Outdoor co-working in Nature - North Yorkshire
Swap your four walls for fresh air, birdsong and a different kind of focus.
Wild Workspaces is a co-working community for freelancers, solopreneurs and remote workers who know that their best thinking rarely happens at your desk.
What is Wild Workspaces?
A working day that that helps you re-connect and refocus on so many levels!
I began Wild Workspaces began in 2023 with a simple idea:
Post-Covid remote working had left us with this weird experience of more flexibility, but also more isolation, feelings of stuckness when you meet that threshold in your day of WFH (working from home) and for many of the clients I coached, teams I work with and people in my network running their own businesses too. Sometimes this feeling of unspoken isolation, and intense work/hyperfocus/distraction/procrastination cycles was presents us with new challenges for well-being and work/life balance.
Here I was working alongside and sharing the benefits of the natural world with people and teams. In lockdown I'd taken my laptop to parks and woodland, and found benefits there. Continuing to do so, when I began coaching in the wood at Little Seed Field, with fondly called days of 'woodmin' (admin in the woods) becoming part of my norm.
I realised many of our working roles would allow us to experience wilder working. , away from the same four walls, without sacrificing your to-do list?
So I created Wild Workspaces
A co-working pop-up in Nature, with space to connect with yourself, others and Nature too!
Each event brings together a small group of freelancers, remote workers, business owners and leaders, and solopreneurs for a full day of co-working in and alongside nature. At the beautiful Little Seed Field glamping site near Ripon, North Yorkshire and home to Where the Mind Grows coaching woodland.
You can bring your laptop and your tasks. Or leave the traditional tech at home for a day and work more wildly.
We provide the fresh air, the birdsong and the community and 'THAT VIEW'
Wild Workspaces is curated to help you:
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Reduce isolation and remote working loneliness
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Recharge your focus and creativity through nature connection and the neuroscientific benefits for body and mind
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Network and connect with other local freelancers and business owners and inspiring humans
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Get a genuinely productive day's work done in a genuinely beautiful setting
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Invest & prioritise your well-being, all in a days work.
Wild Workspace Feedback
Bryony, Coach & Facilitator
I want more, lovely, spacious & grounded...time to simplify, just to give time to one thing...the space to think"
Wild Workspace Feedback
Danielle, Business Operations Consultant
"relaxed, reflective...sitting against a tree in the sunshine on my own...switch off, focus...More of these!"
Wild Workspace Feedback
Helen, Author & illustrator
'Feel like I've been much more productive, without the internet then I would be at home! Happy with the ideas I've had for the business.
Your View for the day
Little Seed Field - Glamping Site and Where the Mind Grows Woodland HQ
Your office for the day, is the beautiful glamping site of Little Seed Field, Near Ripon.
Also the HQ of Where the Mind Grows woodland too. The site not only offers an inspiring view. Our wild workspaces events have access to the communal area with chairs, tables and electricity. (But we can't guarantee your internet connection in the wild!)The site also has some outdoor seating by the two ponds. Just a few minutes walk through the site. Beyond that you are encouraged to go 'really wild' talking a further stroll (10-15 minutes) down to the Where the Mind Grows woodland where you can pause on a log or borrow the camping chairs and picnic blankets to work amongst the wildlife to the sound of the trickling stream and birdsong. The site has access to refreshments and use of the glamping site fridge to store your lunch or medication. There are onsite toilets and even access to showers, if you need a quick spruce at the end of the day. Or for the active folk amongst the community. There are some great walking and running routes close by, if you want to start or end your day with some local exploration. Please note the site is located in a remote location and a car/taxi is required. Where you are joining a colleague at the event we encourage car sharing if possible.
WHY NOT STAY A WHILE?
Have you heard of a 'workcation' or 'workaway'. A concept where you combine a solo break with some working time on your business (in an inspiring setting). If you want to make your Wild Workspaces event your own 'Work Away' you can book accommodation onsite and stay a night or two.
In the past, our wild workspace community have extended their time staying over at our wild workspaces venues. Making the most of a 'work away' with additional business visioning, planning and strategising or simply as a nice restful break. You can book your cabin direct through the venue. Ideal if you'd love to attend a Wild Workspaces but have a bit further to travel. Or for those wanting to create their own 'workcation' for your business thinking space.
Meet your host!
Hi I am JK
I founded Where the Mind Grows to support individuals and teams to know themselves, be themselves and create healthy ways of being and doing.
Wild Workspaces is just one of the offerings we have to help people re-connect with themselves and be part of the natural world.
This is not just of huge benefit to our mind, body and spirit.
Its also important to our future too!
By prioritising our own well-being, our opportunities to be more purposeful in life grows.
As we rekindle our connection with the natural world, we see, value and engage with the importance of pro-environment behaviours and life choices.
The core of my work is life and career coaching for men and women and supporting teams to be at their best and create thriving, psychologically safe cultures.
I also love to create events and opportunities for more people to re-discover their wild!
As a solopreneur ( and former leader in the voluntary & private sectors) I know it can be lonely at times, I know we work REALLY BLOODY HARD and I also know what it feels like to feel shut in on a working day and sick of the sight of the same 4 walls ( we weren't meant to be stuck in boxes!).
With time and energy so precious to us. The Wild Workspaces co-working events were forged to help people feel good, be focused and re-connect!
Wild Workspaces - co-working community
Wild Workspaces was sown from the light and shade of two years of change in working styles.
The light - with more flexibility and the opportunity to enhance your well-being. Wild Workspace invite you to change your perspective and discover new views (literally). Balancing focused productivity whilst creating space to prioritise well-being for one working day a month!
The shade – with more people reporting loneliness, isolation, and disconnection. With blurred boundaries of work and life. Wild Work spaces aim to promote a healthy working culture by reconnecting you with a sense of community. A relaxed 'nucleus' for re-energised task completion. To help you to feel good about what you do and who you are, embracing a focus on health and well-being too!
Gift yourself a day away from your desk!
Wild Workspaces may not have ALL the mod-cons you have come to expect in your working day.
Instead giving you permission to minimise distractions, ‘rest your tech’ and attune your attention. Switch off ‘busy’. A calm and clear mind, to do things differently.
Simplicity is the theme of our events. Helping you find a simple, still, and spacious setting to work creatively, calmly, or productively - You Choose!
Need some inspiration for your wild workspaces tasks. Here are some examples of what people have done in the past.
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Journaling & Strategic Visioning
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Content Creation
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Proofing & Editing
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Sorting & Organising Files
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Reading, Researching & Listening to Podcasts for inspiration
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Writing Books
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Report Writing
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Phone Calls and Remote supervisions (On the phone walking in the woods!)
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Emails (Where access was gained to internet via phone**)
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Team Planning & Project Management
And so much more.
