Each and every member of your team has untapped creative potential just waiting to emerge. Through group art activities, your team’s imagination will be stretched, communication styles explored, humor unleashed, and understanding enhanced.
Using a variety of art materials, from paint and clay to boxes and material, your team might create a work of art together, sometimes with outrageous limits placed on you to facilitate creative problem solving techniques. At other times, you may work in pairs using non-verbal communication skills to impart information or needs. Or, you might each be asked to create an art work individually (with no emphasis on artistic skills) in response to a theme suggested by the facilitator.
How can art and creativity help your team?
Art making can transform our thoughts into concrete form and allow our imagination to flow. It can sharpen our senses and teach us new ways to communicate complex ideas and insights.
Through making art, your team will gain access to their expressive selves and tap in to a new and dynamic way of communication, while stimulating their imagination and creativity. Each team member will practice new ways of bringing their ideas into focus when they explore their creative potential through art.
How can art and creativity help a team focus?
Art can help to:
express feelings that are difficult to discuss
stimulate imagination and creativity
develop healthy coping skills
increase self esteem and confidence
clarify issues and concerns
increase awareness of communication skills
The Melbourne Art Therapy Studio caters especially to your team by offering tailor–made workshops created to fit your workplace needs. There is no emphasis on artistic skill and no previous experience with art materials is necessary to unleash the creativity in each team member.
What people say about team building with the Melbourne Art Therapy Studio
Thank you for the experience last week. The team thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Seeing as there were a couple of new people to the team, and that some of the girls had not met, this was a perfect conduit for everyone to get to know each other well through an exercise involving co-operation and working to a common goal. I think this type of exercise has a lot more benefit than an adversarial type where people are grouped and pitted against each other in a combative type of event.
From a management point of view, it was great to sit back a little and observe the dynamics in the early stages where the ideas and concepts were being formed. Already there is evidence of the team bouncing ideas off each other in real situations.
If we had the experience again,I would imagine the benefit to be similar to what we already experienced. The aim for me was to have my team work as a team without input from other areas within the organization. This was achieved.
It was also important that we were able to have an activity which would allow us to relax while still fulfilling a worthwhile purpose.
The girls were all keen to repeat the exercise next time we are all together.
I don’t think there is anything that could have been done better at your end.
