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Playful Trainings and Workshops

Looking for engaging, interactive training experiences that actually stick?

Our expert-designed workshops focus on what teams need most: communication, collaboration, feedback culture, creative problem-solving, and innovation. Whether in person, remote, or hybrid, each session blends play with purpose — using high and low tech tools to create hands-on, energizing experiences.

We offer a collection of well-crafted, ready-to-use workshops that have been successfully used by teams around the world. Each one is designed for maximum impact — and we’re happy to tailor them to your specific needs or co-create something entirely new from scratch.

From 4-hour intensives to 2-day deep dives, these sessions are built to spark growth, strengthen culture, and unlock your team’s full potential.
Explore our playful workshop lineup below.

  • 1 Day
  • 8-30 Pax

1. Feedback Culture Lab

A playful workshop to foster a feedback-positive mindset and improve feedback skills across teams.

The Feedback Culture Lab is an engaging and interactive one-day learning experience designed to help teams build a strong feedback culture that supports creative collaboration and continuous growth.

Through playful formats and hands-on exercises, participants learn how to give and receive feedback constructively, embrace feedback as a tool for development, and implement practical tools and processes for everyday use.

This workshop includes a pre-assessment, insights from the latest research on feedback in creative cultures, and playful methods to explore your team’s current feedback practices. From interactive role-plays to tools like the Feedback Canvas, teams walk away with clear strategies for embedding feedback into their daily interactions.

  • Cultivates a Feedback-Positive Mindset

Encourages openness and honest dialogue, turning feedback into fuel for creativity, innovation, and growth.

  • Strengthens Team Alignment

Aligns diverse perspectives around shared goals, fostering clarity, trust, and cultural cohesion within teams.

  • Promotes Continuous Improvement

Helps teams embrace iteration as a natural part of the creative process, lowering resistance to change and enhancing quality.

  • Equips Teams with Practical Tools

Provides frameworks and methods that support structured, effective feedback adapted to your organizational culture.

  • Fosters Diverse Perspectives

Creates a safe space for dialogue, helping diverse voices shape smarter, more inclusive solutions.

One playful learning activity in detail:

In this signature activity, one team member delivers a deliberately terrible piece of feedback while others mark off “No-Go” phrases on their bingo cards. It’s hilarious, a little absurd, and totally effective. This interactive game not only breaks the ice but makes learning sticky by highlighting what not to do — and showing how thoughtful, well-framed feedback makes all the difference

Overall Rating: ★ 9.2 / 10

Used by: Red Bull and teams across industries

Voices from the teams:

“My core takeaway: together, not alone. And without feedback, we can’t grow.”

“The workshop significantly enhanced my knowledge and skills — and I’ve already applied it in my work.”

“It had a lasting impact on how we give feedback, internally and externally. And feedback is core to what we do — so yeah, it helped a lot.”

  • 1.5 Days
  • 8-30 Pax

2. Superpower Discovery

A playful workshop to explore individual strengths and unite them into collective team power.

Superpower Discovery is a dynamic 1- to 2-day workshop designed to help teams uncover hidden strengths, build mutual understanding, and harness their collective potential.

Through research-based tools and playful exercises, participants explore the difference between skills, strengths, and superpowers — developing a shared language for personal and team growth.

The journey begins with a pre-assessment to identify individual strengths, followed by hands-on activities like the Superpower Carousel, Youth Heroes, and the Superpower World Café. Using a specially designed card game as a learning companion, participants reflect, share, and co-create a strengths-based team strategy they can immediately apply in their daily work.

Whether you want to boost creative confidence, navigate change, or bring a scattered team together, this experience helps unlock what already exists within: the power of people.

  • Uncovers Hidden Strengths
    Participants surface strengths that often go unnoticed in daily work, unlocking potential for innovation and growth.
  • Empowers Team Members
    By recognizing and celebrating each other’s strengths, teams build confidence, trust, and shared purpose.
  • Enhances Problem-Solving Capabilities
    Teams learn to apply their strengths in real-world challenges, leading to more effective and creative solutions.
  • Strengthens Team Cohesion
    Alignment around individual and collective superpowers deepens understanding, connection, and collaboration.
  • Provides Practical Tools for Ongoing Development
    The workshop includes personalized takeaways that support long-term reflection, action, and momentum.

The Superpower Discovery Card Deck
The heart of the workshop is a beautifully designed 12-step card deck that guides the entire experience. Each card introduces an exercise and provides space to capture insights through writing or drawing. Participants complete each step individually, in pairs, and small groups — gradually discovering new facets of themselves and each other. At the end, each person leaves with a personalized card deck: a creative, reflective tool that often ends up living on their desks as a daily reminder of their hidden powers.

