Moving Leaders: What insights do experienced leaders develop by training the language of the body through a combination of dance and phenomenological-inspired leadership stories?
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Moving Leaders: What insights do experienced leaders develop by training the language of the body through a combination of dance and phenomenological-inspired leadership stories? / Winther, Helle; Højlund Larsen, Michael.
I: Organizational Aesthetics, Bind 11, Nr. 1, 2022, s. 159-179.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Moving Leaders: What insights do experienced leaders develop by training the language of the body through a combination of dance and phenomenological-inspired leadership stories?
AU - Winther, Helle
AU - Højlund Larsen, Michael
N1 - CURIS 2022 NEXS 169
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Our bodies sense and communicate throughout our daily lives, and research shows there is a clear connection between embodiment and leadership. This project was carried out in a publicly approved course in leadership education through an innovative collaboration between a leadership philosopher and a dance researcher. We investigated what insights experienced leaders developed by training the language of the body through a combination of dance and phenomenological-inspired leadership stories, which were both written during the movement sessions and in situations from their daily leadership practice. Twenty-nine leaders from two different groups participated in the project that included expressive and improvisatory dance teaching, which mirrored communication dynamics in the leaders' everyday practice. This article portrays the development processes of these leaders, who went through a challenging and touching journey. They became more conscious of their own feelings, physicality and sensuality, and learned how the combination of dance, leadership stories and an increased awareness of the language of the body could nourish their embodied leadership competence.Even though learning from a course is in no way as complex as learning that takes place in everyday leadership experience, this project can contribute to the innovative research streams on movement, art and aesthetic practices as well as to understanding of the important role of experiential learning in the development of leadership. Organizational Aesthetics, 11(1), 159-179. Retrieved from https://oa.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/oa/article/view/271
AB - Our bodies sense and communicate throughout our daily lives, and research shows there is a clear connection between embodiment and leadership. This project was carried out in a publicly approved course in leadership education through an innovative collaboration between a leadership philosopher and a dance researcher. We investigated what insights experienced leaders developed by training the language of the body through a combination of dance and phenomenological-inspired leadership stories, which were both written during the movement sessions and in situations from their daily leadership practice. Twenty-nine leaders from two different groups participated in the project that included expressive and improvisatory dance teaching, which mirrored communication dynamics in the leaders' everyday practice. This article portrays the development processes of these leaders, who went through a challenging and touching journey. They became more conscious of their own feelings, physicality and sensuality, and learned how the combination of dance, leadership stories and an increased awareness of the language of the body could nourish their embodied leadership competence.Even though learning from a course is in no way as complex as learning that takes place in everyday leadership experience, this project can contribute to the innovative research streams on movement, art and aesthetic practices as well as to understanding of the important role of experiential learning in the development of leadership. Organizational Aesthetics, 11(1), 159-179. Retrieved from https://oa.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/oa/article/view/271
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Body language
KW - Embodiment
KW - Emotions
KW - Movement
KW - Feelings
KW - Fear
KW - Joy
KW - Anger
KW - Sorrow
KW - Love
KW - Phenomenology
KW - Aesthetic practices
KW - Artistic
KW - Embodied leadership competence
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 159
EP - 179
JO - Organizational Aesthetics
JF - Organizational Aesthetics
SN - 2168-8575
IS - 1
ER -
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