TEAM DEVELOPMENT DAYS
worth leaving the office for
BENEFITS
What's in it for you:
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Fresh perspectives
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More possibilities
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Insight into patterns
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Greater ownership
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Practical takeaways
What's in it for your organisation:
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More ownership
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More adaptability
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More possibilities
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More energy, less stress
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More independent thinking
Duration Group size Location Investment
1 day 6 - 14 participants THE ARK OF, The Hague € 395 p.p. excl. VAT
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM · Excl. VAT · Introductory rate including venue, programme, lunch, coffee and tea · Larger groups on request.
Contact us via noah@thearkof.art or +316 2911 1776.
'Not your typical training session, but an inspiring day filled with fresh insights, creative challenges and practical ideas to put into action.'
THREE PROGRAMMES TO STRENGTHEN YOUR CREATIVE CAPITAL
MORE POSSIBLE, MORE POWER Personal development: see more possibilities and expand the choices you make. A situation seems to offer only two options, a decision feels inevitable or a familiar obstacle becomes a fact. And before we know it, we are operating inside a set of limitations that may be much less fixed than we think. This team day is about creating more mental and practical space. You will explore how assumptions shape the way you see a situation, how to distinguish real obstacles from perceived ones, and how shifting perspective can reveal possibilities you hadn't considered before. Not to see endless possibilities, but to see where you actually have room to choose, influence and act. AI provides an interesting backdrop: when technology can generate more and more possibilities for us, the valuable human skill is not simply producing more ideas. It is knowing which questions to ask, what matters, what is actually possible and what you choose to do with it.
SAME TEAM, DIFFERENT PATTERN Team development: break patterns, see new possibilities and create change together. Every team develops patterns. People fall into roles. Meetings start to run in familiar ways. Certain ideas are welcomed; others are dismissed before they are fully explored. And phrases like “that won't work here” can gradually become unwritten rules. But a pattern is not necessarily a problem. The question is whether your team still chooses it. SAME TEAM, DIFFERENT PATTERN is a one-day team programme about recognising the patterns that shape how you work together ánd discovering what becomes possible when you deliberately step outside them. We look at roles, assumptions, team myths, unwritten rules and different perspectives. Not to analyse the team endlessly, but to create enough distance to see what is really happening and experiment with doing something differently. The approach: change the angle, question the obvious, take something familiar out of context and see what happens. The goal is not to become a completely different team by 4 p.m. It is to leave seeing more possibilities, with greater awareness of your collective patterns and concrete choices about what to keep and what to do differently.
OUT OF THE BOX LEADERSHIP Leadership: see what others may not, make conscious choices and create movement. What does a situation require from a leader? What changes when you look at leadership from a different perspective? In this one-day programme, you’ll explore leadership through real situations rather than fixed leadership styles or models. You’ll work with cases, unexpected perspectives and challenges that deliberately take you out of your usual approach. What if your own approach is part of the problem? What if you look at the situation from a completely different perspective? And what happens when you stop automatically doing what you've always done? By questioning familiar responses, exploring new possibilities and making conscious choices, you discover how to create movement when people or situations get stuck. By switching perspectives and experimenting with different responses, you discover how much more room there can be in a situation than you initially thought. And how to bring about behavioural change within yourself or others. The aim is not to find the one right leadership style. It is to become more flexible in choosing what the situation actually needs and to recognise when your own assumptions are getting in the way. The instrument you bring to every situation is yourself. The more consciously you use it, the more options you'll have.
Small groups. One day. No PowerPoint marathon. Plenty of new perspectives, energy and ideas to take back to work.
Working language: Dutch. English on request.
Not sure which one fits your team? Let's talk about your team!
noah@thearkof.art or
06 29111776
HOW WE WORK
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START WITH YOUR TEAM
Every team is different. Our programmes are designed with this in mind, so you can simply book the programme that best suits your team. Is there something specific going on in your team, or would you like us to take particular goals or challenges into account? Just let us know by email, or we can schedule a short conversation beforehand. We'll use your input to make the day even more relevant to your team.
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A DAY AT THE ARK OF
Then we get to work. In our working art studio, we use a mix of exercises, creative challenges and conversations to challenge familiar ways of thinking, open up new possibilities and translate insights into your everyday work. Expect a day that is thought-provoking, active and energising, and genuinely enjoyable to spend together.
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ONE MONTH LATER
A good team day shouldn't end when everyone walks out the door. One month later, we reconnect to see what has changed, what has actually been put into practice and where old patterns may have crept back in. The goal: to help turn a great day into change that lasts.
MEET NOAH
THE ARK OF was founded by Noah van Klaveren, artist, writer and trainer. For over twenty years, she has worked across different creative disciplines while facilitating workshops and programmes in personal development.
Her multidisciplinary background, spanning visual art, writing, design and working with people and organisations gives her an unusually broad range of perspectives to draw from. She brings these worlds together at THE ARK OF, using the artist's instinct to question the obvious, make unexpected connections and see possibilities others may overlook. She translates that into experiences that people can actually use in daily work.
The programmes take place in her vibrant working art studio in The Hague: a setting designed to get people out of their usual environment and their usual way of thinking.
Human creativity matters more than ever
One-day team experiences that open up new possibilities
When people stop seeing possibilities, organisations stop moving. Assumptions go unquestioned. Initiative gets shut down by ‘this is just how we do things’. Good people lose energy, new possibilities go unseen and untapped potential stays exactly that: untapped. In a world where AI can generate ideas and answers in seconds, organisations need human creativity more than ever: people who think independently, challenge the obvious, see what could be different and take ownership of making it happen. People who experience more possibility, and influence at work are better equipped to stay engaged and resilient when work gets demanding.
Your creative capital is what AI can't replace: the human ability to question, imagine, choose and create change. Through our team training and team development programmes, we strengthen precisely those human capabilities.