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Home > Leading > A Philosophy of Passion & Performance A Philosophy of Passion & PerformanceAt Paschall Arts, passion and performance go together. We look to incorporate our abilities and passions as facilitators into the content of our programs. For example, we recently developed a program on team-building that we have ‘piloted’ very successfully with a national health services agency’s Regina region.As a performing/recording musician and published short story writer, I have developed creative exercises involving the arts as parallel discovery experiences in the training milieu. In this teambuilding course I conduct with a colleague, we begin with a music, dance and storytelling opening address that helps participants connect with their creative centers. We then give teams the task of building drums from a group of materials on their table and only a few instructions. Once the team solves the task of how the drums are put together, each makes his/her own and personalizes it with decoration. In the second half of the day, we write a corporate song. The finale of the day is the performance of that song and the use of the drums. The skills associated with creating music and building instruments are amazingly parallel to the problem-solving and communication skills necessary as foundations for high-performing teams. The de-brief with participants convinced me that they do get that, and that their attention was riveted to the exercise because of the deep desire to create that we all have, but rarely get to truly exercise--particularly in our workplaces. The workshop also helped them understand how important it is to bring resident experiences and knowledge of individual team members to the table in the solving of a problem or designing of a work project. They learned to be surprised at someone’s hidden abilities, to acknowledge them, use them and celebrate them. |
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