Art At Work provides arts-based training courses for corporate and professional individuals. The courses do not employ business themes, nor aim to team-build, but focus entirely upon individual response to a hands-on artistic challenge.

Faced with the hands-on, supervised challenge of working in a totally new medium, you will develop confidence in your ability to use your imagination and vision. Creativity, problem solving and stress management all demand a capacity to "not know". Art At Work offers a direct personal experience of "thinking outside the box".

Art At Work courses are "immersion" courses, where participants are "immersed" entirely in the creative process, away from the familiar work environment, actually making an object: creating your own work of art!

As someone who is used to giving instructions, you will have to pay close attention to the artist who is guiding you. The experience emphasises "listening" as a vital part of successful communication.

Participants work with an unfamiliar medium--wood, stone, oils, silver, clay, textiles--and face the challenge of a tactile artistic experience. This challenge develops skills such as adaptability and self-control. The creative process necessitates confident use of the imagination. New skills are discovered in turning vision into reality, making an idea tangible.

The Arts stimulate the mind, challenging thought processes. It is these thought processes--the intellectual capital of individuals--which Art At Work courses address. Art At Work courses challenge participants' views of themselves.

The benefits of the courses emerge when individual participants face and adapt to the challenges presented by working in an unfamiliar medium. The ways in which individuals respond to the artistic challenge are paramount.

These responses are explored, reflected upon and learnt from in daily sessions with qualified art therapists, who are registered with the British Association of Art Therapists.

Positive changes and new ways of thinking are identified. Individuals are encouraged to relate the changes to improvements in the workplace. Creativity is a transferable skill!

The courses take place in areas of outstanding natural beauty throughout the UK and Ireland. High quality accommodation is provided, and all location arrangements are made by Art At Work. You will have an opportunity to learn about the location, each chosen because of an affinity with it that the artist feels. Whether sculpting with Irish 5,000 year-old bogwood in Co. Galway, or working with silver on the Isle of Skye, you will be enjoying a unique life experience that will challenge and benefit you, personally and professionally.