Footnotes visual learning style strategies is made up of a set of 30+ drawing-related strategies that use a Grid. This is using either paper or digital format to give people a different way of mapping their thought processes. 

This enables people to find and express their inner voice as they learn how to process thoughts and feelings. This without having to sequence ideas or choose words. This could later be given structure and translation in many different ways, including words, so it can be externalised to others.

So Simple

It is so simple that sometimes people don’t always grasp how effective Footnotes is. Until they begin to use it. For others, it’s the thing they always knew, but never had the permission or framework to live and work in this way. We understand that we are all wonderfully unique  and it’s vitally important that we are able to communicate in our preferred way.

Footnotes Grids are fast to use with infinite storage capacity!

You might have heard someone saying that they “don’t have a grid for that”. In the light of recent global events, its never been more relevant than now for us all to have our own Grid for managing life in these fast-changing times.

The Footnotes Programme uses visual Grids employing a folded sheet of paper or the Footnotes App. Its simple! but really effective! There are lots of Grids to choose from, which can help you to see and live life with more of big picture view. Many of us visualise a lot of our moment by moment thoughts and the Grids help up us to use our powerful visual Multilayeed thinking skills to draw out the best in us and manage life’s challenges in our preferred way.

Here are some examples of areas in everyday life where the Grids have proven effective:

• Remembering things
• Managing time & Meeting deadlines
• Planning documents, Projects & Life!
• Communicating
• Meetings & Mediation
• Getting perspective & making decisions
• Dealing with distractions
• Assessment & Testing
• Managing behaviour
• and many, many more!

It only takes a few minutes to get “Gridding” a process of doodling and notetaking at the speed of thought!

Lets get you started with a Grid

Grab a sheet of paper and a pencil, then fold your sheet of paper 4 times in half as shown in the animation below:

We’ll get going with the Capture Grid: This Grid is useful for helping you to see your thoughts objectively, and importantly get them out and onto paper (or into the app).

Start by grabbing those thoughts that come to mind – draw and note down what you see ( by the way, you don’t have to feel like you are an artist to do this, simple doodles and keywords are fine).

See the big picture: Try to keep your Grids as visual as possible. The less words the better, but use important words when you need to.

If you’ve filled some of your “Gridlets ” ( the little boxes within the Grid) We hope that you will find that seeing the big picture even in this simple task can be really beneficial.

They say a picture can speak a thousand words! That makes your doodles potentially very useful indeed!

There’s so much more to share about how this and other Grids work and even a partially-filled Grid, will give us lots to get started with. If you’d like help getting the ball rolling, do get in touch and we’ll get you started from scratch!