Gardens and Temples is a one-day workshop built around ancient myths, and thoughts on music, human-centred design, science, flowers, Instagrammable walls, and the transforming power of folding socks! (how fun is that!?) Through these topics and more, Gardens and Temples thoughtfully explores creativity, the inner-narratives that drive us (which shape your organisation's purpose and workplace culture), and how we can go through difficulties well and be human together.

Session 1: Dominant and counter-narratives
This session jump-starts the day with a fun and energetic talk that bounces from Babylon to Banksy to Bees and so much more. Together we'll see the power stories have in creating our worlds (inside and out).

Session 2: Story-work and guided practice.   
This second session is focused on examining you and your team's story through a variety of creative interactions. We all experience seasons of disappointment, frustration, and unexpected loss. How do we process through these seasons? What do we do with the parts of our story that leave us feeling like so much time has been wasted? The second half of this session helps wrestle with these tough questions.

Session 3: Telling a new story!
It turns out the Divine is in the details! This session offers thoughts and practical steps for turning our every-day actions into concrete expressions of our newly-found story. These practices have the power to set our lives, individually and organisationally, on a trajectory toward our most significant goals and purposes, leading us to live and work from our best and deepest selves!

I created Gardens and Temples to help position you and your team with courage, connection, excitement, and JOY!! This workshop will encourage and benefit your team, offering concrete practices that help relaunch passion, purpose, and interconnectedness in your organisation. 2020 gave us a year that no one anticipated. COVID-19 hit us all hard, and a lot of people spent the year "Zoom-ing" into work and school. I recently talked with several friends who told me that their organisations and teams are still feeling the effects of disengagement and disconnection. Sadly, their business' and teams' culture and morale are suffering as a result. I assume they are not alone in this.