Team bonding usually smells like weak coffee and feels like forced small talk. One moment you’re answering icebreaker questions about your favorite sandwich, the next you’re half-listening to a TED Talk on synergy. Everyone’s counting the minutes until it’s over. But toss all that out the window and hand people some pastels at The Tingology—something shifts. Continue reading!
You’re not in another company-sponsored cage match of charisma. You’re huddled around a table, laughing because your giraffe somehow grew wings. Titles fade. Roles blur. Now, it’s just Paul from accounting asking if anyone’s ever drawn a flamingo wearing boots.
No skill? No problem. That’s half the fun. The person who’s never held anything artsy outside of a whiteboard marker might create the loudest piece in the room. Everyone starts stiff—lines too careful, colors too polite. Then one person gets bold with neon, and someone else adds glitter for no reason. Suddenly, everyone’s leaning in, sharing pastels like candy, cracking jokes.
The instructors? They’re more like friendly ghosts—there when you need them, invisible when you don’t. They don’t tell you how to “improve.” They cheer you on, suggest a little blending here or a splash of chaos there, and let things evolve naturally.
You’ll see quiet types open up without realizing it. Someone who never speaks in meetings tells the table about how they used to doodle on notebook margins as a kid. The room becomes a living mood board of chatter, odd color combos, and inside jokes that weren’t there an hour ago.
This isn’t just for the Monday-to-Friday crew either. Families pile in too. Kids with frosting on their sleeves teach their parents how to smudge clouds. Aunties turn wine into watercolor. Grandparents laugh when their cat drawing looks like a shrimp with ears.
Nobody’s angling for perfection. The goal isn’t a masterpiece—it’s shared time, real moments, zero pretenses. By the time you’re wiping pastel off your fingers, you realize something clicked. Not because someone delivered a moving speech on collaboration, but because someone else painted a dinosaur in a business suit.
You want your team to click? Skip the seminar. Toss the name tags. Just pass the purple.