Thrill facilitates Behind the Mask, Exploring your mask and mask making art therapy for staff self conceptulisation, communication, understanding and inter-connection.
Behind The Mask Team Building / Team Development coupled with Personality Profiling MBTI, DISC or TMS is utilised to create High Performing Teams.
As well as to drive connectivity, vulnerability and creativity within staff to express themselves.
Our Identity formation is an iterative, contextual, socialisation and continual process. Elements of “expressed self” depend on who we are with, what we are doing, and how we might be perceived. Developing the ‘EGO’ and our Self concept’!
Language, ritual, and symbol shape the environment within which professional identity shapes and grows. Hierarchies and hidden curricula can lead to identity dissonance.
Individuals may “abandon” elements of self as sacrifice to their professional responsibilities. Integrating elements of personal and professional identity in a holistic and healthy way may lead to an increased sense of joy, teamwork, and professional satisfaction in the workplace.
Responses to Thrill Behind The Mask staff development exercises include:
“I felt that the mask making process was helpful in providing space and time for genuine conversation with folks with whom I do not get to spend much time.”
“I felt that the conversation that occurred during the painting was as valuable as the mask painting process itself.”
“I felt very connected to the team, since my mask was in a sense also their mask.”
“I thought it was a good way to encourage dialogue and conversation… it was interesting to see how all of our designs coalesced.”
“Group mask making opened possibility of informal conversation about professional development for me to better connect with other staff that I only knew superficially”.
1. Konrad Lippmann Thrill CEO and staff training facilitator writes on The Psychology of Masks
The Psychology Masks resonates with me as i have observed over 300,000 staff over 20+ years on team building programs. All putting on their brave faces, facing up to their fears!
We often hear the quotes and cliches; “It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth”.
“All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain”.
“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great”.
Behind The Mask can be your next unique creative and inspiring staff team building activity. Professionally facilitated by trained team building and MBTI, TMS personality profiling professionals. Where staff or participants are immersed in art therapy techniques to further explore the dichotomy of people’s inner and outer selves.
First, we provide blank white masks for your team. 2 sides to every mask!
Then, employees paint the outside of the masks with images that illustrate how the world sees them and the inside with images that depict how they see themselves.
The masks ultimately reveal insight to your colleagues, igniting conversations where people feel comfortable speaking about themselves.
After the masks are complete, staff hang them up around the office or as a reminder of their journey.
Coming out from behind the mask; some benefits of staff understanding their team identity?
Some benefits of team identity are:
- Heightened commitment to company goals
- Increased trust and cooperation between team members
- Seamless processes to get tasks done
- Decreased conflicts among team members
- Clear idea on team members’ working styles and conflict resolution methods
- Elevated resilience to setbacks
Having a strong sense of team identity gives employees something concrete to buy into, resulting in a greater investment in achieving goals and the well-being of the team. Thus, having a team identity advances team performance and motivation.
What are some facial and body language characteristics of highly effective staff in teams?
Some characteristics of highly effective staff in teams are:
- Team members fulfilled basic needs of communication and working in a team; Australian’s generally have a strong team identity.
- Access to necessary resources that allow staff to be themselves, culturally and socially
- in a Workplace that provides psychological safety
- being a part of the bigger picture Sense of community and pride – satisfaction from their work
- having Defined work roles, goals and processes
- Ability to identity and overcome obstacles and conflict comfortably with confidence and support
- Diversity of thought, allowance of unique personalities and roles
Staff with these characteristics are more likely to succeed at accomplishing their goals without burning out. When building a team, keeping these staff characteristics in mind will help you create the ideal circumstances for happy and high performing teams.
Lets discuss or provide your organisation with a Behind The Mask, free quote for your next conference or staff training program.
Danielle of Bravofit writes; I’d like to do a “behind the mask” activity with our 65 management team members as part of our offsite in October on the Gold Coast. I want the Mask activity to drive connectivity, vulnerability and creativity. I’ve seen where the external reflects how the individual feels externally and the inside of the mask is very personal and sacred to who that individual is at a soul level. Konrad Lippmann Behind The Mask Facilitator and Thrill CEO provides corporations and business teams with quotes and costs on the mask workshops for teams of 16 or more staff starting from $125pp + gst. Larger conference groups may receive a discounted rate.
Background;
Steve Ridgley sums up a mask program in Dandelion.
when a mask might reveal, not conceal…
I had the pleasure of attending a Human Lab recently, where in the midst of some great experiments into being human, we explored working with masks.
If you have seen the excellent ventriloquist comedian Nina Conti you will know part of her act involves applying a partial mask to an audience member. Nina then controls the mouth parts with a remote, so that the individual seems to be agreeing to do something outrageous, or says something inappropriate, even though their body language suggests horror, or disagreement, at the prospect.
It is a clever representation of the power of a mask. The act demonstrates a freedom and what can be possible if we don’t feel seen, whilst juxtaposing the obvious visibility of the individual’s body squirming at what they are saying, through Nina. Simultaneously, the act allows Nina, as the ventriloquist, to say and do things she might never do herself.
In our Lab experiment we saw people assuming the whole character, mannerisms, language, opinions of their ‘character behind the mask’.
A mask, in a sense, gives us permission to be someone else. To reveal a part of ourselves we may normally keep subdued or hidden. It also gives us permission to conceal ourselves behind the mask. Be it gender, ethnicity, geographic origin. We sometimes use non-visual masks too. Hiding behind our organisational or societal status or role.
I wonder what we are capable of if we could wear a mask at will?
What truth would we be able to speak?
What feeling could we emote?
How much more ourselves we might be?
How much might we conceal?
