Collective Build
Build awareness. Build alignment. Build the year ahead.
A dynamic experience that combines intentional reflection, values-based leadership principles, and hands-on creative expression. It’s the perfect way to bring teams together while also supporting their personal and professional growth. More meaningful and unique than the typical cut-and-paste collage.
The Organisational Value
This isn’t just a once-off team-building activity. The Collective Build Workshop can support organisations to:
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Refresh goals and priorities each quarter
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Build a more intentional and self-driven team culture
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Improve communication, collaboration, and alignment
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Reduce burnout by helping employees reconnect to purpose
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Strengthen morale and emotional resilience during high-pressure seasons
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A colourful and creative artwork that is displayed as a daily reminder in team offices.
What the Experience Looks Like
The workshop includes:
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A brief introduction to the science of visioning and creative leadership
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A values discovery exercise
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Guided vision puzzle creation using The House of Yay’s creative tools
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A grounding meditation to align goals with action
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All materials provided, teams simply shows up
It’s a unique fusion of personal insight, creative expression, and leadership development, and it’s unlike anything teams have experienced before.
Why This Workshop?
In a fast-paced, fractured, work environment, it’s easy for teams to lose sight of their bigger picture, their goals, their values, and the future they want to create together. This workshop gives teams a rare opportunity to pause, reflect, and reconnect.
Through a guided values discovery session, creative vision board design, and a grounding meditation experience, teams will:
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Gain clarity on personal and professional goals
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Strengthen self-awareness and leadership identity
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Foster deeper team connection and collaboration
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Spark creativity, engagement, and renewed motivation
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Leave with a tangible reminder of their intentions and next steps
"It’s a fun, relaxed, hands-on activity, but with
meaningful impact".
Many organisations choose to run this workshop quarterly or bi-annually as a check-in point to help teams stay connected to the vision they’re working toward, individually and collectively.
Meet the Team
Deon
Co-Founder.
CFO (Chief Fun Officer). Experience Manager.
Jamie
Facilitator.
Leadership Coach.
Specialist in Aligned, Sustainable Leadership.
Salli
Artist.
Creative Facilitator.
Specialist in Creative Experiences.
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Co-Founder of The House of Yay, focused on business development, partnerships, and bringing Team collaborations into the studio.
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Leads client engagement from first conversation through to delivery, ensuring each experience feels personal, purposeful, and well-executed.
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Passionate about the belief that people retain insights best when they’re enjoying themselves, and that meaningful work doesn’t need to feel serious to be effective.
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Brings a background in Law, Entrepreneurship, and over 20 years in the Advertising and creative industries, with a strong instinct for how people think, feel, and collaborate.
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Known for embracing humour and play to help people feel safe, drop their guard, and explore ideas in a judgement-free space.
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Built a 25+ year career in people-first roles, including 15+ years in call centers, progressing from agent to manager.
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Designed and delivered training programs at AEP Energy, Dish Network, Empowered Education, and Brave Health.
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Facilitated leadership training for Correlation One’s Amazon upskilling initiative (serving warehouse/logistics teams transitioning into leadership).
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ICF PCC-certified coach with expertise in self-leadership, team dynamics, and burnout prevention.
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Known for a warm, grounded style that puts participants at ease and invites honest reflection.
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After leaving 15 years as a creative in the advertising industry, built an 11+ year career creating and facilitating creative experiences that bring people together — from social Paint Nite events to large-scale corporate team sessions.
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Co-Founder of The House of Yay, a purpose-built creative space designed to help teams think differently, reconnect and collaborate beyond traditional boardroom formats.
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Designer of experiential learning formats that use art, play and reflection to surface real behaviour in a safe, non-judgemental way.
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Facilitated hundreds of team-building and creative alignment sessions for corporate clients across multiple industries.
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Known for an energetic, welcoming facilitation style that helps people relax quickly, engage fully, and rediscover confidence through creativity.
Facilitation Focus
Jamie brings over two decades of lived leadership experience into every room, creating space for real conversations, powerful insights, and meaningful transformation. Whether working with frontline managers or senior leaders, her facilitation blends depth and practicality in a way that resonates across industries. She’s not just delivering content, she embodies it.
Why Jamie
With a career that began in call centers at 17, Jamie understands the pressures of performance-driven environments from the inside out. She’s led teams, trained new hires, managed KPIs, coached under pressure, and navigated burnout firsthand. Now, as an ICF Professional Certified Coach and seasoned facilitator, she brings that same empathy and edge into leadership development spaces. From high-growth startups to global brands, Jamie helps teams build the habits, mindsets, and skills needed to lead with clarity, energy, and purpose.
Why Salli
With a career as an artist, built around helping adults rediscover their creativity, Salli understands what it feels like to show up to work having forgotten how to play, experiment, or trust your instincts. For over a decade she has created experiences that invite people to relax, connect and express themselves, often for the first time since childhood.
As co-founder of The House of Yay she runs events that help teams lower their defences, engage honestly, and reconnect with how they naturally think, collaborate and solve problems, turning fun into a powerful catalyst for awareness, connection and growth.