Alchemy Lab
Alchemy Lab: transforming matter to explore group dynamics
- Duration: 3–4 hours
- Difficulty: Easy
- Participants: 15–100
- Seasonality: All year round!
From raw materials to a collective artwork: creativity, senses and collaboration
Alchemy Lab is a creative team-building experience that uses natural materials, color extraction processes and art to explore the dynamics that emerge within a group.
Here’s what awaits us:
- PrepGetting ready for the experience: Introduction to the lab, division into groups and discovery of the processes used to create colors from plants and spices.
- The alchemical process: Squeeze, chop, crush, filter, mix, combine and separate. Participants work directly with the materials to create different colors and shades, engaging all their senses.
- Giving shape: The colors produced are used to freely create an individual artwork based on a prompt agreed upon with the company. No artistic skills are required: the invitation is to experiment and let yourself be surprised by the process. The individual artworks will then come together to create a collective artwork.
- Final debriefing: Through guided questions, the group reflects on the experience and the dynamics that emerged: organization, communication, listening, leadership, dealing with the unexpected and each individual’s contribution to the collective work.
DESIGNED FOR YOUR COMPANY
The goals you can achieve are:
Collaboration
Observe how the group organizes itself around an open-ended goal, makes decisions and integrates different individual contributions into a single creative process.
Creativity and intuition
Make room for forms of expression that differ from the usual ones, engaging imagination, hands-on skills and the ability to deal with outcomes that cannot be fully predicted.
Listening and relationships
Moving from individual work to a collective artwork requires discussion, negotiation and attention to the contributions of other participants.
Flexibility and dealing with the unexpected
Colors, materials and compositions cannot be completely controlled. The lab encourages participants to experiment, adapt and embrace what emerges throughout the process.
Where does it take place:
The Alchemy Lab can be organized in outdoor spaces immersed in nature or indoors in locations suitable for creative work, with tables and surfaces dedicated to the different stages of the activity.
What should you bring?
- Comfortable clothing
- Apron (there will be a special prize for the best outfit)
- Reusable water bottle
What is included?
- Materials for creating the individual artworks
- Tools and equipment for the lab
- Materials and supports for the collective artworks
- Activity facilitation
- Impact report
Why choose Alchemy Lab as a corporate team-building experience?
Alchemy Lab offers a different way of observing how a team works: instead of relying on a competitive challenge, it brings people into a creative process without a fully defined outcome from the start.
Each stage puts the group in a different situation. First comes experimentation with the materials, followed by individual expression, and then the choice to give up part of one’s own artwork and make it available to others.
It is precisely in this transition that the lab makes one of its main metaphors visible: the group’s outcome is born from individual contributions, but becomes something different from simply adding them together.
The final artwork thus becomes a starting point for observing what happened throughout the process: how decisions were made, which roles emerged, how the unexpected was handled, how much space was given to listening, and how each person contributed to building the shared outcome.
An experience designed for companies that want to work on collaboration, communication, creativity and group dynamics through a language that differs from that of everyday work.