A Mindful Approach to Team Creativity and Collaboration in Organizations: Creating a Culture of Innovation

This book explores how contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity can facilitate team creativity and collaboration in organizational settings. It employs a qualitative, action research paradigm and develops a model based on five elements: individual-level mindfulness, trust and authentic communication, team cohesion and collaboration, creative ideation and insights, and leadership.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 18 August 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This captivating book delves into the transformative power of contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity in fostering team creativity and collaboration within organizational settings. The author employs a qualitative, action research paradigm, incorporating arts-based and ethnographic methods, to explore the perceived effects of a contemplative arts workshop process on team creativity and collaboration within a specific organization. Through in-depth exploration, the book unveils how a contemplative arts workshop can facilitate mindfulness, trust, effective communication, collaborative teamwork, and innovative insights among teams and working groups. It offers a comprehensive model encompassing five key elements: individual-level mindfulness, trust and authentic communication, team cohesion and collaboration, creative ideation, and insights, and leadership in cultivating a culture of innovation. By seamlessly blending theory and practice, the book provides a rich resource for practitioners and scholars of workplace creativity, management, and organizational and industrial psychology. It offers a series of mindfulness and contemplative arts exercises that facilitators can utilize to address each level of the model, empowering individuals and organizations to unlock their full potential for creativity and collaboration.

This captivating book delves into the transformative power of contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity in fostering team creativity and collaboration within organizational settings.

The author employs a qualitative, action research paradigm, incorporating arts-based and ethnographic methods, to explore the perceived effects of a contemplative arts workshop process on team creativity and collaboration within a specific organization. Through in-depth exploration, the book unveils how a contemplative arts workshop can facilitate mindfulness, trust, effective communication, collaborative teamwork, and innovative insights among teams and working groups. It offers a comprehensive model encompassing five key elements: individual-level mindfulness, trust and authentic communication, team cohesion and collaboration, creative ideation, and insights, and leadership in cultivating a culture of innovation. By seamlessly blending theory and practice, the book provides a rich resource for practitioners and scholars of workplace creativity, management, and organizational and industrial psychology. It offers a series of mindfulness and contemplative arts exercises that facilitators can utilize to address each level of the model, empowering individuals and organizations to unlock their full potential for creativity and collaboration.

Weight: 229g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030476779
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020