Mental Wellbeing for Resilient Teams

🎯 Objective
Design and facilitate a half-day immersive lab for senior HR leaders to strengthen emotional resilience, creative alignment, and cross-functional collaboration.

🧩 Approach
Grounded in my PhD research on Design as a Tool for Education, this Art + Meditation Lab combined experiential learning, mindful design, and reflective practice to help participants regulate stress and enhance creative problem-solving.

🔍 Session Highlights
Embrace Discomfort: Color-based icebreaker using non-dominant-hand drawing to expand creative tolerance

Cultivate Presence: Guided meditation and mindful movement to reduce stress and increase focus

Foster Reflection: Collaborative art-making and group debrief to deepen empathy and strengthen communication

📊 Outcomes
100% reported a noticeable decrease in stress
+85% increase in appreciation for cross-team collaboration
Measurable improvements in clarity, creative flow, and alignment

💬 Participant Feedback's
“This methodology was completely new to us—it’s transforming how we collaborate and even how we show up in our personal lives.”
“I was hesitant at first, but now I see how embracing discomfort can unlock creativity and change.”