If you haven’t experienced the phenomenon that is the spontaneous co-working event, I’m afraid you and your business are missing a trick.

Organised by Open Labs at John Moores University, Jelly Liverpool is an event combining collaborative engineering of ideas with free coffee and wifi. It works a treat – and here’s why.

Whenever you take a breather from your workplace, even if just for a few minutes, you get infused with the same joie de vivre you first experienced when setting out on your entrepreneurial journey. It’s fun, it’s addictive – it can be a walk in the park, some gentle yoga postures or even a jabber by the water cooler.

When you spend a few hours away, the effects are multiplied. When those hours are packed with productivity and the opportunity to share ideas with other folks from a stack of alternative industries, you’ve got yourself a cauldron of creativity ready to outpour ways to grow your business and self in myriad new and novel directions.

Jelly has itself a global wiki but for now all you need to know is the Twitter hashtag #jellyliv if you live in the world’s acest city. There’s definitely one on every month through Xmas so don’t miss out on the next one and tune in to the best out-0f-office experience you’ll find outside of the pub. And there’s no saying the next one won’t be in a pub, either…