Lead singer from the great indie band Ellery, Tasha Golden, is also a scientific researcher at John Hopkins' International Art+ Mind Lab on the subject of Art's impact on Health.

Touring the world's stages Tasha encountered many people who'd come to her after shows to share with her previously untold stories of pain and trauma. It stuck with her. What is it about music, about the poetry of lyrics, about a stage, that makes people comfortable sharing things they'd never even told their partners or a therapist before? 

So she did a PhD (as you do) and specialized her research on whether word-based arts such as music, creative writing or poetry, can be alternative means to express and process trauma, pain, and life.

This was an amazing chat. How many people do you know who are both accomplished artists and scientists? You'll hear singing, poetry, you'll hear touching personal stories and impactful outputs from scientific research on Art's impact on our mental health. 

A very complete and moving episode before a little summer break. 

Enjoy!

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👉 Find Tasha  here 

📝 Poem Reading, "Bad" read by Rheonna Thornton, from Project Uncaged.

📝 Ellery, Sleep Well Good Night.

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Art and creativity are not what one usually thinks of as core needs in a technology business or larger corporate environments. Well, think again. In a post-pandemic world where employees are less connected and engaged, where competition is fierce, creativity might just become the key differentiator in workplace culture, wellness but also in innovation and efficiency.

💡 Meta was one of the first companies to realize the value of fostering creativity in the workplace. Through the 12 years running Meta Open Arts organization, they've built community and innovation through artistic experiences. They commission, curate and create art and design programming for Meta spaces, products and people. 

✨ Josephine Kelliher✨, Meta Open Art's lead for experience programs, talks about the impact of art in the workplace, from building community and wellness to driving innovation and performance.

Think what you want about Meta, the fact is it is a laboratory for innovation, creativity and forward thinking. And it's interesting to understand what it takes, that other companies don't necessarily do, to fosters that in people.

Josephine and I spoke about: 

• 1st half of the conversation : how workplace art programing builds empathy and resiliency which promote employee connection, wellness, diversity, and ultimately loyalty.
• 2d half of the interview :  we addressed the "harder" business outcomes or increased innovation and efficiency, which are direct byproducts of creativity, of providing a safe space to make mistakes and play around

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👉 Find Josephine here and Meta Open Arts on Instagram and Facebook. 

📝 Amy Whitaker,  Art Thinking

📝 Alain de Botton,  Art as Therapy

🎙 TED Talk : Sir Ken Robinson "Do Schools Kill Creativity ?"

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What do the FBI, NYPD, Department of Homeland Security, many US Hospitals, Johnson & Johnson, Planned Parenthood, and a group of nuns  have in common? Amy Herman.

Amy is a lawyer and art historian turned expert on seeing. For 14 years, she has been providing art-based leadership training to top officers in the United States military, law enforcement, medicine, education, and industry. 

In her "Art of Perception" seminars and programs,  Amy shows people how to look closely at paintings, sculptures, and photographs. She teaches them to see what's missing, see what's hidden or underrated, see from someone else's eyes. Seeing better to BE better, to do a better job. In the human business, that changes lives.

Amy uses artworks to make people look again, think again, think better and be better.

She developed her Art of Perception seminar in 2000 to improve medical students' observation and communication skills with their patients when she was the Head of Education at The Frick Collection in New York City. She subsequently adapted the program for a wide range of professionals and leads sessions internationally for a very impressive, official and powerful list of clients.

Amy and I hit it off. We talked about: 

•  her job with FBI officers and executives, but also more surprising groups of people. 
• the power of learning to look very closely and how that makes us better at our jobs, but also in our lives. 
• observing, and observing art in particular, as a meditation, an act of presence and patience in a fast spinning world.
•  looking, contemplating and the use of our time on earth. Life, death, and the place that art holds in all of it. 

Loved all of it. I hope you do too!

👉Find Amy here and her Ted Talk here. 

💿 Extract : Joe Navarro, ex FBI here.

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