Live Virtual Activities & Workshops

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Just like in-person functions, the engagement rates of virtual gatherings can be brought to the next level with interactive activities and workshops.

From the comfort of their own homes, employees can participate in customized workshops led by TED speakers, yoga and meditation instructors, musical performers, wine connoisseurs, leadership facilitators and more.

From 10 minute energy-boosting sessions to immersive multi-day workshops, these activities not only maintain productivity and team dynamics, but also provide groups with an opportunity for social interaction to eliminate the sense of isolation while working remotely.

Enjoy a highly curated selection of virtual activity & workshop providers that specialize in keeping your team connected, energized and inspired while working remotely!

We have preferential arrangements with the virtual experience providers we work with to give you the best possible rates.

ARE VIRTUAL MEETINGS & EVENTS RIGHT FOR YOU?

With the unfortunate spread of COVID-19 taking centre stage globally, organizations are quickly adopting remote work plans help maintain communication, productivity, and team chemistry.

For those feeling disconnected from their peers in these trying times, virtual meetings and events present the opportunity to foster a sense of cohesiveness.

Participants from any region can come together using live video and audio to brainstorm ideas, learn new skills, have in depth discussions, and preserve productivity.

A major benefit of virtual meetings and events is their ability to be budget friendly. With no venue or catering required, overhead costs are kept to a minimum while travel costs are non-existent.

Some companies have reservations when it comes to using video conferencing and live streaming, often associating them with one-sided conversations that lack engagement, participation, and personal connection. However, with today’s ever-growing technological advances, virtual meetings and events can be extremely interactive and appealing.

Fun Team Building Activities

Led by the GTA’s top bartenders, teams will learn unique flair tricks and create specialty cocktails, all from the comfort of their own home.
Laughter Yoga is a mind-body combination of clapping, laughter exercises, deep breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques to enhance health and happiness.
Enjoy an energizing workshop that will activate creativity, collaboration, and positive reinforcement for remote teams through improvisation, interactive games, and rehearsing heart-centered communication.
Led by experienced songwriters, You Write the Song is a creative group activity that uses music to reinforce key meeting themes and build camaraderie.
A collaborative, app-based scavenger hunt designed to be played at home in real-time together with your co-workers. Individuals can show off their flair and creativity while demonstrating superior knowledge.
Using icebreaker games, logic puzzles, and interactive challenges, groups are led through a series of fun exercises aimed at bringing out the best in everyone and keeping your people connected while working remotely.
Through simple, art-based exercises groups can learn strategies for igniting the creative side of the brain for better problem solving, communication, and brainstorming.
In a Playback Theatre Performance, audience members are invited to share stories and watch as Branch Out Theatre’s actors and musician play them back on the spot!
Deeply Connected Teams uses a mix of fun, playful activities, and facilitated conversations to help your team quickly break down barriers, build rapport, and create a strong bond with each other.
In this interactive, virtual team building activity, the excitement of an escape game helps your team transfer important lessons in teamwork to your ongoing collaboration and communication.
A two-hour virtual photo and video ‘scavenger hunt’ that tests participants’ creativity, problem-solving, innovation, and teamwork skills all from the comfort of their home.
Add FAME and FUN to your next online corporate event, meeting, or conference by inviting VIP’s and celebrities to entertain, inspire, and interact with your team for an unforgettable virtual experience.
Have you ever wondered why improv actors are so quick on their feet? They train their brains to be better listeners, more agile in the moment and better collaborators. Using improv-based training, participants will practice communication and improve their business leadership skills.
FUNdamentals of Play uses the power of play to teach the science behind effective storytelling so employees can successfully connect and engage with others.
In this experiential team building playshop, teams will use improv’s signature “yes, and…” communication tool to retrain the brain for better problem solving, collaboration, and relationships.
Beverley Street Group offers facilitated ice breaker activities and trivia games that are sure to keep your remote team connected in a casual setting. Perfect for onboarding new hires, strengthening team culture, and establishing strong relationships, between colleagues.
Unique, light-hearted, and creative challenges activated on a daily or weekly basis that are sure to keep peoples’ minds curious and open, activate their social skills, and energize their bodies.
Through the power of PLAY, the Teamwork PLAYshop trains groups to use positivity, connection and communication as keys to building successful teams and relationships
Escape the monotony of working from home with games and activities that are a pure adrenaline shot of FUN and CONNECTION.

