Sensuous Learning for Practical Judgment in Professional Practice, 1st ed. 2019 Volume 2: Arts-based Interventions Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities Series

The second volume of this ground-breaking book critically examines the effect of arts-based methods in combination as arts-based interventions in improving professional practice, from deinstitutionalization to the counteraction of destructive leadership. Taking a ?human-centred? approach, it delivers an insightful account of what these approaches do differently to achieve a new mode of learning ? ?sensuous learning? ? that cultivates professional judgment to serve the common good, simultaneously supporting personal and collective growth. The chapters present cutting edge examples of multiple ways arts-based interventions underpin learning arenas for expanding leadership and improving professional practice. The reflexivity cultivated through these learning arenas has the unique potential to improve professional practice, not merely by enhancing competence but also by cultivating character and conscience, which is central in making judgments that serve the common good. These benefits are relevant for professional practitioners sharpening the skills and behaviours needed in organisations, including creativity, diversity, imagination, and improvisation.

1.       Arts-Based Interventions as platforms for Sensuous Organizational Learning: An Introduction, Steven S. Taylor & Elena P. Antonacopoulou

2.       Sensuous Learning for Individuals, Communities and Organisations, Elena P. Antonacopoulou

3.       Using Applied Improvisation for Organizational Learning in the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Ralf Wetzel and Barbara Tint

4.       Using Performance to Foster Inherent ‘Poetic Potential’ in Nordic Schools, Gry Worre Hallberg and Lotte Darsø

6.       Using Narratives and Portraits to Foster Reflexivity and Learning from Experience in Healthcare Organizations in Italy and Norway, Guiseppe Scaratti, Mara Garli and Frode Heldal

7.       Using balloons to co-create welfare in the Danish health care sector, Christa Breum Amhøj

8.       Using Shibboleth to Support Leadership Development through an ‘Aesthemetic’ Approach in Swede, Julia Romanowska

9.       Using Aesthetic Dramas to transform Leadership Practice in the Public Sector in Denmark, Poula Heth

10.   Using Student-led Arts-Based methods in Finnish Higher Education to foster Leadership for Change, Hanna Lehtimäki and Heidi Silvast

12.   Using Kinaesthetic Exertion to Engender Team Psychological Safety in UK Higher Education, Ashley Roberts and Ioanna Iordanou

13.   Arts-Based Interventions for Sensuous Organisational Learning: Extensions and Possibilities, Elena P. Antonacopoulou, Arja Ropa & Steven S. Taylor

Steven S. Taylor is Professor of Leadership and Creativity at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Foisie School of Business, USA. His research is focused in two areas: organizational aesthetics and reflective practice. The former applies art-based scholarship and practice to management and organizations. The latter focuses on the ability to analyse our own actions and learn how to be more effective, ethical, and artful as managers and leaders.

Elena P. Antonacopoulou is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Liverpool Management School where she leads GNOSIS – a research initiative advancing impactful collaborative research in management and organization studies. Her principal research expertise lies in the areas of organisational change and learning and knowledge management, with a focus on the leadership implications. Her research continues to advance cutting edge ideas and thought leadership, as well as new methodologies for studying social complexity.

Second volume of a groundbreaking book

Details how arts-based methods work in combination as arts-based interventions

Demonstrates how sensuous learning can support personal and organizational growth

Provides cutting edge case studies from different industries and different artistic mediums