Doing a Mind Map

When Lesley Morrissey visited The HoBB, she introduced me to mindmapping as a handy tool and now I use mindmaps regularly to  remember stories whilst on stage.
During live storytelling events, I have used props, sticky pad notes, images, word cards and conventional lists, but when my brain has to hold hundreds and even thousands of story threads, it helps me to see a ‘map’ of the whole woven story whilst performing it – a map which includes links, associations and key points.
Mind maps are there to remind me of the bare story bones as I work with audiences to branch out and elaborate on plots. And as every project has its own story, mind maps come in especially useful when organisations need to communicate involved issues over a short time.
Here are four mind maps I produced with the help of friends and volunteers for a local community group:

Updating our Gallery so you can keep an eye on what we’re doing

Whether produced at the HoBB Project House or on site at a clients’ works, records of project collaborations are gradually being published here.  We’ve got a back catalogue to share and a stream of new works too. Friend and fantastic WordPress guy, Bharat, figures we should be doing vids and podcasts to go along with our blogs, and as we are planning vid trailers for future projects and virtual book tours for new publications, I’m sure we’ll be keeping YouTube or Vimeo very busy.

For now, sit back and enjoy these still photos:

 

 

 

 

And there’s one very fresh wriggling project that we are happy to be doing and that’s collaborating on the development of a very organic worm farm. Here’s a preview of our plaque design to be fixed on the door of the worm hatchery: