Healthier teams.
Wilder thinking
Team Aways days from the woods
Space, Connection and a New View
Where the Mind Grows Team Away Day's offer your team, organisation or leader's a space away from the everyday. Helping your team relax and restore themselves with the support of Nature Connection.
This natural setting supports the neuroscience of resilience, mindset change and restoration.
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After just 20 minutes in Nature cortisol reduces meaning stress and that frantic busy feeling dissipate.
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As the team experience this fresh scene and the physical space, it helps mind and body feel inspired, calm and allows focus and creativity to be found a little easier.
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After some time to ground into the day together, set the seen and establish and collaborative culture for our team time together.
You're team will explore a chosen focus to help with well-being, culture, confidence and direction.
From one stand alone day, to a series of events to help nurture team well-being and cohesion over a longer period. The day is designed to your needs.
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Combining nature connectedness and well-being techniques for team restoration with practical and pragmatic resources that will help the team feel like their time and energy away from the to-do list has been well spent.
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Working through the crucial stuff
Your team are busy with the everyday commitments of their roles, the pace of change and the need for constant resourcefulness. Feels like there is never enough time to ground, connect, reflect and understand what is working, what needs to change and how to make that an empowered and impactful thing for everyone.
Whether it is small tweaks or big shifts your team or organisation need.
Team Days offer that purposeful pause in which to come together, make sense, explore and leave with insight and actions that can help now hinder your teams culture.
Whilst each day, following our consultation together, is tailored to your unique situation and organisation
Here are some examples of team day themes from the past. Every team day is uniquely designed to your organisation, team and leadership needs. Understood together through consultation and proposal. Not sure where your issue or aim fits. Let's explore together on a free consultation and explore how time in the woods could support your team.
Team Well-being
Understanding strategies and approaches to maintain well-being in a busy or impact led organisation or team.
Exploring individual and team culture, context and commitments.
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Managing Change
Change, it's constant and can lead teams to feel fearful, disempowered and untrusting.
These days explore the impact of change on teams and help you find ways to be adaptable without it impacting well-being.
Nature's Consultancy
A playful and creative team away day to consider what we can learn from Nature when it comes to some of your workplace challenges and unknowns.
What could your team learn from 3.8 billion years of evolution and mastery. Who would they choose as their wild consultant and what will you do with the wisdom you gain from a day learning from the wild.
Resilience
Busting the myth of modern day resilience and focusing time and energy back on core needs, adaptability, boundaries and flow in work. Understanding the thresholds of resilience and how to maintain a healthy culture that isn't risking burnout.
Values & Vision
Not your typical values and vision day. This is about team collaboration, understanding each other and cultivating alignment in workload and approach. Your team will leave with a set of resources to help you all work better together.
Beyond Adversity
Terrible and hard things can happen at work. Redundancy, serious mistakes. The loss of a team member due to health or suicide. The complexity of a group of humans faced with life and work turbulence.
So what do you do when those things happen?
A day in the woods to help you navigate the emotions, the impact and decide together how to move beyond, through or with challenging times.
Meet your facilitator
Hello! I’m Jennie-Kate but everyone calls me JK. I’ve worked as a leader in the sector before I founded Where The Mind Grows, so I understand first-hand the unique challenges your sector faces that are quite unlike others.
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I’ve seen your charitable, purpose-led sector lose fantastic people due to their own mental health and struggles. Whilst the sector is very fulfilling, and work purposeful. Sometimes overwhelm and workload pressures can get in the way of health.
And the psychological impact of the direct work, result in vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout.
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These aspects of work, can be prevented with a focus on true team well-being and happiness. One that is proactive and not reactive! Designed for the individual as well as the collective!​
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My work with teams and organisations is focused on staff well-being, psychologically safe cultures and regenerative organisational redesign.
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Discover the evidence behind Nature, or how our own impact inspires the work we do.
What people say...
"Thanks so much for today, the team have gone away feeling lighter" (J, CEO)
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"It provided time and permission to think about my wellbeing." James M, North York Moors Trust
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"We couldn't have had these conversations indoors...Nature really helped" (Kate, Citizens Advice)
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"I can do hard things!" Emma, SELFA CEO
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"The time to reflect and discuss things with peers gave me a few insights into some simple changes that might make a big difference" David, North Yorkshire Youth
Just some of our clients
