Research and the Arts Series - Part 3
Event: Arts-based and Embodied Methods of Collaborative Distributed Leadership Development
Date: March 13, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM New York / 4:00 PM-6:00 PM London
Location: Zoom
Language: English
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SummarySummary
If we are to move away from traditional, 'heroic' kinds of top-down leadership, innovative ways are needed to support people in exploring how they can play an active part in leadership that is distributed and collaborative. Arts-based and embodied methods of leadership development have a unique role in meeting this need. Through a mix of presentation, experiential activity and reflection, the webinar will be of interest to anyone who wants to find out more about how arts-based and embodied methods can nurture the kinds of affective, aesthetic, ethical, creative and interpersonal capabilities necessary for collaborative distributed leadership.
SpeakersSpeakers
Professor Philip Woods
Philip Woods is Professor of Educational Policy, Democracy and Leadership and Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership at the University of Hertfordshire, UK; as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and holder of a Distinguished Service Award of the British Educational Leadership Management & Administration Society (BELMAS). He leads the Erasmus+ funded ‘European Arts-based Development of Distributed Leadership and Innovation in Schools’ (ENABLES) project. Recent publications include ‘Theorising the value of collage in exploring educational leadership’ (with Amanda Roberts), British Educational Research Journal, 44 (4) (2018); and two chapters in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Educational Administration, edited by R. Papa, Oxford University Press (2021): ‘School Leadership Preparation and Development in England’ (with Joy Jarvis, Amanda Roberts and Suzanne Culshaw) and ‘Democratic Leadership’.
Dr Suzanne Culshaw
Suzanne Culshaw is a Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Much of her work is situated in the field of teacher and leader wellbeing, and her doctoral research explored what it means to be struggling as a teacher. She has used collage extensively in research and professional learning sessions in-person and online, with teachers, school leaders, early career researchers and others in education settings. Recent publications include ‘The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher.’ London Review of Education, 17(3), 268-283 (2019) and ‘Love as the lifeblood of being-well: a call for care for teachers in England’s schools.’ Pastoral Care in Education, 39(3), 269-290 (2021) (with Nomisha Kurian). She is a member of BELMAS council, editor of the BELMAS blog, committee member for IPDA England (International Professional Development Association) and an avid user of Twitter (@SuzanneCulshaw).
Professor Helen Payne
Helen Payne, Reg. ADMP UK & UKCP is a Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is a registered, practising psychotherapist and specialising in the Discipline of Authentic Movement. Her research interests include the ecological self; arts-informed research; embodied approach to research, psychotherapy, leadership and learning; student and staff mental health. She conducts research, supervises clinical practice and PhDs, teaches and examines at doctorate level nationally/internationally. She led the establishment of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief for the international peer reviewed journal ‘Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy’ and President of IACAET. She developed the research-informed and evidence-based BodyMind Approach® to support people in the NHS with persistent bodily symptoms for which tests and scans come back negative. Recent publications include The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Embodied-Perspectives-in-Psychotherapy/Payne-Koch-Tantia-Fuchs
Essentials-Dance-Movement-Psychotherapy-International
Research profile: https://go.herts.ac.uk/helen_payne
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helen_Payne
Webinar DescriptionWebinar Description
If we are to move away from traditional, 'heroic' kinds of top-down leadership, innovative ways are needed to support all kinds of people in exploring how they can play an active part in leadership that is distributed and collaborative. Learning and awareness generated by arts-based and embodied activity have an invaluable role in meeting this need and recasting how leadership is understood and practised – by putting affective, aesthetic, ethical, creative and interpersonal awareness and reflexivity at the centre of collaborative distributed leadership practice.
This experiential webinar offers insights into how arts-based and embodied activities can support development of awareness and capabilities important for collaborative distributed leadership. We share what research tells us about arts-based and embodied methods of leadership development and what has been learnt from the ENABLES (European Arts-Based Development of Distributed Leadership and Innovation in Schools) project. The project's aim is to strengthen collaborative distributed leadership of innovation in schools by developing and disseminating innovative methods of arts-based and embodied leadership development. To do this, action research trials have been carried out by teams in Austria, Finland, Latvia, Romania and the United Kingdom and online resources created to support anyone interested in using arts-based and embodied methods for collaborative distributed leadership development in schools and beyond. The project has explored the use of:
· collage & embodied movement
· drama & improvisation
· narrative techniques
· vignette reading & design thinking approaches
· visual imagery.
The webinar mixes presentation, experiential activity and reflection. We explain what we mean by distributed leadership and how we have sought to theorise what occurs in arts-based and embodied methods – highlighting processes such as surfacing, reflexivity, reframing and collaborative learning. The changes that participants themselves feel result from these processes are presented. We invite attendees to the webinar to take part in a guided activity based on one of the arts-based (collage) and one of the embodied (gesture/posture response) activities explored in the project.
The webinar will be of interest to anyone who wants to find out more about how arts-based and embodied methods can nurture the kinds of affective, aesthetic, ethical, creative and interpersonal capabilities necessary for leadership that is distributed and collaborative.
CuratorsCurators
Professor Philip Woods
Dr. Suzanne Culshaw
Attendees learning outcomesAttendees learning outcomes
• Understanding of
- the outcomes experienced by participants of arts-based and embodied methods of collaborative distributed leadership
- theory that helps in understanding how arts-based and embodied methods give rise to these outcomes
• Appreciation of
- the importance of conceptualising distributed leadership as a collaborative and democratic practice
- the importance of affective, aesthetic, ethical, creative and interpersonal capabilities for distributed leadership
- the potential of arts-based and embodied methods to be adapted, developed and used more widely in developing collaborative distributed leadership
- the diversity of arts-based and embodied methods that can be used
- the importance of adapting the methods to context
• Awareness of
- where professional development resources can be accessed that support the use of arts-based and embodied methods for collaborative distributed leadership
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International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy
