Caroline Watson

Overview

Caroline Watson is the founder and director of Hua Dan one of China s first and leading social enterprises that uses the power of participation in drama based workshops to unfold individual and community potential. In her role as Hua Dan s founder Caroline has pioneered the importance of participation in the arts and creative education in a country that has no precedent for anything other than a hierarchical didactic rote learning education model empowered the leadership of female migrants from the countryside to lead and manage the organisation and begun developing a sustainable hybrid non profit/for profit business model for arts based learning methodologies. Caroline is also the founder of The Scheherazade Initiatives which seek the replicate the Hua Dan model in other parts of the world and provide consulting and speaking services to companies and institutions globally.