Blue – Red: What’s connecting?

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“Green on Blue” (1956) and “Light Red over Dark Red” (1955-57) Sometimes you want to remember where you were when something important happens. Yesterday, in the middle of my workshop at the Berlin Change Days, Bess comes in with the news of Biden’s victory. In the little screens in front of me arms go up

Webinar. Gesture & Response: an inquiry into generosity

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The comings months, change facilitators will convene and address the question: In what ways can we build a vibrant global changemaker community, inspired, connected and equipped to co-create a flourishing future? The Global Change Days Festival June 26/27 will be hosted by Adam Kahane. Jouke Kruijer – Gesture & Response: an inquiry into generosity Zoom

Webinar for Art in Organization, AIO Nordic network

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What to remember from this historic crisis? Art in Organization, AIO Nordic network, is hosting a 90 min free webinar tomorrow about the potential of art in organization development. Our experiences are personal, organizational and universal. In this episode I will address the question: Do artists have a vital role in organizational change, recording and

Back to White. Artful knowing and organizational change. The liminal, fieldnotes from within (part 3)

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This change story is changing I started, pre-corona, to write this series on change: my Linked-In posts as a public invitation to make sense of a very personal inquiry about changing my artistic genre. I am painting 1000 of my nude paintings white to create my first conceptual work of art, called Back to White.

Anders organiseren: Een pleidooi voor creatief leiderschap

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Veranderen van binnenuit, transformatief veranderen, duurzaam veranderen. Wat betekenen die termen eigenlijk? Als organisatieadviseur en kunstenaar zie ik veranderingen in de eerste plaats als een creatief proces. Ik geloof dat een herwaardering van het begrip creativiteit cruciaal is als we organisaties anders willen vormgeven. Ik ga graag in op het onderbewuste in relatie tot ons

Event: The Art of Purposefully Playing with Systems

The Art of Purposefully Playing with Systems Jouke Kruijer Artist

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16 & 17 September 2016, Amsterdam This two-day workshop is ’a serious play’ on the art of meaning making and creativity in systems and organizations. We search for new ways to encourage transformative collaboration and meaning making within communities and networks. By combining art and science we aim to shed new light on how collective

Goud in de Prullenbak: Over Mooi en Lelijk in Organisaties

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Of iets mooi is of lelijk, komt er niet zo op aan als we naar organisatieontwikkeling kijken. Als kunstenaar en organisatieadviseur denk ik daar anders over. Managers moeten niet alleen weten wat nuttig is, ze moeten ook hun eigen smaak ontwikkelen voor wat ze mooi en lelijk vinden. Esthetiek verbindt. En de waarde leren zien

Keep in Mind: Berlin Change Days 2016

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Walking through Kreuzberg, I realized what a great choice it was to organize the Berlin Change Days in that part of town. Great for roaming the streets (we had splendid autumn weather), great for shopping (I bought a windercoat) and going out (Jazzclub in Rosenthaler Strasse). I had just been asked to co-design and co-facilitate

Remember When You Had These Talents?

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We cannot expect to solve our most complex problems by rational thinking only. As a hybrid professional, I believe that we need to teach our educators today to develop all talents of the next generations by bringing back art into places of learning. When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to

The Art of Making Things Happen Together

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Navigating Complexity Last week I reconnected to my strength. I was asked to present a one-hour workshop for 50 people at the Human Systems Dynamics Institute conference in Chicago: Navigating Complexity. I designed a process making a collaborative paining as a metaphor for the dynamics in complex adaptive systems. The whole process was in silence.

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