Overall Rating: ★ 8.8 / 10

Clients include: Red Bull, MIT, Forum Alpbach, Academy of Fine Arts, GIZ

Team Voices:

  • “It was great to dig deeper into both individual and team strengths — something we rarely make time for.”
  • “The methods were colorful, visual, and so motivating.”
  • “This wasn’t just a workshop — it was a full-on experience.”
  • “We finally talked about our strengths in a way that felt real and energizing.”
  • “Playfulness like this is something we adults need to rediscover — that’s where our real superpowers hide.”
  • 1-2 Days
  • 6-80 Pax

3. Ideation Jam

A hands-on innovation sprint powered by playful design thinking and real-world inspiration.

Ideation Jam is a high-energy, 1.5-day innovation workshop that immerses teams in a dynamic design thinking journey — from deep problem exploration to actionable solutions.

Fueled by consumer insights, expert interviews, and immersive fieldwork, participants dive into the heart of challenges and surface bold, creative ideas.

 

Participants begin with a real-world discovery phase, conducting live interviews and gathering insights from the field. Armed with fresh perspectives, they enter a fast-paced ideation process using custom tools like Idea Sparks, Role Playing Audiences, and the Innovation Card Game to unlock unexpected solutions. The experience builds creative confidence and breaks through mental blocks.

 

In our Prototyping Labs, participants bring their ideas to life, test early concepts, and shape a strategy to move forward. Whether for product innovation, internal challenges, or service design — this workshop empowers teams to build solutions that stick.

  • Deepens Problem Understanding
    Participants gain nuanced insights through immersive research and real conversations — laying a stronger foundation for impactful solutions.
  • Fosters Creative Confidence
    Playful ideation tools encourage risk-taking, imaginative thinking, and idea generation without fear of failure.
  • Enhances Collaboration and Alignment
    Teams co-create with a shared vocabulary and approach, aligning around a unified vision while sparking collective ownership.
  • Encourages Iterative Mindset
    Teams embrace feedback, test ideas, and iterate quickly — learning to treat failure as part of the innovation process.
  • Generates Actionable Solutions
    From idea to prototype, participants walk away with clear next steps and concepts ready for implementation.

The Innovation Card Game

At the core of the workshop is our Innovation Card Game — a fast-paced tool that challenges participants to mix wild innovations, surprising user needs, and unique challenges. In each round, participants pitch fresh ideas, vote on favorites, and iterate their thinking. Early rounds are playful and abstract; later ones focus on real-world challenges, culminating in a high-energy pitch contest. It’s fun, competitive, and gets serious ideas flowing — fast.

Overall Rating: ★ 9.4 / 10
Clients include: Red Bull, Waldwelt Allgäu, CGIAR

Team Voices:

  • “The speed at which we turned raw insights into feasible project concepts was incredible.”
  • “The public interviews were a game-changer — so insightful.”
  • “Let’s do more of these and actually realize the ideas we created!”
  • “It’s amazing what happens when you open up before trying to fix something.”
  • “A super inspiring day with new faces, bold ideas, and an awesome flow!”
  • “It showed me how powerful a few hours of shared creativity can be.”
  • 1-2 Days
  • 6-80 Pax

4. Creative Culture Framework

A co-creative workshop to build a practical framework that grows and sustains creative culture.

Creative Culture Framework is a powerful, reflective 1- to 2-day workshop designed to help teams build their own guiding structure for a thriving creative culture.

Through a mix of personal insights, shared exploration, and inspiration from global best practices, participants shape a framework tailored to their team’s values, vision, and cultural context.

The process begins with a deep dive into lived experiences: teams surface moments when creative culture thrived in their own projects — across communication, leadership, collaboration, diversity, and innovation. These insights are then compared with existing creative culture models from trailblazing organizations like Pixar, Netflix and IDEO, giving participants a chance to reflect, align, and be inspired.

Using this foundation, teams co-create their own Creative Culture Framework — a first working version that defines what creative culture looks like for them, and how it can grow. The session wraps up with action planning: teams outline first steps to activate the framework, methods to expand and deepen it, and ideas for how to assess and iterate it over time.

  • Reflects Your Real Creative Culture
    The framework is grounded in real team experiences, helping teams define and connect with their own version of creative culture.
  • Builds a Shared Language
    Teams develop a vocabulary for discussing creative culture — what supports it, what hinders it, and how to improve it together, based on your own self-designed creative culture framework
  • Adapts Best Practices to Your Context
    Rather than copying a model, participants explore global creative culture examples and remix them to fit their unique environment.
  • Enables Long-Term Development
    The framework becomes a living tool — something to revisit, evolve, and use for assessing and growing creative culture over time.
  • Makes Culture Actionable
    Teams leave with a concrete plan for embedding their framework into daily work, leadership practices, and creative collaboration.

