The Mind Gallery

Earlier this year we were faced with the challenge of launching a new Vision & Mission for our Retail business. We wanted to launch it in a creative, innovative way that would be memorable and stick with all our staff. The Mind Gallery provided the perfect solution and our staff painted our Vision and Mission in a session that was both fun and engaging with the desired business theme. Our team including me, created a giant painting that now hangs in our entrance foyer. The painting embodies our Vision and Mission in an enduring way and all our staff feel proud of it. Importantly our staff feel they were part of something special. Mind Gallery delivered the goods and I would highly recommend them to anyone.

Our company used the Mind Gallery at our Strategy Conference. The end result of three hours of fun and involvement was a great work of art, depicting our new systems environment of the future. Every person was fully involved and contributing, regardless of their ability to paint. It was challenging but non-threatening as the professional artist guided our sketching to be creative and meaningful. The "wow" factor came when the pre-cut pieces that the groups had painted were put together on the floor into the desired shape - the explanations of each piece and the synergy of the combined art were great outcomes. The framed finished painting hangs in our meeting room and is used in our change management bulletins as a logo throughout the project. Mind Gallery delivered what was promised and the team members loved doing a team-building event that tapped their creative brains.

As a spectacular thought provoker is has definitely serviced one of its purposes. On a personal level let me say that we thoroughly enjoyed the exercise and the way that you went about taking us through it. It was good fun, the more so when you moved us out of our comfort zones into less familiar ways of thinking.

Creating a symbol of our future has helped us on our journey to align our leaders with our new business strategy. It was a fun, highly creative and interactive way to bring over 300 leaders together to pictorially represent our vision and values. We have used the image in our communications as a 'permanent' reminder of what we can achieve as a team. The Mind Gallery team were professional and in keeping with the theme, business orientated with a great sense of fun!

The success of the club is the combined effect of each individual. The Mind Gallery is a great way to harness the passion and vision of each player and unite them to create a strong and lasting visual trigger for the entire team.

The Mind Gallery painting session was a great way to finish off our two day conference in a fun, relaxed environment and offered us a chance to show off our creative side while working together effectively as a team. We are very proud of our finished pieces and have displayed them in each of our interstate offices as a permanent reminder of our team's story.

The Mind Gallery brings an experience like no other. The concept of introducing fun and art to focus on all or part of your business is at first quite a daunting prospect, but once underway our 250 delegates embraced the concept as their ideas flowed freely towards the ultimate outcome – a descriptive work of art encapsulating their beliefs about their company.
It is brilliant in concept and beautifully managed by The Mind Gallery team.

A truly unique and effective method of driving a Team Strategy. What makes it different than traditional approaches like 'brain storming' is the hands on interaction and the ability to express and visualize the result. A strategy represented by art and created by your own team is worth 10,000 words! We are certainly more likely to remember what our strategy is and why it is important with a picture than with a bunch of words on paper.

Thanks to the Mind Gallery we have on our wall a permanent reminder of our creative partnership and shared vision we have with Telstra. It has been a talking point for many around the office.
Thank you for the interactive and enjoyable experience.

In 2010 Elite Customer Solutions asked the Mind Gallery to assist in the development of a new Vision statement to energise, align and engage the 400 strong team. The key focus for this activity was to access the ideas and energy of every employee to ensure the new Vision statement captured the hearts and minds of every team member and provided a clear pathway to a successful future.

I am pleased to say the Vision workshops, and the ultimate painting activity that resulted in a beautiful piece of art to express the Vision were a resounding success. The gasps and applause were audible when the Vision and the artwork were finally revealed - it is wonderful to see the energy of the organisation lead forward as a result.

In a recent survey over 80% of respondents indicated this Vision was understood and applied to the work they undertook - across the organisation we have seen many teams adopt their own usage for the Vision and the art - this is true success.

Many thanks to the Mind Gallery team for their expertise, commitment and creativity - a job well done!

The Mind Gallery presented a wonderful opportunity for team building and bonding in a creative and non-stereotypical way. Our team learnt a lot but also had loads of laughs. A very successful exercise for all concerned.

Just try to imagine the senior finance staff at Australia Post dressed in smocks and preparing a significant piece of art. Not easy, but successfully orchestrated by the team at the Mind Gallery. We were able to represent the "Mission and Vision" of the Finance and Services Division in a way that ensured better understanding and commitment but also in a way that is now clearly visible to all. Apart from that we had a lot of fun. Highly recommended."

We found the process very beneficial and the final art piece very professional. All participants rated the conference excellent. Some of the comments on the evaluations sheets were…
What a terrific idea, Fantastic Outcome,  Unbelievably creative, Can’t wait to see it hanging, Very good,  Excellent, Fantastic

Our aim in using the services of the Mind Gallery was to get the team focused on our collective purpose and values and to build skills in communication, collaboration along the way. The art connection worked brilliantly by triggering a creative capacity that people didn’t; know they had.

It instantly linked themes and ideas that have stayed with people long after the conference. The tangible reminder in the artwork on the office wall delivers on the promise. Congratulations and thanks Mind Gallery

The Mind Gallery experience was a very creative, lively and fun way to explore the meaning of, and share with others our sense of, the organisation's values. The process worked very well - even those of us who felt we had very little artistic ability to offer were able to produce something we are proud of. We have a wonderful piece of art on display which provides us with a constant reminder of the values and which is a great conversation piece for us and our clients and visitors.

We engaged the Mind Gallery to assist us in bringing together a disparate group of highly skilled people from business and technology teams. While there was initial trepidation (creativity isn’t our strong suit!), our people responded really well to the cleverly engineered session. Once smocked-up, the creative juices flowed and our masterpiece is now proudly on display in the newly formed Management Information Competency Centre. I can highly recommend the Mind Gallery as something right out of the box to build team rapport, develop a vision, and have a great time along the way.

We had the pleasure of working with the Mind Gallery in 2007 as part of our HR Team Offsite in 2007. As a team we wanted to explore through images our identity and the value we bring to the business. The image itself was not as important as the creation – of having everyone contribute to, and provide insights into the way in which we engage and partner with our business. We brain stormed ideas and generated words that best describes us and then set about deconstructing the traditional methods of representing these words to bring out the uniqueness and personality of the team. Our final image is one that captures our essence - warm, rich reds and vibrant colours representing the passion and strength of the group. The team thoroughly enjoyed the experience, it was loads of fun and our memento is proudly featured in one of our main HR training room.

The whole experience exceeded my expectations. The workshop itself was motivating and informative. A real added bonus was having a permanent reminder of our values and not to forget beautiful art piece to hang in the foyer. We regularly give clients a tour of our offices and take great pleasure in telling the story behind the picture.