Team Building Workshops
The HCT/CircusAid team-building workshops provide organizations and staff with the opportunity to explore and expand upon skills needed in the workplace for individual and collective progress and growth.
Our workshops utilize a variety of circus-based activities, to promote executive functions such as communication, response inhibition, working memory, mental flexibility, sustained attention, time management, goal-directed persistence, reciprocity, meta-cognition, task initiation, emotional regulation, planning, and organization to enable more cohesive and mutually respectful and responsive work environments.
Workshop Activities Include:
ACROBALANCE AND YOGA:
Activities promote physical, cognitive, and social health. Normalizing reactions to touch, building core strength and body awareness of self and others are important components of these activities and are encouraged through physical contact involving different positions where participants combine body parts to make a shape. Acrobalance can involve as little as two people or an infinite amount of people.
BALANCE-BASED ACTIVITIES:
Strengthen the vestibular system while encouraging participants to become familiar with their body awareness, and trust in themselves and a spotter. These activities also provide the opportunity for increasing challenges by incorporating multiple skills at the same time.
OBJECT MANIPULATION: JUGGLING, HULA HOOPS, PLATE SPINNING, POI, AND MORE
Object manipulation tasks provide opportunities for participants to improve coordination, sense of timing, and rhythm. Additionally, perseverance and problem-solving are encouraged while participants engage in bimanual hand use and crossing the midline to manipulate, grasp and reach different objects.
IMPROVISATION GAMES:
Activities that are achievable for everyone and encourage various forms of verbal and non-verbal communication, reciprocation, eye contact, and planning behaviors. The activities can involve running, jumping, crawling, and balancing. They also include social interaction, problem-solving, and a wide range of motor experiences.
PERFORMANCE: INFORMAL AND STRUCTURED
Performance provides goal-setting opportunities for the participants, enabling them to see achievable results from their work while appreciating the accomplishments of others. Performance opportunities promote motivation and opportunities for positive risk-taking, spontaneity and improvising, and creativity by combining skills in a sequence. As well as opportunities for collaboration and exploration of different themes and states of being.