Corporate Stress-Busting
and Creativity Workshops
Innovation and creativity are the keys to huge success for today’s companies.
‘Innovate or die’ has become the catchphrase of the 21st century. In this age of economic uncertainty, a company’s ability to recreate and rethink how they provide products and/or services has never been so important to corporate success.
Our workshops are designed to focus on objectives such as:
Stress reduction and relaxation, team building, developing creativity in the workplace, productivity, eliminating employee absenteeism, problem-solving and more.
Each workshop (also called a play-shop) includes hands-on art challenges to provide participants with the chance to use new ways to problem solve and communicate ideas.
What outcomes you’ll get from the workshops:
Stress reduction, reduced employee absenteeism, motivated employees, rise in performance, innovative and creative thinking, enhanced work and personal relationships and more.
Choose from one of our four workshops:
Stress-Buster Workshop:
To Manage Work-Related Stress
Companies have lost millions of dollars due to stress-related absenteeism with their employees, reduced productivity and mistakes. Over 70% of visits to the doctor are a direct result of stress-related health challenges.
Stress affects performance as the time to complete a task doubles with the introduction of an external stressor. This one-day workshop will address stress and show participants how to react and act to stress in new and appropriate ways.
The workshop will be arts-based to inspire and help attendees think in new and exciting ways. People will understand and appreciate the benefits of art as a key method for stress busting.
No need to be an artist – in fact, non-artists will thrive in this environment.
Learn more about the Escape the Pace® Stress-Buster Workshop
Team Building Business Builder:
To Foster Team-Building & Positive Work Relations
The company with a solid team is a solid company.
This one-day workshop will show participants how to communicate more effectively, work together and appreciate each others similarities and differences.
Art will be used to help participants work together as a cohesive problem-solving team. Attendees will learn to forge stronger, more honest and appreciative relationships at work and home.
The workshop will showcase the benefits of using art as method of team-building and relaxation.
Learn more about the Escape the Pace® Team Building Business Builder
Innovation and Creativity Workshop:
To Inspire Creative Thinking and Innovation
Your company may have effective team members but there’s still room for creativity and innovation. In fact, creativity is the key to a thriving company in today’s age of conceptualism where companies are just ‘one idea away’ from an untold fortune.
This one-day, fun and interactive workshop uses arts-based exercises to help participants open their minds and get inspired.
Attendees will learn how to access the emotional, creative, innovative right side of their brain and gain more balance in their thinking. They will uncover their right-brain ideas in a challenging but non-threatening environment by using drawing, writing, painting and/or three-dimensional works.
No need to be an artist – in fact, non-artists will thrive here.
Learn more about the Escape the Pace® Innovation & Creativity Workshop
Productive Time Workshop:
To Maximize Employee Potential, Productivity and Time
According to research, in an eight-hour day, workers are productive for an average of 90 minutes. The rest of the time is wasted with interruptions such as: emails, phone calls, meetings, people, unplanned tasks and more.
In this one-day, fun and interactive workshop, learn more about time than you’ve ever learned.
Learn about time-blocking, scheduling, blank space and other creative skills you can apply to your company. You’ll learn how to save at least two hours a day and minimize the stress that comes with that feeling of: ‘too much to do, too little time.’
This arts-based workshop will demonstrate the effects of time-poverty and show you how to minimize the interruptions, get focused and get the right things done.
Learn more about the Escape the Pace® Productive Time Workshop


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Lisa Rickwood, BFA, CPCC, founded Escape the Pace® in 2003 after suffering the stress of witnessing an employee die in a store she helped her husband manage. She is the author of Escape the Pace, co-author of Power & Soul with Ali Brown, and is an accomplished visual artist. She works with executives, corporations, entrepreneurs, and employees to help minimize stress and time management crises, and get creative, innovative, and productive.