Let’s get qworky. Let’s be off the wall.
I’d like to spend a day with your employees playing the Renaissance game. We’re going to look at your organization like it’s never been seen before— perhaps even for the first time— using the tools of the Renaissance to examine the Artifacts of the present.
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Renai-why? The Renaissance was a pivotal time when humans dissolved the boundaries between disciplines and invented wonderful and entirely new things.
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Arti-what? I’m talking about organizational artifacts- documents, relics, symbols and systems. E.g., your mission statement, branding materials, org charts, etc.
We will revisit these artifacts similar to how a Renaissance person would look at a blank surface— with curiosity rather than compliance. What does it actually say? What is it not saying? What would happen if we combined it with something it has no business being next to?
Come to think of it, I'm having second thoughts about playing this game with you - which I can already sense you are going to relabel as a workshop or a training or something normal like that. I know how serious and logical you organizational people can be - and since I am totally not like that anymore*, I think this encounter might be very...
Nonetheless, you should send me a note for more details about the Renaissance game at your company.
*Bianca Dove spent years studying organizations — earning a PhD in Public Affairs, a master's in Organizational Psychology, publishing research on healthcare systems, and writing for Fast Company on leadership, creativity and authentic expression.
Then one day she picked up a paintbrush and didn't put it down. What followed was a complete career dissolve — into painting, writing, music, graphic design, interactive film and a collection of storytelling artifacts.
It turns out that years of watching organizations talk about themselves left her with an extraordinary ear for the stories they didn't know they were telling.
Bianca brings the rigor of a researcher, the instincts of an artist, and the sense of humor of someone who has sat through enough mission statement presentations to know they deserve something... different.
