Even the best teams need an occasional reset.
As the pressure to achieve gets bigger feelings of frustration and burnout build up.
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Changes in the team’s goals, leaders, or members shift the dynamic.
A pattern of carrying the load for others gets ingrained.
And team members sometimes feel like squabbling family members.
How do you get everyone back on track?
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Doing Art Together Revitalizes Teams
(especially when traditional methods aren’t working)
Instant Connection
One collective art experience can create the connection, compassion, and trust needed to quickly uplevel the team and address challenges or goals by: •Breaking through team dynamics that aren't working. •Building connection, respect, and confidence among team members. •Boosting creativity, collaboration, and commitment to each other and the team's success. Art experiences support teams when: •New team leaders or members come on board. •New goals or challenges change the team’s direction. •Creative innovation is needed. •Not everyone is doing their share.
Burnout Relief
Shared art experiences help team members quickly and easily step out of the overworked thinking brain and into the calm, peaceful creative side of the brain, and stay there. Participants: •Experience instant relief from anxiety, stress, worry, judgement and fear. •Are able to approach challenging topics and situations with empathy and vulnerability. •Come up with and share new, unexpected ideas and solutions.
Inspire Team to Step Up
Collective art experiences boost creativity, collaboration, commitment to each other, and to the team’s success. Participants gain: •More awareness of each other’s gifts and talents. •Increased pride and confidence of doing something they didn’t think they could.. •More ease stepping out of their comfort zone. •Ability to speak up honestly. The respect and connection to each other through shared accomplishment of collective creation and success sets the stage for new ways of working together and supporting each other to emerge.
“When I found out I would be moving out of state from my team I knew we all would have to step up our game, and total trust in each other was critical for us to keep growing. Playing with paint together quickly sparked more openness, transparency, and vulnerability among us. In this safe space, we were able to step outside our normal box, put our ideas and concerns on the table, and come together with even more trust and commitment to each other and the children and young women we serve.”
Denise Strickland Ed.D, Executive Director – Design Connect Create