The Art Engager
By Claire Bown
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The Art Engager Podcast with Claire Bown is your go-to resource for creating engaging experiences in museums and cultural spaces. Explore practices that deepen connections with art, objects, people and ideas. Learn techniques to spark curiosity, foster dialogue, and transform how you engage with your audience. Each episode offers practical insights to enhance your skills and bring your museum experiences to life.
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The future of museums with Elizabeth Merritt
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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How can museums build meaningful social connection?
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Reimagining Guided Experiences at Historic Sites
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Creative engagement with digital heritage with Dr. Beth Daley
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Co-Designing a Pedagogical Approach at the National Gallery of Australia
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Early encounters with art and museum habits of mind
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Designing person-centred museum experiences for people living with dementia
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Reclaiming Our Attention with Menka Sanghvi
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The Art Engager x NEMO: Who Cares? Museums, Wellbeing and Resilience
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Slow looking, leadership and the neuroscience of perspective-taking
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Ask Me Anything: Your Questions on Museum Engagement and Facilitation
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Exploring Poetry Through Museums and Visual Art with Tina Demirdjian
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Belonging, Community and Co-curation at Manchester Museum with Ciaron Wilkinson
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Taking the fear out of inquiry-based teaching in the museum
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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8 ways to foster more wonder in museum experiences
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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The Complete Guide to Slow Looking
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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How to Create Meaningful Museum Engagement: 10 Best Practices from 150 Episodes
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May 29, 2025 |
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Art, Play and Joy at Compton Verney with Geraldine Collinge
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May 15, 2025 |
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How to create active engagement on guided experiences
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May 01, 2025 |
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She Shapes History: Building Community Through Women's History Tours with Sita Sargeant
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Slow looking in sacred spaces: Antwerp's church-based Slow Art Day movement
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Engaging museum visitors through escape rooms and immersive storytelling with Francine Boon
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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6 ways to create powerful connections in museum experiences
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Uncertainty: Finding wonder in not knowing with Maggie Jackson
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Building trust and psychological safety on guided experiences in museums
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Art Crawl: Revolutionising infant engagement with art at the Clyfford Still Museum
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Making museums accessible for children with barriers to education with Nicky McIntosh
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Coaching in Gallery Spaces with Beth Clare McManus
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Transforming museum experiences through drawing with Jessica Hartshorn
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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How to use The Universal Questioning Practice
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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What are Questioning Practices?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Building trust and making meaningful connections in museums with Anja Høegh
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Applying Museum Education Skills to Organisational Culture with Rebecca Shulman
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Facilitating dialogue and handling conflicts with Linda Norris
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Slow looking and social interaction in museums with Sasha Igdalova
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Stimulating the senses: using smell to engage visitors
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The power of inquiry, curiosity and questioning with Trevor MacKenzie
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May 30, 2024 |
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Slow listening and philosophical questioning in the museum
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May 16, 2024 |
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Fostering curiosity and critical thinking on self-guided field trips
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May 02, 2024 |
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Creating informal engagement with museum visitor teams
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Slow looking at the Van Gogh Museum
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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How to build rapport in museum and gallery programmes
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Get the Picture: How to engage with art with Bianca Bosker
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The Art Bridge: Boosting Confidence through Visual Literacy
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Arts on prescription and museums: a conversation with Dr Tasha Golden
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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See Listen Talk: Slow Looking Approaches for Vulnerable Audiences
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Values-Engaged Gallery Teaching with Andrew Westover
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Bringing art to life in classrooms with Magic Lantern
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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How to engage participants in historic spaces through inquiry and facilitation
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Engaging and connecting with young people in museums
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Radical Rest: Beating Burnout in Museum Education with Kate Oliver
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Exploring The Art of Noticing with Rob Walker
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Help! My group doesn't want to participate...
