more than art
creative ally sessions
Whether invigorating an artistic practice or instilling a creative spark in your traditional work day, principal artist daniel johnson provides critical feedback and avenues for aligning your core principles, considerations, and curiosities into a vital creative practice.
Sixty minute one-time and recurring sessions for individuals wanting to:
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connect their creative practice to all aspects of their life.
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instill a creative spark in their career.
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begin a fulfilling creative practice they have always wanted.
Best in person but available online.
next steps and beyond
strategic coaching
Clarifying grand visions and dreams into a series of action steps is a process. daniel johnson provides a critical lens from an outside observer; asking key questions and unspooling potential scenarios to ensure your goals don’t remain on the horizon.
Touchstones for success in our process are financial, physical, and emotional sustainability while shaping final goals into innovations as unique as you are.
Available in person and online.
That conversation was invaluable and will have ripples of personal and professional impact for me. I've known daniel for years and have always noticed that his mere presence, use of language, and way of moving through the world provoked a lot of thought and curiosity from me. I've often left his side questioning cultural norms in a way that feels liberating, that opens up new options I never considered. My professional experience with Significant Developments, LLC accomplished that and more. I left with more focus and direction in my work, aware of numerous streams of untapped potential, and felt just plain good about the interaction and what we had accomplished. I highly recommend Significant Developments, LLC to any group or individual seeking a greater impact in their work and a movement toward increasing alignment of values, action, and outcome.
– Catherine Gray, www.unsilencedwoman.com
That conversation was invaluable and will have ripples of personal and professional impact for me. I've known daniel for years and have always noticed that his mere presence, use of language, and way of moving through the world provoked a lot of thought and curiosity from me. I've often left his side questioning cultural norms in a way that feels liberating, that opens up new options I never considered. My professional experience with Significant Developments, LLC accomplished that and more. I left with more focus and direction in my work, aware of numerous streams of untapped potential, and felt just plain good about the interaction and what we had accomplished. I highly recommend Significant Developments, LLC to any group or individual seeking a greater impact in their work and a movement toward increasing alignment of values, action, and outcome.
– Catherine Gray, www.unsilencedwoman.com
That conversation was invaluable and will have ripples of personal and professional impact for me. I've known daniel for years and have always noticed that his mere presence, use of language, and way of moving through the world provoked a lot of thought and curiosity from me. I've often left his side questioning cultural norms in a way that feels liberating, that opens up new options I never considered. My professional experience with Significant Developments, LLC accomplished that and more. I left with more focus and direction in my work, aware of numerous streams of untapped potential, and felt just plain good about the interaction and what we had accomplished. I highly recommend Significant Developments, LLC to any group or individual seeking a greater impact in their work and a movement toward increasing alignment of values, action, and outcome.
– Catherine Gray, www.unsilencedwoman.com
daniel spent an hour consulting with me and my collaborator, Jenny Hillenbrand on how to best develop a new project. We are still using the insights gained from our time with daniel to propel our project forward more than a year later (yes, this review is way overdue). His questioning and mediation of our discussion gave us clarity and multiple avenues to pursue with our creative decision-making, crucial to us in that moment. I highly recommend the services of Significant Developments as I've seen firsthand the impact of their services and the positive growth in the communities with which they've worked. Do not hesitate to involve SD in your future endeavors whether it be creative projects, community based outreach, team building, or consultations! They can do it all and tailor their approach to your needs.
- Kristen Tordella-Williams,
www.kristentordellawilliams.art
Significant Developments helped me tremendously in the planning and way finding of an organization I've been thinking about for years. daniel johnson is incredible at what he does and the organization is top notch and provides an invaluable service that has to be experienced to truly appreciate.
– Roderick Red, Red Squared Productions
advancement retreat
capacity-building engagement
Teams need to step outside of their everyday work rhythm to get a fresh look at their process, relationships, and pathways to intended outcomes. In sessions ranging from an afternoon to a weekend, Significant Developments facilitates colleague communities in revealing the core narrative which connects them to the work and to those they impact. Through the process, a common language and understanding emerges which reinforces work relationships, ignites individual passions for the daily task, and provides new insight for fulfilling the mission of the team.
community collaboration
capacity-building and problem-solving interactive art work
Communities are defined in many ways; some are chosen and others are imposed. The Significant Developments team works with a lead group to develop client-specific interactive, creative experiences in which concepts and solutions are explored directly and indirectly.
Working through difficult circumstances or defined problems is often unproductive when faced directly. Through collaborative art experiences, your community can engage difficult, even intractable, obstacles in new ways which disrupt ingrained expectations and assumptions and provide space for fresh perspectives rooted in deeper, interpersonal understanding.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
Significant Developments facilitated the Mississippi Museum of Art in the production of the Community Creation Core Sample as part of their annual community art series. Converging ideas from their Marketing, Participation, and Education staff, our team created an integrated engagement which tested new formats and strategies of interest to the staff while involving over 1000 Mississippians from 60 different cities across the state!
cultural production
creative capacity strategic planning
Significant Developments builds relationships within the communities unfolding from the heart of your organization; interweaving the ongoing activities of disparate groups - staff, neighbors, members, customers, etc - to discover the multi-faceted narrative of individual and collective actions driving you forward.
By understanding the threads and the overarching story playing out in your organization, we are able to deliver a Final Report documenting the aspirations and assumptions at play among community stakeholders, and most importantly, the intersections among them worth leaning in to.
Over a 5-month period, our team listened deeply throughout the nested social layers of the Jackson Medical Mall - internal staff, tenants, mall walkers, neighbors, and more - to identify the intersections of assumptions, frustrations, and visions for the future where the Foundation could lean in over the next decade. Alongside this work, we crafted frameworks for bringing local artists to the table at every level of their work as they strive to interweave arts and culture throughout their everyday operations and programs, helping to position them to successfully implement key components of their Community Development Investment grant from ArtPlace America.
