The Change Artist brings Carla Rieger's powerful recipe for mastering self change into a compelling story format.
The story begins with the troubled relationship between an adult daughter and her dying father.
In an era when only the “creatively resilient” among us are surviving it helps to remember that all of us have this ability. To be a Change Artist is simply to reconnect to the archetype of the artist within us all. As Pablo Picasso once said, “”Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Or, as David Whyte says, “When you neglect your creative energies they work away at you and almost blacken the inside of you like creosote. One of the first steps is to simply create a sense of spaciousness, to give you room to take flight.”
Here is a TV commercial you have probably seen from the 1990’s called “Think Different”. The concepts bears revisiting because this is a time in history when we all need to recapture the artist within to reinvent our personal lives, our work lives and our organizations.
This was an advertising slogan and TV commercial created for Apple Computer. The one-minute commercial features black and white video footage of significant historical people of the past, including (in order):
Albert Einstein
Bob Dylan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Richard Branson
John Lennon (with Yoko Ono)
R. Buckminster Fuller
Thomas Edison
Muhammad Ali
Ted Turner
Maria Callas
Mahatma Gandhi
Amelia Earhart
Alfred Hitchcock
Martha Graham
Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pablo Picasso
The commercial ends with an image of a young girl, Shaan Sahota, opening her closed eyes, as if to see the possibilities before her.
Alvin Toffler, the famous Futurist, once said that, “The ability to creatively handle constant change will be the most sought after skill in the 21st Century.” Also, Pablo Picasso once said that, “Everyone is born an artist. The trick is to re-capture that innate ability as an adult and put it into all aspects of life.”
I think people are more likely to be creative artists of change not through intellectual reasoning by through daily habits. That’s why I run events open to the public for staying creatively adapted in uncertain times.
People who can lead, adapt, innovate, and facilitate while facing constant change are the leaders of the future. An “artist of change” sees how to benefit from changes affecting their life, can create their own change process, and can build a culture of innovation wherever they go. There are simple habits anyone can apply daily that will allow you to:
* do things you didn’t think you could do
* find a way to benefit from a change that seems “bad” as first glance
* thrive during uncertainty and be a living bridge for others in that regard
* move from being reactive about change, challenge and conflict to being proactive
The Artistry of Change is an innovative system that blends diverse fields such as educational kinesiology, western and eastern psychology, change management theory, creative process models, and neuroscience. Witness how these fields are merging in exciting ways to produce the new ‘business artistry’.
Three public seminars across Canada and a retreat are coming up this year entitled “The Artistry of Change: The Top Creativity habits of People Who Will Thrive in the Coming Decade.”
They are in Edmonton on Apr. 28, in Winnipeg on May 14, and in Vancouver on June 17. There is also a 4 day retreat October 1-4 at Hollyhock Retreat Centre.
You can read more about these events http://www.carlarieger.com/artistry_of_change_seminar/
