At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Shoulder Toss Energizer
Here’s a quick energizer game that you can play at your next day-long meeting that helps get the blood flowing again. It’s especially good mid-afternoon, when the after-lunch drowsiness is setting in. The whole point [...]
Play: Electric Slide
A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful energy. By: Marc Kristal Illustrated by: Mike Perry, Jim Stoten Location: New York, New [...]
Gain a New Identity and Break the Ice at Your Next Meeting
Sometimes the best ideas can be found in children’s books. For example, you can find a great icebreaker by reading “Captain Underpants And the Perilous Plot Professor Poopypants,” by Dave Pilkey. One part of the [...]
Interview with Pamela Meyer, author of "From Workplace to Playspace"
Name: Pamela Meyer Title of Book: From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement What are some of the main themes of your book? The main theme of the book is reflected [...]
Stop Playing with Legos and Put them to Work in the Kitchen
Stop Playing with Legos and Put them to Work in the Kitchen The next time you run out of ideas of what to build with your Legos and have a few extra hours to kill, [...]
Interview With Lisa Canning – Entrepreneur the Arts
Our friend Lisa Canning of Entrepreneur the Arts was interviewed recently in Crain’s Enterprise City Blog. Lisa has taken a different perspective on applied creativity by starting the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship. The “starving artist” [...]
Interview with Rick Gurolnick, Inventor
Name: Rick Gurolnick Company: Neotoy Area of Expertise: Design, Invention, New Product Concepts and Markets, Kid Marketing What sparks your creativity? Seeing a great example of Art or Design. For example, look at this great [...]
Visual Manipulation
Gabriel Orozco, one of Mexico’s most famous contemporary artists, is a man after my own heart. He brings recycling to a new level of artistry, taking mundane objects and playing with how you now see [...]
River Northern Exposure
If you’re looking for inspiration this weekend (or any weekend for that matter) and feel too intimated to walk into a gallery all on your lonesome, here’s a great opportunity to feel like an insider. [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Shoulder Toss Energizer
Here’s a quick energizer game that you can play at your next day-long meeting that helps get the blood flowing again. It’s especially good mid-afternoon, when the after-lunch drowsiness is setting in. The whole point [...]
Play: Electric Slide
A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful energy. By: Marc Kristal Illustrated by: Mike Perry, Jim Stoten Location: New York, New [...]
Gain a New Identity and Break the Ice at Your Next Meeting
Sometimes the best ideas can be found in children’s books. For example, you can find a great icebreaker by reading “Captain Underpants And the Perilous Plot Professor Poopypants,” by Dave Pilkey. One part of the [...]
Interview with Pamela Meyer, author of "From Workplace to Playspace"
Name: Pamela Meyer Title of Book: From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement What are some of the main themes of your book? The main theme of the book is reflected [...]
Stop Playing with Legos and Put them to Work in the Kitchen
Stop Playing with Legos and Put them to Work in the Kitchen The next time you run out of ideas of what to build with your Legos and have a few extra hours to kill, [...]
Interview With Lisa Canning – Entrepreneur the Arts
Our friend Lisa Canning of Entrepreneur the Arts was interviewed recently in Crain’s Enterprise City Blog. Lisa has taken a different perspective on applied creativity by starting the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship. The “starving artist” [...]
Interview with Rick Gurolnick, Inventor
Name: Rick Gurolnick Company: Neotoy Area of Expertise: Design, Invention, New Product Concepts and Markets, Kid Marketing What sparks your creativity? Seeing a great example of Art or Design. For example, look at this great [...]
Visual Manipulation
Gabriel Orozco, one of Mexico’s most famous contemporary artists, is a man after my own heart. He brings recycling to a new level of artistry, taking mundane objects and playing with how you now see [...]
River Northern Exposure
If you’re looking for inspiration this weekend (or any weekend for that matter) and feel too intimated to walk into a gallery all on your lonesome, here’s a great opportunity to feel like an insider. [...]