Unleashing human potential is about creating the conditions that will allow every member of the group to reclaim their full humanity, and in the process, recognize their inherent power to direct their lives and strengthen their capacity to do so.
Unleashing entails unlocking and developing human potential at the service of individual, organizational and inter-organizational capacity. The assumption for this work is that people already come with expertise derived from encountering the targeted problem in their lives every day. This knowledge can be strengthened, and gaps within this mastery can be filled.
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: Helping Others Become More Strategic, Conceptual, and Creative
By Victoria Kovari Reverend Tyrone Hicks, Larry Ferlazzo, Craig McGarvey, Mary Ochs, Lucia Alcántara, and Lyle Yorks, 2005
This report seeks to answer the question: How can we be more effective in helping others become more strategic, conceptual, and creative in their thinking?
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A Dance That Creates Equals: Unpacking Leadership Development
By Denise Altvater, Bethany Godsoe, LaDon James, Barbara Miller, Sonia Ospina, Tyletha Samuels, Cassandra Shaylor, Lateefah Simon, and Mark Valdez, 2005
Through the Cooperative Inquiry process, a group of social change leaders interested in creating opportunities for other to recognize themselves as leaders began to view leadership development as a shift in the leadership relationship: someone steps back and someone steps up, like a dance. This dance expands the space for shared leadership and something new emerges. Once people claim the space, they see themselves differently and accept the authority to influence others.
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Can the Arts Change the World?
The Transformative Power of the Arts in Fostering and Sustaining Social Change
By Arnold Aprill, Elise Holliday, Fahari Jeffers, Nobuko Miyamoto, Abby Scher, Diana Spatz, Richard Townsell, Lily Yeh, Lyle Yorks, and Sandra Hayes, 2006
A group of nonprofit leaders working in the arts, advocacy, political organizing, social services, and education explored the connection between community organizing and creative expression by engaging in collective activities, including visiting various examples of community arts, and experimentation with their own practice. Through this process, the group concluded that arts could be socially transformative; that community arts can create a safe space that allows people to trust and be open to changing; that art can help people reflect together and not talk past one another, and that the process of creating together can be healing and sustaining.
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