Creativity experiences for companies who know that art is the forgotten pillar of health & wellness.
For your team members who find breathwork boring, fear escape rooms, worry about woo, dread doing downward dog in front of colleagues, or feel like a failure every time their mind drifts to the to-do list during meditation, then perhaps its time to let them try their hands at analogue arts and crafts.
Introducing the Workplace Wellbeing Creativity Club
Alongside sleep, diet, exercise and nature, creativity is fundamental to wellbeing, but often overlooked as part of corporate wellness in favour of more traditional adrenaline fuelled away-days that can overstimulate (and even cause anxiety for some).
Hand-to-eye creativity gently connects body and mind, lowering heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol, reducing stress, boosting mood and even strengthening the immune system. Flexing the imagination also improves brain health and, best of all, feels like play.
According to a new publication by UCL Psychobiology Researcher Daisy Fancourt, people who engage regularly with the arts have a significantly lower risk of depression. The more frequent the engagement, the more positively powerful the effect, whether consuming passively or pro-actively creating.
This is good news for corporates battling the stress-related absences, disengagement, low morale and staff turnover - that are costly in time, money and energy - because these can be improved easily, and joyfully.
Artistic activity is not just a mental health prescription.
It’s preventative medicine.
The Workplace Wellbeing Creativity Club brings a range of one hour long craft sessions - all connected to interior design - direct to your office, to help teams reconnect, decompress, and return to work with renewed focus and motivation.
Designed to slow things right down and soothe the nervous system, we establish a convivial, judgment-free atmosphere encouragement, where the focus is on creative endeavour and expression for enjoyment. While participants are always set up for success and given support, there’s never pressure to produce a masterpiece - unless they want to stretch themselves.
The sessions aim to improve company culture and uplift staff morale by strengthening team bonds. Using craft to engender connection over competition, here’s what your team can expect to enjoy:
Safe space to experiment, try, play, innovate
Screen-free Digital Detox
Sense of achievement, reward and mutual respect
Mindfulness and relaxation - without forcing it
Infinite possible outcomes from every session
Impact Reporting
Whether you’re a B-Corp already or using the ISO 45003 standard, WWM Measures or your own internal Charter to manage your obligations to staff, all creativity sessions will allow you to measure and evidence the impact of your wellness investment.
Gathering anonymised participant survey feedback via QR code, we will summarise the data into a report, to track:
satisfaction
sense of wellbeing and belonging
feeling and being engaged
psychological safety
… making it easy for you to comply with the new B-Corp Fair Work Standards - FW4.1 (regularly measuring culture) and FW4.2 (continuous improvement plan documentation).
Add analogue arts to your your workplace wellness toolkit, and choose from one of four different interior design themed activities…
Express your wildest Before & After interior design fantasies in this freeform colouring session. Choose from a treasure trove of interior design colouring pages depicting numerous types of rooms and let your imagination run riot. Play with colour - without any real life consequences - to build your creative confidence, and enjoy experimenting with a variety of different fine art materials.
Embrace your inner William Morris and hand craft your very own repeating pattern using pencils, paper, scissors and all the colourful pens and paints you fancy. Take it home, frame it and hang it in pride of place, or grow it as big as you like over multiple sessions.
Channel your inner interior stylist and set up a scene using a collection of beautiful objets (feel free to bring along an item you love). Then unleash your inner Van Gogh and draw it, exploring a variety of composition techniques with help from the inspiration images and art materials provided.
Explore a huge selection of magazines to find the images that speak to you. Then cut, arrange, place and stick them down to collage the sofa, chair, bed or whole interior of your dreams. You can produce as many rooms as you like and be as surrealist and whimsical as your heart desires.
Meet your host
Hi, I’m Zoë Hewett, founder of multi award-winning interior design studio Stylemongers Of Bristol. You might have seen me on rural retreat makeover show ‘My Unique B&B’ on BBC2.
Previously a set and costume designer for stage and screen, I have 25 years professional experience in design and creative facilitation, having delivered hundreds of workshops in education settings, community arts projects and private events. I still personally run my creative sessions, sometimes with support from trusted and trained freelance arts facilitators.
Passionate about the link between creativity, wellbeing and sustainability, I love helping others access their innate artistic agency and believe in doing it the analogue way - just as I do in my own interior design practice.
The Statistics
“79% of participants in arts projects report improved mental well-being.”
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health, and Wellbeing report
“71% of respondents reported feeling less stressed and anxious after participating in arts and crafts activities.”
- Mind mental health charity survey
“The cost of staff turnover due to mental ill health to the UK economy in 2022 was £43.1 billion.”
- Centre For Mental Health study
“Initially investing £80 per employee in promoting wellbeing initiatives at work will result in a net return of around £600 in savings, due to reduced presenteeism and absenteeism.”
- Spill mental health app
“Almost half of employees value company culture above salary.”
- Workbuzz’s State of Employee Engagement report
“The total economic cost of sickness absence from paid employment due to mental ill health in England in 2022 was £6.5 billion.”
- Centre For Mental Health study
“Happy employees are 13% more productive.”
- Oxford University's Saïd Business School and BT study
“Initiatives aimed at improving workplace mental health can yield a return of interest up to 800% due to higher productivity, fewer sick days and lower staff turnover.”
- Spill mental health app
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or email anytime. If you’re ready to book you can choose your date and time at the checkout.
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Absolutely not. In fact, the less craft in your life the more you need it! This is about enjoyment, not competitively creating masterpieces, and everyone is set up for success. The workshops are freeform to give participants maximum autonomy, but with help on hand.
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Typically 60 minutes, but if you can spare your team for longer, then it can last up to 2 hours.
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Currently you can book for up to 10 staff, up to 20 staff or up to 30, so that when people are inevitably out of the office for unforeseen reasons someone else can take their place. If you want to book for a larger number we can use our regular freelancers to help make this happen.
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It’s a great way to invite them back in to the office for that all-important social connection and sense of belonging, but offering the session remotely is possible with a little forward planning, so feel free to enquire.
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We can cover Bath, Newport and Cardiff. Feel free to email to make an enquiry.
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Always on a Tuesday while energy is still high, to set your team up for the rest of the week. Choose start time of 10:00, 11:00 or 12:00.
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Yes of course - just get in touch to ask to book for a specific occasion
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The sessions are designed to work both as standalone experiences and recurring bookings, with a different outcome each time.