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2010 Keynote Address
"Allowing the Wisdom of Art to Change the World"
by Skye Burn
Humanity is facing situations that require new ways of thinking, fresh insight, and imagination. The challenges of climate change, terrorism, pollution, religious strife, and economic instability are not entirely amenable to political, economic, legal, and military solutions. The world needs creative solutions.
Until now, world leaders have not called on artists to help them figure out how to handle situations that arise in their organizations and communities. They have called on economic, political, military, and legal advisers, but the expertise and wisdom of art has generally been considered irrelevant to solving 'real world' problems.
The Flow Project is allowing artists to be recognized for the practical value of their knowledge and experience. Within the structure of The Project and with staff support, artists are reflecting on their own experience and identifying principles of art and artistic practices common to the artistic experience across mediums. Well-positioned allies in the field of leadership education are helping the artists focus and they have agreed to translate the principles of art into principles of leadership and leadership practices. Put simply, The Flow Project brings the wisdom of art to leaders by providing art-based principles and practices they can apply in creating businesses, organizations, and communities.
Areas where it seems the wisdom of art will make a difference include: knowing how to make things work without the use of force; trusting life and human nature; embodying the essence of peace and the spirit of compassion in the world; creating organizations that are alive; awakening the artist spirit; and easing inter-cultural and inter-religious communication.
The Flow Project is a communal work to which many people are contributing time and energy. The underlying motive is artistic. Everyone who is contributing to The Project is working to provide knowledge and sensitivity that is missing in humanity's handling of the medium of life and world creation. Understanding the principles of economics and economic forces that shape the world is not enough. Leaders need to understand the principles of art and artistic-creative forces that shape the world to generate truly creative solutions to the situations we face globally. Leaders need to understand and take into account the artistic-creative dimension of culture as well as the socio-economic and geo-political dimensions, or our solutions will miss the mark.
Skye Burn
skyeburn@theflowproject.org
360-527-3006
Through affiliate: www.awish.net/projects/north-america/flow-project.html
Bio
Skye Burn: Executive Director, The Flow Project; internationally published author in cultural research; award-winning poet; illustrator; fine woodworker; and consultant to organizations in leadership and vision development. Fellow, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, Their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, housed at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research; Board Member, Center for Intercultural Dialogue, University of Oregon, home of the UNESCO Chair for Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue and Peace. B.A., Psychology of the Creative Process, MA, Leadership in Social Artistry. (Book in progress: Looking through the lens of art: Understanding the dynamic of culture as a creative process)