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The arts and change: creative frames for organizations
OSR annual conference
OSR Annual Conference
June 19, 2010
The Arts and Change
Creative Frames for Organizations
Conference Workshop Descriptions
Afternoon - Session B
Real Challenges & the Creative Process
Jeff Barnum, Reos Partners, San Francisco
In this workshop, we will work with the “U-Process,” a creative process framework that supports personal, team, organizational, systemic, and massive challenges. Participants will select a challenge from their real lives (professional or personal) and work with others to make real progress on these challenges.
Can Improvisational Dance Provide the Creative Boost Your Organization Needs?
Teresa Beery, MFA Candidate, Arts Leadership, Seattle University
Movement can jumpstart your brain to a different kind of thinking – a more creative mode. Traditional problem solving has people sitting around a table trying to brainstorm. What if you put the table aside, meet in a circle, and address the problem through guided improvisation that frees your mind to move to another level where ideas pop into your head – where the movement of your body triggers solutions to the problem? Bring your playful self to this workshop.
Visual Recording –Tools and Techniques to Up Your Game
Patti Dobrowolski, Up your Creative Genius LLC and Steven Wright, Wright Collaborative LLC
In this high energy, hands-on session with seasoned strategic illustrators the participants will be introduced to the art of integrating live illustration into their facilitation toolkit. Participants will learn how to draw the basic shapes that form the visual frames often used by visual facilitators, build visioning maps, and identify strategic steps to visually get from the current to the desired states.
Rhythm, Conflict & Community - What African Polyrhythms Can Teach Us About Getting Along
Joanne Lauterjung Kelly, Muse Indigo
Working with African polyrhythms and the concept of crosspulse we’ll explore how to get in touch with, and have clarity about, our own individual rhythms, and how to use those insights in the face of confusion, conflict or stress. Exercises will include guided visualization, body percussion and combining individual rhythms into beautiful, complex musical tapestries. Come prepared to move, listen to great music, and have fun.
Profound Speech: The Transformative Power of Poetry
David Markwardt, David Markwardt Consulting
Leadership is the job of Everyman, Everywoman and Everychild.
The complex challenges of the 21st century are breaking down the paradigm of the logical and independent leader. A new view is emerging that we are born in and for community, that Leadership is not the purview of an elite few, and that leadership is infinite and universally available. Leadership comes with the territory of being human. If this is true, then it is everyone’s responsibility to co-create the world we want to live in. We can’t wait for an official “leader” to transform the world.
This emerging kind of leadership demands more than technical brilliance, rational competence, and masterful efficiency – it requires heart, courage, and wisdom, qualities that can be inspired and informed by poetry. Poetry by its nature can shake us up. It can touch our hearts and help us focus on what we deeply care about. And it can reconnect us with our values, principles and beliefs, pulling us into an internal dialogue and whether we are living them or not. Poetry, therefore, is a reminder to live right and a call to act courageously.
This workshop will consist of comments about poetry, courage, and leadership, recitation of poems, individual journaling, and small group conversations.
Surprise Me: A Handbook of Possibilities
Maryliz Smith, SoundSource
This is a workshop about how to effectively respond to the unexpected through musical improvisation. Surprise is an attack made without warning; a taking unawares that may cause a feeling of wonder or fright. It is well known in musical circles that a mistake is not a mistake but an opening into another way of perceiving that creates an opportunity for possibilities.
How to Create Gracious Space – Feng Shui Tools for Change
Beth Schermer, Fundamental Feng Shui
An essential aspect of creativity is having a space that nourishes us. This workshop will explore the ways we can prepare an environment to support individual and cultural transformation. With just a few simple design tools and principles we can create spaces that nurture the creative process and support the collective good.
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