Experiential
Professional Development
& Teambuilding
Neuground's unique, experiential programming reimagines how teams connect and grow through learning by doing. We empower leadership cultivation, team building, professional development, and client appreciation through expert perspectives and immersive, interactive experiences that educate, illuminate, and fascinate.
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From large scale offsites to small team building initiatives, we work with our clients to craft a tailored event program that not only meets goals and objectives but also inspires the intellect, entices exploration, and builds lasting bonds.
Explore Our Offering
Collective, creative cuisine
Food is a language all its own, with sensory delights and unspoken inspiration. During this experience, a decorated chef and culinary expert from Daniel Buloud guides teams in leveraging their creative resources and teamwork to craft an original three course meal. Participants are encouraged to take risks and show their vulnerable side in a fun, collaborative environment that build trusts and encourages sharing ideas so crazy they just might work – key ingredients for creating a high-performing team.
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Cultivation of Creativity
Teams draw on their skill sets to rise to the challenge, helping them hone their approach to innovation and problem solving in the face of the unknown.
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Teamwork
Participants work together to take risks, challenge assumptions, and leverage cross functional skills – key ingredients for creating a high-performing team.
Finding your voice
A globally respected casting director, acting coach, and actor favored by Scorsese and Woody Allen leads an intensive, interactive acting exercise, where participants find their voice, learn how to read the subtext of a situation, and hone how they present ourselves to the world. During this leadership exercise par excellence, teams will uncover deeper nuances of self-expression, communication, mindset, and mindfulness as they interact with peers and learn how to read the room.
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Communication / Interpersonal Skills
This session hones participants’ understanding of how they are perceived, as well as how they react to and connect with others.
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Agile Mindset
The elements of improvisation teach participants critical skills around to reacting in the moment while fostering an agile mindset.
The streets speak through art
Now a global phenomenon, street art has captured the attention of the world, from casual aficionados to storied auction houses. The experience begins with fully immersive insider-led tour exploring where modern street art was born to current icons followed by an intricate, hands-on graffiti workshop conducted by a renown local artist where participants craft pieces that reflect their own unique perspective. Digest the day with lunch at at favorite local community haunt that champions the medium of street art.
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Creative Expression
Participants discover how graffiti is reinventing art and are given the opportunity to express themselves through this powerful art form.
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New Perspectives
Open the mind to how art form is continually mirroring the world around us, taking commentary on current affairs and social issues to the streets.
inside hudson yards
Hudson Yard's chief architect leads a tactile exploration of one of New York City's most ambitious development projects, including the intimate details of its history, conception, challenges, and construction to its ultimate recognition as Manhattan’s first LEED Gold neighborhood development. The experience culminates in a tour of The Edge and a discussion around building sustainable cities over dinner and drinks at The Peak, overlooking the dazzling lights of Manhattan’s skyline.
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Sustainable Sourcing
Learn about how modern construction efforts champion building sustainable structures and cities and the importance of crafting communities of the future.
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Mission Alignment
Experiences are tailored to specific corporate missions and goals related to sustainability and discreet team oriented topics related to learning goals.
The business of food
Join a leading international restauranteur at his flagship location, a fixture on the New York culinary scene, for an insider’s perspective on the business of food. Start with an interactive bartending experience in one of Manhattan's leading nightlife destinations, then tour the restaurant’s back of house and end with a discussion around the resilience and reshaping of the restaurant industry while satiating the palate with a pairing of wine and their signature dish.
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Inspiring Resilience
Uncover how agile mindset and resilience are key to standing up to challenges that come with change through inspirational, real life stories.
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Teamwork
Interactive bartending activities create opportunities for authentic interaction and honing creative skills through play.
the future of fashion
Join us for a tactile, immersive experience at a groundbreaking end-to-end sustainable luxury collection leading the charge of employing fashion as a pathway to activism, culminating in a panel discussion with their founder, sustainability expert, and head of philanthropy. Begin with a touch and feel tour of the showroom and enjoy drinks and light bites over inspiring conversation, with an optional personal shopping add-on.
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Innovation
Encourages thinking outside the box and preempting problems with new, creative solutions even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges.
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Champion Sustainability
Walk away with a deeper understanding and inspiration of how both they and their organization can work towards a greater, sustainable future.
The unifying power of song
Team building par excellence, this immersive experience encourages the articulation of ideas, moments of self reflection, and an exploration of group synergies. Participants engage in a collaborative songwriting exercise led by a Broadway native and Grammy award winning artist, followed an accompanied performance of their unique composition. Walk away empowered by new harmonies and maybe even with a new corporate anthem.
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Creative Mindset
Teams build shared skills and experience based on agile principles, supercharging communication and collaboration in a fun and engaging exercise.
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Teamwork
Participants work together to take risks, challenge assumptions, and show their vulnerable side – key ingredients for creating a high-performing team.
growing green cities
Uncover the future of green cities through a multifaceted, expert led experience including a hands on, interactive urban farming experience, a founder-led tour, and a farm-to-table catered meal on a majestic rooftop overlooking the city. Explore how community and advocacy efforts are helping to grow healthier, greener cities and the resilience it takes to make urban agriculture persevere and prosper.
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Mission Alignment
Aligning the entire experience to the corporate mission allows participants come away with a tangible understanding of and connection with that mission.
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Relationship Building
Participants engage in activities where they uncover new interpersonal connections while creating lasting, memorable shared experiences.
Hamilton uncovered
The last remaining original cast member of Hamilton recounts what it was like working on one of Broadway's most beloved productions with Lin Manuel Miranda in a raw, unfiltered discussion moderated by a Broadway peer, followed by a private performance. Participants are then coached through a dance, learning how to work and move together. Experience this musical legacy from the front row and gain an insider perspective on how Hamilton created a new genre, defying norms and expectations.
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Resilience & Risk Taking
Discover what it takes to truly break a mold through taking creative risks, putting yourself out there, and being vulnerable.
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Teamwork
Participants work together to learn and perform one of Hamilton's iconic routines, developing communication skills and connection through symbiotic movement.
Other Categories of Interest
Entertainment
Art & Design
Cuisine
Global Issues / Current Affairs
New York Experiences
Historical Experiences
Technology
Science / Health
Business