Keep Up Productivity

Executive Coach and Communications Expert, Céline Williams, trains teams to give and receive feedback in a constructive way so that they can have more effective and productive conversations.
Have you ever wondered why improv actors are so quick on their feet? They train their brains to be better listeners, more agile in the moment and better collaborators. The Adventure Project uses improv-based training to practice communication and improve your team's business leadership skills.
Deeply Connected Teams uses a mix of fun, playful activities, and facilitated conversations to help your team quickly break down barriers, build rapport, and create a strong bond with each other.
This professionally facilitated Interactive Workshop is carefully designed to help empower your people, strengthen teams and skills, and boost your business.
DRŌM Practice and PeopleBrain are here to keep your team positive and productive by helping them build their own customized Productivity Tackle Box.
In this incredibly training session participants will discover valuable tools and lessons for communicating effectively and with different personalities so authentic relationships can form.
In times of adversity, there are opportunities to demonstrate leadership and inspire others. Leaders of the Day provides tangible tools and strategies for self-care, creativity, and resourcefulness when faced with uncertainty.
Teams will participate in exercises to strengthen their Remotional Intelligence, the application of Emotional Intelligence in a remote workplace, and learn strategies to improve interactions, connections, and communication.
MentorU‘s Jay Gosselin works with current and aspiring leaders to explore the essential needs that inspire motivation, how to meet these needs, and ways to establish these conditions in your workplace.
Teams develop advanced communication skills by exploring how personal values shape our communication style and understanding how to adapt your communication to other people’s needs.
Teams explore the barriers of constructive intergenerational collaboration, understand the behaviours and attitudes that will eliminate these barriers, and how to implement these habits effectively.
This program teaches teams to awaken their imaginations, foster creative thinking and instil healthy attitudes towards adversity so they are equipped to approach setbacks and failure with poise and resilience.
In this interactive, virtual team building activity, the excitement of an escape game helps your team transfer important lessons in teamwork to your ongoing collaboration and communication.
In this experiential team building playshop, teams will use improv’s signature “yes, and…” communication tool to retrain the brain for better problem solving, collaboration, and relationships.
Unique, light-hearted, and creative challenges activated on a daily or weekly basis that are sure to keep peoples’ minds curious and open, activate their social skills, and energize their bodies.
Learn how to identify and encourage resilience in your culture, the common mistakes teams make when it comes to talking about failure, and a five-step process to reframe and embrace failure both individually, and as a team.

Creativity Boosters

Trivia, Puzzles & Hunts

Stay Mentally & Physically Healthy

Laughter Yoga is a mind-body combination of clapping, laughter exercises, deep breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques to enhance health and happiness.
Escape the monotony of working from home with games and activities that are a pure adrenaline shot of FUN and CONNECTION.
In times of adversity, there are opportunities to demonstrate leadership and inspire others. Leaders of the Day provides tangible tools and strategies for self-care, creativity, and resourcefulness when faced with uncertainty.
Leaders of the Day‘s Tony Cox provides proven tools, strategies and approaches to help individuals and teams more confidently “keep their balance” amidst adversity and change.
Led by Executive Coach and Speaker, Joshua Zuchter, this workshop provides participants and teams with a range of tools and techniques for converting turbulent, uncertain and busy minds to more peaceful, productive and focused ones.
Using music, movement, rhythms and mindfulness, DRŌM Practice‘s Virtual Team Energizer will increase energy, productivity and motivation and bring awareness to the present moment.
This corporate wellness class covers the basics of mindfulness meditation and closes with a live, guided meditation to reduce stress. A perfect introductory session for beginners, but it also caters to experts and skeptics!
Led by expert facilitators trained in art therapy, experience the healing and reflective power of art as your team works to create one of the oldest forms of visual meditation- the mandala.
Your health & wellness routine could be having more of a negative impact than you know. Earthy Sisters will conduct an audit of the products many of us use today, and discover how we can make more sustainable and healthy choices.
Earthy Sisters guides your team to make simple changes in their daily routine to adopt a green lifestyle. From the cleaning products to what’s in our fridge, this workshop will provide simple solutions to a seemingly difficult journey.
Peak Wellness‘ introduction to yoga is specially designed to be done from the comfort of your chair! This corporate wellness class covers the basics of chair yoga and closes with a guided session to reduce tension within the body.

