Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
Catalyst Ranch, Chicago’s most creative meeting venue, is staffed by a incredible team of quirky characters known as Ranch Hands. Creative individuals are drawn to Catalyst Ranch’s colorful workspace, diverse clientele, and co-workers of similar sensibility. Ranch Hand Spotlight is an occasional blog series that invites you to take a sneak peek behind the scenes at the [...]
The second annual Creative Meeting Carnival at Catalyst Ranch in Chicago's west loop was filled with puzzles, games, riddles, art, cocktails, and tasty treats from cotton candy to gelato to creative appetizers from Big Delicious Planet. Our unique meeting vendors mingled with meeting and event industry professionals, showcasing their innovative meeting enhancements. We hope you had a great [...]
Here at Catalyst Ranch, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We're just generous like that! We provide toys, puzzles, and games in our meeting rooms to help clients ignite their imaginations and have the most productive offsite meeting ever! Sometimes the giveaway prize is an inspiring book [...]
Welcome guest blogger, Shannon Terschluse, Certified Holistic Health Coach, Certified Yoga Teacher, and the Founder of Find Your Prana. “Argggh! 80% of Americans Stressed Out at Work” “Americans Cook the Least, Eat the Fastest” “How Eating at Home Can Save Your Life” “America’s Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted” “Change Your Lifestyle, Reverse Your Disease” These [...]
Have you ever planned and executed a meeting and then wondered "Did I get my point across?" or "Why wasn't there any action afterwards?" Have you ever attended a meeting and left with the feeling that you wasted your time? Now is your chance to find answers to your toughest meeting challenges. We've partnered with the [...]
Come one, come all to the second annual Creative Meeting Carnival at Catalyst Ranch! Join us on February 23 to explore the possibilities for your creative corporate meetings in 2015 and beyond! Meet our partner vendors and learn more about how their diverse offerings that can help you make meeting magic! Today we are spotlighting one [...]
Here at Catalyst Ranch, Chicago’s first creative meeting venue, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We’re just generous like that! We have oodles of toys, puzzles, books, and games in our meeting rooms to help clients ignite their imaginations and have the most productive offsite meeting ever! Sometimes the giveaway prize [...]
Today Catalyst Ranch celebrates 12 years of creative meetings and events, innovation and creativity, connections and collaborations. Wow! What a journey! We are thankful to have been joined by an incredible list of clients that share our vision and enjoy our space. And of course we cannot forget to thank our amazing partners that have worked [...]
Who hasn't wanted to be a monster for a day? We know we have, which is only part of the reason we love these insane knitted monster masks from Brutal Knitting, which we spotted over at Nerdcore. Brutal Knitting, also known as Tracy Widdess, does “creepy sci fi and horror-inspired custom knitting” of all kinds, but [...]
To celebrate our upcoming 12 year anniversary, Catalyst Ranch is putting together 12 Days of Creative Inspiration. Inspiration is all around us, and we’re looking high and low for unexpected sources of creative inspiration. Where do you find inspiration? Maybe it is in something tactile like gardening or in the visual arts or in a piece [...]