Collaborative & Creative Team Playdates for Serious Business

Together Culture’s Playdates for Serious Business workshops are purposeful, yet fun ways to invest in the wellbeing of your team. Our Playdate packages provide time to step away from the office, have an adventure with one another, and at the same time develop and enhance creative and collaborative skills to take back to the office.

All proceeds from the Playdates support the development of Together Culture’s systems change incubator, which is how we’ll take action to develop a more inclusive and ecological creative economy.

Learn what to expect from Playdates for Serious Business

Together Culture is building a community and together, we’re working towards opening an affordable creative workspace that houses more than 100 artists and entrepreneurs and has programmes and facilities for every creative soul in Cambridge to connect, gather and make a meaningful contribution to developing a more inclusive and ecological creative economy.  

Facilities alone aren’t going to change life in our city. If we want different outcomes, we need new skills to build different systems. We all need to use creative and collaborative skills in everything we do from parenting to accounting to painting. Every programme and event that Together Culture runs is based on a method to build creative and collaborative muscles. Our ‘Living Book’ is our toolkit for wholehearted living and building a collaborative creative practice.

Art Studio Playdate /
The Story of Us

The Story of Us Playdate is designed to enhance your team’s collaborative power! Working with a Together Culture conversation leader and an artist, your team will explore how failure, learning, creativity, and wellbeing intersect and by the end of the session, you’ll have written a team story to take back to the office that can be used as a framework for how your team can work more innovatively. You’ll also commission a work of art that captures your story in portrait form (on a mannequin!) 

The workshop begins with an exploration of creativity through the lens of writing our CV of Failures, inspired by a Princeton Professor’s viral posting of all the jobs he didn’t get, all the grants he didn’t receive, all the papers he didn’t get published. This activity gets people laughing, sharing, practicing active listening, and learning new tools for reflection.  

After we’ve written our individual CV’s we’ll use our Team Wheel method to write a team story. We’ll see what values, standards, experiences, expectations are common threads in all the stories and set forth a framework for developing a more creative culture back at work. Then, the team will co-create with a visual artist to commission a portrait of your team story. The portrait will be completed one month after the session and the co-created commission will live in your office. We’ll finish with a toast to life as art! 

Running time: 2.5 hours 

Cost: £750, plus VAT (For 10 participants. More participants can be accommodated at an additional cost)

Location: Your workplace 


Session includes:

  • CV of Failure Session & CV of Failure ‘collages’ to take back to the office

  • Team Story Session & Team Story ‘collage’ to take back to the office

  • Team Portrait Commission to take back to the office

  • Digital copies of The Living Book for all participants 

  • 1 year of individual membership to Together Culture for all team participants

  • Refreshments, including a fizzy toast

Email heather@togetherculture.com to discuss your requirements.

Together Culture Founding
Corporate Membership

Our Founding Corporate Membership provides you with inclusive opportunities to unlock the creative potential of your employees and bring more innovation into your business. Our Founding team will work with you over your membership year to deliver your benefits.

Silver Corporate Membership Package:

£5,000 per annum plus VAT

  • 25 memberships to Together Culture for employees, providing a full year of access to events and skills-building opportunities, and including 25 copies of the Living Book.

  • 2 Living Book workshops in the workplace or at the Together Culture Studio to help your team become more innovative and creative, including our popular CV of Failure Writing Party.

  • Design a Team Portrait. Create a work of art to be added to your corporate collection.

  • 25 memberships to Together Culture for a charity or community organisation/s of your choice and / or for Together Culture to provide through our partnership network.

  • Acknowledgement as a Founding Partner in our annual report, on our website, and in marketing materials.

Gold Corporate Membership Package:

£10,000 per annum plus VAT

  • 40 memberships to Together Culture for employees, providing a full year of access to events and skills-building opportunities, and including 40 copies of the Living Book.

  • 4 Living Book workshops in the workplace or at the Together Culture Studio to help your team become more innovative and creative including our popular CV of Failure Writing Party. The series will be developed as a course with a bespoke goal for your company.

  • Design a Team Portrait. Create a work of art to be added to your corporate collection.

    Plus, 1 customised co-design or co-creation session in the workplace to help your team build collaborative skills and to scope out a solution to a current workplace challenge.

  • 40 memberships to Together Culture for a charity or community organisation/s of your choice and / or for Together Culture to provide through our partnership network.

  • Acknowledgement as a Founding Partner in our annual report, on our website, and in marketing materials.