catherine pao

Authentic-Relating Team-Building Experience

You can think of this experience as meaningful team bonding. This experience goes deeper than ropes courses, “trust” falls, pizza-making outings, and personality assessments. It’s best for teams that value authentic connection, personal development, and growth. Our colleagues are more than their "work selves" you primarily see day-to-day. This experience helps you see more wholeness, depth, and all the other sides that make your colleagues human.

What are the goals of the experience?

Each experience has been designed to foster a deeper sense of empathy, trust and psychological safety. Google studied 180 teams over 2 years and ranked psychological safety as the #1 trait for their highest-performing teams. This finding goes hand-in-hand with the #1 dysfunction of many teams: an absence of trust. With this team-building experience that builds trust and psychological safety, your team will be closer to:

• feeling open, vulnerable and free to share ideas and honest opinions

• feeling comfort in admitting mistakes; mindset of learning from failure

• feeling that one can take risks

• feeling that one can be vulnerable

• feeling that one can be 100% themselves -- not putting on a work vs. home facade

My goal is to not only develop this sense of trust and psychological safety on teams but also let that serve as the foundation for a deep sense of a collective "we". This collective "we" is a strong unanimous feeling of team unity and togetherness. It breaks down the sense of egos and limiting "I" mindset. And ultimately, my hope for any team that goes through this experience is to connect with the power of their "we" spirit and come fully alive.

What can You expect during the experience?

3 hours of... More genuine connection. Feeling alive and awake. Conversation beyond small talk. Play. Personal growth. Learning. Transformation.

Each experience has an underlying theme (ex: Curiosity, Understanding, Listening) and is a combination of the following types of activities:

Ready to unlock your team's highest performing chemistry?

What Teams are Saying about the experience:

“The experience was an incredible way to feel vulnerable around the people I spend so much time with, but don’t always open up to. It helped me deepen my understanding and appreciation for our differences.”

“I got to see the more human side of my coworkers and made me feel happier to work with them. This felt both restorative and community building.”

“The exercises were really well designed to enable people to share as much as they felt comfortable with. I was able to be vulnerable and share but didn’t feel pressured.”