Under 60 Minutes

Peak Wellness‘ introduction to yoga is specially designed to be done from the comfort of your chair! This corporate wellness class covers the basics of chair yoga and closes with a guided session to reduce tension within the body.
This corporate wellness class covers the basics of mindfulness meditation and closes with a live, guided meditation to reduce stress. A perfect introductory session for beginners, but it also caters to experts and skeptics!
Earthy Sisters guides your team to make simple changes in their daily routine to adopt a green lifestyle. From the cleaning products to what’s in our fridge, this workshop will provide simple solutions to a seemingly difficult journey.
Your health & wellness routine could be having more of a negative impact than you know. Earthy Sisters will conduct an audit of the products many of us use today, and discover how we can make more sustainable and healthy choices.
Using music, movement, rhythms and mindfulness, DRŌM Practice‘s Virtual Team Energizer will increase energy, productivity and motivation and bring awareness to the present moment.
Led by the GTA’s top bartenders, teams will learn unique flair tricks and create specialty cocktails, all from the comfort of their own home.
DRŌM Practice and PeopleBrain are here to keep your team positive and productive by helping them build their own customized Productivity Tackle Box.
DRŌM Practice and PeopleBrain work with your team to build their own Resilience Survival Kit so they can power through obstacles and adversity with confidence and poise.
Professional musician and Senior Financial Analyst, Danny Zaidman explains how studying and listening to music has helped him and countless other professionals improve their analytical work.
Beverley Street Group offers facilitated ice breaker activities and trivia games that are sure to keep your remote team connected in a casual setting. This is perfect for onboarding new hires, strengthening team culture, and establishing strong relationships, between colleagues.
Through simple, art-based exercises groups can learn strategies for igniting the creative side of the brain for better problem solving, communication, and brainstorming.
Led by expert facilitators trained in art therapy, experience the healing and reflective power of art as your team works to create one of the oldest forms of visual meditation- the mandala.
Deeply Connected Teams uses a mix of fun, playful activities, and facilitated conversations to help your team quickly break down barriers, build rapport, and create a strong bond with each other.
Laughter Yoga is a mind-body combination of clapping, laughter exercises, deep breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques to enhance health and happiness.

Half-Day Workshops

Executive Coach and Communications Expert, Céline Williams, trains teams to give and receive feedback in a constructive way so that they can have more effective and productive conversations.
Deeply Connected Teams uses a mix of fun, playful activities, and facilitated conversations to help your team quickly break down barriers, build rapport, and create a strong bond with each other.
In times of adversity, there are opportunities to demonstrate leadership and inspire others. Leaders of the Day provides tangible tools and strategies for self-care, creativity, and resourcefulness when faced with uncertainty.
Learn how to identify and encourage resilience in your culture, the common mistakes teams make when it comes to talking about failure, and a five-step process to reframe and embrace failure both individually, and as a team.
MentorU‘s Jay Gosselin works with current and aspiring leaders to explore the essential needs that inspire motivation, how to meet these needs, and ways to establish these conditions in your workplace.
Teams develop advanced communication skills by exploring how personal values shape our communication style and understanding how to adapt your communication to other people’s needs.
Teams explore the barriers of constructive intergenerational collaboration, understand the behaviours and attitudes that will eliminate these barriers, and how to implement these habits effectively.
This program teaches teams to awaken their imaginations, foster creative thinking and instil healthy attitudes towards adversity so they are equipped to approach setbacks and failure with poise and resilience.
Escape the monotony of working from home with games and activities that are a pure adrenaline shot of FUN and CONNECTION.
FUNdamentals of Play uses the power of play to teach the science behind effective storytelling so employees can successfully connect and engage with others.
Through the power of PLAY, the Teamwork PLAYshop trains groups to use positivity, connection and communication as keys to building successful teams and relationships
Enjoy an energizing workshop that will activate creativity, collaboration, and positive reinforcement for remote teams through improvisation, interactive games, and rehearsing heart-centered communication.
Leaders of the Day‘s Tony Cox provides proven tools, strategies and approaches to help individuals and teams more confidently “keep their balance” amidst adversity and change.
In this interactive, virtual team building activity, the excitement of an escape game helps your team transfer important lessons in teamwork to your ongoing collaboration and communication.
In this experiential team building playshop, teams will use improv’s signature “yes, and…” communication tool to retrain the brain for better problem solving, collaboration, and relationships.
Have you ever wondered why improv actors are so quick on their feet? They train their brains to be better listeners, more agile in the moment and better collaborators. The Adventure Project uses improv-based training to practice communication and improve your team's business leadership skills.

