Present a Genogram Like a Case, Not a Diagram: Introducing Presentation Mode Beta

A genogram holds a lot. A room can only follow a little at a time.

You have built a rich family map: three generations, health conditions, cutoffs and close bonds, a timeline of losses. It is exactly what you want in front of you while you think. But the moment you turn that same dense diagram toward other people, in supervision, a case consultation, a teaching session, or across the desk from a client, all of it competes for attention at once. The person you are talking about is one square among twenty, and the point you are making gets lost in the lines.

WebGeno's new Presentation Mode (Beta) is built for that moment. It turns a genogram into a guided, full-screen walkthrough: an ordered set of slides where each one frames part of the map, spotlights the people that matter, brings up the notes you want to say out loud, and moves the room from one idea to the next.

Build the walkthrough, one slide at a time

You author a deck without leaving the genogram. Arrange the canvas the way you want it, click the people to spotlight (everyone else dims so the eye goes where you point), then capture that as a slide. A slim panel on the right holds the words: a slide title, private speaker notes, a short audience caption, and a checklist of which session notes to reveal. Slides live in a filmstrip along the bottom, so a case becomes a short, deliberate sequence: an overview, a couple of patterns, a summary.

Your slides look right on any screen, from a laptop to a big room display to fullscreen.

Present full-screen, with the room following you

When you hit Present, the editing chrome disappears. You move through the deck with the arrow keys; between slides the canvas glides and the spotlight cross-fades, so the audience always knows what just changed and where to look. A short caption sits at the top for the people watching, while your speaker notes stay a keystroke away for you alone.

Reveal your notes exactly when they matter

If you keep clinical annotations on people and relationships, you can choose which ones surface on each slide. A note appears as a callout next to the person or couple it belongs to, so the observation lands at the same moment you say it, not buried in a side panel. Callouts overcrowding the map? Drag them to a calmer spot; each one keeps a thin line back to whoever it describes, and the position is saved with the slide.

Let AI draft the first pass

Starting from a blank deck is the slow part, so on the Professional plan you can ask WebGeno to draft one for you. "Draft deck with AI" (Beta) reads the structure of your genogram and your notes and proposes an ordered set of slides: an overview, a slide per pattern worth walking through, and a summary, each with a suggested spotlight, a short caption, and speaker-note prompts in a neutral, non-diagnostic voice. It is a starting point you edit, never a finished script, and nothing is presented as a conclusion about the family.

It is built privacy-first, exactly like the rest of WebGeno's AI: names and free text are anonymized in your browser before anything reaches the model, and the real names are restored locally in the result. A draft uses 5 of your shared monthly AI credits, and the running balance sits right next to the button.

Private by design

A presentation is clinical material, so WebGeno treats it that way. The whole deck, titles, speaker notes, captions and the notes you reveal, is saved inside your .wgeno case file alongside the rest of the genogram. When you save to the cloud on Professional, it is protected by the same zero-knowledge encryption as everything else, so only you can read it. And it is stripped out of every genogram you share: Presentation Mode is for presenting live from your own screen, and your slides never travel with a shared link.

Where it fits in practice

Presentation Mode earns its place anywhere you already talk through a family: presenting a case in supervision or peer consultation, teaching genogram or Bowen concepts to a class, or walking a client through their own family map so the pattern becomes something you look at together rather than something you assert. The genogram maps the system; Presentation Mode gives you a way to tell its story, one clear idea at a time.

Conclusion

Genograms have always been better in the room than on the page, but only if you can hold the audience's attention where you want it. Presentation Mode gives a family map a second gear: the same clinical detail, delivered as a sequence you control. Sometimes the difference between a diagram and an insight is simply the order you reveal it in.