renaissance lab
— a platform for professionals exploring their creativity
Events, resources and community, based in Aotearoa / New Zealand and supporting creativity worldwide.At Renaissance Lab, creativity is for everyone — no matter how uncreative you currently feel.
We’re here to explore the creative potential in all of us, and the power it has to shape our world.
You’ll find an open, playful, fun, supportive, curious community of people interested creativity — their own and yours.
It’s a place for you if you’ve spent years training your critical, analytical brain, but feel like you’ve lost touch with your imagination — that capacity to play, wonder, and experiment.
Or maybe you’ve been told you’re not creative. This is a place for you too.
You might also be on a creative path and looking for inspiration, community or a fresh perspective.
Wherever you’re at, Renaissance Lab is here to help you tap into your creativity and feel more connected and alive in your work and life.
Sign up to our newsletter, explore our resources, follow us @jointherenaissace — and join us at an event near you soon.
At Renaissance Lab, creativity is for everyone — no matter how uncreative you currently feel
Upcoming events
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DOODLE CAFE
Launching February 2026
Playtime for serious professionals
A monthly event where professionals gather to explore their creativity. We talk, and then we doodle around.
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Creative aliveness at work - deep dive
Launching mid 2026
An 8-week group coaching programme, where we deep dive into our creativity and explore tools to feel more creatively alive at work.
Explore our resources
Check out our blog
For a regular dose of creative inspiration
Visit our library
Prompts, worksheets and resources to support your creativity
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Why invest in creativity?
Most people want to feel more creative, and most organisations want to foster greater creativity — and for good reason.
When we engage in creative activity, our brains light up in a remarkable way. Two major networks — the imaginative network (also known as the default mode network, involved in spontaneous thought, intuition, memory, and meaning-making) and the executive control network (responsible for focus, analysis, and evaluation) — start working together.
It’s like cross-training for the brain. This integration strengthens focus and flexibility, deepens connection, and supports our overall performance and wellbeing.
On a personal level, developing creative capacity reconnects us to ourselves — our sense of agency, possibility, and aliveness at work and in life.
At an organisational level, teams that invest in creativity are more resilient, innovative, and effective over time.
Creativity needs to be nurtured
To feel more creative, we need to bring our brains back into balance by giving them permission to play — to dream, wonder, and make connections.
Just like physical strength, creativity grows through practice. Every time we sketch out an idea, follow our curiosity, or express ourselves, we’re strengthening the neural pathways that support imagination, flexibility, and insight.
Creativity also needs to feel safe. To nurture our creativity, we need environments that are open, curious, and non-judgmental — spaces where experimentation feels safe and failure is part of the process. That’s what you’ll find here at Renaissance Lab.