If you work in an organisation where the health of people or planet is your focus (CVSE/Sustainability/Conservation) you already know how valuable connection, resilience, purpose is.

 

You're doing work that genuinely matters, often with limited resources.  Understanding how important your organisational mission is to communities.

 

Your teams carry the weight of ecological crisis & social-economic challenges,  alongside the day-to-day pressures of funding cycles, stakeholder expectations,  shifting team dynamics and the sheer emotional impact of caring deeply about the work they do. 

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Beyond their work, your employees or yourself might be experiencing 'life stuff' that impacts everyday well-being. 

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You know with remote working, and busy workloads and responsibilities. Your team would value time together.  But you don't need another corporate-style team-building exercise or a 'light-touch' well-being activity, that doesn't meet the team - or their needs- truly where they are.

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You need space to breathe, reconnect with why you do this work, and strengthen the human foundations that make everything else possible. With realistic strategies to implement, and nurture as part of  your workplace culture. 

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Why Teams Need This

Your purpose-led sector is experiencing high levels of burnout.  'Doing good' organisations  report higher rates of stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion than many other sectors.

 

You're navigating constant change, absorbing community trauma around environmental & social loss, change and cuts and often feeling like you're running just to stand still.

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As a leader, you're heart is really in a place of care and compassion, but you are finding it difficult to 'model' this for the team. Let's be honest might even be running on empty yourself sometimes. 

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You realise you need to 'suss' things out together, to enrich and empower team members to find their own ways to well-being & development strategies.  To help people feel open and able to proactively figure out solutions. And minimise the guilt, fear and anxiety that can swell within a hard working team, and impacts psychological safety. 

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Team away days in the woods offer something different. Not a false-fix, nor  the fake-promise of a solution that won't work back in 'the real world'.  Genuine pause and the exploration together to nurture culture change in a sustainable way. 

 

A chance to step out of reactive mode and into reflective, connective space. To remember that you can't pour from an empty cup, and that your impactful work requires teams, as purposeful about their own health, and capabilities as they are about the cause you serve.