For organisations
Build creative confidence in your team — at the moment they need it most.
The Creative Pause helps corporate teams reconnect with the creativity AI is putting at risk. A facilitated practice that builds capability — and outlives the worksho
Why this exists
A practice for finding it again
Most people in corporate life have lost connection with their creativity without noticing. Slowly. Quietly. Through approval chains and pressure to produce something safe that everybody can agree on.
And now AI is accelerating everything that works against original thinking.
The Creative Pause is a deliberate interruption — a deck of 52 cards across four categories, designed to get you out of automatic thinking and into something more human. Not a workshop in a box. A practice for the desk, the meeting, the moment before you default to the obvious answer.
It's grounded in a single belief — that everyone is creative, but that capacity weakens when you stop using it. The cards are how you start using it again.
The evidence
63%
of employers identify the skills gap as the key barrier to business transformation today. Creative thinking is named among the top skills rising in importance through 2030.
Source · World Economic Forum · Future of Jobs Report 2025
Four ways in
From a deck on your desk
to a half-day in the room.
Choose the format that fits your team — every tier uses the same core methodology, scaled to context, time, and depth.
Self-Hosted
Team Kit
£500
Per kit
For teams who want to run their own session. Everything you need to facilitate The Creative Pause yourself.
8 decks of cards
Digital host guide with 3 workshop formats (30, 45, 60 minutes)
Follow-up framework for ongoing practice
Email support if you need it
Best for: mid-sized teams comfortable facilitating themselves
Self-Hosted
Team Kit
£500
Per kit
A facilitated half-day in your office. Tailored to a specific challenge — a campaign, a strategy reset, a leadership offsite. Anchored in your real work.
3.5 hours of facilitated practice
Custom session design for your team
Cards for every participant to take home
Post-workshop reflection framework
Best for: teams who want the deepest possible experience
Virtual
Live Online Workshop
From £1,800
90 minutes · Up to 20 participants
A live session online. Cards posted to all participants in advance. The full Creative Pause experience, delivered virtually.
90-minute facilitated session
Cards posted to participants in advance
Recording for absent team members
Post-session resources
Best for: distributed teams without travel budget
Bespoke
Custom Pack & Session
From £6,000
By conversation
A prompt pack designed specifically for your team's challenge — your language, your context, your brief. Delivered with a facilitated session, in person or online.
Custom 13-card pack designed for your context
Live or virtual facilitated session
Decks for every participant to keep
30-minute briefing call to scope the work
Best for: teams with a specific challenge that needs its own prompts
Why this exists
"It changed how the team approached the rest of the day."
A senior strategy team at a global consulting firm used The Creative Pause cards in a campaign planning session. Each person received the Campaign expansion pack and selected a prompt before each presentation.
The result — a team that has run hundreds of brainstorming sessions found themselves generating ideas they wouldn't have otherwise reached. The cards spread to a second team within the same week.
Senior leader · Global consulting firm · 2026
Beyond the core deck
Specialist packs
for specific contexts
Each expansion pack is 13 prompts designed for a particular kind of work. Sold separately or bundled with workshops.
Available
Campaign
For when the brief needs a bigger idea
For marketing teams working on briefs and campaign concepts. 13 prompts that push past the safe answer to something genuinely distinctive.
13 cards · £20 standalone · Bundled with workshops
Available
Campaign
For when the brief needs a bigger idea
For marketing teams working on briefs and campaign concepts. 13 prompts that push past the safe answer to something genuinely distinctive.
13 cards · £20 standalone · Bundled with workshops
Available
Campaign
For when the brief needs a bigger idea
For marketing teams working on briefs and campaign concepts. 13 prompts that push past the safe answer to something genuinely distinctive.
13 cards · £20 standalone · Bundled with workshops
Barclays
Shelln
Cino
BCG
The Founder
Adanma Wokoh
Senior Marketer, BCG · Founder, Crafting Joy · Founder, The Creative Pause
I've spent fifteen years inside the world The Creative Pause is built for. Senior marketing roles at Barclays, Shell, nCino, and now BCG. I know what corporate life does to creativity — and what it costs when nobody notices.
The Creative Pause is what I built when I wanted that to change.
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Let's talk about
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Tell me a little about what you're working on. I'll come back to you within two working days.
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