Organizational Performance Art

<p class=ql-align-justify>The workplace in both its physical and virtual manifestations offers productive possibilities and space for joy. <em>Organizational Performance Art: Holding Space for Joy and Possibility</em> is a vibrant memoir and inspirational manual that examines how the concepts and practices of several performance arts traditions and philosophies -- avant-garde theater social constructionism and shamanic practice -- support organizations and communities in communal thriving and liberation.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify> An artistic stance towards organizational change does not just offer band-aid solutions to complex challenges; it is a way of harnessing imagination and a willingness to dance with the unknown in service to social justice and equity. <em>Organizational Performance Art</em> shows how to turn drab workplace routine into creative performance isolation into positive connectivity anxiety into openness and hierarchal rigidity into collaborative teamwork. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify> In a world teeming with trauma and inequity Schwartz offers her readers space to thrive. To imagine. To dance.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>