Creative Wisdom
Growing capability & consciousness for people in progress
We facilitate enlivening experiences for leaders, teams and groups to make progress on purpose, vision and strategy.
Projects are fashioned to specific needs in face-to-face and virtual settings using coaching, 360 feedback, arts-based learning and self-organisation methods.
Our Services
Leadership
What are the strategic outcomes that will be impacted by the quality of Leadership in your organisation? We engage with this question and orientate the project to these aims.
We help individual leaders and leadership teams to shape a meaningful direction for the organisation and achieve results in communion with others. Elements include:
- Courageous and meaningful conversation.
- Choice making taking into account ideals, realities and the wider context that leaders shape (and are shaped by).
- Stakeholder perspective taking.
- Coaching for action in the direction of vision.
- Resilience through wellness practice, emotional intelligence and human connection.
- Change: Mapping, mobilising and mindfully managing the journey.
- 360° assessment for insight and development mapping.
Coaching
For individuals, groups and teams. Coaching guides people on a development process over 3 to 12 months to help them:
- Set direction, founded on a compelling vision that gives work meaning.
- Mobilise into action in the direction of that vision.
- Influence, respond to, and be of service to, the wider system around them.
- Develop ways of being that help achieve the vision (and enjoy the journey along the way).
- Recognise old habits that constrain the vision (and create suffering along the way).
- Develop a healthy state of mind, body, emotion and spirit.
- Through all this, shape a meaningful and productive work-life.
Enlivening Culture Change
Change initiatives are so often built on, and delivered from, the rational mind. But the best laid plans are often thwarted by stronger forces of emotional attitudes and embedded beliefs. When these are brought out into the light of awareness, space for change opens up. When people know that the things that matter to them are being addressed, they tend to be more open to new possibilities. Exploring what the changes mean is a prerequisite for meaningful action. Imagine a ‘Forum Theatre’ case study, researched & developed by professional scriptwriters and actors…
- Safely opening the hearts & minds of people in an organisation.
- Spring-boarding people into dialogue on current reality and new possibilities.
- Pointing the way to action in the direction of strategy, values and vision.
Forum Theatre and other arts-based learning methods are signature specialities of Creative Wisdom. Contact us to discuss how we can use them for your own strategic and cultural change.
Facilitating Group Conversation
Conversation matters. When people come together to meet there is often a great deal at stake; commercially, politically, emotionally & culturally. Group conversations can produce remarkable results by bringing diverse views into dialogue. Yet contrasting values, competing priorities and good old human flaws can make things tricky. We know how to set up the conditions for quality conversation, from 1-to-1 right through to groups of hundreds. Our touchstones methods are Open Space, Circle Work, Future Search, and The Leadership Circle methods which activate people’s:
- Innate passion.
- Desire to care & connect and resolve conflict through robust, respectful conversation.
- Discovery of opportunity within conflict.
- Ability to self-organise and create pathways forward together.
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”Brett was the facilitator and trainer of a year-long internal Innovation Program that I was selected for… I was a skeptic on the first day but I now possess the growth-mindset that he instilled from day one. I equate his teaching method to how I taught my son to ride a two wheeler. By course end it was me doing it. Progress over perfection.”
Christopher Southern Senior Risk Engineer -
"Loved the use of live role-play vignettes... captivating and a great learning platform."
Mark Henderson CFO, Zurich Australia -
"I have not seen anything that would rival the engagement of such a large and diverse group of leaders for that period of time. In regards to the results - I would say [4 months post event] we are about 50% completed with some projects getting off the ground faster than others."
Nicholas Renshaw Executive Team, Eli Lilly Australia Pty Limited -
"I have asked Brett to project manage, script and enact some complex and controversial leadership development Forum Theatre scenarios, and in each area he has not only far exceeded what was required, he has made a genuine intellectual and personal contribution to the projects. Brett is a rigorous project manager, an insightful, intelligent and humorous script writer, and as an actor is able to bring a depth of reflective thought and gut feel ability to capture key issues that is remarkable. I thoroughly recommend him as an intellectual colleague, performer and project partner."
Richard Badham Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management -
Brett's 'Creative State’ workshop was flat out brilliant! Brett's magic was his ability to make me feel comfortable enough to simply let go and open myself up to this new experience and fully engage in it. The workshop was very cleverly run, with a poignant message at the end that beautifully tied a bow around the entire active meditation. It was a unique experience for me and I was so impressed with what I had experienced.
Soulla Chamberlain Creator and Director of Star Anise Organic Wholefoods -
Brett is one of my most influential teachers... He has been a powerful influence on my work including the arts disability program Unlock Your Creativity and the arts and community cultural development programs I develop in disadvantaged communities.
Cali Vandyk-Dunlevy Doctoral Candidate | PostGrad Student Liaison Officer | Creative Engagement | Cultural Producer | Creative Facilitator -
Brett is a mercurial being. His ability to facilitate, encourage, entice and call forth one's fullest creative capacity is his alchemy. From a corporate setting right through to a vocational actor's training ground, Brett has the skills, the insight and the generosity to enable phenomenal results and outcomes for all those he intersects with. For 20 years plus I have worked with and worked beside this man. There are very few people in my professional world I could call upon or attest to as I do Brett Wood.
Dean Carey Author/teacher/trainer