Placing poetry at the heart of business
Developed by visionary Teaching Artist Anita Govan, our courses guide you through a profound journey of discovery and growth. The basics of embodying poetry are introduced with straightforward, simple steps by the gentle and expert guidance of our highly experienced team.
Transform performance and wellbeing, with the unique benefits offered by our programmes. Our courses are accessible, engaging, and immensely powerful.
Why Choose Us?
Leadership
Poetry develops the insight with which to understand chaotic situations and unfamiliar problems. It improves communication skills, the foundation of good leadership; and helps leaders make better, more informed, more empathetic and far-sighted decisions. Working with poetry develops the skills to take in greater diversity of information in any situation, to analyse it more effectively and enables your leaders to make better use of their own knowledge, intuition and training, enabling when making decisions and responding to events.
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Strategy
Working with poetry creates levels of understanding and common language between colleagues which would otherwise might take months. Suitable for the pre-planning process or when teams are not collaborating effectively. Over just a few hours, team members will heighten their awareness of how each other think, communicate and perform, facilitating effective strategy development and more efficient execution of plans.
Analysis
Improve analytic skills. Teach how to think, not what to think. Refine decision-making and give the confidence to progress in the face of uncertainty through heightened awareness and understanding of any situation. Build the skills of insight, emotional intelligence and empathy. Help your leaders to truly understand their working environment and respond more effectively to the needs of their teams.
Wellbeing
Sharing this process among teams is immensely powerful in building a feeling of shared experience and community across organisations. More connected staff feel better, work better, have far higher rates of staff retention and far lower absence rates. People who have given voice to their experiences, feel better and perform better. Poetry has always engendered the safe sharing of complex emotions; sharing this across teams brings them together and make them stronger.
Engagement
Enable deeper, more involved, more detailed and precise engagement with work, with colleagues and clients. Deepened interpersonal understanding and elevated communications skills empower your staff to tell a better story to customers and to find a greater sense of purpose in their work.
Belonging
Working with poetry in teams connects teams intellectually and emotionally. Combats isolation and disengagement. Staff working from home feel less isolated, new staff get to know their colleagues. Teams work through shared traumas and difficulties, bringing them closer together and forming stronger units with a greater sense of belonging.
Resilience
Helping your employees give voice to their experiences makes them stronger. Doing this through poetry has profound benefits for their wellbeing and peace of mind. Doing this in teams strengthens individually, strengthens teams and builds a feeling of togetherness across the organisation.
Interpersonal Understanding
Facilitate understanding of how colleagues think, work and process. Build that understanding in from day one of your projects. Assist teams to communicate and collaborate more effectively.
Teamwork
Teams that think together, win together. Working together creates more powerful, more connected and more intuitive hive minds among your teams. The amplifying power of poetry creates deeper understanding, stronger bonds and an elevated level of communication and understanding.