By Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman
Originally published by Wiley 2003.
"For inspiration incorporating improvisation, role playing, and storytelling into your retreats, we recommendOrchestratingCollaboration at Work. For our money there is no better book on how to use art forms effectively in a retreat setting than Orchestrating Collaboration at Work."
— Merianne Litemen et al, Retreats that Work: Everything You Need to Know About Planning and Leading Great Offsites
ORCHESTRATING COLLABORATION AT WORKis for trainers, coaches and facilitators, who want to use the arts to improve skills in creativity, communication, teamwork, leadership, and create transformative learning experiences in organizations. You do NOT have to be an artist to used the activities in this book. Click herefor a full description of the book. Orchestrating Collaboration at Workhas also been featured in Artbased Approaches(Chemi 2006) and Artful Creation (Darsø 2004). See below.
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When Orchestrating Collaboration at Work was first published I was invited by the Ginger Group Collaborative, to facilitate what I call arts-based dialogue. At the time they were a newly formed consortium of Organizational Development consultants, and were questioning whether they wanted to continue to invest time and energy in creating a new business venture based on collaborative strategic alliances, and if so; how. The group was interested in how I use art to stimulate creativity and enhance collaboration, and wanted to participate in painting processes “to get out of their heads” and access different ways of learning, which could be applied to their work.
The collaborative painting activities created a crucible for deeper levels of conversation, and “they found themselves telling stories of sensitive issues, personal journeys, and visions of their future. The retreat fostered open inquiry, sparked new energy, and ignited a sense of team spirit.” (Osborn) One of the associates said “The paintings were a source of intimacy the group needs to stay together and provided a forum for rich and insightful dialogue. We realized that the archetypes that emerged in the images of our painting represented the essence of what we wanted to convey about collaboration to our public.” The story of how arts-based dialogue created a transformational experience for the Ginger Group is masterfully told by Susan M. Osborn, Ph.D in Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over. — Linda Naiman Click here to purchase Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over
Tatiana Chemi invited me to Aarhus, Denmark to deliver an arts-in-business workshop based on the book “Orchestrating Collaboration at Work” which I co-authored with Andy VanGundy. I spent the day with artists, students and consultants; sharing the processes I use when working with companies, answering questions about the new alliance being formed between business and the arts to foster innovation, and telling stories about what happens when business people pick up a paintbrush. Tatania Chemi’s vivid account of that day is now documented in Artbased Approaches—a Practical Handbook to Creativity at Work. — Linda Naiman
Artful Creation: Learning-Tales of Arts-in-Business ByLotte Darsø
What happens when the corporate world adopts a strategic approach to art? Is the result mere hot air – and entertainment at best? Or does art offer an actual potential for developing the corporate world? The brief answer to both questions is – YES! It just depends on what approach to art the organisation decides to take. This is the first comprehensive international study of the interplay between arts and business. Artful Creation is available through the publisher: Samfundslitteratur www.samfundslitteratur.dk/ Details here.
