program tracks

Leadership

The Leadership Track opened with Adaptive Leadership and Cultural Leadership, sessions that got people out of their comfort zones and into their learning zones through two essential questions: How can I live with comfort in discomfort? How can I live with certainty in ambiguity? The series then flowed into different dimensions of leadership development, such as mentoring, coaching, leading with limited authority, and developing the leadership pipeline. Rha Goddess helped remind us “if our art is not our center, then our leadership IS NOT happening” and taught us the essential principle of “holding space” for ourselves and for others. The track concluded with an intergenerational discussion around our emerging vision of leadership.

We may be entrusted to lead organizations or projects at all levels, but this is only successful if we know how to lead ourselves.  When we hold space, we discover or awaken many amazing things we may have never noticed or imagined.  It’s not always pretty, safe, or convenient.  It’s about setting up an environment to be completely available at the moment to whatever is going to happen - to take that risk and “hope” for a reward, but be ok if it only comes in the form of an important learning experience.
~John Arroyo, convention experience post on blog.artsusa.org

For more information contact Rebecca Borden, Manager of Professional Development.