SAMPLE VIRTUAL ACTIVITIES ITINERARY

By combining multiple virtual activities and workshops, remote teams can curate a well-rounded day spent developing skills, elevating team dynamics, and boosting morale as a cohesive group.

Here’s a sample itinerary to inspire your next virtual day!

Virtual Communication Day

10:00AM - 10:30AM | CREATIVE MORNING

Led by Artichoke Art, Creativity For Innovation warms up the mind so you can start the day on the right foot.

10:30AM - 11:00AM | COFFEE BREAK

Take a break from your screen to grab a coffee!

11:00AM - 12:00PM | GET CONNECTED

Take advantage of Jan Keck’s “Deeply Connected Teams” Workshop to develop a strong foundation of communication skills by blending fun activities with facilitated conversations.

12:00PM - 1:00PM | LUNCH & PERSONAL TIME

Take a mid-day break to grab lunch and complete any personal tasks.

1:00PM - 4:00PM | COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH EMPATHY

MentorU’s in depth workshop teaches advanced communication skills by exploring how our personal values shape our thoughts and the importance of empathy and respect for effective communication.

4:00PM - 4:30PM | AFTERNOON BREAK

After a longer workshop, give your team time to reflect, grab a snack, and regroup for the last leg of the day.

4:30PM - 5:00PM | A FUN CLOSURE

End off the day with a fun, interactive activity like Blackout Flair Entertainment’s Mixology & Flair Workshop that will leave your group with positive vibes and a boost of energy.

Request a quote for this Virtual Day itinerary (or a similar one)!

PRICING

Many virtual meeting and event platforms available offer subscription-based pricing with tiers that include varying levels of attendee limits and added features.

These platforms typically offer a free option, however there may be restrictions on the number of attendees you have and length of the session.

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

Technology Requirements

Since virtual activities and workshops live online, participants should have a strong internet connection to ensure minimal disruption. They will also may be required to have access to a webcam and audio (internal or external speakers and microphone) so that they can see, hear and speak to fellow attendees, hosts, and facilitators.

Different Levels of Comfort with Technology

It is courteous to assume that not everyone is tech saavy or experienced with video conferencing. To help your participants feel comfortable, we suggest sending out the meeting and login details in advance so that attendees can download whichever platform is needed, confirm they have any required equipment, and try connecting to the meeting without any pressure. This will also ensure everyone can connect on time for a punctual start.

Technical Difficulties

Like any activity or workshop dealing with technology, internet, and equipment, technical difficulties can arise. Whether it be uploading presentations to a Google Drive in case you have trouble screen sharing, or assigning someone to assist with technical difficulties, it is helpful to anticipate what trouble you may experience and have a plan in place.

Multiple Time Zones

Since virtual activities and workshops can expand the reach of your audience to other regions and countries, you may have participants joining who are based in different time zones. If you are working with multiple times zones, it is thoughtful to choose start and end times that are reasonable for all attendees.

Managing Distractions

With no one physically around to hold them accountable, participants can sometimes be distracted by their surroundings. To help manage the engagement of attendees, we suggest creating a short list of expectations for your gathering, such as no multitasking or no texting, and communicating it in advance to ensure everyone understands what is respectful.

Have a Well-Planned Agenda

Just like in-person meetings and events, it helps to have a well-planned agenda to ensure your group stays on track and time is used efficiently. With some virtual meeting platforms often enforcing time restrictions based on your subscription tier, an agenda also helps to work within those limits.

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