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Article: Containing, contesting, creating spaces: Leadership and cultural identity among Australian Indigenous arts leaders
Drawing on the experiences of 29 Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders, Michelle and Amanda identify 3 categories of identity practice through which the artists deliver leadership: contesting essentialism; containing trauma and creating belonging.
Chapter: Re-envisaging leadership through the feminine imaginary in film and television
Women are typically subject to heightened scrutiny and criticism in leadership but in this study, Emma and Amanda explore examples in popular culture where women are portrayed enacting agency via three routes: by disrupting the patriarchal order; erotic leadership; and exploring an alternative “feminine imaginary”.
Article: Traditional midwifery or ‘wise women’ models of leadership: Learning from Indigenous cultures
This article explores Indigenous practices of midwifery or ‘wise women’ as crucial domains of leadership over millennia and across cultures. Four principles of midwifery leadership are identified: being a leader who empowers with ‘no one person wiser than the other’; embodying wisdom and ethical practice which nurtures social, cultural and spiritual needs of women; being skilled as well as emotionally attuned; and paying attention and being responsive to emergent change and unfolding present reality rather than being prescriptive.
Article: Possibilities, purpose and pitfalls: Insights from introducing mindfulness to leaders
Drawing on a decade of introducing mindfulness to managers in organisational settings this article identifies six key insights: from how to define and explain mindfulness to leaders through to ethical issues of the purposes to which mindfulness is put. Mindful leadership is not a template. Rather, it offers enlivening and humanising prospects for leadership, with its encouragement to see reality and challenge orthodoxies, to put a primary value on the well-being of others and how we live and lead now.
Article: Reclaiming Eroticism in the Academy
Drawing on the work of feminist theorists, Emma and Amanda argue that universities and academia have become sterile and transactional. By exploring the relationship between bodies and knowledge; by recognizing love in learning and wisdom; and by cultivating the pleasure and nurturance in teaching, academic work can be recast as an embodied practice, involving pleasure and love.