The Benefits of Creative Team Bonding Activities

Team building through art is a surprisingly powerful tool.  As adults, in a busy analytical and task driven environment, we can forget how to create, explore, and take risks, creatively.  When you put a group of familiar people in the same room together with some paint and brushes and ask them to be creative, they often feel restricted.  Judged by their peers, maybe, or restricted by a faint voice in the back of their minds telling them not to colour outside of the lines.  Once we begin to break-down these boundaries, we relax, and we allow mistakes and risks to be part of the journey.  We invent, stretch, and step outside of our comfort zone.  Doing this with your colleagues allows you to approach a task you all have to do with a different mindset, which also does not necessarily align with the hierarchy in the company based on any creative skills some might have.  It allows for conversation and observations you might not normally have in the workplace.  Once you let go of your inhibitions to just give it a good go, an art class becomes fun, and this opportunity to spend time together in a fun and social atmosphere helps build better workplace connections.  ​