Episode 003: Cracking Open our Hearts through the Arts with Adam Rosendahl
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Summary
Today we embark on a soulful journey with artist entrepreneur Adam Rosendahl to learn about his transformative introduction to the world of facilitation, the visual arts as a tool to unlock empathy, healing and connection across cultures and differences, and the power of personal ritual to help facilitators get in the zone of making magic for others. We discuss the different ways in which facilitators feel part of and disconnected from the groups we’re guiding, and what it’s like to return to in-person gatherings after facilitating virtually through the pandemic.
Today’s Guest
Adam Rosendahl is a master facilitator, entrepreneur and experience design consultant. Through his award-winning workshops and trainings, he fuses experiential learning, the arts, and cutting edge facilitation to breathe imagination and connection into teams, organizations, and conferences around the globe. Drawing from his work in youth empowerment, illustration, music curation, and entrepreneurship, he developed the idea for Late Nite Art®: a methodology that spans industry, age, and culture, supporting participants to improve emotional intelligence, build creative confidence, and disrupt routine ways of thinking. As a guest lecturer at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and California Polytechnic University, he speaks on topics such as social entrepreneurship, facilitation, creativity, and experience design. Adam enjoys nothing more than lighting the creative spark in the people and places that need it most.
Check out Adam’s TEDx Talk: “How to Use the Arts to Unlock Deeper Connection”
Resources
Partners for Youth Empowerment, the organization that transformed Adam and catalyzed his path as a facilitator
Safe Place International, the refugee empowerment organization where Adam had a transformative experience as a facilitator
Lower Park, where Adam scored his rad hat :)
Thank you for joining us!