Fourteen workshops across our two San Francisco studios. SoMa and the Financial District are not interchangeable — different rooms, different caps, different reasons to pick one.
The short answer
Every San Francisco team-building list is written by someone who does not operate in San Francisco. They will tell you about a rooftop, a scavenger hunt and a cooking class, and none of them will mention the thing that actually decides your event: which side of the city your team is on at 5pm on a Thursday.
We run two studios here. SoMa takes the messy, physical workshops and the longer sessions. The Financial District is closer to most downtown offices and better suited to things that fit inside a working day — and it holds the biggest private group we have in the city. Everything below is the real number: public cap, private cap, run time, starting price.
If you already know your budget, headcount or time slot, start here.
| If you have… | Book this | Time | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| The smallest budget | Chunky Blanket Workshop | 1.5 Hour | $49/person |
| One hour, no more | Ebru: Turkish Art of Marbling | 1 Hour | $79/person |
| 150 people in one room | The Signature Terrarium Workshop | 1.5 Hour | $69/person |
| Something for the careers page | Neon & Moss Wall Art Class | 1.5 Hour | $129/person |
| A team that claims to hate crafts | Rug Tufting Workshop | 2.5 Hour | $99/person |
Where the physical workshops live. The right call for engineering and product teams, and for anything that needs space to spread out.
Yarn, a tufting gun and a frame, and a design appears in dense pile. It is loud and physical, and it is the fastest way to convert someone who arrived certain they were not creative.
Best for: the team that has done every escape room in the city. It needs the full 2.5 hours — do not squeeze it into a 90-minute slot.
Preserved moss with a neon element wired through it. It photographs better than almost anything else we run, which matters if the session is doubling as content for your careers page.
Best for: design and brand teams, and offsites that want one showpiece moment. The priciest option here — worth it only if the finished object genuinely matters.
Cut glass and beads on a glass globe, grouted and lit before the session ends. The longest stretch of quiet concentration of anything we run, which puts the loudest and quietest people in a team on equal footing.
Best for: milestone celebrations and teams that want a real keepsake. Takes 100 privately.
Layered soil, moss and plants in sealed glass that stays alive on a desk for years with almost no attention. The safest choice if you are only doing one of these all year.
Best for: first-time bookers and mixed-seniority groups. Note the three-day lead time here, a day longer than most.
Preserved moss, a frame and a free hand. No way to get it wrong, and the finished piece ends up on a wall rather than in a drawer.
Best for: small teams — this is the tightest private cap in SoMa at 24.
Everyone blends their own scent from an oil library, pours, and labels two candles. The blending is the real activity — it fills the setting time with actual conversation.
Best for: short windows and holiday sessions. Everyone finishes at the same moment, which makes wrapping up easy.
The mosaic technique from the lamp workshop, on a candle holder and in a fraction of the time.
Best for: teams curious about mosaic work but not ready to commit two hours.
Arm-knitted chunky yarn. No needles, no technique, no way to visibly fail, and everyone leaves with a blanket rather than a craft project.
Best for: tight per-head budgets. The cheapest thing we run in San Francisco.
Above the caps above we run parallel rooms, or bring the studio to your office. Tell us the headcount and the date and we'll map it.
Closer to most downtown offices, and better suited to sessions that have to fit inside a working day. One workshop here takes a bigger private group than anything in SoMa.
The same sealed glass garden, in the room that holds the most people. At 150 privately it is more than double anything else in San Francisco.
Best for: all-hands sessions and any mixed group where you cannot predict who will enjoy what. Nobody has ever disliked building one.
Floating pigment on water and pulling the pattern onto paper. It looks like a magic trick the first time, and there is genuinely no way to get it wrong.
Best for: the week after a launch or a reorg, when the team needs quiet rather than more stimulation. Done in an hour.
Hand-built pots and small vessels — pinched, coiled or slab-built. Messier than the terrarium and more personal for it.
Best for: teams that have already done a terrarium session. Clay needs drying time, so nothing goes home the same evening.
Everyone blends a scent from an oil library and names it. People compare notes constantly, so the room is talking from minute two.
Best for: one-hour lunch slots and newly merged teams.
The mosaic technique laid flat — sorting and placing coloured glass into a panel. Satisfying, methodical and easy to pick up.
Best for: groups that want the mosaic work without the two-hour lamp commitment.
Pyrography — a heated tip, a wooden blank and a steady hand. It rewards patience and produces the most distinctly personal output of anything on this list.
Best for: small teams only. This has the tightest limits we have in the city: 11 public, 24 private, and a three-day lead time.
Four questions, in the order they actually matter.
If most of your team is actually in the South Bay, book there instead — our San Jose guide covers the Downtown San Jose studio, which takes up to 60 privately. For distributed teams, virtual team building ships kits to everyone and runs live with a host.
Tufting in particular travels well. We run the same workshops on-site across the Bay Area and bring everything with us.
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Where your team is at 5pm decides it more often than the workshop does. Downtown teams should book FiDi. Anyone already south of Market should book SoMa. If the group is over 100, the FiDi terrarium is your only single-room option.
Two days for most workshops, three for woodburning and the SoMa terrarium. Inside that window, ask anyway — we hold rush capacity most weeks.
150, in a private booking of the Financial District terrarium. Neon and moss wall art takes 120 in SoMa, and several workshops take 100. Above that we run parallel rooms or come to your office.
Those are public-session caps. Book the same workshop privately and the limit jumps — usually to 60 or 100. Book private rather than splitting a team across two dates.
Materials, tools, instruction and the finished piece. No kit fee added afterwards.
That is most people. Every workshop is built so no prior skill is needed and there is no way to visibly fail. Hosts are briefed to make quiet participation normal rather than awkward.
Yes. We run on-site events across the Bay Area and bring all materials and tools. Tufting travels particularly well.
Free rescheduling up to five business days before the session. Inside that window materials have usually been prepped, so a fee applies — your coordinator will tell you exactly where that line is before you commit.
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