Each experience uses creative methodologies, such as art, theatre, play and somatic body work to help participants feel comfortable and able to put their boldest foot forward. Each of the workshops will encourage and build space for participants to feel more confident in themselves and their ideas; be better allies to each other; and work more cohesively with a deeper understanding of the communal responsibility towards the work and team. All approaches are designed to be gender, disability, class and caste informed, and strive to create spaces of critical thought and learning.

From Play to Practice: Fostering Innovation

From Play to Practice is an exciting and fully experience-based workshop that kick starts every part of the participants’ minds and bodies, as a unit, into full throttle. This workshop is both fun and bold in the environment it creates for all kinds of individuals to find safe ways to engage and thrive. Using theatre techniques and games, the group will be pushed to explore their inner boundaries and patterns to unlock individual and collective potential, as well as challenge the limitations that block personal growth and make for rigid, stuck ways of thinking in the work space.

The familiar ways, though comfortable, often result in our minds lapsing into stubborn habits we can’t break or no longer even notice. To truly be creating innovative and pioneering work we need to transcend our individual barriers, unlearn that which holds us back and be fearless in exploring the new. This workshop will provide the space needed to identify one’s own skills and what holds one back, all through a variety of theatre games that promise to keep everyone on their toes, while bonding with their peers through storytelling, laughter and collective learning.

This workshop will push teams out of their comfort zones; to be bolder, more creative and challenge what holds them back. Fostering an environment where participants can successfully self identify unique untapped skills, bond with their peers, and engage with their work as an experience of joy and playfulness. This workshop is both fun and challenging, creating an environment for all kinds of individuals to find safe ways to grow and thrive.

Innovation

• Facilitating new, inherently flexible approaches to thinking out of the box and to creative ideating, designing and problem solving. Guiding participants to break out of old but comfortable habits that depend on familiar, learnt patterns of working.
• Using fast paced activities and somatic practices that engage both the mind and the body in equal measure to push participants beyond their comfort zones towards hidden pockets of knowledge and wisdom they possess.
• Following up with reflection and share-back spaces in small groups, where key learning and discoveries can be collated into presentations for the whole team.

Cultivating Playfullness

• Supporting and Inviting teams to engage with their work [life] from a place of curiosity, joy and playfulness; where they are driven by a sense of purpose and excitement, and can truly thrive, thereby making way for genuine innovation and discovery, without fearing mistakes or failure.
• Foregrounding the importance of authentic collaboration within and across teams, practicing co-learning and co-creation as a necessary and meaningful skill towards more nuanced, bolder, braver thought informed and developed by the multiple voices in the room.
• Using a wide range of theatre games, somatic awareness tools, vocal exercises etc., to tap into participant’s adult cognitive sides while also making space for their young carefree, uninhibited sides to be free and work together, while seeing and bonding with themselves and their peers in a whole new light

All workshops can be organized for groups of any size, with the duration being dependent on client specifications, goals and total number of participants. For more information about these workshops, or about requests for designing new experiences tailored specifically to your work spaces, needs and circumstances, please reach out to anahita@kaunquest.org.