Minkara
SARA MINKARA
In the Dark
In the Dark is Sara’s signature immersive methodology: a high-impact experience that helps organizations connect, collaborate, and create.
WHAT CHANGES IN THE ROOM
Listening
Candor
Trust
Assumptions
Collaboration
How it works
01
Constraint removes noise and hierarchy
Participants are blindfolded and guided by intentional rules that eliminate visual bias, titles, and habitual power dynamics.
02
Shared uncertainty changes behavior
When familiar cues disappear, people listen more carefully, speak with greater intention, and engage more authentically.
03
Facilitation drives insight
Sessions are tailored to your organization’s goals, enabling teams to connect, think, and collaborate in ways traditional meetings cannot.
Where organizations use In the Dark
Executive and leadership offsites, manager training, orientation, onboarding, and leadership program kickoffs.
Surface true perspectives, unspoken tensions, and the concerns that often stay hidden.
Board strategy sessions, governance resets, strategic planning, mergers, acquisitions, and major transitions.
Strategy, innovation, transformation initiatives, and journey mapping for products or customers.
Build trust beyond titles and credentials and create meaningful connections that open unlikely partnerships.
Purpose-built facilitated sessions for distributed teams and remote leadership settings.
WHY LEADERS INVEST
Stronger teams. Better outcomes.
Engagement increases when people feel heard. Collaboration improves across silos and roles. Innovation benefits from psychological safety. In the Dark creates the conditions where people bring more ideas, authenticity, and ownership into their work.
“The most honest and impactful conversation we’ve had as a team in years.”
Behind the methodology
Sara created In the Dark after recognizing how perceptions and assumptions interfere with how people show up, interact, and work together. The methodology creates space for genuine human connection and collaboration by removing familiar visual cues and labels.
In the Dark is a facilitated leadership methodology. It is never described as a blindness simulation.