Hi! Welcome to Text and Pixels, consulting you and your organization via expressive arts, social media, organizational and health communication, and vocational development to know and share your story with your constituents. Meet the people behind Text and Pixels!

Vision

Text and Pixels aspires to consult creative, effective, and humane approaches to leading, organizing, and communicating for health, education, and the public commons to inspire constituents, stakeholders, and communities to be holistic and authentic contributors.

Mission

Text and Pixels consults organizations and persons to communicate and lead via vocation, the arts, research, social media production and integration, civic engagement, education design, and narrative healthcare. We collaborate with clients to develop a strategy that reflects their vision, mission, and goals and to deliver quality results via culturally engaging and socially beneficial communication.

Outcomes

From our vision and mission we desire to improve society and benefit people's quality of life in health, education, organizations, and the civic commons.

Benefits

Expressive arts as applied to organizational communication consulting, vocational development, and narrative healthcare provides these potential benefits:

• ease transitions in stressful situations
• improve morale and unity
• sharpen decision making
• enhance coping skills
• embolden with confidence
• empower growth
• discover vision
• define a mission
• bond and unifty teams
• boost morale
• build and nurture constituent relationships
• enhance identity and image
• quality experience and outcomes
• contribute to culture and history
• provide a way of being and centering
• foster healing
• ignite passion
• identify priorities and values
• give perspective and purpose
• center with focus
• lead to beneficial change
• communicate the above to others
• utilize digital media

Style

Text and Pixels consults with the following consulting style:

• Narrative: acknowledging the link between story and identity, culture, vision, mission, relationships, behaviors, and choices
• Team-Centered: motivate, inspire, unify teams and boost morale
• Rapport: conversational style, being present, access
• Relational: engaging, collaborative, caring
• Supportive: communication projects with decision-makers, being present to see the process through
• Quality: selective, expressive, creative and reflective style in writing and photography
• Inquiry: open-ended, ongoing, feedback, in the context of relationship and story
• Results: establish expectations, focused, determined with the organization, creative, meaningful, passion to produce quality results, drive for excellence
• Ethic: "reach in to reach out," or reflective, vocational, contribute, integrate, interact, intentional, aesthetic, focused, whole, dialogic, confirming, and beneficial
• Confidential: protecting privacy, demonstrating professionalism and respect
• Collaborative: networking with clients, academic, technology, healthcare, communication, leadership, and expressive arts organizations

Frameworks

Text and Pixels consults with the following philosophical frameworks or assumptions:

• dialoguic inquiry respects diversity
• communicating confirmation as humane
• interconnectivity and guiding principles
• open-ended inquiry to offset embeddedness
• gifts- and assets-based intrinsic motivation
• techno-cultural, expressive arts, creativity
• rhetoric, writing, and performance as identity
• culture and faith as embedded narratives
• fear, illness, loss, grief, healthcare narratives
• holistic, rapport-intuitive, credible leadership
• gifts-based, collaborative, open work teams
• learning by teaching, doing, creating, reflecting, relating, producing, leading, feedback, being
• multi- faceted and channelled growth
• empowerment as acting on intent and creativity
• responsibility for socially beneficial outcomes
• healing by reconciling unmet expectations, developing vocation, and serving others
• envision and act upon belief in a bright future
• transform problems into opportunities
• redeem through identity, creativity, and love
• succeed via networking and connectivity
• credibility by delivering consistently compassionate and quality results

Approaches

Depending on the elected Service, Text and Pixels consults with one or more of these available consulting approaches, which center on developing your communication presence via a reach-in to reach-out process:

• Vocational, Holistic, and Civic Leadership: Inquire to hold you accountable to apply your vision, mission, passion, style, values, and work to how you communicate with your constituents for a social benefit
• Social Media and Communication Consulting: Advice and brand development via social networks, channels, and constituent engagement
• Expressive Arts Consulting: Utilizing several modalities such as writing, photography, and blogging
• Digital Storytelling: Collaborating to identify, develop, and share story for purposes such as learning via reflection, career growth via tapping passion and gifts, boosting morale, and brand development

Methods

Depending on the elected Service, Text and Pixels consults with one or more of these available consulting methods:

• Consulting Sessions: Informally meet individually or in small groups to share ideas and plan communication strategy
• Training/Workshops: Teach teams or persons to write, produce, and share stories thematically based on their identity, experiences, and goals using modalities of their choice.
• Group Feedback: A peer-to-peer model that values dialogue and learning within small focus or circle groups. This method invites participation and ownership.
• Interview: The interpersonal interview sets the stage for sharing narrative, reflects the highly personal and interactive nature of communication, generates new information, and reveals themes.
• Participant Observation: Holistically interacting with and observing persons, teams, internal and external communication systems, artifacts, and environment. Participant observation illumines many dynamics including internal perceptions, needs, wants, and awareness within an organization or person.
• Survey Questionnaire: Surveys yield tangible measures for employee and constituent perception of a given research question. Text and Pixels utilizes online surveys to respect anonymity and provide convenience.
• Artifacts: Environment, press kits, display art, and internal documents impact communication. Text and Pixels cross-references artifacts to inform findings.
• Social Media Integration: Developing and refining creative content online via multiple channels and integrating constituents to share in developing a brand, initiative, organization, community, or movement.

Modalities

Text and Pixels consults with one or multiple modalities depending on client preference:

For More Information

Meet the People behind Text and Pixels! Want to discover, create, and share your story? Visit the Services, Portfolio, Kudos, Contact, and Blog pages to learn how Text and Pixels can consult you and your organization to story sharing success. Connect online via our multiple channels. Thank you for visiting TextAndPixels.com!