Collaborative Creative Experiences
Create Something Together. Learn How You Play Together.
These experiences are designed to feel engaging, approachable, and genuinely useful for teams. Through guided challenges, creative builds, and collaborative activities, people get to contribute in ways that feel natural to them. The result is a stronger connection, better communication, and something tangible your team can be proud of.
Create Together. Connect Differently.
Creative Team Experiences
Using play personalities as a guide, these experiences help teams tap into different strengths while working toward a shared creative outcome. Some people lead with ideas, some with storytelling, some with making, and some with strategy. Our collaborative creative experiences are designed to bring those strengths together in a way that feels engaging, approachable, and fun.
Explore Our Collaborative Creative Experiences
Co-op Mode Video Game Build
Create a Video Game with the Power of Play
Build a game together by playing to your strengths.
Co-op Mode blends play personalities with video game creation in a hands-on, collaborative experience. Participants explore how different people engage with curiosity, connection, problem-solving, and teamwork, and then take on creative tasks that each contribute to a different part of a shared game. By the end, the group had built a simple, playable web-based game together.
Great for: innovation teams, creative teams, tech-curious groups, strategy sessions, and teams looking for a unique collaborative build experience.
Team Zine Lab
Turn your team’s ideas, stories, and personality into a shared publication
This creative workshop invites teams to co-create a mini zine, culture book, or visual story using prompts, playful reflection, writing, collage, and design. Each participant contributes in their own way, resulting in a final piece that captures team voice, identity, and creativity.
Great for: onboarding, retreats, culture-building, creative reflection, and teams who want a meaningful keepsake.
Storytelling + Creation Workshop
Use imagination, prompts, and play to build something together
This workshop combines collaborative storytelling with hands-on creation. Teams use prompts and group ideas to shape a concept, then turn it into something tangible like posters, cards, objects, scenes, or interactive pieces. It is playful, flexible, and great for groups that want to think differently together.
Great for: creative problem-solving, brainstorming sessions, team connection, and groups who like narrative, ideas, and making.
Inventors Lab
From idea to prototype in one playful team experience
Inventors Lab helps teams brainstorm, sketch, name, and prototype a new idea together. It is designed to spark imagination while showing how different people contribute to ideation, refinement, and execution. The result is a concept the team can present, celebrate, or build on.
Great for: innovation workshops, problem-solving sessions, entrepreneurial teams, and groups looking to unlock fresh thinking.
Create-a-Game Workshop
Build an original game through collaboration, creativity, and play
Teams work together to invent a simple game concept using prompts, play styles, and collaborative decision-making. Depending on the group, this could become a card game, trivia game, board game, or interactive group challenge. It is a playful way to build something from scratch while exploring how different minds work together.
Great for: creative teams, educators, retreats, strategy groups, and teams who want a fun build-and-play experience.
Meet Our Experts
Donavan Robinson
Experience Designer
Donavan is the founder of Pop CoLab and the creative force behind many of our signature experiences. He designs and facilitates playful, people-first workshops that help teams connect, communicate better, and create memorable moments together.
Amy Q Cooper
Product Designer
Amy is an empathetic Product Designer that is passionate about designing for good and creating positive digital experiences for real people. She loves the process of solving complex problems and designing creative solutions that are sustainable.
'We had an absolute blast during our recent staff development workshop hosted at Pop! We got to experience the 'Power Of Play' while also coming together to collaborate and learn as a team.'
Andrew Kussy
Exec. Dir. The Dream Factory
I wanted to let you know that everyone absolutely loved the session – they said the drinks were awesome, they had a ton of fun making the mocktails and appreciated doing something new and exciting.
Myckella McElroy
Richardson Int. Ltd.
Working with Pop Colab was such a great experience! Donavan went above and beyond to bring our vision to life.
Mercy Oluwafemi
The Winnipeg Foundatiion