Our Approach
We believe professional creativity happens between us.
We train people in practicing relevant influence and create movement when something is stuck.
Our creativity centred approach helps our clients in creating individual, group and organisational cultures that allow and support professional creativity that requires collaboration.
Fostering room for creativity in an organisational setting requires both leadership and management. We help our clients find the balance between organisational structures and individual drives on both individual and organisatorial levels.
Our approach is not only relevant for the creative industries. Every kind of professional collaboration as well as client relationship can benefit.
We design and facilitate:
- partner group meetings
- group leadership processes
- individual leadership processes
- management development
- collaboration kick-offs
to mention but a few of our experiences.
Theoretical framework
Professional development in the creative industries is not a topic that has drawn attention from many academic researchers. I have therefore embarked on a ph.d. journey myself at NIODA, Melborne, Australia. My ph.d. topic is how people experience successful balance between professional obligations and creative drives and ambitions.
My research is theoretically embedded in a critical, hermeneutical tradition of psychoanalysis and critical social studies as well as organisational studies. My understanding of the need for "identity workspaces" is based on professional development research by Herminia Ibarra and Gianpiero Petriglieri, as well as the psycho-social methodology described by among others Lita Crociani-Windland and the readings of the late Jacques Lacan by Philip Boxer.
My work with leaders and organisations also draws on insights from Senge, Edmondson, Keagan, Haraway, Latour, Martin, Catmull, Meyer and many, many more...
Leading scenarios
The central tenet of our method is that as we define ourselves through our actions we are also defined by how we are read by others.
Our method trains participants in practicing influence with a professional intention by:
1. Defining and identifying with prefered outcomes.
2. Decipher what is stuck in the situation and where the possibility for movement and transformation resides.
3. Developing and practicing new actions that will create the wanted outcome.
Working with the context to reach results
Different kind of work calls us to hold our role differently, needs different group dynamics and is defined by different contextual structures.
Practicing influence is about understanding, responding and deciding how to meet all three aspects of professional life.
Professional approach
Being a professional in the cultural spheres today requires a new skillset in professionalyzing individual creativity as well as organisational creativity.
"Since 2006 I have been working with people in the creative industries who want to develop their impact, their leadership or their organisations. This work has led me to see that being successful in the creative industries today requires much more than talent. The dream of being discovered or helped on your own professional path is not something that is rewarded for most people. " Thea Mikkelsen
We apply insights and methods from leadership development training, filmmaking, and psychoanalytic and consciousness research to deliver a focused, dynamic and deep transformational training.
Our work is caring, structured and ambitious.
Let us work together
Our offers for organisations are always tailored so they fit both purpose, capacity and budget. If you want to have a conversation about what we can do for you, please send me an email with what you have in mind and we will schedule a call.
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