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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Meetings Go Better with Art
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 [...]
What are the benefits of a fine arts degree?
Fine Arts Degrees Open Doors I was featured in the Toronto Star about the benefits of having a fine arts degree in the workplace. [...]
Leadership Craft Leadership Art: Insights on leadership development
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 [...]
Improvisation May Be the Key to Successfully Managing Change, Says MIT
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 [...]
Adventures in Learning Through Art and Creativity
I have three stories about adventures in learning about creativity through direct experience. Embodied learning is experience-based learning that occurs by interacting with [...]
4 ways studying the arts will develop your business skills
"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 [...]
Brain Jazz: A new view of the brain’s inner workings
From the Salk Institute for Biological Studies Jan. 2002 According to accepted dogma, the brain responds to sensory experiences somewhat like an electronic bucket [...]
Arts-based Learning for Business
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 [...]
Jorge Luis Borges: What is the task of Art?
This excerpt is from the autobiographical documentary Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte (1998) by German Kral, an Argentinian filmmaker. As he neared the end of [...]
Corporate Alchemy: Arts-based learning as a catalyst for transformation
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 [...]