Sessions for Teams
Practice better collaboration by writing a song together
I host your team while they write a song together, from a blank page, in about ninety minutes. No musical experience, no performing, no one put on the spot.
Most team building asks people to perform, compete, or sit through a slideshow. This is the opposite. It's a room where people make something real, and practice the collaboration you actually want from them the rest of the year.
I'm not an entertainer who shows up to write a funny song about your company. I spent nearly a decade as a corporate trainer before I did this full time, and I facilitate the way I always have: I build the right room, and I let people arrive at the insight themselves.
What a session looks like
Every session moves through the same simple arc. No sheet music, no pressure, just a group finding its way to something meaningful.
Start from a blank page. We begin with nothing, and no experience is assumed. Within a few minutes, the intimidation most people walk in with starts to fall away.
Find the thread. The group listens its way toward a shared idea. This is where real communication and collaboration start, people learning to hear each other and hold on to the thing worth keeping.
Write it together. People offer unfinished lines and build on each other instead of defending their own. It's collaboration in its most honest form.
Read it back. The room hears what it made. Teams leave more connected than they arrived, and a little more themselves.
What teams take away
I could promise you the usual outcomes: better communication, stronger collaboration, a morale boost. They're all real. But the thing people describe afterward tends to run deeper.
Again and again, participants leave describing the same things: a renewed sense of what they're capable of, a deeper ability to say what they really mean, and new ways to feel connected, to themselves and to the people around them.
They also leave having practiced things a team can use the next day:
Offering an idea before it feels finished
Asking a question before evaluating someone else's contribution
Building on a colleague's suggestion instead of replacing it
Making room for the quieter people in the room
Deciding together what actually serves a shared goal
That's the power of making something together. It reminds people what they're capable of, and it changes how they see the people beside them.
Self-worth · Real communication · Connection · Creative courage
Who it’s for
Sessions for Teams works for teams and departments, leadership groups, offsites, all-hands, and conferences. Really, any group that needs to communicate and create together.
It works just as well as a light-hearted teamwork exercise as it does a deeper, more reflective reset, and I shape it to fit whichever you need. No musical experience is required, ever. I've run this for people who swore up and down they weren't creative, and watched them surprise themselves every time.
How it flexes
Length: ninety minutes to a half day
Size: one team to a full company gathering
Setting: in person, remote, or hybrid; minimal setup, nothing for your people to bring
Focus: shaped to your goal, from a morale reset to sharper communication
Tone: from a light-hearted teamwork exercise to a deeply collaborative, motivating session
Investment: 90-minute sessions start at $2,500
Tell me about your group and your timing, and we'll find the shape that fits.
A recent session…
Seven people at Great Lakes Cheese, two of them joining remotely, none of them musicians. Ninety minutes. Three groups, three finished songs, written from nothing.
Afterward I asked everyone the same question: what would you say to a colleague who asked what you did for ninety minutes on Wednesday?
"Spent 90 minutes learning about my team, and what they found interesting, important or transformative. Opening up and being vulnerable to create a deeper and lasting connection to people I work with every single day."
- Participant, Great Lakes Cheese
"It was a fun, hands-on way to experience how great ideas emerge when people contribute their unique perspectives. The session showed how creativity can break down barriers, build trust, and encourage collaboration in ways that traditional meetings often don't."
- Participant, Great Lakes Cheese
Who leads it
I'm Elijah, the founder of TERRA. Before this, I spent nearly a decade in corporate training. I started at Apple, on the customer-facing side and in new-hire training, where I learned to lead with deep listening and good questions rather than answers. Then I spent six years at Hyland Software, moving from trainer to senior trainer to team lead, teaching novices and experts side by side, often in difficult conditions, in different countries, sometimes through a translator, sometimes with no working equipment at all.
All of it taught me the same lesson: people learn best when you build the right environment and let them reach the insight on their own. That belief is the whole foundation of TERRA, and it's exactly what I bring to a session with your team. Songwriting is simply the most powerful conduit I've found for that kind of learning.
Let’s find a format that fits your team
If any of this sounds like something your team could use, I'd love to talk it through. Tell me a little about your group and what you're hoping for, and I'll help you shape a session that fits.
Email me at info@terrasongwriting.com or Download the open-page overview here.