Arts-based learning in business
Your Brain on Art and The Creative Act
Why Art and Creativity Matter While many of us perceive art merely as entertainment, there exists a profound depth to its functions. Art sparks ...
How to Improve Your Powers of Observation
Why you need to sharpen your powers of observation Highly successful Innovators including artists, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs, tend to be keen observers of the ...
3 Keys to Finding a Creative Breakthrough
Shifting from reacting to creating It’s so easy to be reactive about problems and the pressures they cause in today’s fast-paced world. If you are ...
Why Art? It Can Have a Profound Impact on Your Leadership
By Scott Lewis Partner, Tower Stone Group Recently, I spent a stimulating day with Linda Naiman in a seminar organized by my good friend ...
What Makes Nobel Laureates Exceptionally Creative and Innovative?
6 insights from Nobel Laureates on using creativity to discover Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs Have you ever wondered how Nobel Laureates develop original ideas and achieve breakthrough ...
An Unforgettable Artist’s Residency in Tuscany
My Artist's Residency at Culterra Magica in Tuscany was a dream come true When I first saw the movie Under the Tuscan Sun, I was ...
Looking for Creative Inspiration? Go on a Haiku Walkabout —Here’s how
I participated in a haiku workshop recently at Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival in Vandusen Gardens. Poet Michael Dylan Welch led us on what he called ...
April is Poetry Month: Celebrate With These Ideas
What is Poetry Good for? Here’s what Dylan Thomas had to say about poetry: "Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, ...
Organizational Aesthetics: How the arts inform organizational learning and development
Organizational Aesthetics is a journal about how the five senses and artistry inform business, non-profit, and government organizations. If you are interested in the theory ...
Scientist finds link between the neurobiology of music and language
"The brain on arts is different than the everyday brain." —Charles Limb, neuroscientist Charles Limb, a brain scientist at Johns Hopkins is finding a neurological basis for ...