...discover...create...imagine...new possibilities for your people and business...
enter a world of 'artful inquiry'
a place where management development and learning can be enhanced through creative processes and reflective practice
Maverick Minds is an experiential learning and development consultancy. The inclusion of creative processes underpinned by reflection and dialogue are integral to Maverick Minds workshops and programs. Workshops, programs and creative projects are designed to place participants at the heart of the learning experience and inquiry process. In the process we endeavour to balance the practical, rational and objective with the intuitive, imaginative and subjective - the space between art and business. The space in which new ideas, possibilities and solutions can emerge.
While we are serious about learning that builds collaboration, communication and creativity we know that experimentation and play are integral to the learning experience. The 'Artful Inquiry', facilitated through arts-based processes and initiatives provide a kineasthetic approach for visual thinking and communication. It enables an exploration of 'known' organisational challenges and opportunities and allows for the emergent. The 'artful' and arts-based processes offer a reframing of situations. Reframing through a 'hands-on' creative lens provides new perspectives and insights; the possibility 'to see things in a new light'. The creative act can promote an 'artful intelligence' and enable:
- creativity
- collaboration
- conversation
- knowledge creation
- resilience
- self confidence
- self awareness
- critical and reflective thinking
- shared and personal meaning in professional practice
- team performance
- appreciation of diversity
- imagination
- risk-taking
- exploration of new ideas
- engaged employees
- healthy working relationships
- a sense of playfulness
- professional artistry of practice
Effective learning, development and transformation do not happen in a linear way; it is multi-dimensional. Through the methodology of Artful Inquiry Maverick Minds designs and delivers programs and workshops that encourage reflection and dialogue. The workshops give space for spontaneity, creative expression, collaboration and change.
Maverick Minds philosophy reflects a holistic and embodied approach to transformational learning and development of people. Our emphasis is on the learner's experience and placing the learner at the centre of the experience. Our belief, and what we see happen in our workshops, is the arts-based experience acting as a catalyst for stimulating discussion and generating meaning at an individual and collective level.
The interaction and co-creation from workshop participants along with artful facilitation creates environments that support diversity and encourage dialogue, reflection, and creativity.
Dr Cathryn Lloyd, Principal