Team Building
Through Art, Improvisation & Musicality
Designed with clear constraints to unlock creativity, focus and collective intelligence.
Unleash your team's creative potential
Unleash your team's creative potential through arts-based, improvisational, and embodied team-building experiences, including collaborative painting, visual storytelling, and musicality-inspired activities.
Collaborative Art® designs trail-blazing creative experiences that help you align teams, clarify shared direction, and unlock collective potential, through what teams do together, not just what they discuss.
Creative Team Building
Foster team cohesion and confidence by tackling a seemingly impossible creative challenge, often through collaborative painting and visual co-creation!
Solving a shared challenge encourages the participants to think on their feet, builds creative collaboration and communication, and aligns them with your shared vision, strategy, or values.
Carefully designed constraints; time, materials, and rules, create the conditions where creativity, focus and collaboration thrive.
Depending on your objectives, we may weave in improvisation principles (listening, building on offers, adapting fast) and musicality (rhythm, timing, collective energy) to deepen presence and team connection.
Interactive Art Experiences
Turn your off-site, conference, or team gathering into an event that people can’t stop talking about! From collaborative painting, land art, collage, and miniature art installations to large-scale interactive formats, these experiences invite teams to see differently, think metaphorically, and create powerful visual stories that anchor key business messages.
Arts-Based Experiential Learning
Creativity develops resilience, an essential ingredient for cultivating an empowered, adaptable workforce. Equip your teams with creative thinking, communication, and presentation skills strengthened through embodied practice, improvisation, and creative expression so they can evolve into courageous leaders.
“Insightful and inclusive activities”
“The Collaborative Art® team is incredibly talented. Their creative flair is infectious, and their energy is compelling. The activities are designed to be inclusive for all team members. The debriefs are as enjoyable as the activities, and the experience offers a wonderful insight into team dynamics and individual behaviour.”
“Turn scepticism into team pride!”
“We invited Collaborative Art® to deliver a creative experience to our managers after a long day of business meetings. The lead facilitator captured, in an instant, how to combine the conference goals with our wish to create a team-building experience. Some participants were sceptical at first, but with skilful guidance from the facilitators, they created beautiful paintings that illustrated our core values.”
“Simply outstanding facilitation”
“Steph Fonteyn from Collaborative Art® is simply an outstanding facilitator. She took us through the Collaborative Art® process and models the best in facilitation: holding the process lightly yet with clarity and discipline, encouraging participation yet enabling high-quality output, and projecting self-confidence yet making the group the hero.”
Tap into the full potential of your teams and leaders, creatively, collectively, courageously!
FOUNDER'S STORY
Meet Steph Fonteyn
My professional path is a story of connecting seemingly unrelated dots and turning them into something bigger than is obvious to the eye, from the army to the corporate world and entrepreneurship.
As a young graduate, I joined the British Army. During my years in the army, I experienced the power of a sense of belonging and teamwork skills, which repeatedly showed me how hard, nearly impossible challenges can be overcome.
While the world of corporate HR was a very different environment, there were some similarities: big companies were faced with big challenges, and I understood how important it is to build alignment around where the company was going and how we would get there.
When I rediscovered an old passion of mine, art, it felt natural to start experimenting with art-based team-building experiences to bridge the gaps I had identified in companies.
Over time, this work naturally expanded into improvisation and musicality, because the most powerful collaboration isn't just an idea, it's something teams experience through listening, timing, presence, and shared momentum.
What could be a more powerful tool for getting the employees on the same page and strengthening their belief in teamwork than tackling a seemingly impossible challenge together?
I started seeing how designing fun, creative, and unforgettable team experiences impacted employee experience and buy-in on new initiatives, productivity, and company values.
That was the beginning of Collaborative Art® in 2011.
But I couldn’t turn that insight into a business alone. Meet the team and learn how we support leaders to tap into their creative powers to succeed in business!
