Join us in Vancouver for the Alchemy of Leadership & Conversations That Create.
With Linda Naiman and Ralph Kerle
June 29, 2010, 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Alchemy of Leadership
How do you create the conditions for transformation? Immerse yourself in ideas, thinking processes and strategies used by leading innovators in business, art and science. Discover how art and design can be used as a catalyst for transformation and how collaborative thinking processes can lead to creative breakthroughs. Learn key principles, practices and tools you can apply to create a workplace environment where creativity and sustained innovation flourish.
Conversations That Create
Conversations that Create will explore and develop how to create and maintain the necessary generative spaces and have the kinds of conversations needed to move individuals and teams into creative output. Participants will learn and practice practical ways of having conversations for possibility and opportunity, for engagement, commitment and creative action and for creating the necessary relationships for sustaining a generative space.
Reserve your seat today.
$175.00 for The Alchemy of Leadership Workshop and Conversations that Create:
$150.00 early bird by May 31
$75.00 for Conversations that Create only. 5pm-8pm
$50.00 early bird by May 31
Venue: The University Women’s Club, 1489 McRae Ave., Vancouver BC.
This event is sponsored by the Artemis Group
Register online today.
Arts in the news:
Portrait of the artist as a business science student
I was featured in this story and pleased my website served as a resource for the author.
Are Millions for the Arts Appropriate in These Tough Economic Times?
A fresh argument for the arts: Retired U.S. Army Brigadier Gen. Nolen Bivens, a supporter of the arts who argued that this funding can help the United States face its national security challenges. ”Support of the arts and artists can help to bridge many common values that lead to peaceful resolution of disagreements as well as the sustainment of cordial international relations,” Bivens told members of Congress.
The U.S. arts community has “tremendous potential” to help the country deal with “national security challenges,” Bivens said. The retired general described, for example, how National Endowment for the Arts programs and other government efforts provide music therapy to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which “helps them heal both emotionally and physically,” and how the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago fosters art inspired by Vietnam combat. (Source: ABC news, April 13, 2010)
Arts in health care study reveals benefits for both patients, and healthcare workers
Arts in Healthcare is a diverse, multidisciplinary field dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience by connecting people with the power of the arts at key moments in their lives. This rapidly growing field integrates the arts, including literary, performing, and visual arts and design, into a wide variety of healthcare and community settings for therapeutic, educational, and expressive purposes.
“While we who have had the privilege to serve in healthcare leadership roles have done our best to provide a safe and healthful environment for the patients in our hospitals, we continue to fall short of the goal. I believe that our decision to invest in the arts, which included music, reoriented our acute care environment toward wellness, the ultimate objective. Improvement in patient satisfaction was anticipated but not guaranteed. However, improvement in employee satisfaction was an unanticipated bonus of our arts program. The lesson learned for me was that everyone benefits from a wellness oriented environment. There is indeed a cost to benefit ratio that is worthy of exploration by today’s healthcare leaders.”
—Larry Warren, CEO of Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, and former Director and CEO of University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
For case studies and examples of the economic benefits of incorporating the arts in healthcare, download the 2009 State of the Field Report, published by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.
A little boost, a lot of goodwill
Quebec’s budget rightly recognizes that small expenditures on the arts can have great cultural impact
How to grow your brain: It takes more than just math puzzles
The brains of highly successful people function differently from those of the average Joe, according to the authors of the new book, The Winner’s Brain. (Amazon Assistant neuroscience professor Mark Fenske of the University of Guelph and cognitive behavioural psychologist Jeff Brown of Harvard Medical School say you can rewire your brain. Eight tips for developing winning brains.
Entreprenurial training for artists
The Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship is hosting a Creative Enterprise Boost Camp in Chicago this summer.
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Once again, more proof that the arts are critical to our wellbeing. Thank you for this unusual way of looking at the arts.