Team Building workshops
Experience the value of new perspectives through facilitated discussions around art.
To think differently, you have to see differently.
Effective culture-building begins with empathy, curiosity, and dialogue.
Through art-based learning, we help teams strengthen the one capability technology can’t automate — how humans think.
Our workshops turn seeing into a practice for thinking differently — enhancing engagement, creativity, and collective intelligence across your organization.
In our workshops, teams will learn to:
Invite multiple perspectives
Generate open-ended thinking
Multiply flexible thinking
Listen actively
Recognize and mitigate bias
Embrace ambiguity
Enhance emotional intelligence
Lead with compassion
Collaborate effectively.
The Artful Method Journey
The Artful Method helps make thinking visible so you can better understand each other for deeper alignment, community, and happiness at work.
The Artful Method helps teams develop the thinking skills AI can’t touch—insight, empathy, and creativity—through art dialogue. By making thinking visible, we help teams better understand how each person sees, interprets, and makes meaning, creating deeper alignment, trust, and satisfaction at work. The journey begins by slowing down perception, then introduces the Aesthetic Archetypes™, a diagnostic framework that reveals distinct thinking styles. As teams recognize the habits they rely on most, they learn how to expand their range, work more effectively with difference, and navigate complexity together.
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1.Core Workshops
Start with one of our core workshops:
Art for Community - Build empathy, engage your teams toward a higher purpose and deepen alignment.
Art for Innovation - Ignite creativity to increase your team’s flow of ideas.
The Art of Leading - Leadership is an art form, flex the skills and practices needed to bring out the best in yourself and your teams.
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2. Level Up your Team
What’s Next. Go deeper.
The core Artful Method workshops make thinking visible by showing how differently people see and interpret the same image. The Aesthetic Archetypes™ build on this by revealing the distinct ways each person naturally thinks — and how those ways interact within a group. Participants gain language for their thinking, insight into how others see differently, and practical ways to expand their range. This shared understanding helps teams adapt to different people and situations, communicate more openly, and work together with greater empathy, alignment, and ease.
Grounded in research from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, the Aesthetic Archetypes™ are five learnable ways of seeing and thinking. Through guided visual dialogue, teams observe how meaning is made in real time — revealing where thinking flows, where it narrows, and how collaboration can improve. When thinking becomes visible, differences become assets and teams move forward with clarity and confidence.
Aesthetic Archetypes - read more here.
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3. Applying Your Learning
We take you beyond art and into the wider visual world—work, culture, media, and everyday life. Through guided practices, tools, products, and personal growth pathways, you learn to apply your Aesthetic Archetype insights in real time. These experiences help turn new cognitive skills into daily habits, sharpening perception, expanding perspective, and uncovering beauty, meaning, and possibility in the ordinary.
Email lucie@artfulmethod.org to book yours today.
Bespoke:
We can create a unique workshop designed specifically to help you meet your team and organizational goals. See our case studies.
Ask us how.
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ART FOR COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Most teams are tactical. Assign them tasks, and boxes will certainly get ticked. But communities? That’s next level. Communities share a culture. Communities collaborate toward a higher purpose. Communities bring together diverse views and skill sets in service of an aligned vision.
We use the word team on this site because, well, that’s vernacular everyone easily recognizes. But our goal is for each person to feel like they belong to something much bigger. This workshop engages everyone as you discover creative ways to collaborate, reveal unique skill sets and align your values by observing art through inclusive exercises and open dialogue in a space of psychological safety.
ART FOR INNOVATION WORKSHOP
Creativity begets creativity. Get inspired by groundbreaking art and learn about artists who have challenged and changed how we perceive our world. Does anyone on your team think they’re not creative? We’ll help everyone understand and discover the many forms creativity can take.
We’ll get you leaning into everyone’s unique strengths, to foster flexible thinking and give you the skills to push past the first go-to-idea together.
The Art of Leading
Effective collaboration is an art form. Today's emerging leaders need to do more than help teams build on each other's ideas for solutions; they need to create a safe environment and open invitation for bold thinking.
In this leadership workshop, you'll learn to navigate ambiguity, support breakaway thinking, and acquire new skills and methods for channeling the power of diverse perspectives.
“It really pushed me out of my comfort zone because I am not well versed in art. I liked how we heard everyone's perspectives and it got me thinking in different ways. It reinforced the power of collaboration.”
— Mel, Gap
“I have been talking about this session with my friends and family all week. This was the highlight of orientation for me. It was highly creative, I immediately felt closer to my team mates and these are the kinds of activities that fuel innovative thinking. I loved every part of this.”
— Seb, RMP San Francisco
Aesthetic Archetypes
Expanding the Range of How Teams Think — Together
Most teams don’t struggle because people disagree — they struggle because people don’t understand how each other think.
The Aesthetic Archetypes™ make visible the different ways people notice, interpret, and make meaning. When teams understand these differences, conversations change. People stop defending positions and start recognizing perspectives.
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“It helped me hit refresh, by unplugging from our routine thinking, I found new energy for generating creative ideas when our work gets intense.”
— Miranda, Salesforce
“I learned how important it is to hear everyone's perspective. There was so much that I wouldn't have picked up on my own.”
— Wats, Athleta
