For Workshop
Collective virtuosity. The experience of wholeness. The balance between
individualism and collective action is delicate. The Art of
Illumination explores this balance in an effort to explore how
collective virtuosity, an inspired group experience, can influence the
individual’s organizational life. Five practices structure both
personal and group activities: the practice of recognizing, suspending,
unfolding, embodying, and enacting. The Art of Illumination’s design
provides the opportunity for your client’s to realize this inner
sensibility as an individual in a collective.
Objectives (for leadership and organizational development practitioners):
- Apply the Art of Illumination’s design concepts to personal and organizational change opportunities
- Apply the Art of Illumination’s content to frame change opportunities
with an emphasis on both inner dynamics and the collective
Objectives (for workshop sponsors and participants):
- Be open and trusting with others without defensiveness or filters
- Pick up on the positions, intentions, and needs of others with sensitivity
- Rely on both intuition and information when shifting gears and coping with change
- Build upon their and other's ideas to promote the best interests of what is at stake
Originally designed as a five half-day workshop over five weeks,
with one practice explored each week, the objectives for leadership and organizational development practitioners is intended to familiarize participants with enough of the learning
possibilities with the five practices in order for each participant to
access and benefit Mark’s entire design document files for your
personal use.
Please wear shoes and clothes that you can get paint on, and extra
shoes for walking in the hallways. Also, your favorite writing utensil,
iPods, and CD players with your own CDs are encouraged.
Testimonies:
“I don’t apply the same logic as before”, says one employee, “I’m more
open to other possibilities. (As an engineer) we lock ourselves into
the rules, but within those rules, we still have to look at what’s
possible. Rules have to change with our needs and the times.
Creativity is not about breaking the rules, but questioning in the
right time and place. It’s allowing myself to see where an idea goes
before rushing into judgment.”
-- J. Burney, Public Works Assistant Director
“Now
I ask, am I doing the right work today? Am I coming up with ideas to
make my work more valuable? Am I doing anything that’s innovative, as
opposed to the status quo?”
-- D. Olson, Network Analyst
“Over
the course of a couple of weeks, I saw this go from a full-fledged
grievance, to an intent-to-grieve, to resolution. Prior to The Art of
Illumination, I would have thought through (had a plan) how to get from
point A to Z. The usual process is to get it on paper, respond, and
then move on. In this situation, I trusted we’d get there even though
I didn’t know what “Z” would look like. We had conversations with each
other throughout the process rather than only in formal meetings. I
came away with a better understanding that the issue was really about
the labor/management relationship and not the specifics of the
grievance. By trusting the process to unfold and letting it take its
course, I saw labor and management rebuild the relationship, solve the
issue around which the grievance was made, resulting in meeting the
needs of both labor and management.”
-- H. Stafford, Sr. Personnel Analyst
