All of our sessions are tailored to your organisation and the aims and objectives that you want to achieve from our time together. Example content and structure of our sessions can be found below:

Practicalities

Our Nature Connection Wellbeing offering for organisations, is inclusive and accessible. It ranges from mindful walks and taster sessions, to full-days and bespoke longer term programmes. 

Sessions are held at dedicated outdoor locations, in partnership with land owners and custodians whose values are aligned with our work, and the responsible and sustainable environmental commitments of your organisation too. We tend to work with a maximum number of 16 participants per session and usually a minimum of two facilitators. 

We encourage organisations to work together with us over a period of time, often in line with the seasons throughout a year. This consistency in revisiting the resourcing of your team, deepens their reciprocity with nature, encouraging further pro-environmental behaviours, making it more impactful and sustainable long term. 

Content

Unlike a day of physical activities, session are framed around nature based interventions focusing more on 'being rather than doing', with invitations to notice, reflect, and participate in practices that develop nature connectedness that leads to health and wellbeing outcomes. We work with different practices and models some of which are part of the NatureWell model developed by The Natural Academy. These include nature-based mindfulness and grounding activities, alongside the Five Pathways to Nature Connectedness, a researched and evidence based study from University of Derby.

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The '3 Rs' of: Relaxation, Restoration and Revitalisation are typical outcomes from the interventions offered. With nature as partner, mind and body are invited to attune to sensations that can foster a sense of safety or wellness however small they may appear - attending to our wellbeing, to a felt sense of ‘okayness’. Reminding our nervous systems that it can experience stress and then come back to a state of calm and rest.

Structure

Our sessions work closely with seasonal themes and their structure follows this framework; Mindful Grounding, Check In, Nature Based Intervention*, Reflective Space, Check Out, Gratitude. Nature Based Intervention themes tend to be based on the Five Pathways to Nature Connectedness; Contact, Beauty, Emotion, Compassion, Meaning.

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*Examples of interventions, practices and processes that we might work with that support this are mindfulness in nature, breathwork, grounding, mindful walking, emotional regulations, stress reduction, self compassion development, healing processes, wholeness experience and self-acceptance, feeling and sensing aliveness, witnessing and integration of challenges.