To everyone who participated on Friday in my Spoken Works workshop, I've created a group creativity, arts and language learning, in which I posted the slides of the workshop. thanks for attending and all the nice comments and ideas. I hope we can keep on sharing ideas in this formum and the group, so please join.  Jan

DICE (“Drama Improves Lisbon Key Competences in Education”) was an international EU-supported project. In addition to other educational aims, this two-year project was a cross-cultural research study investigating the effects of educational theatre and drama on five of the eight Key Competences. The research was conducted by twelve partners (DICE Consortium; leader: Hungary).

To read background information, research findings, recommendations or resources and…

For decades I am working in art education. And I think I am rather good at it. Within the Dutch circumstances, I am convinced that I come up with original ideas and innovative projects. Yes, you are right, I am pretty arrogant. And I realize it.

When I got my invitation to attend the Vilnius conference, I had to think about my arrogance. I decided that the only way in which that meeting could contribute to my personal development was to leave my arrogance at home. And I can assure…

After having a good night sleep after the Vilnius conference, I still feel lucky that I had the opportunity to attend this meeting. What a nice enthousiastic people, what an inspiring discussions, what a drive to improve art education...

But the day after, I also have a lot of questions. These questions are not ment as criticism to the congress, but (for me) as a starting point to further discussion.

• Do artists need courses / workshops to improve their work at…

To everyone who participated in my WordCraft workshop on Thursday, here's the prose poetry exercise that we didn't have time to do...hope it's useful, and let me know if you have any questions about how to use it. Lovely to see and meet everyone!

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My reflection on ICEnet forum

Training Artists for Innovation (TAFI) was a two-year cooperation project of six European partners, including ICEnet Founding Partner Cultuur-Ondernemen, and its end product is a "book which will guide you through the world of competencies and training of artists who implement artistic interventions within organisations and companies". The creators believe that artists can help organisations and individuals to become more creative, but need more than just  artistic skills to do…