Sketch-notes on Violence, Evil, Trauma & Punishment
A lovely way to start the year off, in that interim period of post Christmas thumb twiddling wondering if the economy will restart at all, is to do some personal work. The BBC Reith Lectures are an annual series of lectures with typically great content. And as result make for an excellent source for practicing ones sketch-noting (or graphic recording) skills. This years were delivered by Dr Gwen Adshead who is a psychotherapist who works at the extreme end of human trauma in prisons in the UK, amongst many other things.
In a sea of podcasts the Reith Lectures to provide quality material you can get your teeth into. On subjects so complex and varied that no two sets of sketch-notes end up quite the same - if they ever do.
1 of 4 of the 2024 Reith Lectures in sketch-note form - Is Violence Normal?
2 of 4 of the 2024 Reith Lectures - Aren’t They All Evil?
3 of 4 - Does Trauma Cause Violence?
4 of 4 Can We Change Violent Minds?
For this set of sketch-notes rather than a quick ‘listen then draw’ or ‘listen and draw’ process each one was listened to multiple times and extensive roughs were made. The content was quite dense and had to be represented fairly. In this particular case there was no client, these were done ‘just for fun’. If detailing violence, evil, trauma and prison can be described as that. The content demanded all four to make sense, last years ‘just for fun’ sketch note, Ben Ansell’s excellent set of Reith Lectures on democracy only got one!
Here are some of the roughs:
