Gospel

Team building

Team building?

Gospel gives a fantastic energy and joy!! Surprise the participants at your course, team building or conference with 30 minutes of gospel. The participants will be “warmed up” in a good way, they will relax, have fun, get moving and have a good shared experience!

Assertion:
Everyone can sing. Most people just don't know it – yet!
With the help of simple techniques, it is possible to transform any group of people into a swinging gospel choir. It works every time. And THAT is not an assertion!

And they lived happily ever after…
Gospel is not a magic formula. There are no team building exercises or events that in themselves make a big difference in a company. Nor is gospel. But gospel provides some tools that can be built on:

1. Singing gospel requires collaboration. It creates community!
2. Singing gospel requires empathy. It creates presence!
3. Singing gospel takes courage. It builds self-confidence!
From hopeless to successful in 30 minutes!

A gospel workshop shows how a project can be transformed from "hopeless" to "successful" in 30 minutes! An experience that is guaranteed to be remembered for a long time by the employees!

Cross the border
Once people have broken the “I can't do that” barrier, it is much easier to motivate them to try again – also in other areas.

Singing gospel gives an “aha” experience: “when we work together we can solve tasks we never dreamed of!”

Do you want the employees in your company to have an experience beyond the ordinary? Then send me an email at hans@gospelnet.dk .

Customer cases

Here are three examples of gospel-based team building that can be scaled in both format, energy and duration – from short energizers to larger experiences.

Example 1

Energetic start to the course day

Task The customer wants a good start to a training day for 300 employees.
Solution Morning song.
Duration 30–40 minutes.

Over the course of half an hour, 3–4 short gospel songs are rehearsed. The employees are divided into teams that “fight” to sing the best. In the groups, a sense of unity and a focus on collaboration quickly emerge. Later in the process, the different teams work together across departments to solve the task.

During the rehearsal, everyone stands up and both arms and legs are activated to get POWER into the song. This is a very popular solution because it is manageable in terms of time. It creates a good energy in the room and gets people laughing and singing.

Example 2

Workshop & concert surprise

Task The customer wants to surprise and challenge employees – and give them a good experience.
Solution Workshop & koncert.
Duration 1½–2 timer.

The employees arrive in buses to a church. No one knows what is going to happen. In the church they are met by the sight of, and the sound of, a swinging, beautifully singing gospel choir in full swing giving a concert.

The employees are happy, find a seat and enjoy the music... and suddenly they are asked to sing along to a little song. It's no problem... but the project takes hold - and without saying anything about workshops or team building, we are in full swing with just that! It all ends in a joint concert with the gospel choir.

Example 3

Recording as team building

Task The customer wants team building for a department of 20 employees.
Solution Record a CD/song.
Duration From 2 hours.

To record a CD, all participants must know the song. Each participant gets a small part of the song, and only when everyone knows their “solo” can the song be recorded.

Suddenly, the normal hierarchy in the group has been turned upside down. The boss isn't necessarily the best singer – so she might need a little help. Everyone is now in the same boat – and everyone helps everyone else!

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Hans Christian Jochimsen, conductor

“I teach from the belief that ALL people are musical!

I see it as my task to release that musicality – to allow people to feel and experience the song and the music with their whole body!

To sing in my choirs, you don't need to be able to read music or know anything about singing technique. That's completely secondary...

Gospel is sung with the heart!”