Unwind.
Rest and release after a long run, designed rather than left to chance. Mild movement and stretching to live ambient music, singing together, the Art Chair, karaoke, and a 90 minute performance blending live and electronic music.
What happens.
Most organisations already know that a team which has just finished something long needs to come down before it starts the next thing. What usually gets offered is a party, which is not recovery, and a day off, which is not shared. Unwind is built for the gap between them.
It opens at four with mild movement and stretching to live ambient music. No instruction that requires fitness, no sequence anyone can fail. The point is to get several hundred people breathing at a slower rate in the same place, which changes a room faster than anything anyone says in it.
Then singing together, which does the bonding work that the evidence supports most strongly, and does it at scale. The bonding effect survives large groups, which is why this format holds at 100 and at 400.
The Art Chair follows. A randomly chosen participant takes the chair and offers one act, whatever they have: a song, a poem, a joke, a memory, a skill nobody at work knew about. It is the part people talk about afterwards, because an organisation almost never sees its own people this way. Karaoke opens it out to everybody who wants it.
The evening closes with a 90 minute performance blending live and electronic music, so that the night ends with the group as an audience together rather than dispersing into small conversations.
At a glance.
| Learning need | Rest and release after a long run. In a budget line: recovery, re engagement and burnout prevention. |
| Who it is for | Large teams, 100 and more. It scales upward comfortably. |
| Format | One evening, 4pm to midnight. |
| Group size | 100 and more. |
| Where | Your venue, indoor or outdoor, with a stage or a stage area and sound. |
| Prior experience | None. Nothing is graded. |
What we measure
Recovery is a legitimate category of its own, separate from learning, and it is measured on its own terms: detachment and relaxation reported at seven days rather than satisfaction reported on the night.
Where a client wants it, salivary cortisol before and after.
What we do not claim
We do not claim that an evening prevents burnout. Burnout is produced by workload and job design, and an evening does not touch either.
We do not claim it is a substitute for rest. It is a designed recovery event, which is a different thing from time off and does not replace it.
The full evidence base, including the claims we have retired, is published here.
Recovery is a category of its own, and it is worth designing rather than leaving to a bar tab.
Eight people, one room, no preparation.