Team building seminars
Team Building that goes beyond team bonding.
Help your team get past the stumbling blocks that get in the way at work. Barbara uses hands-on challenges, guided discussion and practical coaching to help teams improve communication, reduce conflict, lower stress and move forward together.
Choose the Seminar that's Right for Your Team
Every team building seminar combines Stumbling Blocks Challenges, facilitated discussions, and practical strategies for navigating workplace stumbling blocks.
THE STUMBLING BLOCks ChallengeS
This is where the learning happens.
The Stumbling Blocks Challenges are fun, highly interactive hands-on activities designed to get people talking, thinking and working together.
As teams work through the challenges, Barbara watches what happens—how people communicate, solve problems, respond to pressure and work together.
She uses what happens in the room to guide the discussion, ask better questions and help participants notice what is getting in the way.
That’s where the Stumbling Blocks Philosophy becomes practical: Face it. Feel it. Fix it.
DISCOVERY
Get people talking and working together.
HALF-DAY TEAM BUILDING SEMINAR
Discovery is a fun, informative and highly interactive team building seminar that gets people talking, connecting and working together.
Through hands-on Stumbling Blocks Challenges, teams see what happens when communication breaks down, frustration builds, and things don’t go as planned. Barbara watches what happens and uses those moments to guide the conversation.
Together, participants begin to recognize what may be getting in the way, talk about what they could do differently, and explore the Stumbling Blocks Philosophy—Face what’s true. Feel what’s real. Fix what you can.
Why Discovery?
Three hours is enough time to create a real shift. Not to fix everything. But to help people see things differently, talk about what matters and leave with a practical way to navigate the next stumbling block—together.
Learn how to navigate workplace stumbling blocks together.
Full-DAY TEAM BUILDING SEMINAR
Breakthrough is a full-day, highly interactive team building seminar that gives teams more time to open up, connect and see how they really work together.
Along with the core Stumbling Blocks Challenges, participants take on Four Squares—a powerful activity that can reveal how people communicate, solve problems, respond to frustration and the different roles they naturally take when faced with a challenge. Barbara watches what happens, asks questions, challenges assumptions and uses those moments to help the team see what may be getting in the way.
Why Breakthrough?
The extra time matters. Teams have more room to reflect, open up and have the conversations that don’t always happen in a shorter session. Not every group goes deep—and they don’t have to. But when a team is willing to face its stumbling blocks, Breakthrough gives us the time and space to stay with what emerges and work through it together.
breaktrhough
Build the skills your team needs to move forward.
two-DAY TEAM BUILDING SEMINAR
Transformation is a two-day team building seminar for teams that want more time to dig in, build skills and put what they’re learning into practice.
Participants work through the full range of Stumbling Blocks Challenges, including Four Squares, and explore how they naturally communicate, lead, solve problems, and respond under pressure. Barbara uses what emerges to coach and challenge the team, help participants see where they need to adjust, and give them opportunities to try again.
The extra time also allows us to build in practical skill development based on what the team needs most—whether that’s communication, leadership, coaching, public speaking or simply working better together.
Why Transformation?
Two days gives us time to do more than recognize the stumbling blocks. We can work on the skills that help people move past them.
There is time to practice, reflect, try again and have the conversations that emerge along the way. And because every team is different, the experience can focus on what matters most to the people in the room.
Transformation
Real Teams. Real results.
What leaders are saying.
“Barbara's sessions helped get conversations started about the impacts of change in a way that was fun, engaging and accessible to all who attended.”
Director, Strategic Planning Ancillary Services, University of Alberta
JOHN YOUNK
“Right from the start, Barbara engaged our group at a level that challenged us. The day moved quickly and no one was zoning out.”
BOBBI JUNIOR
Communications Coordinator, Family Solutions Group
“Barbara May effortlessly adapted her material on the fly to suit our specific needs. In a group that is hard to impress, we were all genuinely impressed by her expertise and delivery.”
FAY eAGLES
Operations Manager, Avison Young
ready to move forward?
You don't have to figure this out on your own.
Tell Barbara a little about your team, what is happening in the workplace and how much time you have available. She’ll help you decide whether Discovery, Breakthrough or Transformation makes the most sense.
Let’s talk about your stumbling blocks.
