Teambuilding

For more information on team building activities, contact the registrar at asmyk@goggleworks.org

Teambuilding Programs

Corporate Teambuilding

Try teambuilding at GoggleWorks with one of our engaging corporate events. Our teambuilding activities cultivate cohesive bonds between employees and management, decrease workplace frustration, ultimately increasing productivity. Participants find their experience fresh and revitalizing, developing new outlooks on the work ethic. GoggleWorks has worked with impressive companies like Carpenter Technology, Quadrant, Teleflex, and the York Institute of the Arts. Rebuild your company´s morale today!

Fused Glass - $300 for up to 15 participants, 1.5-2 hours

Learn to cut and layer bits of brightly colored glass. Your layers of glass will be fired at high temperatures in a kiln, and will fuse together to make beautiful suncatchers. Once you hang your special suncatcher, each ray of sun will remind you of the creative process and the artistic prowess within you.

We will also work on a team glass tile mural. The group will develop their theme, and then split into smaller groups to create a portion of the mural. Each team must communicate with the adjacent team, as well as with their team members to create a continuous, flowing composition. The mural tiles will work as individual pieces, but also within the group of pieces as a whole mural.

Projects will not be immediately available for pickup – it takes 1-3 weeks for projects to be fired, cleaned, and wrapped.

Paint the Smile on the Mona Lisa, $250 for up to 15 participants, 1.5-2 hours

Communication is key in this hilarious workshop that will test both your listening and communication skills. The group will break off into teams, and each member will take turns as a lead painter – blindfolded. Team members will guide their lead painter to complete a painted portrait, testing the strength of their communication skills. Participants rave about the collective experience, identifying each others strengths and positive qualities.
Groups will have time after the exercise to spruce up their portraits, add backgrounds, and enjoy each other´s work.

Sandblasting – $300 for up to 15 participants, 1.5-2 hours

In this workshop, we will have a “blast” creating our own frosted designs on drinking glasses. We can have pre-made stickers based on the theme (we´ll have to choose the imagery/logos, etc.), and each student can personalize their glass to take home as a keepsake to remember the event, and the goals of the day. Hands-on participation such as choosing themes and logos make this workshop a favorite.

We can use wine glasses or pint glasses. I suggest the pint glasses, as there´s more surface to use for your design.

Ceramics - $300 for up to 15 participants , 1.5-2 hours

Participants will enjoy the stress relieving properties of clay, as they build and sculpt with their hands. We´ll create our own individual tile, as well as work together to create a collaborative piece – stackable “totem” pots, or a group sculpture, in red terracotta clay. We can explore the themes of the day, while working in teams. Stackable totem pots, or group sculptures can create a sense of unity while retaining each person´s individuality. Artistic flair then comes alive as the senses provoke the individuals into creating a "true" piece of art.

Projects will not be immediately available to take home. It takes approximately 2-4 weeks for projects to be fired in the kiln.

Musical Canvas - $250 for up to 15 participants, 1.5-2 hours

Similar to the familiar game of musical chairs, we move, as teams, from station to station. However, instead of sitting in chairs, we perform different activities that serve as catalysts to spontaneous and intuitive thinking, through several unconventional means. For example, at one station, we paint with a broom, at another with palette knives, and at another with turkey basters. The point is to be free of detail and technique, even if just for a moment, and fall back into a moment of discovery and innovation.

Cameraless Photography - $300 for up to 15 participants, 1.5-2 hours

Seems like an impossibility, right? Not really! Actually, photography itself came before the camera. In this workshop, we´ll make cameraless photographs, called photograms, and learn about the magic that happens when you go back to basics. We will work together to create photographic images, and develop them in the darkroom. We will use objects, words, even ourselves, to create latent images on light sensitive paper. By processing our images in developer, our latent image becomes visible. We then take steps to fix our image, or render it light-safe, so that the image does not turn to black.

The whole process is a metaphor for externalizing your ideas, taking a latent image, something that you can´t see, and turning it into a solid, permanent reality.

Photos will need to dry after being processed, and will be available 2-3 hours after the workshop.