The magnolia is an ancient flowering plant that inspires through a variety of magnificent phases – large buds of promise at the end of winter, grand flowers in spring, huge leaves and shade in summer and a skeleton of strength in autumn. The magnolia has also survived an ice age.

Learning through arts-based traditions including storytelling through the visual, performing and musical arts has happened since ancient times in many diverse cultures. Magnolia Learning is about embracing and celebrating the learning potential of people by designing opportunities that challenge, inspire and encourage learners for both workplace and personal development.

Magnolia Learning does this by bringing the arts into the workplace in an integrated way.  Claire's experience and research has highlighted that there is potential to learn a range of work-related skills including communication, teamwork, leadership, self-management and lifelong learning skills by strategically incorporating the arts into training and learning design.

In most western cultures, including Australia, children start learning about life with arts-based activities. Children sing, draw, play, tell stories, perform and use their imagination. They create fairytale castles from tables and blankets. They turn garden mounds into mountains to explore and conquer. Learning with the arts is an important aspect during the early years of development and when incorporated into adult learning environments including workplaces continues to nurture the lifelong learning journey.

Magnolia Learning is passionate about building learning bridges between business and the arts, artists and arts institutions and bringing this type of learning back to organisations that are constantly looking for creative and innovative people.

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