Collabinart® is a is a lightweight, freely-licensed, empirical training and team-building framework for use with new and existing teams who want a fun, engaging way to build their collaboration skills through interpreting famous, painted artwork.
Use Collabinart to prepare a new team for their journey together, or to improve an existing team’s communication and collaboration skills.
Collabinart relies on four core values to guide the experience. These values are
Working Collectively
over working individually
Asking and Listening
over telling and persuading
Being Open-minded
over being self-assured
Collaborating
over commanding
Collabinart® is not a traditional game with winners and losers. Collabinart is a collaboration experience that fosters appreciation of team member diversity, so the whole team can leverage that diversity to build better things together.
Collabinart has only four basic rules:
- No smartphones!
- Everyone contributes
- Support your assertions
- Don’t use “OR”
Collabinart’s purpose is not to learn how art experts interpret famous artwork. Instead, Collabinart gives members of a team a fun, immersive way of listening and sharing with one another, being enlightened about their diverse perspectives, and, together, collaborating as a team to create great things together.
Use Collabinart anytime you want to use a fun, team-building experience to emphasize the importance of sharing diverse perspectives, team collaboration, and consensus-building.
In Collabinart, the Docent asks each team member to answer Two Key Questions:
What do you see?
How do you see it?
Firstly, Exponents (that is, team members who expound) individually create their answers to these Two Key Questions. Then, Exponents collectively share their answers in small cohorts of three-to-five-people, and listen to other cohort members’ answers.
Through this exercise, team members employ collaboration techniques so they create a unified, harmonized, team-based interpretation for the displayed artwork that converges individual perspectives.