The ART In Business Enhancing Creativity for Breakthrough Results SM Using artistic expression as a means of advancing innovation, strategic thinking and creative problem solving in organizations What’s This About?         It is not a secret that creativity is an essential ingredient for success in any organization, but what is less known is how to exercise our creative ability. How do we increase our capacity to step out of the box and into a greater vision? Chuck Ceraso, artist/teacher and Renelle Darr, founder of InSight Coaching & Consulting, have teamed together to create an unconventional program addressing these very issues.  This program combines 35 years of artistic and business experience into one. What’s The Point?  Learn to exercise your full creative capacity to enhance leadership results.  Use painting as a medium to access that part of us where insight and innovation originate.  Understand techniques for going beyond habitual thoughts and assumptions.  Develop skills that help you access and use intuition strategically.       What’s The Format? We offer a 1-day program that includes the completing of four painting exercises, each designed to move one through a specific aspect that blocks creative thinking and action. Each is followed by a discussion of the insights gained and how they apply to organizational problems. We also offer a 3-day program for a much deeper immersion into the creative process and a more transformational experience. How Does It Work? The art of leadership requires the same skills as the art of painting: ability in rational, emotional and creative intelligence. Culturally we are trained almost exclusively in rational intelligence and hardly at all in the other two. Consequently, two thirds of our skills remain mostly dormant. The cost of this is enormous both at the personal level and in business. Rational intelligence is important at the conceptual level, understanding leadership principles is essential for effectiveness. Equally essential is emotional intelligence, the ability to recognize and manage emotional states, both our own and others’ and the ability to experience insight and inspiration, creative intelligence. The painting exercises in this workshop have been developed and tested over the past twelve years to enhance skill in the latter two. They train the participant to shift from a state that is primarily absorbed in thought to a state that is primarily aware and open with a quiet mind. This is the state that fosters insight and inspiration. These exercises can be used repeatedly to further enhance this state of awareness and therefore to develop greater and greater skill in emotional and creative intelligence. And, they’re amazingly fun! About These Paintings People who had little or no previous experience with painting did all of the paintings on this page. They learned through the exercises of this workshop how to fearlessly and spontaneously explore the process of painting. In so doing, they produced these powerful images. Painting teaches us how to access the creative state, which is useful for problem solving not only in painting but also and especially, in the business arena. About Ceraso and Darr Chuck Ceraso studied art at the University of Notre Dame, the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art and with the noted Impressionist, Henry Hensche. Author of the book, The Art of Color Seeing, Ceraso has been teaching at the Denver Art Museum, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and in his studio/gallery for the last 18 years. He is well known and sought out for his ability to teach inexperienced people how to draw and paint. His popular series, Drawing For People Who Think They Can't and Painting For People Who Think They Can't continue to fill and sell out after all these years. In recent years Ceraso has also been conducting workshops with business groups, using painting to enhance team building and leadership skills. Renelle Darr, MBA is the founder of InSight Coaching & Consulting. She is a dynamic and energetic leader who brings a breadth of experience in organizational change management, coaching, strategy, facilitation and training, complex global project leadership and customer-focused relationship management. She has more than fifteen years of broad-based business experience helping organizations and individuals move forward and expand by challenging the status quo, focusing on strengths and results-oriented action. Renelle is uniquely positioned with a deep understanding of all areas of business having worked in Accounting, IT, Marketing and HR for global Fortune 500 companies, small companies, non-profits and government agencies. She also has worked with children in Africa using similar approaches.