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Beyond Trust Falls

Shivam Parekh — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:53:28 +0000

Surrounded by Slack channels, Zoom calls, shared docs, and project dashboards, your team is more connected than ever. Yet, something is still clearly broken. Engagement keeps sinking. Turnover keeps climbing. People show up, log in, and quietly check out. The problem, it turns out, isn’t technology or policy. It’s disconnection. And the fix is older than civilization itself.

Beyond Trust Falls is the first comprehensive guide to building real team connection through strategic, intentional play. Within these pages, David Goldstein, founder and CEO of TeamBonding,draws on 35+ years of designing transformative experiences for companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to deliver a field-tested playbook that goes far beyond trust falls and forced fun.

Backed by neuroscience and built from thousands of real-world events reaching nearly 100,000 participants annually, his approach shows exactly how play triggers the brain chemistry that unlocks creativity, deepens trust, and drives measurable performance gains.

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Sketch Art Box – Cupixel 2022

Lara Campagnolle — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:19:55 +0000

Cupixel Sketch brings the fun of painting home to everyone, no matter your skill level! With the Cupixel Art Box, you’ve got everything you need for a creative blast, packed with top-notch art tools. Want to paint your pets, loved ones, or even your own selfie? Go for it! And don’t worry if you’re new to this—the Cupixel free app is like your friendly painting coach, guiding you every step of the way to create something awesome!

Painting & Sketching Tools:

Two premium flat-head Brushes crafted specifically for acrylic paint are included. Utilize the wide #8 brush for covering large areas and the narrow #2 brush for precise details in smaller areas.
The Brush Holder features three foldable compartments. Fill the outer compartments with water to clean your brushes, while the middle compartment holds your brushes and pencils conveniently.
Three Containers are provided for effortless paint blending. Simply follow the app instructions to squeeze the necessary paints into the Container and mix them to achieve your desired hues.
Keep your workspace tidy with the microfiber Wipe, ensuring a clean surface for your artistic endeavors.
Included are two artist-grade graphite Pencils for tracing and shading. The softer B pencil creates darker lines, while the harder 2H pencil produces lighter lines, with line darkness adjustable based on your sketching pressure.
Correct small mistakes with the Eraser and ensure precision with the Sharpener, providing sharp pencil tips for accurate lines.
Strengthen pencil lines with the black narrow-tip Marker for added definition.
12 Mini Canvases: Cupixel streamlines painting by dividing the canvas into Mini Canvases, enabling focused attention on smaller sections. These Mini Canvases effortlessly connect with a plastic design and feature a top layer of 100% cotton canvas, akin to professional artist surfaces.
A Black Metal Frame: Enhance your artwork’s presentation with the sleek black metal Frame, constructed from aluminum and featuring four profiles to elegantly connect to the Mini Canvases.
A Device Stand: place your device on the included Device Stand to use Augmented Reality (AR) technology in the app to accurately sketch outlines.
Pad: The soft Device Pad ensures stability for your Mini Canvas, providing a comfortable surface for sketching.

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Connection Toolkit

Lara Campagnolle — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:04:12 +0000

This toolkit is a game-changer for anyone looking to amp up professional development and build trust in a seriously fun way! Packed with We! Connect Cards, We! Engage Cards, a roadmap to connection, the bestselling book Ask Powerful Questions, and free access to playmeo.com, this kit is worth its weight in gold! It’s not just about breaking the ice—it’s about turbocharging connections within teams, sparking creativity in off-site planning, and tearing down those pesky communication barriers. Whether you’re a leader, educator, manager, or trainer, this toolkit arms you with the tools to make work not just productive, but an absolute blast! With durable cards, engaging activities, and access to a treasure trove of group games, it’s time to turn work into play and get those connections thriving!

