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Pausing at the threshold: Using arts based enquiry to promote reflective, appreciative learning
on entering an ‘identity workspace’
Dr Hazel Messenger [email protected] Guildhall Faculty of Business and LawLondon Metropolitan University
Written permission has been given by the students to use their photographsand presentation materials
Learning for leadership rather than about leadership
• Emphasis on relationships, reciprocation and responsibility
• Developmental process involving self-awareness and interdependency
• Recognises influence of group culture on learning and development
• Provides opportunities for meaningful participation in authentic leadership activities
• Encourages habits of self and group reflection and developing self awareness
(for example: Kegan, 1982;1994; Kets de Vries and Korotov, 2010; Komives et al, 2011; Petriglieri, 2011)
W IDENTITY O U
Identity workspace
for leadership
development
Arts based inquiry
Appreciative reflection
Communitas
The ‘inbetweeners’
An ‘identity workspace’(Kets de Vries and Korotov, 2012; Petriglieri and Petriglieri , 2012; Petrigileri , 2011)
Provides participants with a ‘holding environment’ (Winnicott, 1975/1953) for identity work consisting of three elements
• Conceptual frameworks that help with sense-making
• Communities that provide a combination of belonging, support and challenge
• Rites of passage that facilitate and recognise role transitions and identity development
‘reduces disturbing affect and facilitates sense making’ (Petriglieri and Petriglieri, 2010: 44)
Appreciative reflection
• Reflection involves stepping back, considering the object of reflection
• The form of reflection affects the outcome of the reflection (Le Cornu, 2009)
• Critical reflection (CR) has a focus on deficit rejects or modifies earlier knowledge
• Appreciative reflection (AR) is one of admiration and celebration, ‘what is’ rather than ‘what is not’ (Le Cornu, 2009)
• AR promotes a positive emotional commitment, a sense of connectedness
• AR and CR work together in development of selfhood, community and collective well-being
Arts-based inquiry
• Four interrelated elements in arts-based inquiry [use of artistic skills, projection, revealing tacit knowledge, creating] (Taylor and Ladkin 2009:56)
• Spoken and written language insufficient for examining issues associated with identity
• Makes use of an aesthetic experiences for reflection, internalisation and externalisation of elements of the self and identity
• Provides the opportunity to be playful, enjoyable and to share• Using the images to create their own symbols of possibility• Create ‘memories with momentum’ (Sutherland, 2012:2)
In the spirit of bricolage….(Lévi-Strauss, 1966)
A visit to Guildhall Art Gallery
Use the visit to create a short image-based presentation which communicates
‘Who I am, why I am here and where I am going’
(Un) Expected(Un) Comfortable (Un) Settling
Reflection,internalisation and externalisation(Berger and Luckmann, 1966; Jarvis, 2004; Le Cornu, 2009)
Who am I?
and how does this help explain meto others?
Receptive?Appreciative?
A process of meaning making and externalisation
A process of meaning making and internalisation
Welcome to Guildhall Art Gallery
‘Plenty and Progress’
(Mark Titchner , 2012)
Ezgi’s story
Final thoughts
References
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