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Enter a professional recording studio alongside a Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer and CoLabs Artist for a neuroscience-driven experience that unlocks creativity, enhances leadership, and drives meaningful social impact, expertly facilitated by Music Therapist Sara Fawcett MBE.
We enhance creative thinking and leadership capability through neuroscience-led music activity
teams move through three core stages:
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Disintegration – Challenging habitual thinking and perception
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Reintegration – Building trust and psychological safety
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Reinvention – Activating new neural pathways for creative problem-solving
Why Music
Music is one of the most neurologically complex activities humans can engage in. It simultaneously activates multiple brain systems—cognitive, emotional, and motor—while stimulating the brain’s reward circuitry.
Research shows that musical engagement:
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Enhances cognitive flexibility and creative thinking
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Strengthens coordination between brain regions
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Activates right-hemisphere processing linked to intuition, pattern recognition, and big-picture insight
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In this state, analytical thinking quietens, allowing new ideas and connections to emerge.
In the course of the day your team will experience the flow state. This is when time falls away and we exist within a purely creative state. This flow state gives them access to new ways of experiencing themselves and those around them. We do this by taking the team away from their usual frame of reference into the world of music.
We use music to fire up the brain. Musical engagement activates the brain’s reward system and notable neural regions are involved including the nucleus accumbens and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. In short the brain is stimulated across all regions and the limbic system stimulated: scientific research shows that engaging in music is: “one of the most cognitively demanding tasks a human can undergo… the intricate interplay of fine motor skills, gross motor coordination, and sensorimotor integration embodies the complexity of musical performance”.
The day will include tasks that stretch everyone just beyond comfort but not into panic.
Too easy = boredom
Too hard = anxiety
Just beyond current reach = ignition
By placing teams just beyond their comfort zone, we create the conditions for cognitive stretch without overwhelm—where learning, adaptability, and creativity accelerate.
Being in a state of flow enables your team to experience challenges above skill: they are forced into new realms of skill.
On The Day
we will guide your team through four phases:
a) Group experimentation;
b) Composition;
c) recording & Music Production;
d) de-brief and processing.
The first stage will walk the team through a process that will prepare them for the other stages, namely to:
experience risk taking and spontaneity, which will allow them to create and produce a song.
what to expect
To be challenged. This means participants may feel a little uncomfortable to begin with because we’re asking them to play. We’ll ensure they are psychologically prepared for this through the support and guidance of our music therapist. Sara will create a safe space to gently challenge the teams’ perceptions without overwhelm. This is necessary to develop creative skills that can improve how your team works.
Throughout the day, the process will stimulate the brain including the limbic system. To engage fully with the process, the teams will need to let go of any judgements and perceptions of each other. They will be challenged to do things they may never have experienced before requiring them to take risks to be different and make mistakes. Through music the thinking brain will quieten so that the creative process can begin.
We will be asking the team to remember the freedom of play so that the right side of the brain can become fully activated. To read more about the importance of play for adults, we recommend the work of the child psychologist Donald Winnicott who centred "play" as the primary vehicle for human development, creativity, and mental health. This is a key part to the day’s work that your team will experience.
