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 aware of some of the costs of leaving an employee, team or organisation in a situation that challenges culture or well-being . Maybe you are facing these, right now?
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 for your team/org.
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Investment context: Team Away Days from £1,200 · Rewilding Leadership Programme (in-house) from £6,000 · Employee Coaching retainer packages from £1,800 · Access to Work funded coaching available · Free 30-min consultation for all enquiries
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HR/Leadership Team Clarity Walk and Talk - £350-450
Ways we work together
Explore the six ways Where the Mind Grows work with organisations & teams. Click any service titles to visit its full page. Or email info@wherethemindgrows.co.uk to arrange a consultation and talk through what might be right for you.
Re; Wilding Leadership Programme
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. £6,800-15,650 (6-15)
Team Reconnection days
Personal Development, Culture & Well-being
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. (Please note pricing may increase based on venue and organisation/team numbers and nature of work).
Half Day Tasters £1200 (6-10)
Full days £1895-3997 (6-20)
Full Day + Momentum Follow Up Package £3,333 (6-15)
Employee Coaching (1.1)
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.
Sessions are 90 minutes online or in Nature.
Retainer Packages from £,1350 (up to 6 sessions PCM)
Package of 3 £750
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Sessions can also 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, neurodivergence 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 £1, 482 (6)
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 collaborator reflective days.
Nurturing and enabling regenerative and living systems approaches to partnership and collaborative working in purpose led and impact sectors.
From focus on collective relationships, strategic aims, well-being & resilience needs in the sector, or innovation and reflective practice for greater impact.
These are expansive sessions, that offer wild and wonderful solutions to collaboration and purpose-led impact.
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Pricing available on consultation
Workplace Well-Being Reflective Audit - Walk with the wilder side.
You might need a little longer than a 30 minute consultation to really get rooted on your teams well-being needs. Join me, JK for a a two hour wander in the woods. A deeper dive reflective consultation & mapping session for senior leaders or HR directors. A confidential space to think clearly about your team's wellbeing needs and what a nurtured approach might look like for your organisation. Before getting started or rushing delivery. A great first step towards a larger programme.
Up to 3 senior staff members can attend each session. For example line manager and HR. Time in Nature can stimulate creative and problem solving perspectives and insight.
From £350–£450 · Often leads to larger programme work, or support signposting to an inhouse approach.
Think Like A Forest Consultancy & Faciliation
For leaders and change-makers ready to align the organisation with living systems principles and redesign aspects of your approach, for future-proofed, kinder to planet business focus and energy. 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, this programme and approach was co-designed by JK McQuin and Sarah Spencer. Focused on a human-nature-centred approach to more earth-kind business.
Bespoke Programme Contact or book a consult for details and pricing.
Why nature-based approaches work for organisations
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.
Who is this for?
Purpose-driven, values-led organisations
Nurtured Workplaces works well with any organisation where people genuinely care and are experiencing the personal and collective challenge that comes with that. Whether the pressure is funding constraints, sector pace, leadership burnout, well-being and resilience or the gap between your culture and your values or pace of grow
JK brings senior leadership experience across the public, private, and charity health world and understands the real complexity of being caught between organisational needs, team wellbeing, and your own.
Sectors we work with:
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Voluntary sector, charities & social enterprises
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Conservation Organisations
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Theatre & Arts
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NHS & health and social care
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Professional & legal services supporting social justice issues.
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Small, growing ethical businesses and enterprise
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B-Corporation Companies & Companies creating climate-solutions and initiatives
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Mission-driven businesses & corporate teams with ESG commitments
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Organisations whose staff are nature deprived and struggle with work/life balance (office based roles)
What makes this different?
I can't tell you exactly what you'll get out of working together.
But here are some of the common outcomes we expect from collaborations with organisations, teams and employees.
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Improved communication and relationships
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Adaptable resilience strategies
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Change-management confidence
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Reduced stress, improved well-being
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Staff grow in confidence
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Increased psychological safety and inclusive team culture
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Reduce conflicts and tensions when times are harder.
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Better boundaries, productivity and motivation
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Closer alignment to organisational purpose and boundaries.
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Ignite creativity and innovation that helps strengthen your approach
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Solutions for individual team members growth (particularly those with mental health, neurodivergence or disability) to support role confidence and workload management.
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Reduce sickness and burnout
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Retention and satisfaction
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Empowering leaders and teams
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Adult-Adult relationships and team dynamics
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Increased trust and autonomy
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An understanding of how Nature can support your teams culture and well-being.
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)
