2007 Authentic Leadership Summer Program
Creative Process
When we learn deeply, our critical intelligence, our intuition, and our physical senses are all engaged and synchronized. Creative process sessions help prepare the ground for this kind of integrative learning. Exercises based on artistic disciplines — dance, theatre, jazz, calligraphy — awaken and clarify sensory, intuitive awareness. Creative process also provides a bridge between the simplicity of mindfulness and the complexity of organizational dynamics. We can begin to make this bridge by bringing wakeful awareness into physical movement, into precise moments of listening and seeing, and into nonverbal collaboration.
2007 Sessions
At the time of registration, you will be asked to sign up for one of the following tracks, which will meet twice during the week.
Calligraphy Mind
with Barbara Bash
What is the experience of making our mark in the world? Working with small and large brushes, clear water and buckets of ink, we will touch the awake mind of calligraphy. The oriental principles of heaven, earth, and human provide a deep structure and guidance for our steady lines and spontaneous marks. We can appreciate our minds-and our lives—when we make a fresh stroke of the moment.
Leadership as a Performing Art:
Short Practices for Bringing Mind and Body to the Present Moment
with Steve Clorfeine and Lanny Harrison (separate workshops)
Where does the training and wisdom of a performer meet the training and wisdom of a leader? What does it mean to be on the spot, focused, attentive and at the same time relaxed, open to an event and it surroundings? A series of direct and simple movement-theater exercises will reveal the tranformative power of play.
The Art of Making a True Move
with Arawana Hayashi
Authenticity begins with an integrated relationship between body, mind, and environment. Discover your natural creativity through a gentle process of paying attention to the body, in stillness and in ordinary movement. In this workshop we will learn how to access fresh responses to the challenges of leading in the midst of the speed and fragmentation of contemporary life.
Spontaneous Communication
with Jerry Granelli
The ground of communication is openness to oneself and others. Musicians are constantly listening to the world around them and the world within, and surrendering to what is. In this workshop we will practice listening, hearing, and spontaneous composition and form, in order to open ourselves to the message of the moment.
The Art of the Cèilidh
with Mary Jane Lamond
The Gaelic word cèilidh has come to mean a formal concert but originally meant simply a visit or a gathering of people. The cèilidh had a huge significance in Gaelic culture; as it was through gathering at each others homes that they shared their news, remembered their community history, and transmitted their art forms of song, music and dance. Learn more of the art of the traditional Gaelic Cèilidh, the Gaelic arts of song and storytelling and share the songs and stories of your own community with others.
A chiad sgeul aig fear-an-taighe , agus sgeul gu latha aig an aoidh. ("The first story from the host and tales until dawn from the guest.") —A Gaelic Proverb.
The Presenters
The creative process presenters all have a long history of combining performance art with meditative awareness. They are all long-time practitioners of Buddhist meditation and have taught and performed, sometimes together, in diverse settings.
Barbara Bash is a published author and performance artist who lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. She has worked for many years as a calligrapher and teacher of book arts and nature journaling. She was co-director of the book arts program at Naropa University and has collaborated over the years with musicians, storytellers, and dancers,exploring calligraphic performance art. Her study of Dharma Art with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Chinese pictograms with Ed Young contributed to her understanding of eastern principles as applied to western forms. She has written and illustrated many award-winning books on natural history for children and adults. Her most recent book is True Nature : An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude. She teaches Big Brush calligraphy workshops throughout the U.S. Barbara has been involved with Creative Process at the Institute since 2002. She has also been collaborating with Bob Wing and Toke Moeller in developing a leadership workshop that draws on the principles and practices of the "Circle, Brush, and Sword." See also www.barbarabash.com.
