Are you looking for ways to unleash the creativity of your team?
Are you looking for practices to support the health of your group communication?
Do you want to create a culture of inclusive decision-making in your team, company, or organization?
Do you want to develop a culture of supportive accountability in leadership?
Are you looking for tools to navigate conflict productively?
Welcome to The Lab.
An immersive experience — in person or virtual — that combines facilitated group process with creative expression, The Lab brings your team or community together to build a culture of resilience, adaptability, inclusive leadership, and supportive accountability—fostering alignment around vision, strengthening shared identity, and helping everyone engage in new ways with a common goal and with one another.
In The Lab, any team can unleash their creative and collaborative abilities, as they work together to reimagine what is possible and create a stunningly honest and inspiring video that can serve as a musical north star in their pursuit of that future. See why Eric Whitacre, inventor of virtual choirs, called our work "exactly what the world needs now.”
THE PROCESS OF THE LAB
Building on methods that have successfully forged lasting relationships between members of communities in conflict — from Israelis and Palestinians creating shared space against all odds in Jerusalem to corporate teams finding synergy across difference in San Francisco — The Lab leverages decades of experience and proven techniques to bring your team or community closer together.
Even from a distance, The Lab can catalyze connection and creativity in a powerful, memorable, and engaging way.
This video, “And The Phoenix,” was collaboratively written, recorded, and filmed by DC vocal group The Capital Hearings in The Lab. As Sonya from the Capital Hearings said of her experience in The Lab, “Now I think about the concept of stretch zones and send the people at my old work articles about white supremacy and I help myself be easier on myself and a little less of a perfectionist. The ideas were out there but you gifted them to us and gifted us time and space and a place to parse through them.” She concluded, “It doesn’t get old that the words that I wrote are now in a song that a group that I love and respect is singing.”
After six virtual sessions of The Lab, the amazing young Jewish and Muslim women of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom collaboratively wrote, recorded, and filmed this anthem as a reflection of their time together, strengthening community, developing bridges of understanding, and practicing new ways of communicating their feelings and views on Palestine and Israel.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“The Lab taught me many things about being open minded to new ideas and cultures. It made me more excited and hopeful about the future of our diverse world!”
“It’s powerful to experience how Austin and Micah integrate the arts into interactive experiential learning, how they raise questions, how they raise the voices of the people in the group. They offer a human, creative, experience, to help people become more aware, more awake, to stretch to be at their best. In this moment of turbulence, Raise Your Voice Labs has an important role to play.”
“Austin connected us to our creativity in unexpected ways. The team was hesitant...but ended up really liking it! Thanks again for your partnership!”
“I feel like I’m more willing to put myself out there (for example, I raise my hand a lot more in class; signing up for things spur-of-the-moment) after The Lab.”