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How can your organisation have more impact and make more of a difference?

25/3/2019

 
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How does your organisation stay connected? How can your team have more impact and make more of a difference? Making meaningful connections and having conversations that matter to address these questions at a team building away day in the woods today.
​#team #strategy #nature #business #schoolofthewild

How connecting around a campfire can help you reignite your purpose

24/3/2019

 
Marketing guru and writer-photographer, Lauren Psyk, came to a Leading with Purpose campfire catalyst session. She wasn't expecting it to be so powerful. This is her story.
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photo of Lauren Psyk by Saskia Nelson.
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In my twenties, I was attracted by the bright lights of London and had ‘trendy’ marketing jobs with media organisations.

​From an outside perspective I had what every young professional wants - I worked on partnerships with music and media brands, I got to go to glamorous events and trendy media industry parties and I had a decent enough salary to enjoy the London life.


Back then, nobody talked about millennials, the buzz word at the time was urbanites - and I was living the stereotypical urbanite life; work hard, play hard, spend hard. 
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Lack of purpose
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But despite my initial excitement, within a couple of years it became clear to me that I had set off on the wrong path. Neither my job nor my lifestyle were going to make me happy or give me any sense of fulfilment.  Life and work felt meaningless, empty and vacuous - essentially I was lacking any sense of purpose.

So I quit the media life and went to work in Government communications, on a THINK! road safety advertising campaign aimed at reducing deaths and injuries amongst motorcyclists.

My work had meaning and I felt fulfilled. I got a huge sense of achievement from the fact I was doing something with purpose, and which had a positive impact.

Eventually I left London to seek a healthier and more balanced lifestyle by the sea here in Brighton, and I started designing a career that fits around my needs and values.
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More recently, I have worked a lot in the charity sector and on projects which give me creative freedom. But purpose, and doing work which has a positive impact is still a core part of what drives me.


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Flickering flames mark the end of a magical night walk over the #Downs.

23/3/2019

 
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Not your usual Friday night. Thank you @natureschildling.
​#schoolofthewild #solstice #nightwalk #fullmoon #silence #notorches

Setting up 'the room' for today's cohort of business leaders.

21/3/2019

 
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#campfirecatalyst #schoolofthewild #leadingwithpurpose

Leading with Purpose. How can we harness the power of community?

8/3/2019

 
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Conversations that matter around the fire with another lovely group of business leaders. Noticing how nature supports creative thinking connection and deeper intelligence. Powerful stuff.

Medicine of the Mountains: the healing power of a walk in the wild

3/3/2019

 
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How a walk in the mountains turned into a powerful emotional experience.
It's been a deliberately slow start to the year at School of the Wild, so as we wait for warmer weather I’d like to share a curious thing that happened to me over Christmas.

I was in the Spanish Pyrenees staying near the top of a secluded valley, surrounded on three sides by high ridges.

One day I decided to do a Medicine Walk, a ceremony of aimless wandering. The idea: you set off with a question that you ask of the land, and then let go of the question and go where you feel drawn, where seems interesting. Then pay attention to what happens.

Medicine Walks are a mysterious thing, they turn the land into a mirror for your inner world, and can be really helpful in answering life’s questions. I’ve always found them to be surprising, and pertinent, and powerful.

So in the morning I head off from where I’m staying, up to a gap between the ridges.

The track is steep and it takes a while to get to the top. When I get there, out of breath, I sit for a while on a rock overlooking the valley, taking in the view.



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Leading with Purpose. A session for Brighton business leaders around the fire.

1/3/2019

 
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Leading with Purpose taster session for business leaders, making connections, and having meaningful and rich conversations that matter around the fire. We continue to marvel at the power of nature to bring people together and to spark creative thinking. 
    Nigel Berman, School of the Wild

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    Nigel Berman is the founder of School of the Wild.

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