ART CAFE - Johannesburg

Samantha Davis, founder of Art-Cafe qualified in London as an Art Psychotherapist in 2000, following which returned to South Africa to work in the private and corporate sector. Her experiences brought her to the realization that there were many different corporate teambuilding programmes in the market who offered fun and exciting experiences, but very few that could offer a creative approach with a therapeutic background that left the corporate group with a meaningful and useful experience to take back to the work place. She realized that there was a real need for teams to get to know each other in a way that could enhance communication and motivation in the workplace. Her vision was thus to address this gap in the market and develop various corporate products and services which  

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offered value and understanding in the execution of the workshops, thereby geared toward developing individuals and building teams. The underlying thinking and awareness is that groups of people are made up of indivi- duals with unique personalities and strengths who are placed together in the workplace to form a greater and more powerful sum of its parts – that is a unified whole who inter-dependently work together. The advantage of utilizing a psychological background is that the experienced facilitators have a thorough working understanding of interactive groups and can use this experience in channelling and directing the creative work in an informal yet meaningful and productive manner. Art-Cafe’s key values are self expression, communication, understanding, support and development.