. This year for the the first time the 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop will be offered in Murfreesboro, TN on September 22-23, 2009 — […]

On June 5, 2009 I began to share about a recent workshop I taught at CPPIB in Toronto. Part two was posted on June 26, 2009, and today is part three. As part of the Idea Mapping Workshop, participants are taught skills they don’t think they perform so that they have to come face-to-face with […]

On June 5, 2009 I began to share about a recent workshop I taught at CPPIB in Toronto. Jason Koulouras (Director of Data Services) saw a posting I did last year about a similar organization in Toronto, OTPP (Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan), and had just recently been introduced to the Mindjet software. Long story short, […]

Glenn Stennes is a CIMI (Certified Idea Mapping Instructor) who owns a consulting company in Macedonia. He went through the Idea Mapping Certification Course in April of 2008. As part of that workshop participants are given a brief set of instructions and a technique to recreate a portrait of a human face. To learn more […]

Liz Kimura is the only Certified Idea Mapping Instructor in South America. She has three upcoming events that you won’t want to miss if you live in and around Brazil. Liz is one of the best Mind Mapping and Idea Mapping Instructors in the world, and her participants are more successful as a result of […]

In April 2009 I posted about the first Idea Mapping Workshop for CPP Investment Board in Toronto, and shared an idea map that Jason Koulouras (Director of Data Services) created.  I would now like to share a few more details about that course. As you have seen in previous postings, each participant is asked to […]

Back in the 1990’s I taught my 2-day workshop under several names: Mind Mapping Course, Mind Matters Workshop, Mind Mapping Seminar, Radiant Learning Class, Mind Mapping Workshop, Think, Learn and Create Course, Mind Mapping Training, and probably a few others that have since slipped my mind. Finally the title Mind Mapping Seminar evolved into Idea […]

Yesterday I returned from teaching an Idea Mapping Workshop at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto. One of the participants was Dan Houle who is the VP of Investment Operations. He has been and avid mind mapper and user of MindManager since 2005. He estimates that he has easily created over 650 maps using […]

I’ve been reporting on an unusual workshop I taught in February for the Larimer county Government in Fort Collins, CO.  Up to this point I’ve shared the results of the normal 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop. Today I’ll get to the 3rd day of advanced training, leadership, and planning for Larimer’s “Idea Mapping Creativity Group.” On […]