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
- 8,897 Reviews
- 239,218 Students
- 127 Courses
I currently volunteer for:
Different Strokes (Stroke charity) - Ambassador
Age UK - running a book club
Tandem (Befriending)
NHS - Culture liaison
NHS - interview panels
Sport in Mind - Support
Multiple Sclerosis - Support Worker
Trinity Learning - - visit Primary Schools
Oxford Recovery College - tutor
Horton Hospital - Hospital radio
Story Telling Museum - guide
43+ years experience teaching Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics and other subjects in schools, universities and other colleges - State and Private Sector. Appeared in 100+ films (including corporate training and fitness videos). 100+ books on Amazon. Featured by the BBC, Polish TV, The Times, The Telegraph and...The Sun.
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
Business and Economics background
Set up and ran Oxford Conferences and ran 50+ Business/Economics conferences at schools - all fees to charity
Amazon Business/Economics books include:
Titles include:
· Case studies for Business
· Time management for teachers
· Creativity techniques in Economics
· Drucker in Business Studies
· Creativity in Business
· Business calculations
· Further applications of de Bono
· Applying de Bono
· Philosophy Games
Taught students at the University of Oxford , Brookes University and schools in the state and independent sector
Principal of Oxford School of Learning for 15 years
Created OSL Training and trained Business, Psychology and Sociology teachers
Set up Marketing Education Services in the 1980s and sold cassette tape recordings of my lectures at the University of Oxford
Featured in The Times, The Telegraph, the BBC, ITV and Polish national television owing to the success of my teaching techniques and subsequent success of my students.
Ex-Buyer for a major car company
Psychology and Motivation background
Author of 100+ books on Amazon (mainly Business/Economics/Psychology) including:
· GCSE Psychology thru Mind Maps
· AS/A2 Psychology
· AS Psychology thru Mind Maps
· A2 Psychology thru Mind Maps
· Lifestyle Plan
· The Internet and Psychology
Through his own business OSL Training has run training courses for teachers of Psychology
Writer of several plays about death and appeared in films dealing with death
Theatre and Film Career
· 2012 - set up Almost Random Theatre.
· Since 2012 the theatre has delivered workshops in Scotland, Wales, Czech Republic and Poland as well as 15 schools in England.
· Chris has written/directed over 50 short and 3 one-Act plays that have subsequently been performed in London and Oxford.
· Scripts for three of his plays have been sold, via an Independent publisher, to schools in the UK.
· Course-creator/author of Coping with Old Age and Death - one person's perspective.
· He has also had plays put on - and performed in - Oxford and Brighton Fringes, London, Scotland and Wales.
· Chris has appeared in over 112 films.
Charity/Wellbeing work
· Ambassador for Heart UK
· Stoke Lead and member of Research panel for the Stroke Association
· Board member of Stroke Club UK
· Ambassador for Different Strokes (charity)
· Member of PHC (Public Health Collaboration) UK
· Author of 6-volume Lifestyle Manual
· Author of other Lifestyle books on Amazon
· Originator of the Holman Protocol
Nothing in any of Chris's courses should be interpreted as linking to or representing any of the above stroke organisations.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 4,668 Reviews
- 137,205 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.