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By rendering their life journey aesthetically and creatively, we believe our students are better able to recognize meaningful connections and patterns―important sources of knowing that often escape the conceptual grasp of the rational and reasoned mind. Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer in a recent presentation on his study of the brain [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], decision-making and creativity made three important connections about the brain and creativity.
Today’s complex, dynamic, and global world presents both challenges and opportunities. We are required to understand and practice leadership in new ways. We are called to expand the paradigm of leadership to encompass and integrate knowledge and experience from many fields and traditions. If leadership can be viewed as our individual and collective response to change the world for the better, then leadership for the 21st century must be re-imagined if it is to be of service to this world. More than the behaviors, traits and styles of individuals, leadership can also be seen as an intrinsic property of all social enterprises, arising through and among relationships, toward fulfilling a group’s, or organization’s, or community’s “reason to be.” Educating people in this expanded paradigm of leadership has been our passion at Saint Mary’s College since 2001. To date we have graduated over 300 people from public, private, and not for profit sectors committed to be of service of their particular team [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], organization, or community.
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Art and leisure are essential to human development. Art develops meta-cognition and our ability to think about thinking. Arts are not just about beauty. Beauty is important but art is also functional and both the beauty and the function are essential. Improvising, creating and innovating are reliant on making long distance connections in the brain. We learn to form these long distance connections and practice this capacity when daydreaming or pl
In this picture, expanding the breadth and depth of human consciousness lives at the heart of a leadership practice in the 21st century. Our graduates, equipped with expanded capacities and skills in creative and critical thinking, constructive communication, and collaboration, among others, consistently demonstrate the added value this inner work does for fostering meaningful change in their work and life. At Saint Mary’s College, we believe engaging one self is the basis for engaging others in fostering meaningful change in the world. Thus [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], leadership development begins with self-development.
How Does This Work: Why Art? Why Values?
At Saint Mary’s College, we believe leadership is fundamentally about fostering deep and positive change in the world to which one belongs. We believe that learning leadership is fundamentally about fostering deep change in one self. In other words, a re-imagined leadership for the 21st century must have both an inner and outer orientation--the whole person engaged with the whole system, in a dance of mutual engagement and development.
There are a lot of different approaches and practice to foster self-development. In the context of leadership education, this development is achieved by a number of approaches including career assessments, skill and interest analysis, mentor relationships, etc. From our work with hundreds of adults in a variety of fields, sectors, roles and areas of responsibility, we have found a focus and exploration on personal values to be a powerful self-development path. Furthermore, we are exploring more and more the use of the arts, storytelling, and other creative ways to explore and express a person’s unique landscape of values to access and develop the self. We believe that by rendering this landscape in a creative form this serves as a map to guide one’s personal development.
Pure reason is not an ideal, it’s a disease. Emotions tell us what we value. Decisions can’t be made without a combination of reason and emotion. We bring emotions and rationality together through art.
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