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Team Building and Speaking Engagements

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Team Building

Creative, Experiential Learning for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

 

I offer team building experiences and speaking engagements that blend expressive arts, reflective dialogue, and experiential learning to support connection, communication, and resilience. These offerings are designed for workplaces, organizations, schools, conferences, retreats, and community groups seeking meaningful, human-centered engagement.

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Rather than focusing solely on performance outcomes, these sessions invite participants to slow down, engage creatively, and explore how individual experience, collaboration, and shared values shape collective well-being.

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Creative team building sessions use creative problem-solving and exploration (escape room's, murder mystery's created specifically for team building and support), etc. art-making, metaphor, movement, sound, and facilitated reflection to support:

  • Trust and psychological safety

  • Communication and collaboration

  • Nervous-system regulation and stress awareness

  • Problem-solving through creative thinking

  • Inclusion, empathy, and shared understanding

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Activities are accessible, non-technical, and adaptable for all comfort levels, no art experience required. Sessions can be light and playful or deeper and reflective, depending on the needs of the group.

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Formats include:

  • One-time workshops

  • Half-day or full-day retreats

  • Ongoing series

  • Indoor or outdoor experiences

  • Tailor made for each organization 

Speaking Engagements

All speaking engagements are customized to align with organizational goals, group size, time frame, and cultural context. Care is taken to create spaces that are inclusive, respectful, and supportive, while remaining engaging and impactful.

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Types of Speaking Engagements Offered

  • Inspirational & Resilience Talks – Stories of healing, creativity, trauma recovery, and navigating life after medical crisis or major change.

  • Art Therapy–Focused Presentations – The role of creative process in emotional regulation, trauma healing, disability, grief, and identity.

  • Music & Sound in Healing – Using voice, rhythm, and instruments to support nervous system regulation and emotional integration.

  • Expressive Arts Workshops – Interactive sessions integrating visual art, movement, writing, and sound for personal and collective wellbeing.

  • Thesis-Based & Research Presentations – Multi-modal healing, community art practices, and integrative therapeutic frameworks.

  • Mental Health Education – Trauma-informed care, disability awareness, burnout prevention, caregiver stress, and compassionate workplace practices.

  • Art Therapy Training & Professional Development – For clinicians, educators, and healthcare teams.

  • Community & Cultural Wellness Talks – Healing through story, ritual, art, and connection.

© 2026 by Nicole Bodnaresk

We invite you to take a moment to place your feet on the ground beneath you and notice your connection to the land.

As you arrive here, consider your relationship with the land and how it supports you, how it holds you, grounds you, and allows you to move through your life.

We offer my gratitude to the land we live on, which makes it possible for us to walk, ground, and express ourselves.

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We are located on Treaty 6 Territory, a traditional meeting ground and home to many Indigenous Peoples, including the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Nakoda Nations, Nakota Sioux, and the Métis Nation. We also acknowledge the broader lands of Turtle Island, recognizing that many who engage in this work may come from different territories.

We are committed, through our daily actions and practice, to honouring this land and the Indigenous Peoples who have cared for it since time immemorial and who continue to be its stewards.

We are grateful for the teachings and practices we have been welcomed into, many of which have supported our own healing. We hold deep respect for their origins, recognizing that these practices are sacred.

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We also acknowledge the history and ongoing impacts of colonization, where many of these teachings were suppressed and taken from Indigenous Peoples. With this awareness, we approach this work with humility, respect, and gratitude.

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