Organizational Performance Art
Holding Space for Joy and Possibility
by Alissa Schwartz
memoir/non-fiction
“Organizational Performance Art is a radical approach to transforming organizations. Alissa brings her ideas to life with stories from theater, performance art, political protest, parenting, shamanism, and her work with organizations to challenge the frames and limitations of traditional organizational development. We are invited to be and work in ways that are more collaborative, real, present, intuitive, uncertain, passionate, and emergent. Open the book, open your senses, and come take the journey!”
— Robert Gass, EdD, Co-founder, Rockwood Leadership Institute
Organizational Performance Art: Holding Space for Joy and Possibility is a vibrant memoir and inspirational manual that examines how the concepts and practices of several performance arts traditions and philosophies — avant-garde theater, social constructionism, and shamanic practice — support organizations and communities in communal thriving and liberation.
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Alissa Schwartz, MSW, PhD, Principal of Solid Fire Consulting, is a master facilitator and organizational culture builder with over 25 years of experience working with groups. She is also a performance artist; her latest dabblings have been in developing a new body of work she calls Ancestral Burlesque. Alissa is inspired by and part of a diasporic and ancestral Jewish tradition of fighting for social justice, warmly hosting (and feeding!) people, and developing innovative, useful scholarship and creative work. Alissa wrote these essays as a gift to her family, to renarrativize their history, and to impact, as well, the larger narrative of the white Jewish experience in the United States.
Alissa is based out of Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, where she parents, grandparents, bikes, and practices yoga. Learn more about her work and writing at www.solidfireconsulting.com.
US$16.95
124pp / 6x8” / paperback
Distributed to the trade by Asterism Books
Printed and bound in the US by Ingram Publishing Services
Impeller Press Books B-006
ISBN 9798988013358