Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 31 issue 4, has published a special issue on creatively intelligent companies and leaders: Arts-based learning for business Guest edited by Harvey Seifter and Ted Buswick Here is an excerpt : For about 20 combined years, a large part of our professional energies and personal passions have been engaged by [...]
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Posted in Home, arts-based training on Aug 10th, 2010
The Dean of Pixar University explains what schools must do to prepare students (and themselves) for new models in the workplace. He makes a compelling case for arts-based learning to develop 21st century thinking skills
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Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations.
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It’s a fresh new year, and it looks like organizations everywhere have had the same realization: Make creativity, resilience, and self-renewal a priority in 2010. Please join me in adventures in learning this Winter and Spring at Royal Roads University (RRU), Victoria, BC, Canada: I’ll be conducting seminars to help you develop skills in creativity, resilience, collaboration, [...]
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What can organizations learn from the Intersection of Business and the Performing Arts? Rochelle T. Mucha, in her new book, Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses, answers this question by examining how principles and practices of performing arts can be used to strengthen alignment, leadership, learning, and performance in organizations. “The theatre is a [...]
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Dr Linda Christensen and Andrew Rezmer interviewed me recently on Conscious Living Radio. We talked about arts-based learning, creative expression and why these are important in business. We also talked about my painting workshops “Come to Your Senses Through Music and Art, and Liberate Your Creativity” Have a listen: Conscious Living Radio Interview with Linda [...]
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Putting Passion to Work: Potent Leadership This seminar will be held on May 6, 2010 at Royal Roads University Description: Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. The mark of authentic artful leaders in any organization [...]
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Posted in ARTS, Science, arts-based training on Oct 28th, 2009
New research shows musical training sharpens the ability to sense emotions. Makes sense to me. Music, especially classical, conveys many subtle emotions. Music and other arts help us develop our sense perceptions. Our perceptions shape our perspective and vice versa. According to Dana L. Strait and a team of researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, years [...]
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