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Collaborative Art Team Building

Team building events for corporate retreats

Create a shared canvas with your colleagues. Our facilitated painting experience gives teams a hands-on way to explore communication, participation, and working together.

No artistic experience required.

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Corporate Retreats

Collaborative Art Team Building

Include collaborative art in your next retreat or planning day. We’ll discuss how the experience can support your agenda and the conversations you want your team to have.

Let's talk about how we can help your retreat be a high powered event!

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Figure It Out Events

Collaborative Art Team Building

Figure It Out Events

A six-hour facilitated experience combining collaborative art with focused discussion. Explore what’s working, what needs attention, possible solutions, and a plan for moving forward.

Let's do a 20-minute team assessment today!

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Public Art

International Speaker

Figure It Out Events

There is nothing more fun than watching someone return to a mural they helped created.

They smile as they get closer. If they are a child, they pull on the hand of their adult, anxious to see them enjoy what they helped to make.

Collaborative Community Art is not about the perfect mural, is is about the importance of hearing each voice, seeing each element for what it is, part of the whole.

Collaborative Community art is something to behold, something to invite others to expereince.

Let's talk community mural today!

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International Speaker

Karen Grosz is an award-winning international speaker who will have your audience on their feet, and thinking about their goals- creatively! She is a high-energy and popular choice for keynotes focusing on Leadership and Goal Setting.

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Team Building Stages: The Process

What to expect:

When our mobile art studio arrives at your corporate retreat, school or board room, we are going to cover the walls in plastic, turn up the music, roll out a stream of canvases, and ask your team to do the impossible: create art, together.

Stage one: Begin. When your team enters the room they will hesitate - they aren’t artists, they don’t want to paint, team building sucks. Then team spirit and curiosity takes over and they Begin.

Stage two: Become. In this stage there is chaos, there is laughing and groaning, and rapid changes to the art. The team creates more than art, they create new avenues of communication, new attitudes about change, creativity flows like electricity. Powerful, energizing. They Become a team.

Stage three: Believe. In the end they know that the art, their art, could not have been created without each person’s input. Just like at work, every person is important to the whole. If they can make art together, they can do anything…together. We help teams Believe in everyone’s contribution.

Collaborative art, it’s not sip and paint, and it’s not kindergarten smears. It’s a process, proven time and again, and revealing more about a team in two hours than we can describe here.

We use collaborative art as our main mode because it works every time. There are no ropes, no crying, no kumbaya, but there is connection, insight, and belief in the power of working together.

We’ve worked with well over 90,000 people with our team building exercises and are on our way to 1,000,000 participants. Those participants have been as varied as Walmart’s home office, a local body shop, teen leaders, and people recovering from years of bad choices.

We help teams believe in their mission.

What participants find in painting together is connection, appreciation, and the satisfaction of creating something that seemed impossible. Even if the art is not museum quality, it tells the story of a group of people who began slowly, became a team and in the end believe they can do anything…together.

We help teams believe in, well, teams.

Oh—and while we want your team to be happy, we never want to make a custodian mad. Over 2,000 corporate retreats, and we’ve never left a stain!

We bring the materials, your people bring the results.

Amazing, spine tingling, results.

Canvas Creek. We Work For Teams!

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Planning Your Canvas Creek Event

FAQ

What should we have ready for our first conversation?

An approximate headcount, preferred date, event location, and a few thoughts about your goals. Still figuring those out? We can start there, too.

How much time should we reserve?

Let’s choose the format before you finalize the agenda. We’ll discuss the facilitated experience, setup, and how it fits with the rest of your event.

What kind of space will we need?

Tell us about your venue and available room. We’ll discuss layout, access, surface protection, and setup needs before confirming the arrangements.

What will our proposal include?

Ask us to outline the recommended experience, schedule, materials, facilitation, travel arrangements, and total price so you can plan with confidence.

Let’s Start with Your Team

Tell us what you’re planning and what you hope will happen. We’ll talk through the possibilities together.

Our Team Building Exercises: What to Expect

This experience may look chaotic, but there are some things that are constant. For instance, the three stages we talk about below. And the many actions and reactions that happen so regularly we have them timed, and if they aren’t happening, we can influence them to happen by changing tools and music.

Here are a few you might find interesting:

The Begin stage lasts from 7-13 minutes.

Between 13 and 18 minutes, the team becomes inclusive, with the first participants taking a knee or making room for others.

The Become Stage involves bigger moves, bolder strokes, and more communication. During this stage, the team acts in a more cohesive manner.

The Believe stage begins when the team steps back and agrees the art is done.

30 to 90 minutes after painting the team is the most connected, most creative, and most open to big conversations.

For at least 24 to 60 hours, the team is still actively talking about the art, often staring into it and using it as a launch pad for conversation.

After the event you will often find team members looking at their art and discussing what they decided on the day they created it. These artifacts influence goal creation and company bonds.

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94%

30-55%

94% of people want to participate in Canvas Creek again - even those who didn’t want to participate the first time!

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30-55% of each team feels like they had more of a voice than normal.

87%

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87% of teams agree they are stronger after the experience.

93%

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93% of teams reported feeling more creative after the experience.

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98% of team members agree they could not have created the art without a team

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78% of teams display their art at work. Many of the others divide it so team members can take it home.

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92% reported long-lasting results from the event.

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33% of teams make HUGE decisions while painting, often changing operations or company direction.

Corporate Team Building & Retreat Workshops

Services

Collaborative Art Team Building

Collaborative Art Team Building

Collaborative Art Team Building

Corporate Retreats

Collaborative Art Team Building

Collaborative Art Team Building

Figure It Out Events

Collaborative Art Team Building

Figure It Out Events

Public Art

International Speaker

Figure It Out Events

International Speaker

International Speaker

International Speaker

Team Building Stages: The Process

Planning Your Canvas Creek Event

FAQ

How much time should we reserve?

What kind of space will we need?

What will our proposal include?

Let’s Start with Your Team

Our Team Building Exercises: What to Expect

Results: By the Numbers

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Public Art

Stories from the Creek

REAL Montana

Newman Restoration and Cleaning

Some teams further the experience by auctioning off the completed team art. Often, someone in the room buys it and the proceeds go to a great cause. We've seen the auctions raise as little as $1.50 to over $24,000! (Amount raised depends on the cause supported, not the quality of the art!)

Begin as a Group, End as a Team.

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