Bring life & energy to your team
away days!
Team Aways days in Nature.
With mental health and well-being at the core. Come and explore a day in the wild, for your team spirit, purpose and connection.
Focus on personal development and healthy work cultures. Rooted in the principles of psychological safety -to help your team collaborate, learn and grow!
simple, relaxing and connected solutions.
Wildly Creative Away Days for teams, organisations and collectives.
re-energise, Re-Focus, relax, rewild,
Creating Cultures with
healthy soil & soul!
A new view, better connected
Team away days with a difference.
Where the Mind Grows offer coaching and facilitation, in alongside and part of nature.
Team days that escape 'bored room' style training, stuck in a room and stifled.
Here in the woods, we embrace diversity, re-wild innovation and value uniqueness!
Helping your team come together, enhance communication and collaboration and nurture a healthier, happier culture.
Where each team member has the opportunity to add vibrancy to your collective aims and mission.
My approach brings coaching, facilitation and wild creativity to your away days. A regenerative approach to personal development and mind and body good health.
With practical resources and inspiration to take away with you.
Where the Mind Grows, work alongside teams, organisations and individuals who want to change for the better and value your impact on the health and well-being of people and planet, now and in the future.
GET TOGETHER, OUTDOORS
What is it you think your team really need?
Planning your team away day, can feel like quite an over-whelming event. Trying to get the right tone and focus and please everyone. Whilst meeting strategic needs too!
Let me help you take some of that burden away!
With a focus on mental health and well-being at the core of our team away days, your experience combines practical and resourceful time together.
Meeting you and your team exactly where you are.
A free initial consultation with me, JK, will help you gain clarity on the style and focus of your day. To help your all to value the time and energy you take out for this day.
For some teams, that's just a holding space in which to ask the 'what do you need' question and facilitate answers and actions that support a healthy, confident working culture.
For other teams and organisations; you'll already be clear on your specific need to prioritise.
These are likely themed around stress management, resilience and managing change, communication and team relationships, ideas and vision alignment and over-all mental health and well-being strategy and culture. Below are some example sessions I deliver on these themes:
Who should book a Wild Away Day
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You’re a leader who is proactive about your team’s well-being and wants to create a healthier workplace before burnout begins. You know that continued development and connection is a key part of team cohesion and a healthy culture.
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You feel that your team are stressed, overworked, and you’re stuck on how to 'fix' some resilience-based issues across your team. When you get to this level of stress, mistakes and conflicts occur, that wouldn’t otherwise happen.
Whether your team are in the thick of it, or you want to prevent burnout through maintaining a healthy team dynamic. A Team Away Day in nature is the remedy you’re looking for.
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wHERE THE mIND gROWS tEAM dAYS
I appreciate time and energy is precious in the world of work. So I aim to create a simple process to help streamline your team day with minimal input from yourselves and maximum impact.
This doesn't mean things aren't busy behind the scenes here at Where the Mind Grows [Engage Secret Squirrel Mode!] and from our initial conversation I allocate time and energy to preparing and planning your day, so you and your team can embrace the day with ease.
My usual lead time on preparing and designing your team day is 6-8 weeks minimum, from our initial conversation.
I deliver sessions by standard at Little Seed Field or Make it Wild depending on team size and needs.
There is the option to explore an alternative Nature-Based venue - additional costs apply.
Catering, Venue and Resources are included in the proposal costing.
Team Away Days Range from £1495- £2500 - for teams of up to 6-25 people.*
Larger Team options can be discussed at a consultation.
Overnight accommodation is available onsite at Little Seed Field subject to availability.
Below are the steps I take, to ensure we create an amazing experience for your team.
(*Pricing available following consultations for teams <6 or >25)
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION
Leading or planning a team away day can feel confusing and complicated. With so many areas to explore, how do you make the 'right choice' for the collective? Sometimes a simple conversation can go a long way, in helping you figure out the next steps for your team.
I offer a free consult of up to 45 minutes, a confidential space to talk things through and sound stuff out. Together we will explore current challenges and aims for the team. Help you to understand if Where the Mind Grows is the right approach for your team (I'll be honest if not!) and explore the opportunities your team has to nurture and grow a rather fabulous workplace.
Leaving the conversation with clarity and a plan of action. Whether we work together or not!
"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".
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Initial Consultation and planning of the day
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Content and Resource tailoring and creation
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Venue booking
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Risk assessment & insurance (WTMG)
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Refreshments
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1 x 'touch point' follow meeting - pre-planning.
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Team resources
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Log Fire and Fuel (for colder days)
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Welcome Email
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Welcome Onboarding questionnaire
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Resource adaptations for accessibility and learning needs.
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Skilled and experience facilitation on the day
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Follow up review and evaluation email.
Additions (These can be added into a proposal)
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Plant-Based Catering for Team Lunch
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Follow up sessions for teams and/or individual staff, to support further development and wellbeing needs.
Whats Included?
example wild team day
SAMPLE TEAM DAY
09: 30: - 11:00 - Orientation, welcome & morning activities
11:00-11:15 - Break
11:15-12:45 - Mid-Morning Activities
12:45-13:30 - Lunch
13:30-15:00- Afternoon Activities
15:00-15:15 - Afternoon Break
15:15: -16:30- Afternoon Activities continued, evaluation, next steps and team check-out
About your coach/facilitator
Hi I am JK (Jennie-Kate) McQuinn - Coach, Founder and Facilitator at Where the Mind Grows. Before doing this, I was a senior leader in public, private and community Mental Health and Employability projects. I had a real sense of the challenges purpose led, community teams and leaders have in keeping well - in the face and complexity of our modern day community needs. I've combined my focus on planet and people good health. Recognising the inter-connection between our stretched system, the poly-crises we are facing and the impact this all has on our mental health. I work with teams, leaders and individuals to root workplace well-being, and psychological safety at the core of work cultures. Not just nice fluffy stuff, real, courageous and impactful stuff. So that your 'doing and being good' doesn't have to come at the consequence of your being human!I am a trauma-informed coach, working with a mixed modality approach, including ecopsychogy and regenerative leadership. Combining strategies and resources for human and planetary health. Learn more about me here
Some of the RE-WILDED 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)
