Innovation Labs

Escenima helps teams innovate not by thinking harder — but by feeling what still hasn’t found form.
True innovation doesn’t begin with brainstorming. It begins with tension, silence, friction, and desire. That’s where we start.

The experience opens with a scene of improvised chaos, where participants embody the moment they feel most creatively blocked, rushed, or misunderstood. Without naming it yet, they represent it — in voice, posture, rhythm. This symbolic staging brings to the surface what PowerPoint never will: what the team is really carrying.

From there, we introduce a set of Creator Archetypes and Innovation Roles — figures like the Skeptic, the Visionary, the Caretaker, the Saboteur — to help teams explore the hidden dynamics that speed up, slow down, or fragment their creative process.

Once the emotional landscape is visible, each group or individual crafts a symbolic script of future possibility — a 3-act narrative that shows how something blocked could begin to move: an idea, a system, a story.

These narratives are then rehearsed in scene — through theatrical improvisation, object work, or symbolic installation — allowing the team to prototype new ways of imagining, collaborating, and creating before making anything tangible.

Throughout the process, the experience is filmed and photographed, capturing the raw material of invention: doubt, vision, collision, breakthrough. A final short documentary piece is created, not to showcase outcomes, but to archive the emotional truth of the team’s creative journey.

Escenima doesn’t generate more ideas.
It generates resonance — the missing piece in most innovation efforts. Because what isn’t felt, isn’t owned. And what isn’t owned, never truly lands.

By the end, your team won’t just have new ideas.
They’ll have a shared story, a renewed sense of direction — and a body that remembers how to invent from presence, not pressure.