photo: Jonny Wilson www.subsculptures.com
Are you struggling to get your team on the same page?
With remote working on the rise, it’s becoming harder for business owners and managers to lead teams in the same direction while keeping their company culture strong and intact. The thing is, a positive and healthy work culture comes down to one thing: trust.
But without employee engagement, interaction, and connection, trust is unlikely to develop. And when your team lacks trust, communication and productivity are next to suffer.
Establishing the connection needed to build trust is key to ensuring everyone is headed in the same direction with a shared set of values. This is why taking a break from the routine of work, without distractions, the pressure of deadlines, and away from screens, to invest in your team’s success is the smartest business decision you can make.
Yes, I’m talking about team building. But not the kind that feels like a forced activity, or involves happy hour. This is about team building programmes that truly transform the way people work together.
So, how do you engage people to create real change in your organisation? By bringing your team into nature.
Around 80% of people in the UK live in cities and work in offices. Never have we spent so little time in contact with plants, trees, and animals. Crazy, right?
Especially since a healthy dose of nature is proven to calm people down, reduce burnout, and improve work performance.
I discovered myself how meeting together in nature allows people to become more open to discuss challenges, brainstorm creative ideas, and get to know each other better in a way that’s just not possible in the work environment.
It’s about disconnecting to reconnect.
I’m now on a mission to help organisations use nature as part of their ongoing strategy to develop and help their teams be at their best performance.
Everything we do at School of the Wild is designed to get you out of the office to reconnect with the wild and each other.
Our programmes fuse creative and practical skills with facilitated campfire conversations, walkshops and mindfulness to help you strengthen your connection to the land, and to each other, leaving a lasting impact on the way your team works together.
See you in the woods.
Nigel Berman
Founder & Chief Wild Officer
But without employee engagement, interaction, and connection, trust is unlikely to develop. And when your team lacks trust, communication and productivity are next to suffer.
Establishing the connection needed to build trust is key to ensuring everyone is headed in the same direction with a shared set of values. This is why taking a break from the routine of work, without distractions, the pressure of deadlines, and away from screens, to invest in your team’s success is the smartest business decision you can make.
Yes, I’m talking about team building. But not the kind that feels like a forced activity, or involves happy hour. This is about team building programmes that truly transform the way people work together.
So, how do you engage people to create real change in your organisation? By bringing your team into nature.
Around 80% of people in the UK live in cities and work in offices. Never have we spent so little time in contact with plants, trees, and animals. Crazy, right?
Especially since a healthy dose of nature is proven to calm people down, reduce burnout, and improve work performance.
I discovered myself how meeting together in nature allows people to become more open to discuss challenges, brainstorm creative ideas, and get to know each other better in a way that’s just not possible in the work environment.
It’s about disconnecting to reconnect.
I’m now on a mission to help organisations use nature as part of their ongoing strategy to develop and help their teams be at their best performance.
Everything we do at School of the Wild is designed to get you out of the office to reconnect with the wild and each other.
Our programmes fuse creative and practical skills with facilitated campfire conversations, walkshops and mindfulness to help you strengthen your connection to the land, and to each other, leaving a lasting impact on the way your team works together.
See you in the woods.
Nigel Berman
Founder & Chief Wild Officer
What we do
School of the Wild is one of the UK’s leading nature connection companies. We run unique campfires for business leaders, and meaningful team building and away day activities for organisations in the woods and wild spaces of London, Brighton, and Sussex.
Our programmes reconnect teams and organisations with nature and the land, fusing immersive activities like foraging, whittling, and making fires, with workshops that facilitate meaningful conversations and creative thinking.
Our programmes reconnect teams and organisations with nature and the land, fusing immersive activities like foraging, whittling, and making fires, with workshops that facilitate meaningful conversations and creative thinking.
Why we do it
There is something extraordinary about talking around a fire, learning to cook wild food you’ve just foraged, or sharing a silent night walk with senses heightened to the sounds and smells of nature.
Nature is the great leveller. Bringing people together in a way that doesn’t happen indoors, the great outdoors is the big antidote to the stressful effects of the modern world. It enhances your life, opens your senses, and puts you more in touch with the parts of you that feel and imagine.
Being in the outdoors makes you more open to what’s going on around you. Interacting with nature has the power to shift your perspective and get you talking about new ideas and ways of how you can make a bigger impact on your business.
Nature is the great leveller. Bringing people together in a way that doesn’t happen indoors, the great outdoors is the big antidote to the stressful effects of the modern world. It enhances your life, opens your senses, and puts you more in touch with the parts of you that feel and imagine.
Being in the outdoors makes you more open to what’s going on around you. Interacting with nature has the power to shift your perspective and get you talking about new ideas and ways of how you can make a bigger impact on your business.
…the old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence.
