ABSTRACT

This chapter analyses the long-term effects of choral singing on a senior management team. The participants went through four learning trajectories over the course of more than a year. The project started with a certain amount of individual engagements but ended as a collective achievement, and an initially diverse and inexperienced group evolved into a virtuosic collective. Overcoming some initial resistance, participants strengthened their social bonds and maintained contact even after they had left their positions at the organisation. At the outset, all the participants were quite vulnerable, but they gradually removed their armour and awoke to a more sensitive use of power. Eight years after the project, the participants could all point to ways in which the experience changed their leadership approach.