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VISUALIZE Activity Toolbox
Toolbox of activities for a training focused on graphic design facilitation
Aims of the tool
To provide trainers with new techniques and methods for a training focused on graphic design facilitation.
Description of the tool
This toolbox was created as part of the Erasmus+ training course “VISUALIZE: Tools and Techniques to Share Ideas, Overcome Language Barriers & Foster Collaboration,” a project designed to strengthen the use of visual communication in youth work and non-formal education.
The toolbox gathers practical activities experienced, adapted, and documented during the training. They include creative icebreakers, drawing and observation exercises, collaborative visualisation, communication games, visual templates, storyboarding, and the creation of thematic card decks. Each activity provides its aim, required materials, instructions, estimated duration, and, where relevant, reflection questions or facilitation tips.
Activities such as Visual Speed Dating, Creative Name Tag, Portraits, and Shared Symbols support group-building and creative confidence. What Works? develops observation and critical thinking through the analysis of visual communication in public spaces. Sketch & Guess explores listening and verbal precision, while Visual Templates and Storyboarding help participants represent processes, challenges, goals, and stories. The visual card activity shows how symbols can support communication around education, psychology, travel, Erasmus+, and youth work when words alone are not sufficient.
The activities are adaptable for different ages, group sizes, learning needs, and levels of drawing experience. They can be used during youth exchanges, training courses, school workshops, community meetings, team-building sessions, project planning, or work with multilingual groups and people who benefit from more visual forms of communication.
At its core, the toolbox emphasises that everyone can communicate visually. The objective is not artistic perfection, but clarity, participation, creativity, and shared understanding. This collection provides youth workers and educators with reusable methods that can make learning more interactive, reduce language barriers, encourage collaboration, and create space for participants who may find purely verbal communication difficult.
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Disclaimer
SALTO cannot be held responsible for the inappropriate use of these training tools. Always adapt training tools to your aims, context, target group and to your own skills! These tools have been used in a variety of formats and situations. Please notify SALTO should you know about the origin of or copyright on this tool.
Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5922
This tool addresses
YOUTH in ACTION (YiA) programme, Project Management, Networking and Follow-up, Personal Development, Organisational Management
It is recommended for use in:
Training and Networking
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Brno fro you, z.s.
in the context of
Erasmus+ project for youth workers
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Kateřina Kalábová (on 19 August 2026)
and last modified
30 July 2026
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