School of the Wild
  • Home
  • About
  • Team Programmes
  • Case Studies
  • Insight
  • Contact

Insight

Team Building In Nature Is Covid-Safe And It Works

7/10/2020

 
Picture
After months of online sessions, on Friday we ran our first outdoor team development day of this year, for a stressed management team from an NHS partnership who've been remote for the past 6 months.

We've made a few changes to the way we run the days to make sure that social distancing and hygiene is maintained.
In general, the risk of contracting coronavirus in outdoor spaces is lower as breezes and air currents disperse the virus and prevent it from building up and being inhaled.

So we're able to offer a covid-safe space based on respect and care for each other. 

Our outdoor development days combine team building with team listening, and create space for re-connection, fresh perspectives, and leaning into each other - at the session on Friday you could see the positive effect it had on the client's team and their mindset.
(And yes, the weather was fine!)

Here's some feedback:
“I was surprised at how happy I was to be with the team in person, it felt less tense than being behind a screen. The space itself and being outdoors provides a neutral atmosphere where some of the politics, emotion, ego etc drop away; it's more humanising than being in an office. It felt easier to take a step back and make decisions than it would do normally. The process felt quite freeing. And I really enjoyed the day, there were some nice surprises - making something together to take away was a great touch; the grounding and silence practices were great and much needed. I thought we were quite ungrounded as a group and struggled to focus on the tasks, as some of what we wanted to discuss can't easily be shared by email or online meetings. Nigel did a good job of bringing us back to task and asking simple and effective questions to make us think quite deeply about things. Loved the day and would recommend to anyone, particularly helpful having not seen each other in person for the last 6 months and felt safe.”
A member of the leadership team

As we head into winter, if your team can’t be together, we offer a safe space to meet, reconnect, work out how to adapt to change, and get through the next few months without falling apart.

​Contact us for more information.
​


Comments are closed.
    Nigel Berman, School of the Wild

    Author & Curator

    Nigel Berman is the founder of School of the Wild.

    Blog HOme

    Categories

    All
    Away Days
    Campfire Conversations
    Case Study
    Leadership
    Networking
    Organisations In Nature
    Purpose
    Talk
    Team Building In Nature
    Teams
    Video

    Archives

    October 2022
    August 2022
    March 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015

    RSS Feed

Organisations

  • ​​Team Building​
  • Away Days
  • Walk and Talks
  • ​Why Nature
  • Guest Speaker

Leaders

  • Courses​
  • Leadership​ Development

About Us

  • ​Our Story
  • Blog​
  • ​Fieldwork​
  • Our Team
  • ​Locations
  • ​Sustainability

Support

  • Contact Us
  • ​FAQs​
  • Privacy
  • Covid ​
We offset our carbon footprint via Ecologi
Picture
The movement for
​Regenerative business
Picture
Picture
Picture

Sign up for News from the Wild:

By subscribing you agree to us sending you occasional emails with info about our services. Unsubscribe at any time. Read our privacy policy
School of the Wild
​c/o 26 Seafield Road,
Hove BN3 2TP
Tel: 07764 404992
​email: [email protected]
© COPYRIGHT 2015-2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Photo used under Creative Commons from gilgit2
  • Home
  • About
  • Team Programmes
  • Case Studies
  • Insight
  • Contact