Workshops for
Organisations
Work Don’t Shop is an excellent ice-breaker for conferences and events to loosen up your participants. Work Don’t Shop is also a unique way for you to revitalize your team and help them come up with alternative solutions. For students, Work Don’t Shop helps them to put limitations to the test in creative scenarios.
Limitations
Stimulate
Creativity
Our interactive workshop is called Work Don’t Shop for a reason: we get to work. Every participant leans to create, change or improve a product, project or process.
Contents and method
Taking time management, entrepreneurship, and economics as surprising stepping stones, we will connect the dots between essential developments in science, history, sociology, technology, design, and culture.
Using our unique creation game as well as the ToDon’tList method, we challenge and stimulate the participants’ creativity. What happens when you think inside the box instead of outside? What if you have to work with clear limitations instead of infinite possibilities? And, what if you simply don’t do something you would normally do?
Once you start to embrace the idea of boundaries as a creative force, it enables you to think inside the box, leave things out – and you will see that the world is full of potential solutions.
Sometimes the best action is inaction, whether it concerns your own time management or saving the world. Limitations stimulate creativity!
Format and timeframe
We offer the workshop in several adapted formats. It could be a 30-minute pressure cooker to kick off the day with a positive vibe. It can be a 3-hour team-building activity. Or it can be part of a project week at (art)school or university.
The world needs all kinds of minds.
—Temple Grandin
Customize the Workshop
We have an adaptable format, so we can offer the workshop that suits your goals. For instance, we can delve deeper into specific topics like how to create things fast or what the rubber industry has to do with what LA looks like. We can also help you choose what to focus on once we’ve established the goal of your workshop.
We can tailor our focus to individuals or groups, placing greater emphasis on areas such as time management, entrepreneurship, or saving the world by doing nothing. Need inspiration? Scroll down for examples or send us an email to discuss your options.
3 Minutes —
30 Minutes
Events
The ideal icebreaker
Our short workshop is the ideal icebreaker to kick off your event. The participants will get to know each other in an unexpected way – they immediately work together on a challenge. The workshop will help participants shift their mindset to find possibilities and solutions within limitations.
Or, after a day of intensive listening, we will shake things up by encouraging people to take action. Within a very short timeframe, the participants will create something together, bringing theory into practice and truly feeling the impact of their day. And they get to know each other in unexpected ways, too. Quite often, previous strangers end up having a beer together afterwards.
30 Minutes —
3 Hours
Incompany
Working With Limitations
Every company faces challenges. These can include working with limited budgets, resources, or time, which can feel restrictive for your team. With our workshop, these issues become creative puzzles instead.
The workshop aims to address daily challenges with a positive attitude and fresh perspectives. By embracing the limitations, you can transform almost any issue into a design challenge that yields innovative and surprising outcomes. At the end of the workshop, your team feels empowered to tackle obstacles in a way that brings them more than just a solution – it gives them the opportunity to use their creativity and to look over the horizon of daily business.
3 Hours —
3 Days
Education
Time-Management for Students
Time Management is one of the biggest challenges for students. Our workshop can help them look at their creative and professional processes in a different way; not by learning to do more in less time, but by making choices in their process. At the end of the workshop, students have gained the capacity to do their work with more focus, higher efficiency, more cross-cultural and environmental awareness.
Making choices also will help students to get a clearer understanding of their projects and their priorities. Establishing clear boundaries and limitations can lead to creative ideas and unexpected outcomes.
You have to be very nimble and very open-minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt.”
—Diane Greene
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