Team Reconnection Days
Personal Development · Well-being · Strategy
For teams ready to reconnect, trust, and work better together - A day in the wild, Yorkshire or beyond
Where the Mind Grows!
Something has to give
Your team is good at keeping things going. Resourceful, committed, often busying and burning through more than anyone realises. The pace of change, the workload, the gap between how things feel and how they're supposed to look it adds up. It grinds people down, and it stifles the potential of amazing purpose-led and impact conscious organisations and teams (and the people who make them)!
A Team Reconnection Day , with Where the Mind Grows, is a purposeful pause. Not just a jolly. Not a box to tick. A day designed thoughtfully and with your team needs and growth in mind. Rooted in Nature, grounded in evidence, tailored to your team. Experiences and explorations that create the space to reconnect, refocus, and move forward with more clarity, trust and energy than makes a huge difference to your work.
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Based in private woodland near Ripon in North Yorkshire. These days are available to teams across Yorkshire and beyond — including Leeds, Harrogate, York, Ripon, Bradford, Skipton and the wider region at a Nature space near you.
Is this the right approach for your team?
This page is for you if you're an HR lead, team leader, CEO, or anyone responsible for the culture, well-being or direction of a team. It's also for the team member, admin or PA who's been asked to find something different for you all, something that will actually land and last longer term.
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You might be recognising some of these:
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You are struggling to feel together, when your work requires you to be apart or remote work.
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Rising sickness absence, burnout or low morale
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A team that's been through change, adversity, loss and hasn't had space to process it
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Embracing diversity and difference could strengthen your approach, but it feels difficult to broach
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Team members are struggling to keep healthy boundaries (including leaders)
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Tension, low trust, or communication that isn't quite working
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A team that's achieving great things together, and want to proactively invest in ways to keep that alive
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The need for time to explore strategy or values so it actually means something, in practice and action.
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NHS, health & social care, charity, education, legal, professional services — teams who carry a lot
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Your team are facing redundancy or big change periods, and you need help to get through this together
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You need strategies for resilience, that isn't just about keeping your heads down and pushing through
If any of that feels familiar, there is room for us to explore together.
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What can a Team Reconnection Day focus on?
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Every day out together, is co-designed in consultation with you. Here are some of the themes we've worked on with teams across Yorkshire and beyond. If your challenge or aim doesn't fit neatly into a category. Let's explore together, to understand how we might work together. These offerings are here for inspiration....
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Team Well-being
Understanding what actually sustains people in demanding roles. Exploring the team's culture, context and capacity and building practical strategies that prevent burnout rather than respond to it.
Managing Change
Change is constant and it affects teams in ways that rarely get enough air time. Your team needs cohesion and psychological safety in times of continued and enduring change. These days help teams understand the impact of change, tap into strengths and insight, find adaptability, and move through uncertainty without losing cohesion or trust.
Nature's Consultancy
A playful, creative day using the intelligence of the natural world to explore your team's challenges (and solutions). What could your team learn from 3.8 billion years of evolution? Who would you hire from nature's consultancy? Which wild system is your organisation most like and what does that tell you?
Resilience
Busting the myth of modern resilience and getting back to what actually replenishes people. Understanding thresholds, boundaries and the difference between a culture that aims to thrive and sustain and one that reacts and extracts
Values & Vision
Not your typical values day. Apart from being in the woods! This is about genuine team collaboration & connection. Understanding each other, cultivating alignment, and leaving with something real and usable rather than some random words on your website.
Beyond Adversity
For teams that have been through something hard; redundancy, loss, serious challenge. A carefully held day to process the emotions, understand the impact, debrief and find a way to move forward together.
Why Nature?
How does it work?
This isn't team building in a field. I'm not just sending you on a scavenger hunt. The woodland setting is deliberate and evidence-backed. Supporting everything from mindset and learning potential to regulating emotions and improving mental and physical health.
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Within as little as 20 minutes of being in nature, cortisol ( the stress hormone) measurably reduces. The parasympathetic nervous system activates within our bodies. Focus, openness, and the capacity for honest conversation can increase because we are calmer and feel a sense of space. Birdsong, canopy, light through leaves all contribute to helping busy team members brains soften and focus for learning, creativity and connection. Ignited by the good feelings we get from an inspiring setting like Nature.
