Beyond the work we're paid to do.
The Experience Lab puts our values into practice through the partners we co-develop with, the causes we back each year and the communities we travel to in order to share the craft. This page is the account of where.
Plays we built with the specialists.
Some workplace topics need more than a good script. We co-develop the most sensitive plays in our repertoire with organisations whose entire work sits inside those topics. Their specialists vet the characters, audit the scenes and shape the facilitator framing.
We have co-developed two plays with CEOs for Gender Equity, the WA-based business leaders' coalition committed to closing gender gaps in workplaces. The headline play, It's a Woman's Woman's World, flips the script - a workplace where women are in charge and a single male middle manager has to navigate the everyday inequities most women carry quietly. The reversal makes the dynamics impossible to dismiss.
See gender equity trainingThe Domestic Abuse Resource and Training Group co-developed Behind Closed Doors with us - a play exploring how to recognise the signs of domestic violence and coercive control as they show up in the workplace. DART specialists vetted the script, sat in on early rehearsals and helped shape the facilitator framing around primary prevention.
Read more about both partnerships
Annual donations, matched to the work.
Each year The Experience Lab puts a portion of company earnings into charitable causes that connect to the work we have been doing during the year. Different cause every year. Same principle - back the organisations whose mission aligns with what our deliveries have spent the year addressing. Our two most recent:
Most recent end-of-year cycle. Cariad - the Welsh word for love - teaches children the art of kindness, compassion and community service. The work translates directly into the foundations of the workplace cultures our deliveries try to build later: people who notice each other, who step in, who treat care as a practice rather than a slogan.
thecariadproject.orgPrevious cycle. The Perron Institute is one of Western Australia's leading independent medical research institutes, focused on neurological and translational research. Backing them connected to a year of work in healthcare and tertiary education environments.
Where the craft has travelled.
The Australian Institute of TheatreSports - the improvisation school Michael Sanderson-Green co-founded in 1989 alongside the company that became The Experience Lab - has carried our craft into communities far beyond Perth boardrooms.
AITS has travelled extensively through Hong Kong and mainland China, working with students to build conversational English through improvisation. The principle is simple: language sticks faster when you are using it to play, not to be tested.
Closer to home, AITS has worked in remote Aboriginal communities across the Pilbara and the Kimberley - helping community members develop confidence in standard Australian conversational English, with a focus on the kind of fluency that translates into self-advocacy, workplace readiness and the confidence to step into employment opportunities. Improvisation as a literacy tool, not a performance one.
This work isn't a sideline to The Experience Lab - it is the same craft, applied where it can do the most good outside a corporate invoice.
The reason we publish this list.
Workplace training is not a neutral product. The companies that deliver it have positions on the topics they teach - on gender equity, on family violence, on inclusion, on mental health. We think it is fair for prospective clients to see what those positions look like in practice, not just in copy. So this page exists.
If you'd like to invite The Experience Lab to support a cause we haven't named here, get in touch.
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Tell Jacob the workplace moment you want to change. He'll tell you what we'd build.