Arts-based learning in business
Why Art and Creativity Matter While many of us perceive art merely as entertainment, there exists a profound depth to its functions. Art sparks breakthroughs in creativity and innovation. Notably, even Nobel Laureates [...]
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 world around them. Observing is one of the keys [...]
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 reacting, you are putting out fires, but you aren’t [...]
By Scott Lewis Partner, Tower Stone Group Recently, I spent a stimulating day with Linda Naiman in a seminar organized by my good friend Loren Carlson and his CEO Roundtable. Linda began with [...]
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 discoveries? What can Nobel Prize-winning scientists teach business leaders [...]
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 enchanted by the beauty of Tuscany and day-dreamed about [...]
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 a "haiku walkabout" to capture seed ideas for a [...]
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, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle, makes you [...]
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 and practice of aesthetics, and the use of arts-based methods [...]
"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 a notion that many people believe intuitively — that [...]
When it comes to inspiring creativity in your team and engaging participation, meetings go better with art Here is an example from an innovation workshop I conducted. The objective was to: To instil a sense of [...]
Fine Arts Degrees Open Doors I was featured in the Toronto Star about the benefits of having a fine arts degree in the workplace. Here is an excerpt The value of a fine arts [...]
Leadership Craft Leadership Art provides cogent insights and observations on the theory and practice of leadership development "Most of the practices around the art of leadership are really about the craft of leadership," argues Steven [...]
Jazz-inspired Improvisation It's great to see organizations taking arts-based learning seriously. In the case of MIT, the Leadership Center has published an article by professor Wanda J. Orlikowski on a Jazz-inspired approach to [...]
I have three stories about adventures in learning about creativity through direct experience. Embodied learning is experience-based learning that occurs by interacting with subject matter aesthetically, emotionally, and/or physically. In a world dominated [...]
"Business has much to learn from the arts." — From the Schumpeter Blog As a pioneer in arts-based learning I'm happy to see this topic is being covered by The Economist. The Schumpeter blog [...]
From the Salk Institute for Biological Studies Jan. 2002 According to accepted dogma, the brain responds to sensory experiences somewhat like an electronic bucket brigade, with incoming signals passed from one region to the [...]
Arts-based learning for business: Creatively Intelligent companies The growing use of arts-based learning reflects a dramatic shift in the boundaries that previously defined the limits of experience deemed relevant to the business world. This [...]
This excerpt is from the autobiographical documentary Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte (1998) by German Kral, an Argentinian filmmaker. As he neared the end of his life, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author and poet (1899 [...]
Corporate arts-based learning as a catalyst for Creativity, Collaboration, and Transformational Leadership in Organizations Watch excerpts from a webinar I first presented to organizational development professionals at sedaa.net on how I use the arts in business. [...]
