A Mindful Approach to Team Creativity and Collaboration in Organizations

This book examines how contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity, can be used to offer new possibilities for facilitating team creativity and collaboration in organizational settings. The author employs a qualitative, action research paradigm, using artsbased and ethnographic methods, to explore the perceived effects of a contemplative arts workshop process on team creativity and collaboration within an organization. The book demonstrates how a contemplative arts workshop process may be used to facilitate mindfulness, trust, communication, collaboration, and creative insights among teams and working groups. It explores each of these themes in depth and develops a model based on those findings. The model includes five elements: 1. Individual-Level Mindfulness, 2. Trust and Authentic Communication, 3. Team Cohesion and Collaboration, 4. Creative Ideation and Insights, and 5. Leadership: Creating a Culture of Innovation. Combining theory and practice, the bookoffers a series of mindfulness and contemplative arts exercises that facilitators can use to address each of the five levels of the model.
This book weaves together contemporary psychological research on mindfulness and organizational creativity along with practical applications and contemplative arts exercises for practitioners and scholars of workplace creativity, management and organisational and industrial psychology.

Examines mindfulness and creativity and their relevance to team creativity and collaboration Includes practical applications and sample exercises for using contemplative arts in organizational settings Draws on original research and a theoretical framework that combines scholarship on mindfulness and creativity Offers a fresh approach to developing creative team collaboration, organizational leadership, and cultures of innovation

Autorentext

Melinda J. Rothouse is a leadership and creativity coach, consultant, educator, and facilitator based in Texas, USA. She helps individuals and organizations tap into their innate creativity for greater insight, collaboration, and innovation. She is also a musician and photographer, and leads workshops and retreats on mindfulness and creativity.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Terms and Concepts - Mindfulness, Creativity, and Contemplative Arts.- Chapter 2: Theoretical Underpinnings of Creativity, Collaboration, and Mindfulness in Teams and Organizations.- Chapter 3: Individual-level Mindfulness and Organizational Creativity.- Chapter 4: Establishing Trust and Authentic Communication Among Organizational Teams.- Chapter 5: Facilitating Team Cohesion and Collaboration.- Chapter 6: Creative Ideation and Insights.- Chapter 7: The Role of Leadership in Creating a Culture of Innovation.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.