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A 6 Month Culture Program

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Gold Mark Real Estate partnered with WTRMLN LABS for a six-month, full-ecosystem journey — designed to energise their people, strengthen internal culture, and create meaningful moments both inside and outside the workplace.

Location

Dubai, UAE

Attendees

50

Pre-Project

This wasn't a day to plan, it was a six-month relationship to architect. The design challenge was coherence: making engagement, learning, creativity, and contribution feel like one connected journey rather than a series of disconnected activities, sustained across half a year.

Before and throughout the journey, we designed and planned the full ecosystem:

  • The journey architecture. We mapped the six-month programme as a continuous arc rather than isolated events, sequencing experiences that touched every part of the employee journey — from connection and recognition to creativity, contribution, and growth.
  • The Engage Lab activations. We designed in-office activations built to help a busy team disconnect, refresh, and create space for genuine connection inside the working day.
  • The Learn Lab workshops. We designed facilitated workshops across two tracks — sales and wellbeing — building practical sessions that helped the team grow professionally while looking after themselves in demanding roles.
  • The Create Lab strategy. We built a full social media strategy for the client, planning the content engine end-to-end: the brand storytelling, the channel approach, and a steady stream of formats from podcasts to short-form clips.
  • The brand reveal. We designed a full new branding reveal, planning how the refreshed identity would be rolled out and brought to life across the organisation and its channels.
  • The Care Lab experience. We designed a CSR activity with real purpose — a food-box packing initiative for labour communities, built to ground the team in shared responsibility and collective impact.
  • Ongoing coordination. We planned the flow and logistics across all four Labs over the full six months, working side-by-side with the client.

Execution

Engage Lab — office activations — We ran in-office activations that gave the team a moment to step out of the daily grind, reconnect, and refresh within their own environment.

Learn Lab — facilitated workshops — We delivered facilitated workshops across sales and wellbeing, equipping the team with practical skills for their roles while supporting resilience, balance, and self-awareness.

Create Lab — social media and content — We ran the client's social media end-to-end: full strategy and channel management, ongoing content creation, podcast production, teasers, and short-form clips, plus culture-driven pieces capturing the people and day-to-day life of the organisation. We also delivered a full new branding reveal.

Care Lab — CSR experience — We facilitated the food-box packing initiative for labour communities, a hands-on, grounding reminder of empathy and the impact a team can make together.

Side-by-side facilitation — Throughout the journey, our team worked alongside the client to design experiences, create content, and facilitate activities that consistently reflected their culture and goals.

The Outcome

The journey created a real shift across the team. Participants described it as highly valuable — a space where they could connect more openly, build confidence, and regain the energy they needed in their roles. The blend of creative content, hands-on CSR, and in-office experiences drove momentum across the company, leaving the team feeling more aligned, recharged, and supported.