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At Where The Mind Grows, sessions draw on living systems thinking, regenerative principles and approaches like Biomimicry and ecopsychology learning from nature's 3.8 billion years of managing complexity, depletion and renewal , not just simply being in it. All that benefit aalongside practical facilitation, well-being approaches and evidence-based team development.
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The result is a day that doesn't just feel good. It changes things, inspires your team and becomes longer last.
Investment & pricing
Transparent pricing makes it easier to plan and to make the case internally, doesn't it. For the most I can share my pricing upfront. Though some days are more niche then others, and we'll explore exactly what will fit your team. Here is a broad guide of pricing.
All days are individually designed and prepped for your team and are inclusive of things like venue and a nice lunch most of the time.
Here's a guide to what's involved:
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Half day intro session £1,200**
Up to 4 hours · Up to 12 people · Ideal for focused topics or taster sessions (Discount for small charities/grassroots £995)
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Full Day - £1,895– £2,680 (up to 12 people)**
A full day in the woods · Deeper exploration · Theme of our choice
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Full Day + Follow-Up (up to 12 people)**
£3,333
Full day plus a 90-min virtual 'Embed the Learning' session approx.4 weeks later to support momentum.
All prices are VAT inclusive. Sessions at Little Seed Field woods include catered plant based lunch and venue hire. Plus onboarding questionnaire where required. **For larger groups, different venues or multi-day programmes, prices and quotations may vary. Please contact me to discuss. **
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Ask me about about 'seed packs' add on one-to-one session that support specific members of the team to develop and thrive in support of wider team work. Check out a flavour of that here at the Employee Coaching page
Embed the Learning — the follow-up session
​One of the most common things teams fear after a day away in the woods is that they don't want to lose the momentum. We ensure we focus on real and realistic aims to take away from the day, that are possible to progress. Not just a vision that never gets done. I get it, keeping your aims and intentions thriving when you are spat back into the reality of the busy day to day, that requires resilience, and its where other team days miss out. The Embed the Learning follow-up is designed to hold that.
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Delivered virtually, approximately four weeks after your day, this 90-minute session helps your team:
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Reconnect with the insights and commitments from the day
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Encourage momentum and commitment to actions pledged on the day.
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Celebrate and identify strengths and adaptations.
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Notice what's shifted and what's still a work in progress.
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Troubleshoot early challenges and reinforce new habits
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Feel nurtured and supported beyond a single event.
This add-on is included in the Full Day + Follow-Up package £3,333, alongside seed packs for one to one support and coaching development, for individual team members. We can discuss this at your consultation.
Meet your facilitator
Hi, I am JK (Jennie-Kate) I founded Where The Mind Grows after a career leading teams and organisations in the charitable, private health and public sectors.
I appreciate what it's like to hold a team through change, to manage the gap between purpose and capacity, and to work in organisations where the culture, thriving or surviving, shapes everything.
I am a qualified nature-based coach, team facilitator and leadership programme co-creator. Drawing on traditional coaching, NLP, psychological safety framework, transactional analysis and non violent communication. Taking a trauma informed approach all the work I do with team. Regenerative Leadership, living systems thinking, ecopsychology and biomimicry. Plus 3.8 billion years of nature's intelligence. My work offer space to charities, public & private health, NHS, conservation organisations, education, and purpose-led corporate setting. Wherever people are doing meaningful work under real pressure.
I facilitate primarily from private woodland near Ripon, North Yorkshire, with facilitated days available across West and North Yorkshire and by arrangement further afield.
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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
How to book — three simple steps
How to book — three simple steps
Free Consultation
A 30-minute conversation to understand your team, your challenges, and what you'd like to achieve. No obligation — just an honest exploration.
Tailored Proposal
JK will send a written proposal outlining a bespoke day design, theme suggestions, logistics, and investment.
What we agree together. Clear and straightforward.
Your Day in the Woods
A purposeful, facilitated day (or half day) in private woodland — designed around your team. Practical, grounding, and genuinely different.
Two ways to take your next
You can go straight ahead and book a free 30 minute discovery together
Or if you prefer complete the Nurtured Workplaces contact form and you'll receive a free team day reflective questionnaire, to help you better understand team needs. I'll be in touch in relation to your contact message too!