What happens when your team makes stress visible?
Stress affects every team, but its real sources are not always obvious. What happens when we slow down, make stress visible and give people space to find their own answers?
This isn’t Paint & Wine
Our creative thinking workshops are often mistaken for Paint & Wine experiences. One of the questions we’re asked often is whether our workshops are like Paint & Wine. It’s an understandable question. Our business workshops use painting as a thinking tool to help teams communicate better, solve problems and discover new perspectives together. So there […]
5 reasons to organise a painting workshop for your team
5 reasons to organise a painting workshop for your team Team days are an investment in time, budget and attention. So it makes sense to ask what your team will actually take away from the experience. Of course, a team day should be enjoyable. But the best ones can do much more than give people […]
How painting reduces stress: The science behind art and wellbeing
Why creative activities can help reduce stress at work What happens when we stop analysing for a moment and start creating? In 2016, researchers at Drexel University studied what happened to participants’ cortisol levels after 45 minutes of art-making. Cortisol is commonly used as a biological marker of stress. The result was striking: 75% of […]
Why creativity builds psychological safety in teams
Google’s landmark Project Aristotle research identified psychological safety as the most important of five key dynamics associated with effective teams at Google. The research found that what mattered was less about who was on the team and more about how team members worked together. But organizations cannot mandate psychological safety. A policy or training session […]
The connection between creativity and wellbeing at work
The relationship between creativity and wellbeing is not incidental. It is neurological, psychological and deeply practical. And for organisations that want both high performance and healthy people, it is one of the most important connections to understand. What the research shows A substantial body of research links creative engagement at work with reduced stress, greater […]
Burnout prevention starts with creativity: What every business leader should know
Burnout does not arrive suddenly. It accumulates — through sustained pressure, narrowing perspective, loss of meaning, and the slow erosion of the cognitive resources that make good work possible. Most organisations treat burnout as a recovery problem. The better approach is to treat it as a prevention problem — and creativity is one of the […]
