My recent posts on photography, organization, and leadership sparked interest and inquiries. I'll illustrate with two recent activities I delivered what I have to offer.
"Observing the World, Revealing Ourselves» was a workshop involving a team of 12 executives from a French CAC 40 multinational company. The objective was to help the participants reflect on their individual and collective Selves, and explore how to interact beyond words and mental representations. It took place within an ambitious program of Leadership Development. It was a lovely experience, a moment of experimentation and togetherness. It combined an introduction to Mindful Photography, and a suite of assignments guiding people to create photographs, that would reflect their Selves, what they have in common, and ultimately express a “Group Self” (see the picture). People particularly appreciated the dimension of slowing down and “finding Flow” underpinning the activities, which is at the core of creativity. Photography helped an introvert client of mine, co-founder of an IT company, to regulate his emotions and prevent recurring anxiety crisis, in an aggressive business context. By externalizing emotions with snapshots, he was able to calm down more easily; he developed a self-reflection practice with pictures, and he built a regulation strategy. Lastly, he turned it into a creative routine, finding moments of resourcing, of qualitative time and positive emotions he could transpose in his role. These two instances highlight the primary directions of my work : 1. Assist executives in developing a different connection to their environment, more creative and intuitive, and grow presence, self-awareness and essential leadership abilities, that can only be learned experientially. 2. Help individuals strike a balance between well-being and sustainable performance at work, through creativity. I share what practicing photography brought me during my corporate life. I believe that what and how we photograph reflect who we are. As Minor White wrote, “…all photographs are self-portraits”. And this is invaluable.
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