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Office Decathlon

Lara Campagnolle — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:45:27 +0000

Step outside the conventional rules with Office Decathlon – an engaging series of Olympic-inspired challenges designed for both physical and mental prowess. It’s time to reign supreme in the office! Select from a range of events such as office chair bobsled, coffee cup relay, or pencil javelin, fostering team building, sparking conversations, and offering sheer delight!

Join the fun and redefine the office experience with Office Decathlon!

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Team Building Question Cards

Lara Campagnolle — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:45:26 +0000

Kick-off each work meeting or lunch by breaking the ice with a thought-provoking question aimed at fostering better acquaintance among colleagues.

In the corporate world, it’s not just sweat or revenue that drives companies; it’s trust.

Trust remains a cornerstone across all facets of business. According to research published by Harvard Business Review, employees in high-trust environments report a remarkable 106% boost in workplace energy, a significant 74% decrease in stress levels, a 76% increase in engagement, and a 50% surge in productivity compared to their counterparts in low-trust organizations.

The benefits extend further, underscoring the pivotal role of trust: In companies where trust is ingrained, individuals feel empowered to take calculated risks. In moments of turnover, they step up to bridge gaps, trusting in the potential for improvement.

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Teamwork Card Game

Lara Campagnolle — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:34:27 +0000

This game was crafted to cultivate connections and collaboration among your team. Featuring 100 insightful questions, this game ignites conversations exploring our histories, beliefs, and values. Through fostering dialogue and empathy, Teamwork cultivates a workplace environment rooted in support and compassion. Effortlessly uniting individuals into a cohesive team, it paves the way for enlightening discussions, humanizing colleagues, and nurturing a culture of forgiveness and benevolence. Elevate your workspace into a harmonious realm with the transformative power of Teamwork.

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Emotions

Lara Campagnolle — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:46:32 +0000

Explore emotional intelligence and personal growth with Emotions by High 5®, a transformative tool for educators and facilitators. This set of 57 double-sided cards delves into various emotions, from joy to sadness, fear to excitement, aiding in emotional literacy and fostering vital skills in managing feelings. Each card not only represents an emotion but also includes thought-provoking questions, sparking meaningful group discussions and enhancing self-awareness, empathy, and communication skills. By sharing experiences and perspectives, individuals connect, realizing the universality of emotions. With endless opportunities for interactive learning and play, these cards offer an engaging way to navigate emotions and promote a supportive learning environment.

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TeamWriter

Claudia Restrepo — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:59:41 +0000

TeamWriter® is a collaborative team building game in which groups are challenged to work together to assemble and legibly write with the TeamWriter gismo. They will need to be communicate effectively, problem solve, and come up with a strategy to be successful.

Benefits:
Improve team dynamics
Solve challenging problems together
Break the Ice
Improve Communication
Build Trust
Develop strong leadership

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Pipeline Game Challenge

Claudia Restrepo — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:53:55 +0000

In this pipeline game for team building, challenge your team to put together a runway of pipe pieces to roll a ball through from start to finish. In order to build a successful pipeline your team will need to practice communication, creativity, and teamwork.

This activity can be done indoors or outdoors, with kids and adults of all ages to energize a group, inspire teamwork, and highlight how each member influences the team.

Benefits:

Energize a group
Improve communication
Strengthen problem solving skills as a group
Set and achieve goals

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Blocked Perspective

Shannon DuPont — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:06:34 +0000

Blocked Perspective helps to improve communication and allows the practice of healthy conflict resolution by group discovery of the value of differing perspectives. Participants in group sizes of six to thirty are challenged to accurately recreate block structures in this communication game for team building.

This fun activity is engaging and helps all team members see how their perspective is not necessarily the correct one or the only one of value. As participants engage and work together to solve the initiative they soon come to realize that by taking time to gather and consider all perspectives they are better able to be successful.

You’ll want this activity for your bag of tricks!

Perfect for:

Exploring the complexity of working collaboratively when everyone seems to have a different perspective
Open communication and consideration on how the perspectives of others will help you better understand your own viewpoint

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