Traditional workplace assessments provide valuable insight into strengths, behavior, and leadership style. However, insight alone does not always lead to meaningful or lasting change. Understanding results intellectually is different from integrating them into daily decision-making, communication, and leadership practice.
At Let’s Art About It, we pair leading workplace assessments - CliftonStrengths®, DiSC®, and ESSA®, with art therapy–based learning to deepen insight, embodiment, and meaning. Our strategic use of no-skill art making complements quantitative data with creative exploration—helping participants access emotional, relational, and contextual awareness that may not emerge through assessment scores alone.
This approach enhances reflection, accelerates learning, and supports more authentic application at both individual and team levels.
Why Art Therapy Enhances Assessments
Assessments offer language, structure, and data. Art therapy supports integration.
Through guided, no-skill creative processes, participants externalize thoughts, patterns, and experiences in visual form. This allows insight to become tangible, reflective, and easier to work with—supporting learning across cognitive, emotional, and relational dimensions.
Art therapy does not replace assessments or generate additional measurement data. Instead, it enhances understanding by helping participants explore how assessment insights show up in real-world contexts, especially under stress, change, or complexity.
Elizabeth W., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Human Resources Executive of Rehmann, participates in a workshop she invited us to design for her team to explore, enhance, and mobilizing individual and team strengths.
CliftonStrengths® + Art Therapy
CliftonStrengths® identifies a person’s dominant talent themes and provides a strengths-based framework for leadership and development. While the assessment is highly effective at naming strengths, many individuals struggle to fully embody how their strengths operate in practice—particularly in complex or high-pressure environments.
Art therapy bridges this gap.
How It Works
Participants engage in structured art-based reflection designed to translate their CliftonStrengths® results into visual and symbolic form. This process helps individuals explore how their strengths interact, support one another, and sometimes overextend.
Through guided creative exploration, participants often gain insight into:
How their strengths show up under pressure
Where strengths are most effective—or misapplied
Tensions or imbalances between dominant strengths
Conditions that support optimal use of their talents
How strengths shift across leadership, collaboration, and decision-making contexts
Outcome
Participants move beyond simply knowing their strengths to using them with intention, flexibility, and self-awareness—supporting stronger leadership presence, collaboration, and performance.
DiSC® + Art Therapy
DiSC® provides a practical framework for understanding behavioral and communication styles. It is widely used to support team effectiveness, leadership development, and interpersonal communication.
While DiSC® is often easy to understand conceptually, applying its insights in emotionally charged or fast-moving situations can be challenging. Art therapy supports deeper integration by making behavioral patterns visible and reflective.
How It Works
Participants engage in art-based prompts that explore how their DiSC® style shows up across different workplace scenarios. Through creative reflection, individuals examine their automatic responses, communication tendencies, and relational dynamics in a non-judgmental, low-risk way.
This process supports awareness of:
Stress responses and behavioral defaults
Gaps between intention and impact
How different styles interact within teams
Opportunities for greater flexibility and adaptation
Emotional and relational dynamics behind observable behavior
Art therapy prompts do not replace DiSC® results. They help participants contextualize and personalize their profiles—making insights more actionable and relationally informed.
Outcome
Teams develop a more nuanced understanding of behavioral dynamics, leading to improved communication, reduced friction, and more effective collaboration.
90% of the participants of our client, an Emmy award-winning media corporation, reported a deeper connection with their team due to our support styes intervention.
ESSA® (Employee Support Styles Assessment) + Art Therapy
The ESSA® (Employee Support Styles Assessment) helps individuals and teams understand how support is most effectively given and received at work. It measures support preferences alongside perceived support, highlighting areas of alignment or disconnect that can significantly impact engagement, trust, and performance.
ESSA® is especially valuable in leadership, manager development, and team environments where support expectations are often unspoken yet deeply influential.
How It Works
Participants complete the ESSA® to identify how they prefer to receive support and how supported they currently feel in their work environment. Art therapy–based reflection then creates space to explore these findings beyond scores alone.
Through guided, no-skill creative processes, participants examine:
Where support feels aligned, misaligned, or absent
How support dynamics show up in day-to-day interactions
Emotional and relational experiences connected to giving and receiving support
Assumptions, expectations, and communication patterns around support
Opportunities to strengthen trust and psychological safety
Art-based reflection helps make abstract support dynamics visible and discussable—supporting honest dialogue without blame.
Outcome
Individuals and teams gain clearer insight into support needs, expectations, and experiences. This leads to:
More effective and responsive leadership
Stronger manager–employee relationships
Improved communication and trust
Increased engagement and psychological safety
By pairing ESSA® with art therapy, organizations move beyond identifying support gaps toward practical, relationally informed action.
