Team sessions

Team building art experiences, designed around your group

Your group. Our creative direction. Something made together. We bring everything to your office, offsite venue or retreat, and shape each session around who your people are and how you want them to feel at the end.

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Led by Melanie Schambach, a trainer of facilitators who has prepared around 500 people to lead creative groups.

A team raising their arms together during a creative team building session — Team building session

Why teams do this

Four reasons organisations book a team session

Building connectionColleagues meet as people, across roles, sites and seniority.
Marking a momentA launch, an anniversary or a new leader’s first offsite, held in something you can hang on the wall.
Exploring something togetherA shared question, a strategy or a change, made visible so the team can talk about it.
Simply creatingAn afternoon of play and focus that people remember long after the slides.

The formats

Five team experiences

Each runs from 45 minutes to a full day and can be combined across a retreat. These are starting points: we tailor every session to your theme and goals.

A participant painting her own original artwork — Ursuline Heritage Alive, Chatham, Ontario, 2023

Sip and Paint An Original

Skill-building · Original artwork · One sitting

Each person creates an original painting of their own, guided from a blank canvas to a finished piece. A relaxed, social way for a team to discover what they can make.

Often chosen for Celebrations, team socials, onboarding cohorts

Two leaders holding the pieces they painted for one shared artwork — Amazon DEN3, Colorado, 2026

Collective Resonance

Playful · Collaborative · Relationship-building

Individual marks come together into a single shared artwork. Everyone contributes a piece, and the group sees itself in the whole.

Often chosen for New or merged teams, cross-department days, offsites

A participant absorbed in painting — Our Journey, Rainbow Refugee, Vancouver, 2022

Open HeART

Process-centred · Reflective · Self-directed

A quieter, more inward creative experience with space to reflect. Well suited to wellbeing days and to teams after a demanding season.

Often chosen for Wellbeing programmes, recovery after change, retreats

Participants moving together during a creative session — Innovation Works, London, Ontario, 2018

Creative Workout

High-energy · Multi-disciplinary · Team confidence

Drawing, movement and writing in quick rounds. Creativity as an energising team event that builds confidence fast.

Often chosen for Kickoffs, sales and project teams, conference breakouts

A team mapping ideas in collage and drawing — Mobilizing Narrative, London, Ontario, 2018

Metaphor Atlas

Strategic · Visual thinking · Meaning-making

Teams map where they are and where they are heading through images and metaphor. Ideal for teams navigating change or complex decisions.

Often chosen for Leadership teams, strategy sessions, post-reorg integration

How long

From 45 minutes to a full year

Amazon DEN3, Colorado, 2026
45 to 90 minutes
A focused sessionFits inside a meeting, all hands or conference programme. Everyone contributes and sees the finished piece before they leave.
Mobilizing Narrative, London, Ontario, 2018
Half day
A shared piece of workThe group helps choose what the artwork is about, then creates it. Fits inside an offsite without taking it over.
Our Journey, Rainbow Refugee, Vancouver, 2022
Full day
A real artworkFrom concept to finished piece in one day, substantial enough to hang in your space.
Re-Imagining Sanctuary Services, Sanctuary London, 2022
Multi-session
Culture work over monthsA leadership arc or a milestone year, building to a permanent work. See murals and legacy projects.

Why art

What making art adds to your offsite

Art pairs beautifully with the talking parts of an offsite, and it gives your team things a discussion or an improv game rarely leaves behind.

Every voice shows upQuieter people contribute in colour and image, at their own pace.
Conversation flows sidewaysWith hands busy, people talk more openly than across a table.
A visual recordThe ideas of the day, held in one image people can point to.
Something the team keepsA finished artwork that hangs in your space long after the event.

Remote and hybrid teams

Virtual team sessions with art kits shipped to each person

Distributed teams create together on a live video session. Every participant receives a kit at home with everything they need, and the pieces come together into one shared artwork at the end.

Hybrid sessions connect the people in the room with colleagues joining online, so everyone is part of the same piece.

Participants creating together on a video session — Art Dialogues: Subterranean Creativities, University of Victoria, online, 2026

Ideal for

In-office team building and culture days
Corporate offsites and leadership retreats
Team building and culture days
Onboarding and new team integration
Wellbeing and employee engagement programmes
University departments and academic teams
Nonprofit staff, boards and volunteer teams

Colleagues around a table shaping a guiding question — Shaping the guiding question Brescia Centennial Portraiture, London, Ontario, 2019 to 2020

Working with Melanie is an absolute dream. She is a dreamer, but also a doer, and that rare combo means that what she creates is infused with so much love and skill.Michelle Peek, Founder, Art Not Shame

Not sure which format fits?

Tell us your group size, your goal and your timeline. We recommend a format and send an estimate, usually within two business days. Every engagement is priced for the whole group and designed around your goal.

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