Creative Recalibration
Designed for today's complex world and the future-ready skills it demands, Creative Recalibration sessions use creativity, co-design, and connection to support teams transitioning back to office, adopting new technologies, navigating the dynamics of multi-generational teams, and managing the mental and emotional impact of continuous organizational change.
Drawing on more than a decade of experience working with innovation teams across the private, public, and non-profit sectors and academic research on creativity and resilience, Creative Recalibration sessions strengthen resilience and adaptability in leaders and teams, reconnecting folks with the meaning that brought them to their work, building sustained trust, and cultivating a genuine sense of belonging through the creative and collaborative process of co-designing culture, rituals, and ways of working.
Designed for today's complex world and the future-ready skills it demands, these interactive sessions support teams transitioning back to office, adopting new technologies, navigating the dynamics of multigenerational teams, and managing the mental and emotional impact of continuous organizational change.
The program blends human-centred, systems, and participatory design approaches with those of Flow and creativity coaching to deliver a customized experience that meets executives, managers, and teams where they're at, supporting their response to immediate challenges and building capacity as they prepare for what's to come.
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Intended to nurture lasting change, our core Creative Recalibration offering is a multi-part, ongoing engagement that sees teams come together to co-design their own culture within the greater ecosystem of your organization.
Sessions convene teams for a series of creative and interactive sessions that reflect the needs and creative interests of participants.Together the group addresses their shared challenges with the benefit of supportive coaching and builds a cohesive culture based on shared commitments, goals, and values.
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This two-day retreat is intended to spark change quickly and give clarity to leaders looking to face the challenge of a stuck or strained team or to kick start a new strategic phase of work.
A strategic pause to surface tensions, build trust, and co-design culture, the Creative Reset Retreat is an intensive experience grounded in learnings derived from our Culture, Creativity, and Context sensemaking tool and serves as a reset and an opportunity to connect and cultivate a shared language and direction as teams take the first steps to co-designing their culture.
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Shaped with remote and hybrid organizations in mind, the Creativity Campus membership program offers team rates for access to co-working space and monthly creativity workshops in downtown Toronto.
Sessions at The Creativity Campus are not art classes but creative experiences.
Unlike art classes the creative elements of Recalibration sessions are not about skills development or the creation of a final product.
The value of Creative Recalibration is found in the collaborative experience of participants. Creative activities are a means of building trust and belonging, practicing collaboration and exploring shared strengths and differences.
All of these come together to surface the needs of individuals and the team as a whole while highlighting the shared priorities, motivations and values that serve as the building blocks of a cohesive and human-centred culture.
FAQs
Creativity has long been seen as a nice to have in the workplace but as the world becomes more complex and change continues to come fast and thick it’s strategic value is being widely recognized as a critical asset for the future.
Creativity and emotional well-being are deeply connected. Cultivating calmness, embracing failure, and fostering emotional awareness are key to unlocking creativity, resilience, and adaptability.
Creativity not only supports our emotional and mental wellbeing but also provides low-stakes opportunities to practice the risk taking, systems thinking and collaborative skills that are critical to innovative thinking, no matter the sector or role.
In fact, a 2025 report by the World Economic Forum revealed more than half of the world’s leading CEOs cited resilience, flexibility, creative thinking, empathy and curiosity in the top 10 most valuable core skills for their workforce.
Why Creativity?
Creative Recalibration sessions are about recognizing that the humans on your team represent the true strategic advantage at a time of complexity and change.
They are not just about providing a fun escape from the office or getting to know one another outside of the context of work (though they do this too) but about empowering your people with the opportunity to design their shared working experience as they cultivate the skills that will support resilience - both as a team and as individuals.
Based on the results of our Culture, Creativity and Context diagnostic survey we’ll design a custom experience that speaks to the needs and interests of your team. Sessions will encourage your team to address challenges together and provide the facilitation and coaching support to guide them in forging renewed trust, shared meaning, and building their own culture, one that they can rely on equally in times of joy and celebration or those of stress or change.
Creativity is not only about art and design. It’s relevant to every sector and in every role and its becoming more so with every passing day.
Creativity is critical to problem solving, communication, reframing challenges as opportunities, and adapting to meet the changing needs of context and clients.
As we collectively face greater economic uncertainty, changing political winds, evolving technology, new ways of working, and rising expectations and demands on our organizations and our people, Creative Recalibration sessions serve as a structured pause to reconnect and realign around shared purpose, direction, and priorities.
Whether you work in healthcare, housing, retail, government, services or manufacturing your competitive advantage isn’t just in what you do but how well your people are able to work together in complex circumstances.
How is Creative Recalibration different from typical teambuilding and retreats?
We're not in a creative industry - how are Creative Recalibration sessions relevant to us?
Thankfully there is abundant research to support the value of investing in creative development for your team and leaders from around the world are advocating for just that on the global stage.
At Davos in 2026, these were framed as ‘brain skills’ and flagged as even more critical in the context of AI technology. The report highlighted the importance of workplace interventions to cultivate creativity and adaptability as a means of maintaining competitive advantage and workforce cost prevention. It noted that these present unique value as AI surfaces fresh demands on human thinking and judgement and new ways of working and using and managing AI tools.
And that’s not all, when one considers traditional metrics, investing in creative culture to support employee experience and mental health there is plenty of evidence there too. Research finds that companies focused on improving employee experience, can increase both revenue and profits by up to 50%.
Meanwhile a study out of MIT’s Sloane School of Management found that investing in ‘soft skills’ training returned roughly 250% on investment within eight months when comparing the cost of the program against increased revenue. Training also had significant positive spillover productivity impacts when considering the work of staff who weren’t participants in the programs.
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Ok, but where’s the proof?
Why Now?
One need only scroll through the news or a social media feed for a few minutes to see evidence of the upheaval playing out in our economy, environment and society. Organizations can no longer pretend that the personal and professional lives of their staff are separate and those that do will pay dearly for it.
Climate change, fallout from the pandemic, rising cost of living, the housing and homelessness crisis, struggling health care and education systems and profound geopolitical and social change are all having an impact on the well-being of workers across Canada. And this is before one considers the disruption presented by back to office mandates, strategic pressure to adopt AI, tariff pressures and the impact of changes in generational work habits on team dynamics.
The good news is that creativity is now being acknowledged as the fifth pillar of health, alongside sleep, nutrition, nature and exercise and it can be mobilized to support and strengthen your people and their relationships so that they can not only move through this complexity but thrive as they do.