Legacy + Purpose

Your organisation is a remarkable collection of resources brought together to fulfil a purpose. The purpose can be written down, but it only comes to life when people are in position and intent on achieving it.
Likewise your legacy - the positive impact that ripples far beyond your career - also lives through people, and is based entirely on who you help and what you build.

Around the fire, we help your team bring your legacy and purpose to life.

The 21st century challenge for your organisation

As Simon Sinek explained in his TED talk, "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it."
Are you and your team clear on your why - your purpose and the legacy you want to leave? Do you want to shift or develop it? Is your organisation’s purpose brought to life in what you actually do? Do you need to engage and involve your team in a conversation about it? What else could you do?

"The essential question is not 'How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' "
Oprah Winfrey

The benefits of bringing your team into the wild

In his book Drive, Dan Pink showed that employees are motivated when they have autonomy, mastery, and a sense of purpose. Aligning purpose with what you actually do brings congruence.

Similarly, empathy, consideration of others, and creating an inspirational environment that will outlive you and create future benefit is key to legacy building, and attracting great talent. These things are boosted by spending time in nature.

Questions we help you answer

• How do you align with your purpose?

• How do you walk your talk?

• What do you want your legacy to be?

What you'll get from the session

● Incredible sense of well-being (just 20 minutes in nature gives a significant boost)
● Boost to creativity and focus (by as much as 50%)
● Improved trust, stronger relationships and social cohesion between colleagues

● Pull together as one whole team with lasting effect
● A chance for everyone to contribute to creative thinking on your legacy and purpose questions
● Insights and actions that lead to positive change

How does it work?

Bringing inspiration and learning from nature’s ecosystems we design the activities and this programme in such a way as to help you look at your legacy and purpose.

Starting with activities that bring everyone together and lower barriers (connection), with reflection that gets people thinking about the way you work, we create a space for a rich and meaningful conversation that includes group creative thinking and collaboration on a deeper level in order to surface practical ideas from the whole team that can be acted on.

Group size: from 5 up to 50 people

Client Case Studies

Client: Pragmatic
Location: Woods, Sussex
Group Size: 40

What they said:
“...it was good to find out people’s priorities, and what people really care about. The campfire workshop validated what we’re doing, and it broke down barriers and hierarchies. Everyone had a voice, and we came up with some great ideas together. It was a revelation that it’s not just the board who want to talk about these things, people want to collaborate with us.”
Tom Chute, People Operations Director

Who they are:
Pragmatic are an award winning web design agency. In rapidly changing times, Pragmatic felt the need to think about their why. Their CEO had drafted a new purpose: to help our clients succeed, to create a better future.

Their question:
How do we translate and apply our new purpose into practical ideas and what does it mean for how we work together day-to-day?

What happened:
After a morning of connecting everyone through making fires and shelters together, at the afternoon campfire workshop people came up with lots of ideas of how to live the values and ideas in the purpose, including working more closely with clients, creating a charity website template, challenging each other to fulfil the values, and arranging walk n talks in nature.

Client: Sussex Recovery College
Location: Self-contained nature site, nr Brighton
Group Size: 20

What they said:
“I don’t think it could have worked better to be honest”
Julie Walters, Clinical Lead

Who they are:
Sussex Recovery College offer educational courses designed to promote self-management of mental health and recovery. The college wanted to bring their trainers together to celebrate achievements, and look at how they work together.

Their questions:
How do we generate a stronger, more integrated team, and what do we want our legacy to be?

What happened:
We start with icebreakers, a fire making session where trainers help each other, and look at the integration and legacy questions around the campfire in the afternoon.

The trainers worked together to come up with strong legacy statements: “we would like to liberate people from mental health services, and to be remembered by a student who has turned their life around due to Recovery College.”

The feeling was one of shared purpose and a desire for a meaningful legacy, to be honed at further discussions.

Price

corporate, charity and small business rates available

full day session - take as a standalone, or as part of a series

Please note: the price depends on numbers, location, the menu, and if part of a series: contact us for more details

For more information, and to book:

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Locations & What's Included

We use a choice of locations, including a nature reserve or a woodland in London, or several sites in the beautiful Sussex countryside (just 1 hour from London, close to Brighton). All have a fire and cover in case of bad weather. The cost includes hire of the site, all kit and materials, insurance, refreshments, and skilled and engaging facilitators. Plus a short briefing meeting to agree aims beforehand and a debrief afterwards to make sure it’s achieved your aims.

Optional Extras:

● Transport to venue
● Photography ● Venue if outside of Sussex