Team Development Workshops In Essex

Immersive Experiences Combined With Facilitated Discussion

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Our team development workshops combine immersive VR challenges with professional facilitation from occupational psychologist Mike Culley, helping organisations understand how their teams communicate, make decisions and collaborate under pressure.

Participants explore communication, leadership and decision-making through shared experiences.

We work with organisations across Essex as well as teams in London and the wider South East.

Workshops are tailored to your organisation and can incorporate VR challenges, Time Crimes puzzles, or a combination of both.

A group of five people each wearing virtual reality headsets and holding controllers, playing a VR game in a colorful arcade with a "VR ESCAPE" sign on the back wall.

"I'll remember how we've had to work as a team to solve the problems. I'll also remember getting attacked by a VR shark!"

Emily K, BPSL

Who Are These Team Events For?

This option tends to work particularly well when:

  • a leadership or management team want to reflect on how they make decisions together

  • a newly formed team needs to understand how its members naturally collaborate and make decisions

  • an organisation wants a team event that includes structured learning rather than just entertainment

  • departments that don’t normally work closely together need a shared problem-solving experience

  • a company is investing in developing communication, leadership or collaboration within its teams

The bespoke workshops are ideal if you want your team event to deliver genuine learning rather than just entertainment. It works particularly well for leadership teams, project groups and departments that want to improve how they communicate, make decisions and collaborate under pressure.

Using the VR challenge and/or Time Crimes as a focal point, occupational psychologist Mike Culley helps teams step back and reflect on how they approach problems, how they communicate, and what insights that reveals about how they work together day-to-day. The result is a session that is both engaging and genuinely useful, giving teams practical insights they can take straight back into the workplace.

team work in virtual reality protecting each other with bows and arrows during a vr team challenge

Team members protect each other in a VR session

Mike Culley working with a team in an office environment during a team development workshop

Mike Culley (C.Psychol. AFBPsS) working with a team

A team working on Time Crimes puzzles in their office, a perfect team collaboration exercise

A team in their office, busy solving Time Crimes

Typical Outcomes for Teams

Teams typically leave the workshop with:

  • clearer communication when solving complex problems

  • better awareness of how decisions are made under pressure

  • stronger collaboration between departments

  • improved understanding of leadership dynamics within the group

  • practical insights that can be applied immediately back in the workplace

"The workshop around the psychology of team communication will be invaluable to the day to day running of the surgery. Also loved the VR far more than I expected!"

Charlotte W, Puzey Practices.

Ready to Plan a Workshop for Your Team?

If you'd like to explore how this could work for your organisation, tell us a little about your team and we'll suggest the best format

FORMATS and PRICING

At our venue:

  • Half-day Workshop from £1495

  • Full-day Workshop from £2195

  • Ideal for groups of 12 - 24

At your venue:

  • Half-day Workshop from £1695

  • Full-day Workshop from £2395

  • Ideal for groups of 12 - 48

(Long term projects & multi-day events also undertaken. Please enquire below.)

YOUR HOST

Mike Culley

(C.Psychol. AFBPsS) Chartered, Occupational and Applied Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society

As an experienced applied psychologist, your host Mike Culley brings the latest solutions from the science to help you develop your teams and enhance your organisation. He has been working in the field of organisational and business change and development for 30 years, undertaking recruitment and selection, team building, training and development for organisations including local authorities, the NHS, and companies ranging from small local businesses to multinationals.

​By deploying a wide range of applied and practical psychology tools, Mike works to help your organisation by developing the people that work within it. Whether it be improving key skills, overcoming internal challenges and conflict, or enhancing already well-formed teams, your bespoke workshop will be put together with your specific goal targeted.

PLAN YOUR TEAM EVENT

Tell us about your team and we'll recommend the most suitable workshop format.