Take Your Team on an Away Day in Nature. You'll love the results.

23/4/2018

Been given the task of arranging a team away day and wondering where to start?

Team Away Day in Nature

Our outdoor team away days in the wild are the perfect way to bring people together.

An away day outdoors in nature has lots of benefits - including dramatic impacts on creative and innovative thinking, and decision making. Plus time in nature is a great leveller and breaks down personal barriers, making it much easier to connect with each other.

We cater for groups of various sizes from 6 to 35 in the Brighton and Sussex countryside, and we'll help you arrange your team away day with ideas that suit your specific needs.

From a foraging walkshop to a creative campfire, we listen to what you want, share ideas and put our planning expertise into practice. You get an away day tailored to achieve your desired outcome.

There are plenty of options to explore, from facilitated conversations to bonding exercises. We have covered spaces in case of bad weather and all our team away days are designed with one purpose in mind - to keep your team effective and energised.

So leave everything to us, you can just relax and enjoy the experience.

Rooftop whittlers. Team away day activities for Then Somehow

20/4/2018

Being open in the open. Inspiring campfire conversation with Brighton business leaders and mentors

19/4/2018

Business leaders, mentors and entrepreneurs getting to know each other better around the fire at a Creative Campfire. Nature helps to breakdown personal barriers and makes it easier to connect.

How to Start a Fire Without Matches

8/4/2018

Watch this time lapse video to see how Rosie makes fire without matches, using all natural materials, with a little helping hand from me.

Carving Some Time. Pictures from today's whittling and mindfulness class

8/4/2018

Click here to find out more about our whittling and mindfulness classes.

Busy April? Join us tomorrow to carve some time. Learn some #mindfulness and how to make your own butter knife out of wood. Its calming fun around the #fire.

7/4/2018

Moody sky on the way home from the big smoke.

31/3/2018

#foraging #huddle

25/3/2018

Wild leaf and flower salad

15/3/2018

Look how beautiful wild food can be. And it's super healthy. Stunning violet and primrose flower salad made by @forage_brighton for our session with the Academy of Medical Science today.

What happens when medical research meets fire?

15/3/2018

Using fire and whittling to support a campfire conversation during a horizon scanning event for the Academy of Medical Science. A shiver runs down my spine when a cancer research fellow brings up the issue of being integrated humans and the need to be more connected with nature, and the effect of environmental factors on health, such as todays news of microplastics in bottles of water.

Find out more about our away days and programmes for teams and organisations here.

The innovation curve in Alzheimers and cancer research

15/3/2018

Talking about the future of Alzheimers and cancer research casts long shadows. The start of horizon scanning with the Academy of Medical Science.

Really proud to be supporting a discussion on the future of medicine.

15/3/2018

Around a fire in the wild with the Academy of Medical Science. The whittling is doing its job.

Read more about what our nature-based programmes can do for your organisation.

Tucking in to a delicious wild feast.

15/3/2018

Wild food, the outdoors, and a fire have an uncanny way of bringing people together.

Read more about our away days and activities for teams organisations here.

Explaining wild plants to medical researchers. The start of a foraging walk with @acmedsci #AMSHorizons

15/3/2018

Getting the cooking fires going for the Horizon Scanning session for @acmedsci #AMSHorizons

15/3/2018

Returning to one of my favourite places. This time #Dartmoor is all about water. #makingsenseofplace #schoolofthewild #rain #water #venfordreservoir #wetshoes

13/3/2018

The trees, rocks, and lichen on Dartmoor inspire an ancient sense of place.

11/3/2018

Over the still world a bird calls. Patches of snow left on the Downs hopefully marking the end of winters icy grip.

4/3/2018

Thawing out in front of the fire

3/3/2018

Pictures from our Natural Navigation Class on the South Downs

27/2/2018

Learning about natural navigation on a walk from Moulsecoomb to Stanmer Park. The sun, wind, trees, roots, grass, moss, holly all indicate the way.

From Digital to the Woods: the story of a Team Building Day in the Wild

14/2/2018

This is what happened when the team from digital agency ribot came together in the woods of East Sussex

Coming back to Earth: why it’s important to plug in to nature and how you can do it

5/2/2018

Connecting with the land and each other. Reflections from an Earth Dialogue on the South Downs with Charlotte Du Cann of the Dark Mountain Project

Fanning out to find our spot for an Earth Dialogue.

“Just don’t mention the Domesday Book,” says Charlotte.

We’re walking back from our morning recce and discussing how I’m going to introduce the Earth Dialogue she’s running for us at Saddlescombe Farm on the South Downs.

Part discussion, part encounter, part perception exercise, an Earth Dialogue is a way of connecting with the land using your heart and your felt sense, not your thinking mind.

So although I’ve discovered Saddlescombe was mentioned in the Domesday Book and later managed by the Knights Templar, Charlotte doesn’t want me to talk about that, or any other historical facts that could get in the way of the information people might pick up from the land for themselves.

We do want them to get a feeling for this place though, so when it comes to it I paint a picture of the history of the rolling chalk grassland that surrounds us: 60 million years ago southern England was deep underwater, the chalk hills forming as billions of plankton died and fell to the sea floor.

The short springy turf on top of the chalk coming much later - just a few thousand years ago - when we humans first cleared trees for sheep grazing, and aided by browsing rabbits.

An ex-fashion editor, Charlotte is one of the well-respected Dark Mountain team, she has a confidence and a warm, keen intelligence. She’s also a powerful presenter, and a quirky whirlwind of energy. She gets that from the land she tells me.

Dark Mountain is a creative response to the current challenging times of collapse, and is redefining the stories embedded in our culture, shaping what a successful and good life on Earth could look like.

It’s not airy-fairy though, there are sharp minds involved, and Charlotte is one.

Fanning out to start an Earth Dialogue. The Land feels light and full of promise.

5/2/2018

Pictures from an Earth Dialogue with Charlotte Du Cann of the Dark Mountain Project

4/2/2018

Moments of stillness on our wolf moon night walk

31/1/2018

Walking by the light of January's blue supermoon along the cliff edge at Seaford Head. The wind was strong, stirring our feelings and making for a challenging walk.
We found pockets of stillness when the wind dropped or we came to a sheltered spot. The views over the bay were stunning in the moonlight.
And our moon shadows seemed as clear as in daylight.

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