Health, Vitality, Art and the Corporate Immune System
The awakenment of the internal artist strengthens the immune system by re-invigorating sensitivity, imagination, confidence, creative expression, ownership and choice, boldness and daring.
Organisations with a strong immune system avoid affluenza, attract investors and customers and are more creative. In this current inclement economic weather you need to be super resilient and have your immune system in excellent condition.
Presence
The presence of artistic creativity, transforms the ordinary-ness of work. Artists look at the world differently and can see things other people have lost sight of or taken for granted. When artists begin to express themselves, new ways of seeing the space, the vision, the mission, and the day-to-day work can become part of the culture.
Creativity
The creative zone is something that tends to resist imposition. It seems to happen at the very point when there is no attempt to create it. This creative state of mind can be reached effortlessly when people are engaged in artistic expression.
Imaginative Curiosity
Artists ask questions with eyes and ears that look and listen for different elements in the answers. Their curiosity is focused on the heart, spirit and soul of the people in community, and the emotional, spiritual, and conceptual forces in play.
The Mything Link
Underlying all our behaviour as individuals and in groups is a coherent narrative, made of characters and plot within which we make choices and act. Art explores, reveals, and challenges our perceptions and understanding of this narrative. It can open up new horizons, directions and the point of tension between current reality and imaginative possibility. All characters are transformed when the story in which they are acting is transformed. Authentic Reflective Transformation happens when people narrate their story and hear it in a way that they have not heard before. It happens when people make an exhibition of themselves and then encounter, explore and engage with the big picture of their lives seeing it in ways they have never seen before.
A.R.T. and Visual Thinking
Artists think in different ways. The Visual Thinking method we use to enable creative dialogue in groups can also be used for individual thinking. For some tasks visual languages break open new concepts. Some pictures are worth 1000 words, some words are worth 1000 pictures. Combining them gives you the best chance to discover new meanings. 
Visual Thinking techniques allow you to capture the evolution of your learning, its essence and energy, its story, content and atmosphere in a quick and memorable manner. It can be done individually or in a group.
You can write and illustrate as the group proceeds and participants contribute, weaving key ideas together. You can draw information out and draw participants in capturing emotions and opinions. Each individual voice is heard and becomes visible on paper. Participants become part of the creative process.
You can work with groups who have come together to discuss, consider, brainstorm and or develop issues/plans for the future. These may be anything from small groups to large conferences, leadership retreats, planning meetings, conflict management etc. It’s a skill that can be used in many different situations and is increasingly recognised as a profession in it’s own right.
Visual Thinking Methods:
- Heighten thinking, develop ideas faster, creatively and efficiently.
- Tap collective wisdom, spark creativity and stimulate discussion.
- Assist learning and communication between groups and individuals.
· Help people get to grips with big complicated ideas
Increase clarity, comprehension, coherence, and collaboration.- See and retain what you mean.
- Engage emotional intelligence.
- Reduce information overload.
- Identify main points.
- Create an instant record.
- Give participants tangible documentation of process and product in real time.
Daniella, Rio, Tim and Jim at sunrise on The Blue.
