In this workshop you will learn how to listen to what is truly important. You will practice how to quiet down your inner critics that holds you from showing up, showing your work, and speaking up. You will connect to your inner mentors, and let go of outdated versions of careers, but instead understand your true callings. You will learn how to leave good-girl and good-student habits behind, and find ways to integrate your super powers in everyday lives. Instead of hiding from your own life, you understand what it needs to be seen and heard. You will learn how to communicate with power. In this workshop you will practice taking leaps to reach your goals and life your authentic life. And foremost you will understand, that it can actually be easy. This workshop is for all people identifying or being socialized as women, who want to play big in arts, design, the social sector and education.
This workshop grounds on self-reflection, centering meditations and visualization exercises, real life leadership examples, and foremost a lot of humour. “Speak up and Lead” is designed as offline, onsite 2-day or weekend workshop for a group of 5-10 people.
This workshop is for all people identifying or being socialized as women, who want to play big in arts, design, the social sector and education.
Dorothée King, art educator, media artist and designer, is an organization and personal development specialist in the cultural sector. She is currently Head of the Arts and Design Education Institute at the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2000 she has been working globally as a coach, educator and communicator. Among other places she worked with RISD and the RISD museum / Rhode Island USA, UdK Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin, Ars Electronica / Austria, Kunstuniversität Linz, Banff Centre for the Arts / Canada, and the Transart Institute /New York. Working as a coach and mentor, she has helped build joyful teams in museums and academia. Her focus is well-being and fulfillment at the workplace, strengthening individual skills and talents, and making space for out-of-the-box constellations. She is a certified life coach, playing big facilitator, yoga and meditation teacher. http:www.dorotheeking.com
The continuing education programme of the Institute Arts and Design Education aims to broaden participants’ perspective of their own artistic work and shared creative endeavours with others. Participants will be introduced to creative educational strategies, and acquire the ability to make creative debates effective for social processes. Both the weeklong continuing education courses and the optional one-on-one coaching sessions integrate methods from the fields of education, the fine arts, arts education, performance and other participatory practices. The improvement of artistic, creative and communication skills can help pave the way for more equal opportunities. Social inclusion, as one of the main conditions of equal opportunities, requires good communication and cultural competences – and it is these competences that artistic and creative educational strategies can do an excellent job at cultivating. By strengthening artistic and creative competences, we not only increase the realms of possibility for design, but also for communication, social interactions, the strengthening of social structures, personal expression and the experience of self-efficacy.
Speak your Truth: Module 1: Dealing with Inner Critics Module 2: Outer Mentor vs Inner Mentor Module 3: Callings = Gift Goals vs Should Goals Speak Up: Module 4: Deal with praise, feedback and criticism Module 5: Leave good girl habits behind How to Lead: Module 6: My Values and Activities Module 7: Let’s Leap! Lead: Module 8: Leading is Relationship Work Module 9: Negotiations are a Spiritual Practice Module 10: How you get there is how you will be there: Tipps and Tricks
Participants will
gain experiences navigating their own forms of artistic expression,
acquire the ability to structure artistic and creative processes,
acquire skills that prepare them to deal adeptly with various methods, digital and otherwise, for teaching art and design and their application in social practice,
learn to kick-start debates on creative processes in various social structures by way of artistic and educational strategies,
deepen their knowledge of various communication and digital skills,
acquire know-how about networking art and education with a variety of target groups,
gain experiences that help integrate artistic and cultural processes as open and experimental processes into their work.
All women who want to initiate and change their lives and careers. All those, who are interested in creativity, arts, and design.
No prior artistic or technical experience is required. University degree or equivalent work experience is required.
Modules and workshops for a total of 10 ECTS enable registration for the final module with integrated certificate thesis. The graduates are individually supervised by Prof. Dorothée King and her team in 5 individual coaching sessions. Upon successful completion, participants receive the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS HGK FHNW "Artistic Literacy".
Art and design, and imparting their contents open up new ways of perceiving and shaping the world. Learning in art and design is marked by an intense experience of self-agency and dealing with highly diverse contexts.