How do you build trust and connection?

By turning stories into art using The Elevate Method. 

What do you mean by ART?

ArtRise focuses on paint and other materials on individual or collective canvases.

What is The Elevate Method?

It’s our 3-step process that turns story into artwork, no art skills necessary.

1. We start with a theme (Values, Strengths, Joy, Resilience, Vision, Challenges) 

2. We ask 3 reflective questions about your experience with that theme

3. We guide you to translate each question into a layer of artwork

In the end, you’ll walk away with a powerful visual story, a personal masterpiece that reflects who you are and what matters most.

How do you define Emotional Leadership?

Emotional Leadership is the art of cultivating the emotional conditions that fuel real connection and high performance. We teach emotional leadership skills and practice them in real time as others share their art.

What do you mean by RISE?

RISE is an acronym that refers to how people feel at the end of one of our workshops and is the north star of all that we do at ArtRise.

When people feel Recognized, Integrated, Strengthened, and Engaged—they RISE.

RECOGNIZED

We believe every human needs to feel seen, heard and valued.

When people don’t feel recognized (seen, heard or valued), it can be because of:

• Prioritizing performance over connection

• Lack of emotional leadership skills

• People don’t feel invited

• People don’t feel safe to show up fully

• Systemic inequities that make recognition uneven

• Lack of attention

When people feel invisible, this can lead to disengagement, self-doubt, resentment, passive participation, lack of safety, quiet quitting, turnover, and loss of creativity or care.

In an ArtRise experience, we teach leaders and teams how to create spaces of belonging through presence, empathy , curiosity and care. We uncover each person’s unique truth and contribution. People begin to see themselves and each other with new eyes.

When people feel recognized, it increases psychological safety, which improves communication, reduces work conflict, increases innovation, and prevents burnout and turnover.

INTEGRATED

We believe in fostering the alignment between who people are and how they show up.

When people don’t feel integrated (aligned), it can be because of

• Voices that are left out

• Inclusion is not practiced

• Decisions made in silos

• Misunderstanding of values

• Lack of buy-in

When people feel like outsiders, this can lead to disconnection, guardedness, silos, fear of speaking up, exclusion, internal conflict, disengagement, reduced effort, and disinterest.

We shine a light on people’s values so they can align it with a common purpose. We guide leaders and teams to connect head and heart for maximum impact. People begin to feel part of something that they want to stay connected to.

 When people feel integrated, connection, innovation, creativity and engagement increase.

STRENGTHENED

We believe in uncovering and elevating individual and collective strengths

When people don’t feel strengthened it can be because of:

• Lack of strength-identifying tools

• Overemphasis on fixing weaknesses vs. leveraging strengths

• Role mismatch

• Unclear expectations

• Comparison Culture

When people feel unsafe or fragile, this can lead to doubt, underperformance, burnout from doing work that drains rather than energizes, disconnection from contribution, teams staying surface-level, strained, or unaware of what’s possible, fragile team dynamics because people don’t understand each other’s value, creating issues during change or challenge (who steps up for what).

We don’t focus on fixing people, we focus on uncovering what’s already working and make it stronger. We give people a space to own their voice, and contribute from their authentic gifts. People feel confident, seen and energized and the team can flow with clarity and mutual respect.

When people feel strengthened, they know who they are, what they’re good at and how they show up for each other – this leads to adaptability, resilience, talent retention, higher productivity, and increased morale.

ENGAGED

We believe in using art as a gateway to awaken engagement

When people don’t feel engaged, it can be because:

• Lack of emotional connection at work

• No time for reflection or meaning-making

• Disconnection from one another

• Hybrid working environments

When people feel disconnected, this can lead to loss of motivation or inspiration, emotional disconnection from work, going through the motion, apathy, burnout, low energy, lack of creativity, and resistance to change or growth.

We focus on hands-on experiences to increase enjoyment and anchor learning. We not only teach the tools of emotional leadership, we use art, which acts as a gateway, to give the experience in real time so that it’s not just theory, it’s felt and known. People feel reconnected through an experience that makes work personal, emotional and alive again.

When people feel engaged, they create lasting shifts, they transform, they share ownership and feel emotional investment.

When people RISE, work transforms.

They connect more deeply, collaborate more powerfully, create with more purpose.

ArtRise is here to ignite that shift.

Through the power of art and the practice of emotional leadership, we help teams experience real, lasting connection.