Being Together, Apart - Leading Mind Map Drawing with QTIBIPOC Generations
Heart shaped mind map by The Mollusc Dimension. Description below in the section below.
❤️🧠🗺 I used to think mind maps weren’t for people like me. Lately I’ve found them to be transformative resources for processing and communicating.
✏️ Recently I led a Mind map activity at the monthly QTIBIPOC Generations session on “Being Together - Apart” which was facilitated by @Fimi.Biscuit and Ji. Across continents & time zones, it was amazing to see how people’s moods transform and how it helped stories flow. I think we responded to the maps both as art and as information.
✏️ Before the session I set the timer for 10 minutes and drew my own mind map. On the day of the session, after introducing the activity, while the others drew theirs, I coloured mine in. This also took 10 minutes.
🌬I would like to do other sessions with different groups of people on various topics as I think mind maps are useful and potentially calming way to exploring experiences which might be a bit intense. I think they’ll work with friends as well as strangers. They can help listeners follow our account and/or act as a prompt for further questions.
Image Description
Landscape format mind map. Hand written text with small drawn illustrations (including lots of objects with faces), coloured in with sharpies and colouring pencils.
Centre: Flying, smiling tree in the centre labelled “Being together - Apart“
5 flying globes (3 winged) form a rough heart shape and are labelled as follows from the base in clockwise: “Music”, “Art“, “Memory”, “Future”, “Writing”.
Central top, in between “Future” and “Writing” is “Present moment”.
Surrounding the central flying tree are four aspects forming a rectangle. Starting bottom left in clockwise order they are:
“Mood”, “Reach out”, “Listen”, “Chores/grief”.
“QTIBIPOC Generations is an online monthly sharing space with various topics regarding ageing, ageism and inter-generations within the QTIBIPOC community.” If you’d like to register for the next hangout or have any ideas, recommendations, resources that you want to share, they'd love to hear from you: https://qtigenerations.wordpress.com/contact/
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