The Big Picture Canvas
Team-Building Package

One Company. One Vision. One Masterpiece.

The Big Picture Canvas is a facilitated, collaborative team-building experience designed to help teams work together toward a shared outcome. Participants paint in pairs or small groups on coordinated canvases that come together as one unified image, making visible how individual contributions connect to the larger whole. The experience is structured, inclusive, and accessible to all skill levels, with professional facilitation that guides collaboration, communication, and reflection. The Big Picture Canvas is ideal for teams seeking alignment, stronger cross-team connection, and a meaningful shared experience—without the scale or complexity of a fully custom program.

Ideal For:

• Departments, lunch-and-learns

• Organizations looking to break down silos

• Cross-department collaboration initiatives

• Company-wide meetings or retreats

• Leadership summits and strategy off-sites

• Teams navigating growth, change, or integration

Participants:

• Up to 50 (2 people per canvas)

• Scales easily for large groups

Duration:

• 90 - 120 minutes

• Can be adjusted for conference or retreat schedules

The Challenge: Working Beyond Silos

Most teams function effectively within their own departments, yet many organizations struggle with collaboration across roles, functions, and silos. The Big Picture Team-Building experience is designed to address this challenge by giving employees a powerful, hands-on way to see how their individual contributions connect to the organization as a whole.

The Experience

In this immersive, facilitated experience, participants are divided into small teams and assigned individual canvases to paint. Each team works independently, following guided instructions and visual cues—without knowing how their piece fits into the final image. What they don’t realize at first is that every canvas is part of a much larger composition that represents your company’s shared goals, values, vision, or message.

How Collaboration Comes to Life

As teams paint, they quickly discover the importance of communication beyond their immediate group. Colors must align. Edges must match. Brushstrokes must connect. Success depends on reaching out to neighboring teams, asking questions, and coordinating decisions. This mirrors real-world workplace dynamics, where clarity, collaboration, and cross-department communication are essential to achieving shared outcomes.

An Equal Playing Field

The Big Picture is a true equalizer. Titles, tenure, and hierarchy are removed from the equation, allowing creativity and cooperation to take center stage. Whether someone is an intern or a senior executive, their contribution is equally important. Each canvas matters, and no single piece can succeed on its own.

The Reveal

The final image is fully customized in advance to reflect your organization—incorporating company values, strategic goals, or seasonal or celebratory themes. While the design is intentionally kept secret from participants, the experience builds anticipation and engagement throughout the session. The event concludes with a dramatic, high-energy reveal, as individual panels are assembled into a single, unified masterpiece.

The Lasting Impact

The result is more than a team-building activity. It is a shared accomplishment and a lasting artifact of your company culture—one that can be displayed as a visual reminder of what’s possible when teams communicate clearly, trust one another, and work toward a common goal.

Outcomes

• Breaks down silos and strengthens cross-team communication

• Reinforces alignment toward shared organizational goals

• Builds trust and collective pride through collaboration

Includes

• A Facilitated large-scale collaborative painting experience

• Individual canvases that assemble into one master image

• Custom design aligned with company goals or themes

• All materials, setup, and facilitation

Organizational Value

Demonstrates how individual contributions connect to organizational success, while creating a permanent visual reminder of collaboration and shared purpose.