Workplace Workshop

 

  "What can one do to avoid taking bread for granted, to avoid becoming indifferent to its beauty and flavor?  For a start, one should eat only good bread.  It should be tasted as one would taste a fine wine.  Finally one should share it. We have learned to see in bread an instrument of community among men."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery,
Flight to Arras

 

 

The basic workshop can be offered during a lunch hour and the program can be tailored to meet specific workplace needs.
For more information,
call (201) 792-2994 or contact us by e-mail at gmg@professorbread.com.

 

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Breadmaking Basics: A Workplace Workshop

     Breadmaking Facilitates Staff Development 7 Ways
1. Breadmaking provides a perfect opportunity for teamwork and collaboration.
2. Participants enjoy making bread and find it fascinating (the aroma brings out the best in everyone).
3. Working with one's hands, with basic ingredients, reduces stress.
4. Learning about bread leads to a greater appreciation of different cultures.
5. Staff members appreciate acquiring a skill that can enrich family life.
6. Breadmaking enhances the training (or retreat) schedule: The breadmaking activity serves as a perfect way to open the day and sharing the fruits of the group's labors provides an ideal way to close.
7. Participants feel empowered and proud of what the group is able to accomplish!
 
"The energy level of the team picked up tremendously as they worked together... Seeing the end result brought a great sense of accomplishment and offered immediate confirmation of what the team could accomplish."
Change Managment Facilitator - Novartis Pharmaceuticals
     
 
 

Team building: Breadmaking provides a wonderful opportunity for people to work together to make something that is intended to be shared.  Baking and breaking bread together can improve communication, boost morale, and build community.

Stress Reduction: For many people breadmaking provides a connection with something real and essential.  Working with one's hands with basic ingredients to create a nourishing product that can be shared with others can help us become centered, grounded, and relaxed.
Expanding Horizons: In addition to acquiring new skills, participants will become better acquainted with the vast and varied world of bread.  The workshop highlights bread's interesting history as well as the fundamental role of grains and benign microorganisms like yeast in human nutrition.

   Not only will participants gain a practical understanding of how to make bread, they will also gain an appreciation of the paradoxical simplicity and complexity of the breadmaking process.  This hands-on workshop provides an opportunity to learn about something that is so central to our lives that it often gets taken for granted.

  The workshop will also explore how breadmaking provides a window onto a fascinating history of hard work and inventiveness in many areas of human endeavor.

"He who has good flour makes good bread."
Italian Proverb

 

© 2005 Gary M. Gomer