The Red Ribbon team

I hosted Red Ribbon’s first ever team building on our farm, Witklip in Moorreesburg last weekend. The team expanded quite radically and it was needed for the Jo’burg and Cape Town offices to get to know each other better and have some fun together. Team work is key at Red Ribbon and thus this exercise crucial.

The team stayed in the beautifully restored farm house and recently launched self-catering guest house.

Jacolene de Haan, a local artist, presented the team building in the old horse stables (accompanied by the local mice colony!!). We started each morning with meditation followed by right brain exercises such as drawing exercises and in the end each completing our own painting. Something I never thought I’ll be able to do (I guess that goes for the others too) — especially drawing a face and that with using the colours blue and green… See our end products here, soon to be viewed in our offices.

Our paintings

The afternoons were spent discovering the quaint town of Riebeek Kasteel and enjoying fish and chips on Yzerfontein’s beach, a highlight for the Jo’burgers. Thank you to Marlene for making their holiday house available.

Lots of jokes were shared, shocking information revealed; bad sleeping nights endured, but in the end great memories were made and everybody left as proud members of the Red Ribbon team.