Nurtured Workplaces Nature-Led Team & Organisational Well-being
Nature-led well-being & leadership for organisations and teams - Yorkshire, UK
For HR leads, leaders, and L&D teams ready to invest in the humans behind the impact and purpose and the culture that supports them thrive.
Where the Mind Grows work with purpose-driven organisations across the voluntary, health, professional services, and corporate sectors. For us everything begins with nature, and what grows there comes back with you.
The gap between the organisation or team you want to be and the one under pressure, fearing burnout or over-stretched
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Most organisations know their people are their greatest asset. Yet the pressure of growth or survival, issues that go unspoken or unresolved in culture, and relentless pace of getting the job done, erode the very things that matter most, to the humans that help business success. Psychological safety, team cohesion, resilience, a strong standard of well-being at work and the conditions for people to do their best work.
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That gap between your values and your current reality is exactly where our work begins. Not as a wellness add-on or tick box. As a fundamental exploration of how your team functions, and what can become possible when you create nurtured conditions for people and culture to grow.
What the forest knows about this:
A forest under chronic stress doesn't just underperform. It loses the underground networks and relationships that keep it resilient. The mycorrhizal connections (fungi within the soil) that share nutrients. The root systems that steady each other in storms. Organisations under the same pressure face the same risks. Collaboration, trust, innovation, and energy go first. Nature rarely lets things get this drastic, it designs to thrive, even in resilient times and we bring those same regenerative principles to your team experiences too.
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Investment
Context:
The fact that you've made it here, probably means your already are aware of some of the costs of leaving an employee, team or organisation in a situation that challenges culture or well-being . I appreciate that exploring these sorts of opportunities for yourself, team, leaders or employees takes time and resources, before you even get into exploring change and learning. A consultation together will help you be super clear on exact costs, for what your team needs and the way we would deliver that.
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Here is some basic pricing information when it comes to our Nurtured Workplace services to help you see where opportunities and budget can reach.
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Team Away Days from £1,895-3,989 (based on 6-20ppl)
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Re; wilding Leadership Programme (in-house) from £6,800-15,650 (4-12 employees)
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Employee Coaching retainer packages from £750pp (3) or retainer packages from £,1350 (6) PCM - minimum contract 3 months (Access to Work funded coaching available as)
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Bespoke Projects and Facilitation - discussed at our initial consultation together
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HR/Leadership Team Clarity Walk and Talk - £350-450
Who is this for?
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Where the Mind Grows Nurtured Workplaces approaches work particularly well with purpose-driven, values-led organisations: charities, social enterprises, voluntary sector bodies, health and social care providers, creative organisations, and mission-driven businesses.
But we also see the value we bring to busy corporate teams as well, who know they need to adapt for people and planet (Whether its ESG that nudges you or a HR leader worried about the level of burnout and sickness in your team).
The kind of people who got into this work because they genuinely care and are now experiencing the personal - or collective - challenge of that.
I was a senior leader in the public, private and charity health world for many years. I know how it feels to be caught between the organisation's needs, your team's wellbeing, and your own. Visioning the ideal and yet constantly only finding the time and energy for the every day basics. You're situation will be unique of course, and I am here to help you understand the opportunities that can come from where you find yourselves now.
Not some 'wouldn't it be nice if' or 'when we get round to...' or 'once it is a little quieter'. I'll support you and the team to be curious about what can happen in small, simple and significant steps to help create nurtured workplace cultures and takes steps towards well-being, where no one gets left behind (Including you dear Leader!)
The work here isn't a wellness add-on. It's a fundamental exploration about how your organisation or team functions, the light and the shade and what can happen when we design and adapt your team to regenerative and living systems principles explored together in the wild.
Nurtured Workplaces
Way's we work together
Explore below to see ways we can work together for you or your teams workplace well-being. Click on the page title to visit that page and discover more. Or email me directly at info@wherethemindgrows.co.uk
Individual coaching for employees who are struggling, stuck, or navigating significant challenge — whether that's mental health, career direction, stress, or the kind of quiet loss of confidence that builds up over time.
Retainer Packages from £,1350
Package of 3 £750
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Sessions can be funded through the Access to Work scheme a government programme that can cover or significantly subsidise coaching costs for eligible employees with long term health conditions or disability. This matters, because it means quality, one-to-one nature-based coaching can be accessible to a wider remit of employees
Funded Package - based on successful DWP funding - begin from £1350
Your team leaves with renewed trust, clearer communication, and practical ways for working better together. Half days, full days, or multi-session programmes all held in North Yorkshire woodland or a wild space near you. What gets explored doesn't stay in the wild, but nurtures your workplace and the people in it, in a rooted way.
