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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
Late Afternoon - Session C
Get to the Art of the Matter: Using art to open the window on what we don’t know.
Posy Gering ,OSR 14 , NextU
This workshop proposes that visual art creates an adjunct language that opens the window of the unknown. Using visual art as a tool, we will experience how to get to something truly new, whether it is an idea, an understanding, a possibility or a sense of what is in the system. This is a great opportunity for people who do not consider themselves artists to engage in a safe and easily accessible art process.
Strategy Jazz: Bringing the Artistic Mind to Strategy Design
Kathleen Hosfeld, Hosfeld & Associates, Inc.
Effective strategy design calls companies to engage the artistic mind – capable of pattern recognition, synthesis, story, empathy, play and meaning-making – to create compelling futures that inspire adaptive change. Using the metaphor of jazz improvisation, we explore techniques to tap the artistic mind in strategy design.
Leadership Under Fire: Tools for Managing Change, Crisis, and Pressure
Andrew C. McMasters, Wing-It Productions
This session is designed to prepare leaders to handle anything that comes their way. We will begin by exploring some of the key concepts of improvisation. Improvisation is the art of adapting to changing conditions: ‘trusting your gut’, collaborating, generating innovative options, and committing fully to a new course of action are key components to managing change. Each participant will leave with a new set of tools for approaching leadership in times of change.
New Characters Change the Same Old Story: A Muse Your-Self
Brit Poulson and Lismary de Lemos, Reynolds Poulson Consulting
To invite sustainable transformation, individuals and groups need to look at the stories that underlie the visible. The art of Storymaking provides a powerful key for this work. By engaging in the workshop activities, participants will learn a method, The Re-story Model, and its accompanying tools that they can use to coach individuals, consult with groups and accelerate organizational transformation.
Artful Change—Inviting Imagination to the Table
Karen MCCarthy Casey, OSR 12, Inspired Action and Joelle Lyons Everett, Sound Resources
Come experience easy and artful ways to engage mind and body, soul and senses. Discover how storytelling, poems, playacting, drawing, music, movement and more can open us to creation, reflection and action—the major tasks of change.
Belly Intelligence: Bringing Somatic Wisdom into the Conversation of Organization Transformation (Women Only*)
Sheila Kelly, Bridges to Peace, LLC
Organization transformation compels us to show up: body and mind awakened and engaged, yet somatic wisdom is usually uncharted or ignored. Through centering with basic movements of Middle Eastern belly dance*, then engaging in intrapersonal and interpersonal body inquiry, we will discern and engage untapped knowledge. Come with an unresolved issue where you feel “stuck” and be prepared to “dance” into and with it in a new way.
Collaboration Innovation: Turning Creative Assets Into Action
Lucy Garrick, OSR 12, NorthShore Group and Iris Lemmer, OSR Midwest 2002, Sound Connexions
This highly interactive hands-on session will provide participants with tools, resources and opportunities to practice and reflect on how the way we think influences our creative and collaborative potential. In the face of a fun, engaging challenge, participants will learn how to improve their ability to identify their own creative abilities and to work with the creative assets of others to uncover options for solutions, align the team, and showcase their innovations to market new ideas and solutions.
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