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Creative & Innovate Workshops

Updated: Aug 18, 2023

Team-Building for today's challenge


Introduction

Companies seeking innovative solutions to empower their workforce are about to uncover the science behind our method—a new creative approach that supports organizations and leaders.


Quick Navigation: 1. Science 2.Our method 3.Benefits 4.Conclusion



Overcoming the Challenge


How do you engage, energize, and unite exhausted and depleted employees to deliver extraordinary results?


1. Science behind our method

Championing our best selves becomes a challenge when our brains are depleted. Although our brain constitutes only 2% of our body weight, it consumes 20% of our daily energy reserves.

Exhaustion impairs our brain's executive function—a collection of mental skills including working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. These skills are crucial for learning, working, and daily life management. The impaired executive function makes it difficult to focus, follow directions, and regulate emotions.


Research reveals that specific hormones are released during various situations. For instance, when mammals connect, our brain releases oxytocin, fostering trust, rapport, and bonding. This surge in dopamine enhances motivation, creativity, ingenuity, and goal orientation.


Connecting with story characters prompts the release of oxytocin, known as the "bonding" hormone. Stories cultivate emotion and togetherness, creating deeper connections. Stories make us feel part of something larger than ourselves.



Engaging narratives capture attention and enhance message absorption compared to plain facts and figures.


Imagination enhances brain function, generating ideas through various senses, with visualization playing a pivotal role. Imagination boosts brainpower, encouraging unconventional thinking, especially when immersed in a story.


Positive, Defining, and Lasting Impact


Our method merges the benefits of storytelling and role-playing techniques, fostering a positive, defining, and enduring connection among participants.


In a fictional realm, participants describe character actions through speech. Their choices shape quest outcomes based on formal rules. Within these rules, freedom to improvise empowers creativity, directing quests to integrate culture and objectives.


Actions impacting the story release dopamine when possibilities emerge, while successful outcomes boost serotonin, enhancing belief, confidence, and well-being.


2. The Science Behind Our Method


Championing our best selves becomes a challenge when our brains are depleted. Although our brain constitutes only 2% of our body weight, it consumes 20% of our daily energy reserves.


Exhaustion impairs our brain's executive function—a collection of mental skills including working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. These skills are crucial for learning, working, and daily life management. The impaired executive function makes it difficult to focus, follow directions, and regulate emotions.


Research reveals that specific hormones are released during various situations. For instance, when mammals connect, our brain releases oxytocin, fostering trust, rapport, and bonding. This surge in dopamine enhances motivation, creativity, ingenuity, and goal orientation.

Connecting with story characters prompts the release of oxytocin, known as the "bonding" hormone. Stories cultivate emotion and togetherness, creating deeper connections. Stories make us feel part of something larger than ourselves.


Engaging narratives capture attention and enhance message absorption compared to plain facts and figures.


Imagination enhances brain function, generating ideas through various senses, with visualization playing a pivotal role. Imagination boosts brainpower, encouraging unconventional thinking, especially when immersed in a story.

3. Benefits the method offers:

  • A platform to establish new bonds and practice social skills with colleagues

  • Enhanced empathy for diverse lifestyles and perspectives

  • Development of strategic and critical-thinking skills through complex problem-solving

  • Expansion of group abilities in understanding and imaginative problem-solving

  • A safe, creative environment for stepping outside comfort zones

  • Exploration of limitless possibilities through diverse scenarios and concepts

  • Freedom to imagine and share solutions to challenges

  • Collaboration, shared goals, stories, and memories

  • Building self-confidence, resilience, and deepening group connections



4. Conclusion

Our Inner Quest Motivation Method™ (IQMM) focuses on individual motivation and team collaboration, utilizing role-playing and storytelling to develop skills, behaviors, and mindsets.


Quests-Inc, a coaching, mentoring, and team-building consultancy with a creative and innovative edge, enhances motivation, collaboration, and business performance.


Is your team missing shared experiences and purpose? We have quests to address that.

Facing social dissolution within your organization? We have quests for that too.

Launching a new key player in your organization? Our quests kick-start collaborations.


Contact your Lead Storyteller and Quest Master today to unleash your creative economy through immersive leadership and team-building workshops.


Quick Navigation: 1. Science 2.Our method 3.Benefits 4.Conclusion


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