Team and workplace wellbeing in nature for healthier, happier workplaces
If your people are thriving, so too can your workplace.
The third sector, charity, voluntary and purpose-led businesses we work with, all have one thing in common.
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You are doing amazing work for your communities, despite limited budgets and resources with a team of dedicated and passionate staff.
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But, as I discovered during my time working within those sector's, organisations either:
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Don’t prioritise well-being and they feel it’s “too messy to know where to begin.”
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They’ve dabbled in a few things but they don't last or have a real effect on people because they aren't based on deeper principles of psychology, organisation design, psychological safety.
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Despite the best intentions change and uncertainty keep returning, calling on and challenging employee resilience and well-being.
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Stifle leadership development & vitality, due to 'over-busy' cultures.
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So maybe you’ve tried some corporate-style team building or “Bored Room” group sessions, even though you can see that half the staff would rather be anywhere else.
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Or had a brief 'adhoc' session - but didn't see any real change?
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I remember taking part in some of those team away days during my time working in the charitable sector. I needed a day after them to decompress because, as much as they were fun, they didn’t address the core feelings of stress, overwork, and compassion fatigue.
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They also weren’t tailored to the individual situation of the team or organisation, which is something I do within all of my sessions.
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With my nature-based team well-being offers, you can escape the traditional team days and enhance your team’s mood, giving them confidence on how to stay well, so that you can all continue to do the best work possible.
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My approach balances five common priorities of workplace well-being in our modern day ever-changing world.
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Team re-connection and relationships - with a focus on psychological safety.
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Psycho-Education and Mental Health Awareness for team well-being.
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Longer Term and Sustainable solutions to take back to the everyday
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A whole systems approach - seeing Team and Societal health as inter-connected.
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Value for money and time.
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Aligning values and vision for focus and motivation
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Meeting as 'human's' as well as professionals.
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The sessions I offer in the wild, also support people to re-connect with the Natural world.
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How nature is not just a commodity to feeling good. But an essential part of your purpose-led ecosystem.
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With regenerative leadership and nature-inspired wisdom woven into each day to help teams enhance your own ecosystem when you return from the wild.
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Workplace Well-being Solutions - The Where the Mind Grows way!
Explore the ways we can work together to enhance workplace vitality, confident cultures, energised and authentic leadership and resources to help manage change and uncertainty in your team!
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Our sessions are delivered in Nature, from Woodlands in North Yorkshire, UK.
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We work with organisations who have a clear focus on creating more good in the world, from private businesses to charitable organisations.
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At Where the Mind Grows we value the inter-connectedness between people health and planet health.
We're here to help more organisations succeed in resilience and heart-centred leadership that promotes & enables your teams and leaders to thrive in their roles.
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Or Wild locations across the UK. (subject to availability)
Wild well-being team away days
Get together outdoors!
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So much can happen when a team comes together in nature. The quietest of people can engage and transform a vision. Nature can help neurodiverse and over-stressed people focus and self-regulate. Difficult, honest, and important conversations can be more easily had because of the relaxing, open space that nature gives to you.
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I’ll use my leadership experience combined with 15+ years of coaching and training facilitation to create a supportive, impactful space that’s shaped around your needs – so that your team can connect, overcome sticky challenges, and ultimately leave feeling happier and healthier.
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It’s the smaller things that add up to the long-term impact
Time in nature are more than just a nice thing to have.
Nature away days & wild coaching sessions will help your leaders or team:
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Relax more than when they’re in an office, supporting more open conversations
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To bond with each other. Dopamine and endorphins are boosted, and cortisol has dropped, so people’s communication and connection are enhanced.
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Boost their mood (there’s science behind this!)
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Clear their minds so they feel more ready to take on the next test of their resilience.
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This time in, and learning amongst, Nature helps engage the part of the brain that can be more creative/problem-solving and innovative. This means you’ll discover bursts of new ideas, new solutions to sticky problems, and a fresh approach to work.
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I’ll adapt my coaching approach to the needs of your group, and my experience in facilitation, inclusivity, and mental health help me quickly figure out what each individual needs throughout those sessions so that nobody feels uncomfortable or left out.
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Three themes to Inspire your day
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Vision & Values
Time together to explore and align your values and vision.
This isn't the stuff you plonk on your company never to review again. This is about getting to know the human sides of your team, understand what motivates and inspires. Get clear on how to manage energy and time and cultivate individual and collective strategies for vitality in the workplace.
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Weathering the Storm
The session is suitable for teams going through tough times and challenges, needing time for reflection, openness, understanding and conflict resolution and garnering strategies for resilience and recovery,
This team day often requires wrap-around sessions to support personal and collective tensions - we will design and tailor an approach based on opportunity and budget.
(I may decline this day if I feel your team need additional support)
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Balance & Flow
A Nature-Inspired look at adaptability and confidence.
We'll unpack the language of 'busy' culture and understand the tensions between over-whelm, confidence and purposefulness.
The team will have time together to explore strategies for confidence and stress management.
Learning from natural seasons and organisational seasons too.
Helping team members with focus, energy and anxiety/stress management.
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.
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But that can easily be prevented with a focus on true team well-being and happiness. One that is proactive and not reactive!
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Access to Work
I support and coach a number of clients awarded access to work.
With a focus on career/in-working coaching, wellness and health strategy and confidence. If you would like to discover more on how I can help funded or employer funded employees with their personal development and well-being. Please get in touch
