Storyboarding in Model Creation

Walt Disney developed the process of storyboarding in outlining and producing cartoons. It has made its way into conflict resolution as a useful process for identifying problems and possible solutions. I have been using a variation of storyboarding in training as a tool for facilitating the discovery and creation of mediation models that may be implicit in the culture. At essence, the storyboarding process involves working with index cards. A single idea, word, or image is written on each card related to a given theme. A ‘story’ is then created by linking and grouping these cards together by commonality or sequence…