Workshops
Our workshops provide an energising, fascinating, and stimulating time while you redefine, re-align, and confirm your direction. Long-standing issues are resolved as if by magic – and participants emerge as if reborn.
Since his teens David has led countless powerful experiences for diverse people worldwide, from CEOs to activists, cross-sector gatherings, artist collectives, working teams, founder groups, and more. Let’s identify your challenge, and meet it head-on.
Storytelling
Rethink your narrative. Empower your team with purpose.
“Life is a story we tell ourselves every day.”
Every individual, organisation, brand, campaign is guided by a story. And we have the choice of what that story could be. Have you taken the time to ask yourself what story you are telling yourself, not to mention putting out in the world?
This workshop centres on the concept of a “narrative DNA” – the central storyline that runs through the core of what we do. In order to have coherent messaging on the outside, and therefore a greater impact – we first have to look inside.
Using storytelling theory from Aristotle to Hollywood, and marketing techniques to understand audiences, this workshop delves into and redefines your organisational or brand story. Using David’s experience as copywriter, you will end with a new text defining who you are. Afterwards you’ll receive a Story Statement – a pdf document filled with reflections from the day and suggestions for going forward, and including your new proposed story text.
If you opt for a multi-day programme, there’s space for going into practical ways in which you can put your story out there.
A powerful story aligned with your goals, values, and audiences will fire your team onto the same page, and form the bedrock for engaging your audiences and impacting on the world.
Photo by Martine Schonenberg
Team/Wellbeing
Fall in love (again) – holding a space for the team to flourish
Team-building is so much more than paint-balling or photocopying private parts after Christmas drinks. Rather than just letting off steam and having a laugh, this is a fantastic opportunity to seek alignment between our different selves – work self, family self, private self. Too often, division here costs energy and causes discomfort.
So, far removed from the stress and “automated” processes we live by daily, this workshop creates a safe space, infused with vulnerability, humour, and empathy. Here, personal views of mission and values are shared, and people can see how to connect their hopes, fears, aversions, and passions – and build new dynamics.
How we work in a team is usually supposed to be based on certain values, but time and distance is needed to work on that. We usually agree on more than we disagree on, and the barriers are ego, semantics, clunky processes, or simply the lack of a moment to take a step back.
From one-day to multi-day, on-site or off-site, this team-building workshop can take in aspects of storytelling, creativity, deep-dive engagement with work issues and themes from a broader standpoint… Your specific blockages are addressed in an interactive playful manner. Long-standing issues dissolve as if by magic with the right intention and approach. And yes, plenty of kinetic body movement and playful interaction is vital to let participants connect on a different plane.
Align with each other and yourself, to bring out the best for everybody.
Photo by Martine Schonenberg
Innovation
Product, campaign, approach. Dream, play, test.
Creativity and innovation are fuel for the bold and wonderful things humans are capable of. From artistic works to world-changing businesses, from mass-market mobilisation to paradigm shifts on the issues most important to humankind – the execution implements. But creation comes first.
In this workshop we access this most beautiful human quality with the right form and format – away from responsive, reactive daily life, at a deeper place of instinct. A host of interactive activities allows us to define the parameters of the work at hand, then launch ourselves into pure play. Idea explosion precedes the critical step – we can only employ our rationality to judge ideas after giving ourselves free rein to birth them in the first place. In a second phase, we narrow possibilities and go deeper – until finally working on the chosen route with all our powers. We need to give creation the respect it deserves, so the muses can reward us with some amazing material! Then follows hardcore expertise, paving the way to implementation.
Whether this is a one-day or multi-day workshop defines how much territory is covered, and how full a journey we make to a fleshed-out campaign or product plan. Let’s dream the possible.
Photo by Wilhelm Westergren