The 5-Minute Game

If your team’s creative culture were a game, what would it look like? What would be the rules, the goals, the players, and the obstacles?

In this fast-paced and playful method — developed at MIT and used with hundreds of participants worldwide — teams are challenged to co-create a fully playable game that reflects their creative culture… in just five minutes!

By quickly translating their real-world challenges and strengths into game mechanics, participants not only design and test each other’s games but also uncover powerful insights. Through play, teams reflect on what supports creativity, collaboration, and success — and what holds it back.

Overall Rating:  9/ 10

  • 1 Day
  • 2 h
  • 30-200 Pax

5. Playful Practices & Tools

This playful workshop introduces you into the theory of play, provides hands-on experiences with state-of-the-art interactive tools and playful tools to boost your creativity.

Playful Practices & Tools is a high-energy, hands-on workshop that explores how play fuels engagement, learning, and creativity. Participants experience powerful interactive tools, explore our Purposeful Game Design Framework, and learn how to embed playful elements into their own learning environments.

From interactive training games to tangible prototyping methods, the session blends theory with real-world application — helping participants design, test, and reflect on their own training formats. The workshop includes a “train the trainer” segment where participants learn how to adapt and gamify their own sessions, making it perfect for educators, facilitators, and anyone shaping learning experiences.

This format has been used by organisations like Bayer, Concordia Academia, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna — and continues to inspire those who want to make learning truly engaging.

  • Deep Understanding of Play & Learning
    Explore why and how play fuels attention, motivation, and long-term learning.
  • Hands-on Experience with Playful Tools
    Try out interactive training tools and learn how to use them in your own sessions.
  • Skills to Gamify Your Own Trainings
    Learn how to transform existing formats with playful structures and tools.
  • Access to the Purposeful Game Design Framework
    Use a tested model to design more engaging learning experiences — based on structure, purpose, and joy.
  • Train-the-Trainer Confidence
    Leave equipped to share what you’ve learned and inspire others through play.

The Game Hack Lab

In this core activity, participants are challenged to redesign a classic game (like Jenga, Uno, or Memory) to reflect their own training goals or values. In small teams, they rework rules, player roles, and goals — then test the new games with others. It’s rapid, creative, and often hilarious — and makes abstract learning goals suddenly tangible and fun.

★ 9.1 / 10

“Play has always felt important — but now I understand why it works, and how I can use it.”

“I left with tools I can use tomorrow — and already did.”

“The playful mindset is something I want to bring more into all my trainings. This showed me how.”

  • 1 Day

6. Creative Culture Lab

Experiment. Prototype. Grow your creative culture. A playful lab for teams to experiment with small actions, prototypes, and ideas to spark creative culture change.

Creative Culture Lab is a long-term innovation space designed for teams ready to make creative culture real. From initial ideas to tested prototypes, this lab walks teams through a full design journey — including ideation, research, prototyping, testing, and refinement.

Whether it’s a new process, initiative, product, or culture shift, the Lab provides the tools, structure, and facilitation needed to turn intention into action. Sub-teams work in sprints, explore feedback loops, and pitch bold ideas along the way. Sessions can be spread out over a few weeks or several months, depending on your team’s needs and scope.

Used by large-scale organizations across sectors, the Creative Culture Lab isn’t just a workshop — it’s a launchpad for transformation.

  • From Idea to Prototype
    Navigate the full journey of turning bold ideas into tangible results.
  • Structure for Innovation
    Use proven frameworks to guide your team’s process through research, ideation, testing, and iteration.
  • Team Ownership & Engagement
    Subteams lead the way — making learning active, distributed, and fully team-driven.
  • Culture Change Through Action
    Move from talking about creative culture to actively building it, one prototype at a time.
  • Flexible Format, Real Impact
    Adaptable timeline from 3 weeks to 9 months — customized to your context and goals.

The Culture Prototype Sprint

In this immersive sprint, subteams select a real challenge in their work culture, then build a rapid prototype — from idea sketch to live test — in just a few days. They gather feedback, tweak their design, and pitch the result to the larger group. It’s fast, messy, and deeply energizing — and it helps teams move from “what if” to “let’s try it.”

★ 9.3 / 10

“I’ve never seen ideas move this fast — and with so much ownership.”

“This was a turning point for our team — we don’t just talk about creativity anymore, we practice it.”

“The prototype we built actually became a real thing. It still exists, and people love it.”