EXPERIENTIAL
LEARNING
Grace & Steel Associates offers carefully crafted and memorable client experiences that engage, inspire, and thrill, all the while focused on enhancing specific developmental goals such as collaboration, breaking down silos, and reframing.
“Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.”
LEARNING
GAMES
When creating Learning Games©, we looked at various team-building models but kept returning to the one used by the Marines. We asked ourselves, how do drill sergeants at a Marine boot camp shape civilians into a combat unit? Developed by a Navy helicopter pilot, coach, and mountain guide, Learning Games leverages the same cohesion-building techniques that the US military uses in boot camp to create the most elite forces in the world.
Learning Games offers unique opportunities to get outdoors to go canyon running, rock climbing, trekking, catamaran racing, or geocaching to engage in real activity, with purpose, and actual consequences. Participants have a chance to watch each others’ backs on an expedition in the wilderness, going through a ropes course, or literally taking someone else's life in their hands while they belay a teammate, which inevitably leads to insight into character, building respect and trust for each other. Each learning game is to client specifications
Expertly designed to be tailored to clients’ particular goals and personnel so participants can rise to the challenge before them. A Learning Games journey is about rediscovering the authentic self, reconsidering assumptions, reframing, breaking down barriers, and testing one’s mettle while learning and having an adventure of a lifetime!
MUSICAL
ENCOUNTERS
After long periods of concentrating on the task at hand, people become desensitized and lose focus. We know that movement and music improve brain function. So we set our collective mind to creating and delivering creative breaks with a scientific basis to create moments of embodied learning disguised as fun. Partnering with musicians, teachers, and theatre cast members Musical Encounters offers an immersive and interactive series of encounters designed to get people out of their chairs, to experience shared space, exercise creativity, and collaboration muscles while lifting the community through music-making.
BODY PERCUSSION
A range of STOMP-style body and percussion workshops invigorate and energize participants while quietly improving motor skills and cognitive functions. Percussion Encounters© is designed for clients by a former cast member of the International hit show STOMP and his team of musicians and facilitators delivering engaging and memorable sessions using one’s own body. Sessions range in size, can be held in or outdoors, and participation is encouraged since neither musical training nor instruments are needed. Our team sets both the physical and mental stages, starting with concentric circle arrangements designed to create collaboration, synergy, and community as if by magic.
Next, the group is led using tapping, stomping, clapping, snapping, etc. to generate sound, rhythm, melody, and language resulting in improved focus, coordination, memory, movement, and speech. Another exciting aspect of body percussion is the development of self-expression or awareness of self and the group, as facilitators draw on participants’ own ideas to develop skills and knowledge. All are encouraged to express their personality through movement and in relation to the group throughout the session.
DYNAMIC
DIALOGUES
Dynamic Dialogues is an entertaining yet thought provoking event designed to assist organizations large and small to uncover assumptions, behaviors, mental frameworks, unconscious biases, and where there might be common ground. An experiential and interactive group conversation tailored to client objectives while accounting for organizational culture and needs.
Set in a spacious venue, Grace & Steel practitioners shepherd the experience through a series of scripted questions and prompts to generate dialog, discovery, and insight. Individuals answer with their feet, as they move to the corresponding areas of the space assigned to their answers, all the while noticing how interests, priorities, and tribes shift. A Dynamic Dialogue is a journey of discovery of values, goals, similarities, differences, assumptions, awareness, and curiosity, inspiring in-depth conversation to see if there is more that unites us than divides us. For further information, please get in touch with our team here.
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