Artfulmind® Open Mind, Open Heart Thinking Tool + 1:1 Coaching with Dr Natalie McDonagh

Donated by: Dr Natalie McDonagh (Artfulmind)
Lot Includes: Artfulmind® Open mind, Open heart thinking tool (third edition) — set of 50 cards, 110-page guidebook, hand-made wool felt pouch — plus a 1-hour 1:1 online coaching session with Dr Natalie McDonagh

About the Prize

Designed and produced by Dr Natalie McDonagh, Open mind, Open heart is an arts-based tool to aid mind and heart in self-inquiry and taking considered, confident action. For example: reflecting on practice situations; gaining insight into the true essence of a project; having a challenging conversation; contemplating a tricky situation; improving a relationship; reshaping your work in the world, and so on.

Open mind, Open heart is grounded in sound neuro-aesthetics, how the arts positively and holistically engage the brain and body, and Natalie's direct experience in designing and delivering leadership and organisational development programs.

Now in its third edition, in the 20+ years since Open mind, Open heart was first produced in 2004, this tool for the mind has proved itself invaluable to practitioners in facilitation, coaching, learning and development, organisational culture, community engagement and counselling. Practitioners use Open mind, Open heart both for their own personal and professional development, as well as in applied practice with clients.

What You Get

• Artfulmind® Open mind, Open heart thinking tool (third edition) comprising: set of 50 cards / guidebook with comprehensive instructions, 110 pages / hand-made wool felt carry pouch
• 1:1 coaching session with Dr Natalie McDonagh: online session, 1 hour

Why You Want This

You are a practitioner who would welcome:

• a tactile, simple-to-use, physical tool for your own self-inquiry, and personal and professional development
• knowing this established, original tool is grounded in pioneering design practice and doctoral research, has been bringing benefits to practitioners for 20+ years and been refined in response
• the additional benefit of a coaching session with the tool's designer to help you make the most of using Open mind, Open heart for yourself and with clients

You are a practitioner who recognises:

• cultivating sound self-leadership is vital for any of us concerned with conducting ourselves, our relationships, our life and work with more grace, dignity, courage and compassion
• well-formed self-leadership is essential for effective, emotionally-intelligent facilitation, coaching, consultancy
• the neuroscience of arts-based tools and methods for whole-brain engagement and the diverse ways of thinking and being which this enables

About Dr Natalie McDonagh

Natalie McDonagh is a practising designer, maker, curator and writer. Her Artfulmind practice is dedicated to making enriching, self-reflexive spaces in which people can meet themselves. This may be the personal space activated when an individual uses Open mind, Open heart for self-inquiry. It may be a large-scale, immersive, physical art installation occupying a building.

Whatever form the space takes, its nature is always invitational, an invitation to meet your mind in some way; to yield, to receive something of what is being offered and, perhaps, unfold.

Natalie's professional experience includes 20 years coaching facilitators on their presence and performance with clients, as well as designing and producing custom-made thinking tools and learning materials. Her experience also includes working directly with organisational clients who recognised arts-based methods and tools are required for genuine cultural change in the complex matter of recognising bias and improving gender equity, diversity and inclusion.

Natalie's pioneering design practice and doctoral research, conducted across RMIT School of Management and School of Art and Design, prove the capacity of creative arts methods to engage aspects of the mind not accessible through traditional approaches to learning and development. Where conventional methods are successful at rearranging our mental furniture, arts-based modes can reshape our mental architecture, opening it to greater vistas.

Learn more at artfulmind.net.

All proceeds from this lot support IAF Oceania community initiatives.

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