A team workshop on seeing colleagues from different angles
WHY CHOOSE THIS ACTIVITY
This workshop is ideal when you want to explore perspective, empathy and how well people feel seen within the team. By using Cubist approaches to portraiture, participants are invited to look beyond a single view and consider multiple sides of a person at once. It can be a powerful and accessible way to open discussion around how we perceive and understand one another at work.
WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO
Guided by an artist, participants create portraits of colleagues or composite portraits of the team using Cubist techniques: fractured planes, overlapping viewpoints and bold, simplified forms. They experiment with rearranging features, colours and angles to represent different aspects of identity or role. Along the way, there are prompts to share observations and reflections about what they are choosing to highlight.
WHY THIS TYPE OF EXPERIENCE MATTERS
Working with portraits in this way encourages teams to recognise that each person brings more than one story or function to their role. The creative process makes it easier to talk about assumptions, blind spots and appreciation without becoming personal or defensive. This can support greater empathy, respect and curiosity in day-to-day collaboration.