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Navigating in Woods

Personal Compass Coaching Experience
Your true nature is calling!

Find your direction in a single, purposeful day or less!

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A half-day coaching intensive for people who know they need space to think  but can't make regular sessions work. Step away from the everyday. Come back clearer.

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Book a FREE discovery call to explore 

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WHO IT'S FOr?
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Life’s too full for the weekly session or your just too far away for that regular dose of Nature sessions together 

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You need a compass. A purposeful pause to untangle what’s going on, reconnect with what matters, and leave with a clearer sense of direction. Personal Compass Experiences are designed for exactly that.

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Life and career coaching, delivered as a mini-retreat for you. 

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This may be for you if any of the following rings true:

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  • Your pace of life feels chaotic and cluttered  and you’re ready to do something about it

  • You’re facing a big decision (career change, new life chapter) and need clear-headed thinking space

  • You’ve been putting everyone else first and lost touch with what you actually want

  • You feel a little lost, low in confidence, or unsure of your next step and need help to make decisions and directions. 

  • Stress or anxiety is keeping you in cycles of feeling stuck and you want to move forward instead

WHAT WE WORK ON TOGETHER

Three pathways into clarity:

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Too busy to breathe?

We work with the overwhelm  reducing stress and that persistent background noise — and help you move from ‘too much’ to purposeful, grounded progress.

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Feeling lost or stuck?

Gain clarity on life and career decisions, dissolve the confusion of transition, and reconnect with your sense of direction and purpose.

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Ready for ‘even better’?

Celebrate what’s already working, and identify the small but meaningful tweaks that help you feel more like yourself — energised, confident, and clear.

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WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

Head, heart and gut  in alignment

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Personal Compass Days draw on a self-leadership coaching framework that helps you align your inner world (beliefs, thoughts, emotional patterns, self-talk) with your outer world (actions, habits, communication, boundaries).  Using Where the Mind Grows 'Guiding Map' resources to help you explore potential and understand yourself and your options in a way that creates action and insight.

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This sense of alignment  known as congruence is what makes lasting change feel possible rather than effortful.

You’ll leave with:

  • Clear actions and intentions you can put into practice straight away

  • A 'Guiding Map' resource in which to help you navigate your next steps. 

  • Greater confidence in your decisions and how to bring them to life and when. 

  • Practical personal well-being strategies and boundary-setting tools

  • A renewed sense of purpose, energy, and grounded resilience

  • Strategies for inner connection, emotional regulation and balance (for the eb and flow of life)

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The Experience

The Personal Compass Experience 

A beautiful woodland setting near Ripon, North Yorkshire.

Imagine a morning in the freshness of the woodland  or an afternoon as the sun draws in.  The seasons unfolding around you  with the space and stillness to actually hear & be yourself. 

Guided by JK, your Personal Compass experience takes place in our peaceful North Yorkshire woodland location  a genuinely restorative environment designed to help you slow down, open up, and gain the kind of clarity that you can't always make space for  in everyday life.

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Using the Where the Mind Grows Guiding Map, and a range of activities and coaching techniques adapted to your personal needs and aims we'll explore together connecting the dots for your bigger picture, while also addressing the practical, day-to-day shifts that can help enhance your life. Sessions immersed in Nature bring natural benefits for mind and body, helping us activate resourceful and calm states of being and thinking, in which to complete our session together. 

A full or half day session. With the opportunity to stay over onsite at one of the glamping cabins if you'd like to really create a retreat for yourself. **

**additional cost. 

About your coach (and the compass approach) 

Hi, I am JK (Jennie-Kate) McQuinn - Coach, Founder and Facilitator of Where the Mind Grows

Over two decades working in mental health and employment services, before I became a coach,  across the private and third sectors, in leadership roles  taught me something that coaching later confirmed. Frustration, fear, confusion and over-whelm. They're the almost inevitable result of the pace and pressure of modern life, not failing just feedback. 

We're wired for survival. But survival mode fight, flight, freeze can keep us reactive, depleted, and disconnected from what we actually need. We reach for quick fixes rather than lasting ones, and our well-being doesn't always sit at the root of our focus. 

Discovering coaching  grounded in neuroscience and psychology  gave me a way to unlearn those old, chaotic patterns. And nature made that possible in a way nothing else had. In natural environments, your nervous system genuinely settles. Thinking becomes clearer. Solutions emerge more naturally. 

From years of coaching remarkably individual people, I developed the Guiding Map. A framework that works with the full complexity of your life story. It helps you find your North Star for the harder days, stay rooted when life gets loud, and navigate your own way forward with more confidence and self-compassion. Understanding what's missing, and what fulfilment can be for you. 

The Personal Compass experience is practical, pragmatic, and grounded in real change. If  you're ready to explore what's possible,  even if you're not sure where you need to begin. Personal Compass days are here to help you find yourself, and reconnect with what matters most. 

To discover if we're a brilliant fit to explore this together...

Trees in the Wind

"I am great, I have been out walking every day since last week and feel so much better for it...thank you so much, I had the best time and got so much from it. I feel so much more motivated at work too" Personal Compass Client, K. 

Full Day P.C Experience 

Includes

  • Discovery call 

  • Welcome reflection resources 

  • Coordination of day

  • Coaching session 6 -6.5 hour (AM or PM) in Nature with breaks

  • Lunch (Plant Based)

  • Includes BONUS Follow up session 90-minute session Online/In Person 1-3 months after your PC experience to help with momentum. 

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£995 Per Person Full day + Follow up 2026 package

Half Day P.C Experience 

Includes

  • Discovery call 

  • Welcome Reflection resources 

  • Coordination of day

  • Coaching session 3-3.5 hours (AM or PM) in Nature

  • Includes BONUS Follow up session 90-minute session Online/In Person 1-3 months after your PC experience to help with momentum. 

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£695 Per Person - 1/2 day + Follow up 2026 package

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Ready to find your direction?

Sessions run for 3–3.5 hours as standard or 6-6.5 for full day PC's.  With natural breaks, at our woodland location near Ripon, North Yorkshire. Focused entirely on you,  your clarity, your confidence, your next steps.

Book a half day session below, or email info@wherethemindgrows.co.uk to discuss a full day. 

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You can also book a discovery call (see below)

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BOOK A FREE DISCOVERY CALL

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Book a free discovery call with JK to chat things over and ensure this is the ideal coaching approach for you. 

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Trees in the Wind

"So much to like. The tailored approach. That my needs sent ahead had really been thought about in the design, delivery and the language used throughout. The 'outside workspace'. The nature. The use of metaphor. The gentle holding. The non-judgemental space that enabled me to open up easily. The challenge both gentle and tougher. LUNCH! The fire... the feathers. The land. The cocreation... [and JK] ...There aren't enough wonderful expletives! Gracious, co-creative, collaborative, without judgement or agenda beyond serving the session goals and the individual within them. Brilliant and bonkers in all the best ways. She embodies a freedom and an accepting energy which is seductive to be around and freeing for those that work with her - me included. She is a powerful magician of coaching skills that span from the therapeutic edge to the transformative realms in a safe and professional way and i would trust her with my biggest most important life challenges." JP - Client 2025

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