Lightsaber Academy · Corporate Team Building · Half & Full Day

Awaken the Force
Within Your Team

Lightsaber choreography, martial arts, theatre and improv - combined into an unforgettable development experience that builds presence, confidence, communication and resilience.

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The Lightsaber is
the prop. Your development is
the Adventure.

Lightsaber Teambuilding is a corporate development academy unlike anything else. Participants learn real lightsaber choreography and stage combat, experience martial arts and theatre exercises, and leave with a filmed scene - a duel or short performance - that is uniquely theirs.


The choreography, the Aikido, the improv - these are the method. The real outcomes are the four capacities of embodied intelligence that every high-performing professional needs.

"Most corporate training happens from the neck up. Presence, awareness, influence live in the body. And they have to be practiced..."

Self-Awareness

Know how you show up - your patterns, your triggers, your default style under pressure. The body doesn't lie. Embodied exercises reveal what the mind hides.

Self-Management

Regulate your state, maintain composure, and choose your response rather than react. Martial arts and stage combat are the ultimate classroom for this.

Other-Awareness

Read the room. Attune to others. Theatre and improv sharpen the sensitivity to people that makes great communicators and leaders.

Other Influence

Lead, inspire, and move people - with presence, not position. The final performance is where all four capacities come together.

Simple. Powerful. Memorable.

01

Discovery Call

We learn about your team, your goals, and your context. Every session is shaped around who you are and what you need.

02

Academy Day

Lightsaber training, Aikido and improv exercises, gamified development activities - building toward the final performance.

03

The Finale

Teams perform their choreographed duel or short play - filmed, celebrated, and kept as a lasting memory of the day.

04

Real Transfer

A structured debrief connects the experience to your team's real challenges, so that the learning lands and sticks.

One Day.
A Lifetime of Stories.

Every Lightsaber Academy session is built around a core experience - then layered with development content tailored to your team. Lightsabers provided for up to 16 participants. Delivered in English or French.

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Martial Arts & Embodiment

Aikido-based exercises that develop presence, grounding, and the ability to stay centred under pressure. Drawing on 20 years of Aikido practice, these translate directly to leadership and self-management.

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Theatre & Improv

Improv and theatre techniques that sharpen listening, spontaneity, communication and other-awareness. The skills that make great performers are the same ones that make great leaders.

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Gamified Development

Traditional corporate development exercises - communication, leadership, resilience, teamwork - reimagined with a lightsaber spin. Serious learning delivered in a way people enjoy and remember.

Development Layer

Extended Programmes

For longer engagements, we weave a narrative arc - such as the Hero's Journey - across multiple sessions. Optional Lumina Spark personality profiling available as an add-on.

Multi-Session

Half-Day Format

3.5 – 4 hours — a complete academy experience that fits within a working day.
👥Up to 16 participants - lightsabers provided. Lightsabers to be kept by participants available with advance notice.
Choreography training, development exercises, filmed finale, and structured debrief.

Full-Day Format

7 – 8 hours - deeper immersion, more development layers, richer finale and debrief.
🌍English & French - delivered across Europe. On-site or off-site.
Ideal for offsites and retreats. Hero's Journey narrative arc available at this format.
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Sébastien Martineau
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Leadership Trainer. Swordsman.
Sensei.

I'm Sebastien - the founder and facilitator behind every Lightsaber Academy session. I bring together 12 years of fencing, 20 years of Aikido, and leadership development into experiences unlike anything else in corporate training.


After studying at Oxford and Kent universities and beginning my career with the UK Ministry of Defence, I spent two decades training leaders across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the US.

12 years of fencing · Aikido 3rd Dan Black Belt · 20 years teaching martial arts to adults, children, and business professionals
Executive MA in Positive Leadership & Strategy, IE Business School, Madrid
Former Global People Development Director at Vendavo - led leadership initiatives at scale across EMEA and the US
Over 10,000 hours of leadership training delivered - Fortune 500s to high-performance tech teams
Based in Czech Republic. Delivering across Europe in English & French

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Your Team?

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📞 +420 608 442 203  ·  ✉️ [email protected]  ·  📍 Prague, Czech Republic