Supporting people, not just performance
Valuing Uniqueness & Creating a Thriving Culture
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Purpose-led work can be deeply meaningful and deeply demanding too.
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When teams spend their days caring, supporting, advocating, leading and creating space for others, it’s easy for well-being to slip down the list or feel complex to balance.
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The dynamics and experience of your team, can hold or impact your team cohesion.
With more teams working remotely or hybrid, it feels like even more effort needs to happen to create connection.
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And with time and resources ever stretched in purpose led and helping organisations it can feel so tricky to really see how to enhance well-being cultures for your teams or organisation.
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Stress builds gradually but can peak intensely. Whether that's staff off sick or presenteeism cultures at work. A caring culture can also mean empathy across teams becomes an issue, with everyone too nice to really address the systems that are burning people out.
Capacity stretches thin. The nervous system forgets what slowing down feels like, working on high alert that can lead to changes in communication and connection in team members.
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At Where The Mind Grows, I offer nature-led workplace well-being experiences that help people reconnect with themselves, each other, and the world around them.
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Through thoughtful, grounded experiences that create space to breathe, reflect and reset.
Because healthy organisations grow from healthy soil.
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Using a regenerative leadership and living systems approach to workplace culture. I help your team see themselves and their workplace as part of a complex ecosystem. Identifying challenges and focusing energy of realistic and impactful solutions for stress, anxiety, confidence and low mood and motivation.
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Where the Mind Grows help organisation shift mindsets and delivery approaches. Resourcing people with skills and confidence for individual and collective well-being.
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Asking curious questions about the culture that exists within your team and organisation and finding resilience strategies that align to healthy thriving workplaces, not perpetuate strain and burnout.
Nature Led Well-being for people doing meaningful work
I work with charities, voluntary and community organisations, health and social care providers and purpose-led businesses looking to support and empower staff wellbeing in more human and sustainable ways.
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Together, we create experiences that help teams:
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Reduce stress and overwhelm
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Prevent burnout and compassion fatigue
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Improve emotional wellbeing
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Strengthen psychological safety
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Reconnect with purpose and motivation
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Create healthier ways of working together
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Feel calmer, clearer and more grounded
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Nature has a remarkable way of helping people become open, regulate and reconnect. Research shows that time spent outdoors can reduce cortisol levels, support nervous system regulation, improve mood and restore attention.
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It also enhances our learning cognition ensuring that with calm and creative energy team members find easier access to problem solving and innovate mindsets. Ideal when it comes to creating solutions that can work beyond our time together in the woods.
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Over nearly a decade of meeting with teams outdoors, I have seen how different teams can interact when away from the office, or closed in by four walls!
Ways we can work together
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Workplace Well-being Days
From gently, restorative experiences to deeper courageous spaces to explore well-being challenges. Well-being days are designed to help teams pause and reconnect.
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These sessions can include:
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Guided nature re-connection for well-being
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Relaxation and grounding practices
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Emotional Regulation Techniques and psycho-education
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Reflective activities & coaching resources
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Learning from Nature (Biomimicry & Regenerative Leadership)
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Group exploration & insight sessions
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Well-being Culture and Strategy days (for leaders or teams)
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Reflective Practice activities
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Nature based crafting activities to support team reconnection.
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Facilitated circles and reflection spaces for deeper stuff.
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Away days, organisational retreats or group sessions. Delivered from woods in North Yorkshire, or at a Nature space near you UK wide.
Employee well-being coaching
One-to-one nature-led coaching sessions supporting staff wellbeing, confidence and resilience.
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These sessions offer employees dedicated reflective space to explore challenges, reduce overwhelm and reconnect with what helps them feel rooted and resourced.
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They are ideal for members of staff with well-being needs, those returning to work as part of their return to work/phased return plan after time off with stress or depression or those who have Access to Work funding for a work coach or support in relation to a mental health diagnosis
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These can also be suitable for staff members who experience anxiety or stress due to lost confidence. For example returning from maternity, due to a challenge or performance issue at work or as a result of low confidence or esteem in their wider life.
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Available as:
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Walk & Talk coaching (West & North Yorkshire Venues)
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Woodland sessions (Private WTMG woodland near Ripon)
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Online coaching (Via Zoom)
Nature Based Well-Being Workshops
Practical and reflective workshops exploring topics such as:
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Burnout prevention
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Stress and nervous system awareness
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Boundaries and balance
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Rest and resilience
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Seasonal well-being
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Well-being in nature
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Sustainable ways of working
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Psychological Safety
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Workplace Well-Being Culture & Strategies
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Offered as part of a wider awayday or available for conferences and talks on request.
Where I can help make the most impact
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I particularly love supporting:
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Charities and VCSE organisations
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Community-focused teams
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Purpose-Led SME's
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Education and youth services
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Environmental organisations
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NHS and caring professions
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Especially teams navigating:
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Burnout or overwhelm
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Emotional fatigue
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Change and uncertainty
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Low morale or motivation
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Distrust and tensions in culture
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High-pressure workloads
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Grief & Loss
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Disconnection within teams
A different approach to workplace well-being
This work isn’t about forcing positivity or squeezing more productivity from exhausted people
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It’s about creating the conditions where people can think more clearly, feel more connected and work more sustainably. Feel confident and enabled to maintain well-being even when the systems you work within add stress and strain to that!
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Nature reminds us that growth doesn’t happen constantly. There are seasons for flourishing, seasons for rest, and seasons for rooting deeply beneath the surface.
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Workplaces need that wisdom too, you're team will thank you when they can figure out how!
I took teams back into Natural settings back in 2019 and saw what a difference it made to the time spent together. Not only aiding calm and connection without it feeling forced, but also offering surroundings that activate learning and can even help your team with solutions.
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This isn't just being in Nature, but learning from it too!
Back by the neuroscience and coaching resources that ensure its inclusive and engaging for a wide range of perspectives and needs within the team.
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As one team member said:
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'I came into this day, thinking it was going to be a load of woo, and I've left thinking wow!'
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To start exploring opportunities for your team. Drop me an email (info@wherethemindgrows.co.uk) or book a free 30 minute consultation below.
Let's create healthier ways of working , together
Whether you’re looking for a one-off wellbeing day, ongoing staff support or something more bespoke, I’d love to explore what your team might need.
Together, we can create workplace wellbeing experiences that feel thoughtful, grounded and genuinely nourishing for your people.
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Drop me an email: info@wherethemindgrows.co.uk or arrange a consultation call via telephone or zoom
