Art for Humanizing Management Seminar with Dr. Jyoti Bachani
Channel: International Humanistic Management Association
Date: 2020-11-12

Art is an important form of self expression and social commentary. Art engages people, captures the zeitgeist, entrains or challenges assumptions. Artistic creation and experience influence what we see, notice, think, and decide to do subsequently. As our models of 'business as usual' are failing in the post-Covid world, and there is a democratization and explosion of creative output with new platforms, how can we use the arts to humanize management? Several scholars have been working to humanize management, and Dr. Joyi Bachani, uses the arts to further the same agenda. Poetry, Improv and visual arts are used to lead workshops for co-created experiences that enhance creative thinking and self-reflection, that then promotes creative problem solving in multiple different contexts. Participants do not need to be artists, to experience, understand, explore and re-imagine management ideas. They need to be open to participating to experiential and contemplative immersion experiences and be willing to explore beyond the currently dominant dry analytical theories that tend to be divorced from practice. Let us consider the various art forms, of improv theater, poetry, music, film, song and dance, to understand the soft power of our own re-invention potential, to share resources and build connections for future work.