Business Performance and Art Therapy
What you'll learn
- How to improve overall performance of the business by using Art Therapy
- Improve team building
- Reduce stress at work
- Stimulate creativity
- Improve emotional intelligence
- Resolve conflicts at work
Requirements
- Nil
Description
Initially your reaction might be: "Art? Art Therapy? How can that improve my business performance?" or it might even be "Art? I'm not interested in art. I'm interested in sales, profits, making $millions!"
Art Therapy can indirectly contribute to improved business performance by addressing key factors that influence
Productivity
Efficiency
Costs
Sales
Overall motivation
All of these factors are part of a business and all affect profit
This course uses art therapy and focuses on five key areas
1. Stress Reduction
2. Team Building
3. Creativity and Innovation
4. Emotional Intelligence
5. Conflict Resolution
Your Instructor has many courses in Business/Economics and also Art Therapy. By combining knowledge from both, the course presented will enable you to improve your overall business performance. BUT! this is not a cure-all. Business performance is affected by the external environment (Economics, Social, Legal, Environmental, Political, Technological) as much as the internal. The art therapy exercises here, when done, will affect the internal environment especially in the functions of Finance, Marketing, HRM and Production
Accompanying this course is a course manual for you to print out and distribute in your organisation
One more thing: the relevance of each exercise to the specific area is explained but the time for the exercise can be adapted to suit lunch-break, mid-afternoon, course seminar etc
You are always encouraged to participate in the Q/A and share the results!
Who this course is for:
- All employers
- Line managers
- Small business owners
- Individual employees
- Recuiters
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,380 Reviews
- 252,070 Students
- 144 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 5,510 Reviews
- 143,966 Students
- 85 Courses
Almost Random Theatre is a theatre company started in 2012. After putting on plays at Oxford and Brighton fringes, taking actors to Poland and Czech Republic, selling plays to schools, putting on many short plays in Oxford, visiting 60+ schools and running 'drama days' it was decided to...slow down.
The theatre's main contribution now is helping with numerous Art Therapy courses.