Why ESSA® Integrates Well with Art Therapy
Support is often experienced emotionally and relationally, not just cognitively. Art therapy provides a nonverbal, reflective medium for exploring these experiences—helping participants articulate what support feels like, not just what it should be.
This integration enhances clarity, empathy, and shared understanding—making support alignment a lived, actionable practice rather than an abstract goal.
MORE ABOUT OUR ASSESSMENT + EXPERIENTIAL INTEGRATION SERVICES
Designed for Professional Settings
All assessment-based art therapy sessions are:
Structured and purpose-driven
Grounded in organizational psychology and adult learning principles
Time-efficient and outcome-focused
Inclusive and accessible, regardless of artistic experience
Assessment insights can be extended through facilitated workshops, leadership development sessions, and consulting engagements aligned with organizational goals.
The Result
By combining trusted workplace assessments with art therapy–based learning, organizations gain:
Deeper and more authentic self-reflection
Faster insight and alignment
Stronger emotional intelligence and leadership presence
More meaningful team dialogue
Greater transfer of learning into real-world action
This integrated approach transforms assessments from static reports into living tools for growth, connection, and sustainable change.
Continuing the Work
Assessment insights are most powerful when they are supported over time.
Following assessment-based art therapy engagements, organizations often choose to extend the work through ongoing consulting, customized trainings, and coaching to support sustained integration and real-world application.
These continued services help organizations:
Translate insight into day-to-day leadership and team practices
Reinforce learning during periods of change, growth, or transition
Support leaders and teams as new challenges emerge
Deepen alignment between individual strengths, behavior, and organizational goals
Engagements are tailored to organizational context and may include:
Leadership and team consulting
Customized training programs
Group or individual coaching
Ongoing facilitation and integration sessions
This flexible, phased approach allows organizations to move beyond one-time insight toward lasting cultural and behavioral change.
Elevate your workplace dynamics through the lens of personality
with the guidance of our senior advisor Dr. Galen buckwalter (creator of the personality matching system for eHarmony and founder of PSYML), we specialize in unlocking the power of personality for transformative organizational success. Our approach utilizes a combination of art and personality assessments to:
provide a comprehensive analysis for executive search, hiring, coaching, and understanding individual and team dynamics.
empower individuals and teams to leverage their unique personalities effectively, turning potential challenges into strengths.
custom workshops and sessions, including but not limited to:
Personality Profiling Sessions: Dive into individual and team personalities, gaining profound insights into unique traits and development areas.
Team Dynamics Enhancement: foster better collaboration and communication and learn strategies for building cohesive and high-performing teams by understanding and appreciating the diversity of individual personalities.
Conflict Resolution and Communication Skills: Learn effective communication strategies that take into account diverse personalities to navigate conflicts constructively, minimizing misunderstandings and maximizing collaboration.
Embracing Diversity and Inclusion: Celebrate the diversity of personalities within your organization, helping teams appreciate and leverage differences for innovation, resilience, effective problem-solving, and success.
Strategic Decision-Making based on Personality Insights: Equip your team with tools to make strategic decisions that align with the strengths of individuals, ensuring a more effective and harmonious decision-making process.
Coaching for Performance Improvement: Provide targeted coaching based on personality assessments to enhance individual and team performance. Identify areas for improvement and growth, creating personalized development plans that align with the unique attributes of each team member.
COMMUNICATION & SUPPORT STYLES ASSESSMENTS & RecommenDations
Effective communication and support is the foundation of successful organizations, shaping the morale of diverse workforces, workplace culture, and productivity. Our Communication and support Style Analysis and Recommendations service offers a targeted approach to:
Assess, refine and optimizE communication and support, fostering an inclusive, open-minded, and positive atmosphere for impactful workplace communication.
providE insights and personalized recommendations from our experts to elevate inclusive communication, enhancing workplace relationships and sense of belonging.
develop CUSTOM Tailored sessions, including but not limited the following examples:
art of GIVING and receiving feedback: Equip leaders with skills and tools for an affirming, feedback-rich workplace, utilizing interactive art therapy based exercises and discussions to promote constructive feedback and a growth-oriented mindset.
art of cognitive connection: create a collaborative workplace culture that fosters intellectual connection and innovation. Through interactive visual art exercises, participants learn how to identify barriers to cognitive connections, establish trust with their teams, and facilitate meaningful conversations. enhance team performance and drive productivity through a supportive and intellectually stimulating work environment.
art of Emotional attunement: develop emotional intelligence and create a collaborative and empathetic workplace culture. Through interactive art therapy based exercises, participants learn to recognize and manage their own emotions and those of their team members, fostering emotional connections and promoting a positive work environment.