Steve Clorfeine has been writing, performing and directing theater pieces since 1975. He performed for many years in the companies of Barbara Dilley, Meredith Monk, Ping Chong and at Naropa University where he has been on the adjunct faculty since its inception. His own performances and workshops have toured the U.S. and Europe. Steve has long standing collaborations with Lanny Harrison, with jazz singer Jay Clayton, tap diva Brenda Bufalino, musician/composer Steve Gorn, and with all the arts team at the Shambhala Institute. Steve teaches contemplative arts workshops as well as theater, poetry and storytelling residencies in public schools in Europe and the U.S. He is the author of In The Valley of the Gods — Journals of an American Buddhist in Nepal; several poetry collections; and a sourcebook on creative process.
Jerry Granelli, jazz drummer, composer, bandleader, and teacher, began his musical career in San Francisco in the 1960s, as a member of Vince Guaraldi's group, and then later as the rhythm-section mate of Charlie Haden. Over the years he has frequently worked with Mose Allison, and has been regarded as the star pupil of legendary drum master Joe Morello. Jerry spent much of the 1970s and early '80s teaching in various innovative and prestigious music programs, such as Seattle's Cornish Institute and Boulder's Naropa University.
In the mid-1980s he returned to active recording and performing, first in a trio with Ralph Towner and Gary Peacock, and then with the group Quartet. He now leads his own quartet, Berlin-based UFB. His recordings include Another Place, A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing, News from the Street, and Broken Circle. Jerry presently teaches at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin, and also lives and performs in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Lanny Harrison, character actress, dancer, and cabaret artist, began her career in the New York Pantomime Theater in 1966. She has played character roles in Off-Broadway musicals and films, and for the past 25 years has written and performed one-woman shows, touring America and Europe. She has also performed a number of theatrical duets, with her late husband, musician Collin Walcott, with Meredith Monk, and with Steve Clorfeine.
Lanny has been a member of The House, Meredith Monk's theater company, since 1969, and has played leading roles in many of Ms. Monk's productions, including Vessel, Quarry, Education of the Girlchild, the film Book of Days and the science fiction opera Magic Frequencies. She is currently touring in Mercy, a collaboration between Ms. Monk and Ann Hamilton.
For the past five years, Lanny and Lily Pink have presented their vaudeville show The Bat Sisters at various venues in New York City and upstate New York. Lanny teaches acting for children at the West Kortright Centre and in the Arts in Education Program, and gives workshops at the New York Shambhala Center and at Naropa University.
She is also on the faculty of the Gallatin division of NYU, where she teaches a theater course integrating Eastern contemplative disciplines and Western theatrical technique. Since 1973, she has practiced Tibetan Buddhism as a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and is a meditation instructor.
Trained as a dancer, Arawana Hayashi's pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in improvisation, collaboration and traditional dance forms. After five years as director of an intercultural street dance company in Boston, Arawana became Co-Director of the Dance Program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She was involved in experimental inter-disciplinary performance work that became the foundation for the University's current degree programs in performance and somatic psychology. Arawana's study of Bugaku, Japanese Court dance, began under Suenobu Togi and led to founding the Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group in Boston. There she continued to explore the creative process. In 2000 Arawana joined the faculty of the annual Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership. Arawana is currently an acharya (senior teacher) in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. She teaches workshops in The Art of Making a True Move for individuals and organizations throughout the U.S. and is leading the development of Embodied Presence Practice in collaboration with Otto Scharmer and the Presencing Institute.
Mary Jane Lamond is a sharer of songs, stories and spirit. This sharing has garnered Mary Jane numerous Juno and East Coast Music Award nominations, critical acclaim and a worldwide audience. Mary Jane's latest recording "Storas" (Gaelic meaning "a treasure"), is a beautiful interpretation of some of the Scottish Gaelic songs that have become part of Nova Scotia's Gaelic tradition. Her use of modern instrumentation and arrangements provides a respectful and beautiful framework for these Gaelic treasures, but it is Mary Jane's spell binding vocal performance and heartfelt delivery that makes these selections truly come alive for the listener. Also see www.maryjanelamond.com
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