Discover a deeper sense of connection

As we become more aware of the many challenges in the workplace – diversity, working patterns, and climate change, to name just a few – authentic leadership has never been more necessary to enable growth and create a better future.

Explore your leadership challenges around the fire with your team. You’ll leave with insight on how to become more authentic leaders, inspired to take collaborative action, and feeling closer to your colleagues.

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​Learn from nature and each other

Fusing immersive nature activities with productive conversation, we use the power of the group to explore your leadership issues from a different perspective and draw from nature to spark creative thinking on your bigger questions and challenges.

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The best way to describe it is “Business unplugged”... I left the group with renewed commitment and new ideas to explore. Excellent value and an experience I would recommend to all.

Steve Creed, Sustainability Consultant

The Benefits

A facilitated session for leadership teams in the wild, to explore your relationships, your challenges and your impact
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● Share with your fellow leaders
● Feel the support of your peers
● Have honest, authentic conversations
● Make meaningful connections
● Get some headspace

● Inspire your leadership development 
● Learn from, and be inspired by, nature
● Identify new solutions, strategies and actions
● Work on your impact and your legacy 
●​ Leading to real growth for you, your business, & society

It's been proven that nature increases creative thinking by 50%, dramatically improves long-term decision making, and enhances interpersonal connections.

Who knew nature could help you focus and give such clarity on strategic decisions.

Sara Osterholzer, Good Business Club

Who is it for?

Leading Change is for leadership and management teams who feel the need to reconnect, listen to each other, solve challenges together, work on culture and strategy, and understand and explore change.

How it works

How It Works

Leading Change is an emergent campfire programme for leadership teams. It's facilitated by Nigel Berman and includes a series of processes that help you work through your leadership challenges, including how you impact on the world.

• Discovery in advance of the issues and challenges you'd like to work on
• Half day or full day campfires​
• Designed around the outcomes you need
• Limited to a max of 12 people
• Facilitated conversation and immersive activities in nature
• Peer-to-peer mentoring and sharing
• Snacks and hot drinks included
• In wild nature close to Brighton

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Why Join the programme

• Business as usual is no longer sustainable. Your business may be successful, but has your passion, your real values, and the bigger picture got lost amongst the details, the day-to-day pressures, and short-term thinking?
• You’re not alone, 60% of business leaders say they get caught up ​in small details, and avoid the decisions that really matter.
• Around the campfire you’ll be able to take some time with your team to look at what you’re doing and be inspired to make some practical changes that bring you back inline with your values and your purpose, in order that purpose, people, planet and profit can thrive collectively.
• Purpose is, and has always been, critical to building a culture where everyone feels connected to a larger story, where everyone feels they’re working towards a higher aim.
• ​The programme involves a collaborative and experimental process using the intelligence of the group, held by nature, that allows practical wisdom and creative insight to emerge, so that you can commit to actions.
• "The most effective leaders I’ve seen in any setting - business, government, nonprofit - are driven by purpose, mission, and the sense that their work is making ​the world a better place."
  ​Brian Gallagher, Harvard Business Review

WHERE IS IT HELD

Our leadership campfires are held at carefully chosen outdoor venues close to Brighton or near Croydon (within the M25). They are accessible by public transport and there is parking close by. The private sites are self-contained, have a fire pit, and cover in case of wet weather.

FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

“It was quite something, really. I'd highly recommend it - as a leader, a founder, an individual, with your team. Whatever your reason. It gave us all the freedom to talk and share, removed the restrictive confines of buildings and meeting rooms - and not a post-it note or whiteboard in sight!”
Bonamy Waddell, Bon Insight”

“100% recommend.”
Alice Reeves, Joyful Web

“I felt my barriers came down… this event was more honest, more human and more personal. And therefore I made better connections.“
Lauren Psyk
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Book a Leadership campfire

Price: starts from £250pp

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Lead with Purpose is an outdoor session based around a fire.
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I went away feeling happy, invigorated, more ‘alive’ than usual and more connected

Jill Woolf, Chimera Communications

I left this session feeling inspired and uplifted... The setting allows you, or even persuades you, to think big!

Cara Delaney, Think Productive

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About the Facilitator
Nigel Berman has spent over 20 years creating and leading businesses that communicate different ways of seeing the world. Before School of the Wild, he founded several organisations including an environmental publisher, and Nigel's Eco Store, an award-winning online retailer. Now Nigel specialises in bringing leaders and teams into nature to create a space for meaningful conversations that change how we live and work. Nigel has facilitated sessions for NatWest Business Accelerator, the Green Growth Platform, and works with a variety of purpose-driven businesses, agencies, and international NGOs.
Watch his latest talk - on the Call of the Wild, here.
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