The Significance of Symbols

How do you enable and empower professionals to talk about their company or department work?

Method 1: Have an external corporate trainer provide training and facilitation. I presume a lot of technical terms and jargon will be used.

Method 2: Have the in-house trainer drill them with the Mission and Values and Strategic goals (again). OR

Method 3: Use air-dry clay to enable them to express their feelings, perspectives and the value-add that they can provide to their organisations.


Words can do that much. But an object which they make with the interaction of their left and right brains and their hearts will make a difference.


Look at the following examples and you will see the significance of using clay as symbols. The first part of the Creative Clay Conversations, which I created, is to teach them simple clay shapes which the participants can make themselves. Then the conversation begins.










"To stay healthy and happy"






" To be aligned with the mission and direction of my department"






"To play a central role in the staff development for people in different departments"










"The link between the departments"


If a picture can paint a thousand words, then using clay in creating conversations will be able to substitute ten thousand words!