Arts lead leaders in the art of leading

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Schibboleth.

art-based leadership training.

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”I became a worse golfer. An inner dialogue

disturbs my motor skills.”

Effects in subordinates’ blood.

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deepened sense of responsibility:

psychological & behavioural changes

Hypothesis:Leaders.

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Hypothesis:Subordinates.

positive mental & behavioural changes.

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improved health: anabolism.

A 3 evaluation levels.

Subordinates

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Leaders: 1. psychological and health changes.2. behavioural changes evaluated by 4 subordinates.

Subordinates: 3. psychological and health changes.

Unique study.Unique study.A randomised controlled intervention study. Schibboleth. Conventional.

25 leaders 25 leaders 12 sessions/10 months

2 Follow-ups: 12 and 18 months

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Design:Design: conventional conventional intervention.intervention.

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all information in advance.

•lecture+after talk.

•exercises.

•group discussion.

•experience exchange.

•homework.

Theories and tools: leadership, organisation!

Design:Design: art-based intervention. art-based intervention.

performance: collage of text and music. writing. group reflection. writing.

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Leadership!

04/04/13Julia Romanowska

”Yes, we carry everything within us, God and Heaven and Hell and Earth and Life and Death and all of history. Either you live in laughter or tears, it is still only one life. Life in its thousands of details and nuances and movements. One single large life.”text: Etty Hillesum,

murdered in Auschwitz

”A great feeling of something beautiful. The text and music made me feel happiness. Then came the grief. Thought of my life - all I had dropped on the way ... My soul?”

Schibboleth participant note:

results: leaders.

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altruism.

compliance.,

empathy.

consideration.

trust.

humility.

Improved pro-social behaviour (agreeableness).A strong negative correlation with psychopathy and

narcissism.

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Improved stress resilience (Sense of Coherence).

Comprehensibility.

Manageability.

Meaningfulness.

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Improved readiness to act: evaluated by subordinates.

laissez-faire: avoiding responsibilities.

Capacity to cope with stress.

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hubris.

Increased self-awareness and humility.

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Self-overestimation

modesty.

Self-critical-estimation high moral + effectiveness.

lower effectiveness.conflicts.

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Significantly better development in Schibbolet-leaders!

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results: subordinates.

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Improved mental illness:

sleep disturbance, emotionel exhaustion, depressive symptoms.

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Improved covert coping. inability to deal with unfair treatment at work.

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Improved perfomance based self-esteem.

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Higher concentration of DHEA-s in Schibboleth. regenerative hormone, stress and ageing protection

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Significantly better development in subordinates of Schibboleth-leaders!

leaders experiences of Schibboleth

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Difficult to understand, grasp and describe what they have been through how they have been affected

The impact is on a deeper human level an unconscious level.

new insights about themselves and the world appears

Experience was emotional cognitive challenging

experience was expressed in different emotions physical reactions

the form of schibboleth, music and the universal content has a great significance for the process

they dropped control and let themselves get involved they felt relief and began to think associatively

”The sharp swings became notches in my soul”

”Mental rape!”

”Pretentious drivel!”

”Here we can not check off anything?!

How should I tell my boss about it?”

”What the hell is going on??””

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”Do not escape. It makes me a human being. Face the difficult”

”You have spoken to my nerves. I’ve got one more room in myself”

”Do I need to understand what is happening?Life is also fragmentary and chaotic”

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”you must be brave”

Thanks Töres Theorell!

”I have traveled many times around the world, but I have never seen anything

cooler than this ...

”I feel deep gratitude for life”

Thank you!