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Activating the Art Museum for Healthcare Professionals:
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Engagement for All: SEND in museums with Sam Bowen
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Getting Started with Inquiry-Based Learning in the Museum
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Disrupting the art museum experience
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Trauma-informed practice in museums with Jackie Armstrong
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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How to prepare for the unexpected
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Heart for Art: Engaging minds, transforming lives with Gundy van Dijk
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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What can museum educators learn from immersive art experiences?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Claire's Favourites: Getting started with thinking routines in the museum
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Claire's Favourites: How to Read the Room
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Claire's Favourites: 12 Benefits of Slow Looking
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Claire's Favourites: 4 Powerful Questions to Supercharge your Museum Programmes
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Claire's Favourites: How to Cultivate Curiosity on your Museum and Gallery Programmes
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Creating Cultures of Thinking in Museums with Ron Ritchhart
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May 25, 2023 |
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Striking the right pace in museum programmes: less is more
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May 18, 2023 |
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Radio Bart: Exploring Art with Blind Mediators
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May 11, 2023 |
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Collect Connect Create with Denise Greany and Sarah Clarke
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May 04, 2023 |
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7 Ways to Make Time and Space for Silence
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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How silence is a superpower in museum and gallery programmes
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Exploring Slow Art Day and Slow Looking with Phyl Terry
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Slow Art and the Power of Slowing Down with Carl Honoré
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Art with Heather Thomas
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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3 New Thinking Routines to Try in Your Museum and Gallery Programmes
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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How to Create Intellectual Comfort
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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What if objects could talk with Hannah Cushion
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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How to lead playful museum programmes
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How to ask more open-ended questions
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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How neutral do I have to be as a museum facilitator?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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6 benefits of using thinking routines with art and objects
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Why inclusive language matters with Margaret Middleton
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Engaging with Teens in the Museum
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Making space and time for slow looking
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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7 Ways to Refresh your Practice in 2023
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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How to design and lead engaging family tours with Sarah Ciacci
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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5 Thinking Routines for Comparing, Contrasting and Making Connections
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Throwback Thursday: How to get over a 'tumbleweed moment'
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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8 ways to show up in a resourceful state
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The joy of engaging with objects with Dr Alex Woodall
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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How to Look at Art (Slowly)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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How to enjoy art (without knowing anything about it) with Ben Street
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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How to talk about climate activist protests in art museums
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Reacting to art with our bodies with Rachel Ropeik
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Power of VTM: why I created a new approach to engaging with art, objects and audiences in the museum
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Deconstructing the traditional guided tour with Hanna Piksen
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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How to use body language to create engagement
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Looking at life like a work of art with Marina Gross Hoy
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Mindset shift: how to embrace the power of information
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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7 Ways to Improve your Active Listening Skills
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Making museums more accessible through art therapy & wellness programmes with Richa Mehta
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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4 Powerful Questions to Supercharge your Art Experiences
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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4 Slow Looking Exercises for Summer
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Bitesize: 7 Ways to Be Creative with Thinking Routines
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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How mindfulness and drawing can help us to connect with art
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Bitesize: Learn, Unlearn, Relearn
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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9 Thinking Routines to Improve your Powers of Observation
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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How to Create Wow Moments with Mitch Bach
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Bitesize: How to End Well - Creating a Strong Conclusion for your Programmes
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Learning to Love 'Boring' Objects through Slow Looking
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Cultivating the Conditions for Inquiry with Jess Vance
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Pictures of Practice with Elisa Mosele
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May 26, 2022 |
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Bitesize: How to Define your Personal Facilitator Style
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May 19, 2022 |
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From Good to Great: Personal Growth & Development for Museum Educators
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May 12, 2022 |
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What is Visible Thinking in the Museum (and how can it help me to engage my audience?)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Pictures of Practice with Gabrielle Grime
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Inspiring Creative Writing Through Art with Mary Hall Surface
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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'Bad' questions: 10 types of questions you should never ask
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Throwback Thursday: 4 thinking routines for perspective-taking
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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What is Slow Art Day?
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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What we can learn from improv with Samantha Boffin
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The 4 elements of a great introduction
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Tips for facilitating meaningful discussions around sensitive subjects
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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How to Read a Group
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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12 Reasons to Get Started with Slow Looking
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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5 New Thinking Routines to Try in 2022
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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How to stay curious in your practice
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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3 Key Ways to Foster Curiosity in your Programmes
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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How looking at art can improve your mental health with Yaël van Loosbroek - Speck
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Quick Ways to Improve your Questioning Technique
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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9 Ways Art Can Make you a Better Writer
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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3 Slow Looking Activities for the Holidays
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Listening with Full Attention with Claire Bradshaw
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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6 Ways to Create Awe-Inspiring Experiences with Art and Objects
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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How to Teach with Objects with Jo-Anne Sunderland Bowe
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Art and Dementia with Catherine Chastney
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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How to develop a reflective practice
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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How to Engage your Audience with Colour in Art Discussions
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Slow Looking and Empathy
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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10 Easy Ways to Make your Guided Tours More Interactive
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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3 Thinking Routines for Slow Looking and Drawing
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Using art and objects to learn wellbeing skills and improve mental health with Louise Thompson
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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How to get over a 'tumbleweed moment' (and avoid one in the future)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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13 Tips for Getting Started with Thinking Routines
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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How to Use your Voice to Engage your Audience
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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The 6 core elements of my VTMO course (and why they're important)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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What to Expect from The Art of Engagement Challenge
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Success Factors for Leading Discussion-Based Programmes Around Art
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Common Fears Around Leading Discussion-Based Programmes (and How to Deal with Them)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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13 Ways to Make your Online Experiences More Engaging and Interactive
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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How to Use See Think Wonder in your Art Discussions
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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How to Use Artworks to Improve your Questioning Skills
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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5 Simple Slow Looking Activities for Summer
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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How to Use the Unveiling Stories Thinking Routine to Investigate Multiple Layers of Meaning in a Photograph
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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6 Best Practices for Sharing Information
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Step Inside: Thinking Routines to Foster Perspective-taking
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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10 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Asking Questions
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Creating a Great Group Dynamic in the 'New Now'
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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How to use the ‘See Think Me We’ thinking routine to create personal and community connections with artworks
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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How to Develop a Daily Slow Looking Practice
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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6 Essential Thinking Routines You Need in your Repertoire
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May 27, 2021 |
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The Art of Facilitation
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May 20, 2021 |
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The 5 Golden Rules for Asking Brilliant Questions
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May 13, 2021 |
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The Magic of Thinking Routines
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May 04, 2021 |
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What is Slow Looking and How Can I get Started?
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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The moment when I first heard the words ‘Visible Thinking’
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Introducing the Art Engager Podcast
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Apr 21, 2021 |