Half Day Tasters £1200 (6-10)
Full days £1895-3997 (6-20)
Full Day + Momentum Follow Up Package £3,333 (6-15)
A four phase group programme, set over 9-12 months with 1.1 coaching. Your leaders develop deeper self-awareness, psychological resilience, and the ability to create cultures of balance not burnout. Alongside exploring their own inner work, and restoring well-being of leaders facing challenge and change. Built on ecological systems thinking, the UN Inner Development Goals, and regenerative leadership principles. CIPD-aligned outcomes. Available 'in-house' from the woods; delivered just for your team of leaders beginning any time of year, or join the open cohort in 2027. £6800-15,650 (6-15)
Think Like A Forest
Regenerative Organisations
or leaders and change-makers ready to align the organisation with living systems principles. Supports ESG commitments, Regenerative Leadership and business cultures and exploration, sustainability reporting, and culture change. Going beyond box-ticking to genuine regenerative practice. Applicable to organisations across all sectors
Bespoke Programme Contact or book a consult for details and pricing.
Living Systems Thinking
Partnership Facilitation
For multi-agency groups, partnership forums, and cross-sector collaborations. Skilled neutral facilitation creates the conditions for honest conversation, collective decision-making, and relationships that hold. For partnership forums, multi-agency working groups, and cross-sector collaborators.
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Price available on consultation
Workplace Wellbeing Explorative Audit Walk
A two hour woodland walk and consultation for senior leaders or HR directors. A confidential space to think clearly about your team's well-being needs , dive into deep coaching questions to help with insight and explore what a nurtured approach might look like for your organisation. A great first step towards a larger programme or change managemet plan Or time enough to leave with clear next steps of what to do, within your organisation
£350-450
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There is strong and growing evidence that nature immersion reduces cortisol, enhances creative thinking, deepens interpersonal trust, and improves psychological safety in groups. We don't just work in nature together, your team learns from it, through approaches such as biomimicry & living systems thinking (organisational design based on natures own approaches) regenerative principles (leadership skills that design for a thriving world, not just a temporary fix) Ecopsychology (understanding emotional intelligence and insight from nature reconnection and metaphor) and Nature-Connection (tapping into resourceful states of mind and being and emotional regulation to help learning, exploring and growth feel easier and calmer) woven naturally with coaching, facilitation and learning opportunities.
What makes this different?
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A lot of workplace well-being offers are well-intentioned but can be underwhelming. They tick a box somewhere, smooth the surface or quench the temporary thirst. A day of activities followed by a return to exactly the same conditions. A leadership training that inspires for a fortnight and then fades, or leaves you thinking you probably could have done a better job.
I like to work with organisations open to longer term change, curious about what difference can actually be made (even if we only meet for a day) and hold genuine values that call you to improve your culture, empower your team and ensure you aren't left behind in all that either.
When we begin to see your organisation, your team and even yourself as an ecosystem. Interconnected. We can explore the complexity AND discover solutions, possibilities and problems. Without a day deflating everyone with the challenges, stuckness and hopelessness that can nudge its way into busy workplaces, and overwhelmed teams.
So why is Where the Mind Grows Nurtured Workplaces offerings different? Firs; the work is rooted in living systems thinking we look at culture, structures, dynamics and conditions, not just individual behaviours or problems.
Second Nature is both a context and a set of principles to learn and live by. You are not just learning IN Nature but from it too.
An asset based approach to your team combines trauma informed practice (understanding everyone has life experiences and adversities that inform their well-being at work) and psychological safety (a culture of openness, trust, courage and collaboration) that ensures everyone gets a voice, finds purpose, creates impact and can share the challenges that get in the way of thriving.
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Sometimes its not always about the whole team and over the year's one-to-one employee coaching and leadership sessions have also helped the team to thrive. Particularly where a well-being concern, long term health condition or neurodivergence means you're team need a different or diverse approach to help them thrive at work.
Let's start a conversation
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Every piece of Nurtured Workplaces work with Where the Mind Grows starts with a free 30 -minute consultation. A chance to explore, ask questions and discuss opportunities.
You might be coming with an idea of which of the options above could be ideal for your team, or perhaps you just want to explore this with someone with an external perspective to help you become clear on options. Whether we end up working together, or not. Our conversations are a confidential space you can be open and honest about the challenges, needs and aims of your team and organisation.
Or email info@wherethemindgrows.co.uk directly. I'll always reply personally.
"Safe, welcoming space which has forced me to make time to address wellbeing for myself and my organisation"
"Reduction in anxious feelings at work. I have improved my own wellbeing and this has created the headspace for me to think about how to apply my learning to my organisation and to take positive steps to improve the wellbeing of employees."
"Helping me to put myself/own needs first without guilt or shame. Feels empowering to have this new vision that is sustainable and feel this has helped me on my own wellbeing journey"
JK has a great style, she adapts her approach to the needs of the group and intuitively understands what different group members need throughout the sessions. She's a very calm and skilful facilitator and has a huge depth of knowledge".
Some of the organisations & teams we've worked with
(We understand some of the work we embark on together may be of a sensitive and confidential nature.
We will only share our work together in consideration of agreed terms)
