Our world needs a new kind of leadership
Why the Arts and Global Leadership?
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Don't you agree, we are at a critical turning point in our world?
War, climate change, pandemics, polarisation - we are facing unprecedented challenges that can only be met through a deeper understanding of humanity and our individual and collective potential.
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So what can we do to face these challenges?
We need a whole new way of looking at the world and our role in it. We need a ‘higher order’ leadership that starts from within each one of us that ripples out to have an outsized impact in the world. Leadership of integrity, vision and purpose.
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So why the arts?
It may seem crazy but the arts are the most powerful tool we have to catalyse an inner transformation at the emotional, intellectual and spiritual level. They enable you to dig deeper into your individual and shared humanity, to co-create with others and build new narratives for our world.
So how does it work?
We use participation in arts-based and creative approaches to training and development, elevating learning beyond traditional methods and fostering experiential engagement. This isn’t about being forced to memorise Shakespeare! Or embarrassing yourself in front of your colleagues. It’s about using your natural and intuitive creative side to imagine new possibilities for our world and developing the skills of courage, collaboration, creativity and compassion that leads to transformative change within you and your organisation.
Here are some key ways in which the arts influence leadership:
Creativity and Innovation
Emotional Intelligence
Communication and Storytelling
Empathy and understanding
Adaptability and resilience
Vision and purpose
Stress-relief and well-being
Team-building and collaboration
Long-term perspective
These are the 21st century skills that all employers are looking for in their people to not only survive but thrive in an age of AI.
The Centre is the vision of award-winning entrepreneurial leader, Caroline Watson, using her background in theatre and the arts to bring about transformative change in the leaders of today and tomorrow
We run programmes for corporate and government leaders, children and young people, artists and social visionaries, individuals and communities, to enable them to be morally courageous, accountable and transformative leaders.
We work all over the world - in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East region, as well as online and at our retreat centre, Clos de Gaye, in south west France.
Our programmes inspire a sense of AWE and wonder, which encourages deep inner TRANSFORMATION, creating shifts that lead to meaningful IMPACT in the world.
