VTS@Work®

Teaching professionals the power of Visual Thinking Strategies, cultivating critical thinking plus understanding psychological safety and multiple perspectives

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𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐓𝐒, 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠!🌟🌱🎨

Let’s look at Ning Dai in Person Having a Laugh, a 2021 work created by Liu Xiaodong (Chinese, b.1963).

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As we enter into a new year, the moment naturally invites observation and reflection. We are asking:

What's going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?

Artist:
Mounira Al Solh (Lebanese, b. 1978)

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The VTS@Work® Basics Course in January is followed by the Advanced Course in Feb 2023. Learn more & apply at: https://t.co/1tlKcqqavQ

Image: Detail of Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889, The Met Fifth Avenue

#vtsatwork #facilitation #professionaldevelopment

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Artist Red Star shares, "I used to hear expressions like 'identity-based artwork is dead,' and I would feel a sense of guilt about my work....Now that I am older and have more confidence, I realize that the work I’m making is important and has a place and position in the world."

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"Art gives us aesthetic experiences that call on so many parts of our brain. They ask us to think about our own deep, long term memories and the ways we identify ourselves in the world and put them into play against a new stimulus" - @DabneyHailey on the cognitive activity of VTS

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We just sent out our 2023 course offerings for VTS@Work Certification! Explore how a deep dive in the VTS method and the benefits it brings may bolster the work that you do.

Don't miss out! Apply here:
https://t.co/MWY2Blg60O

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"So we're making decisions all the time as facilitators as we're sort of wandering through the comment in our minds, as we're finding that new conditional language. What are we going to choose?" - @DabneyHailey on the power of facilitators to steward a VTS discussion with framing

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"One of the things I noticed in your comment is you engaged in a little bit of like automatic revision, and you revised twice. Because you were like 'these are old people…older…old-ish' - VTS @ Work participant reflects on how bias awareness can surface during a VTS discussion

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"I was also thinking about how much we change over time. And as we let ourselves deepen our thinking, stay with things and hear other perspectives. If we think about the Kahneman fast and slow thinking, we're all really fast. That's what our brains do" - @DabneyHailey

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This week, Hailey Group is highlighting the piece 'Multitudes' 1946 by American painter Norman Lewis.

You can read the full Art Offering here:
https://t.co/6nHuur1q2q

#haileygroup #vts #normanlewis #painting #weeklyart

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What do you see that makes you say this is a watering can?

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Did you get a chance to read this past week's Art Offering?

Art details:
Joana Choumali (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, b. 1974)
Every Day is Enough from the Alba’hian series, 2019
Mixed media with photographs, fabric, and embroidery
80 x 80 cm

Full offering:
https://t.co/eTwkNjGKqz

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“VTS is designed to fully exploit the richness of the art experience and its impact on cognition”
Pg. 56 of Understanding Visual Literacy: The Visual Thinking Strategies Approach by Dabney Hailey, Alexa Miller and Philip Yenawine

Read the full chapter:
https://t.co/0N891vhBCx

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Did you catch the Weekly Art Offering this week featuring @tillmans_art?
Read here: https://t.co/17zLKOTQu2

What’s going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that?

Weekly Art Offering signup: https://t.co/UwWmUNk9Ll

#vtsatwork #wolfgangtillmans #visualthinking

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"VTS is another tool in my toolbox. A compass when the direction feels a little off. A moment of seeing, when something unsaid is simply waiting for you to take notice." -@DrAnsonKoshy (VTSatWork Alum)

https://t.co/Qtaks0HX7S

Credit @HarvardMacy #HMI

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Heather Currier Hunt and I had the great privilege of presenting at SXSW EDU on inclusion & VTS. Next year, we're focusing on Leading by Listening and how VTS enhances how leaders navigate ambiguity in a VUCA world.
Click to read and vote yes! https://t.co/7RePjEGBrA
#sxsw #vts

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Join our VTS@Work Basics weekly workshop in July via Zoom. See website for details: https://t.co/wKDzeqsGEk

Image: Detail of Henry Cross, Valley Fir (Shade on the Mountain) 1909, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Another great excerpt from the IDEO U Creative Confidence Podcast featuring Dabney Hailey: https://t.co/hML4DuoixZ

#haileygroup #vtsatwork #vts #leadership #facilitativeleadership

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If you missed Dabney's live appearance on @IDEOU Creative Confidence Podcast, go here to listen to the full recording on their website to learn more about #FacilitativeLeadership using #VTS: https://t.co/6xzS2Rhc8A

#haileygroup #vtsatwork #experiencevts #leadership

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Are you interested in experiencing VTS?

Join a full VTS discussion with Dabney Hailey using van Gogh's The Starry Night - May 5, 2022, at 12pm EST. Link to register here: https://t.co/oDO4g8K1Fa

#haileygroup #vtsatwork #experiencevts #faciliativeleadership #starrynight #vangogh