doodle cafe

Playtime for serious professionals.

A monthly event where professionals gather to explore their creativity. We get together, talk creativity, and then we doodle around.

Sign up here for our regular events in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington:

Or get in touch to talk about bringing Doodle Cafe to your workplace / conference / retreat:

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Kate drawing stars on paper with pens, sitting on the ground surrounded by art supplies and sketches.
Kate lying on her back with her legs raised and bent at knees, smiling at camera, surrounded by art supplies and scattered papers.

What to expect?

  • a fun, low stakes, judgement-free zone where we exercise our play / imagination muscles

  • the warmth of other people’s creative energy

  • support to work slowly and compassionately with creative blocks or baggage

  • drinks, snacks, music, good vibes

What to bring?

  • a notebook

  • pens/pencils/whatever you’d like to work with

  • your curiosity

  • (optional) specific ideas and questions you want to doodle around with - work-related or otherwise

Why invest in doodling?

Imaginative play is good for us, and most of us don’t do enough of it.

Imagination is central to creativity. When we engage in creative activity, our brains fire up our imaginative network (the bit involved in spontaneous thought, intuition, memory and meaning-making) and our executive processing network (responsible for focus and critical thought) - parts that don’t usually work together.

Most of us have spent decades training our critical, analytical brains, but neglected our imaginative brains. We need both of them working together in order to feel more creative.

So think about Doodle Cafe like cross-training for your mind. It will help you feel sharper, more cognitively alive and flexible at work (as well as being generally great for our mental health).

Keen to learn more or sign up for Doodle Cafe?

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