What can you do? How can you be a force for good? How can you lead with meaning and purpose in an increasingly complex world?
Explore and overcome these 21st century leadership challenges around the fire with a diverse group of likeminded business leaders. It'll help you be a stronger leader, give you a powerful peer network to support you, and provide you with positive energy to implement actions that make a difference.​
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Fusing immersive nature activities with creative conversation, together we'll look at all aspects of leading a business, and how and where you can connect your purpose, influence change, and be a greater force for what you care about.
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​Learn from nature and each other.

​An experimental programme of monthly outdoor sessions, starts 2019.

Apply to join Leading with Purpose
​Price is for monthly sessions.
​Outdoors location near Brighton

On Leading with Purpose, you’ll get:

• time to reflect, step back, look at the bigger picture
• to rediscover and reconnect with your values and your purpose
• inspired by nature and each other to look at your's and your business's direction anew 
• ​discover how you can be a force for good in your life and your business - through people, networks, eco-system
• to learn and share with your peers
• to do this supported by the benefits and wisdom of nature
• using creative processes that emerge actions and outcomes for you and the group

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Valuable headspace, deeper than usual networking, and useful strategic co-counselling

Paul Dickinson, CDP (past participant)

The Benefits

A facilitated leadership development programme in the wild to explore your values, your impact and your legacy, with other business leaders; the only people ​who really understand what you’re going through.
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● Share with other business leaders
● Feel the support of your peers
● Have honest, authentic conversations
● Make meaningful connections
● Get some headspace

● Inspire your own 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 is it for?

​You're a CEO, business owner, founder or co-founder of an SME, a ​key player in a large organisation, or an entrepreneur from any walk of life, who feels called to make a difference, and who wants to understand and explore how to do something purposeful for the future.

How it works

How It Works

Leading with Purpose is a six-session experimental programme for business leaders. It's facilitated by Nigel Berman and includes a series of processes that help you work through 21st century leadership challenges, including how you impact on the world.

• Half day sessions, one per month
  
• Limited to a max of 12 founders and/or leaders
  
• 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

• Running a business is hard. It 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.
• On Leading with Purpose you’ll be able to take some time for yourself to look at what you’re doing and make some practical changes that bring you back inline with your values and your purpose, in order to build a future-fit and resilient organisation that you love, where 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

The 'Leading with Purpose Catalyst Campfire' is held at carefully chosen outdoor venue inside Stanmer Park, close to Brighton. It is easily accessible by public transport and there is parking close by. The private site is self-contained, has 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 Leading with Purpose Now:

Price: £on application / person

Apply Here

 Campfire Catalyst: Leading with Purpose is a programme of monthly outdoor sessions based around a fire.
Got a question? Email us

I went away feeling happy, invigorated, more ‘alive’ than usual and more connected

Jill Woolf, Chimera Communications

I found myself being very open and honest.

Ben Potter, Business Development

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About the Facilitator
Nigel Berman founded School of the Wild in 2014, to combine a love of wild nature with experiences that bring people together. Nigel spent over 20 years creating and leading businesses that communicate different ways of seeing the world. Before School of the Wild, He founded several purpose-driven organisations including an environmental publisher, and Nigel's Eco Store, the award-winning online retailer.
Nigel has facilitated nature-based leadership sessions for NatWest Business Accelerator, the Green Growth Platform, and works with a variety of Brighton digital agencies and international NGOs.
Watch his latest talk - on the Call of the Wild, here.
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