How to integrate nature into leadership development?

It's no wonder there is continuing rise in mental health issues including our inability to be, to not avoid, to be distracted, to feel overwhelmed. Higher sick leave in businesses, reduced creativity and productivity goes round in circles.

And our leaders are not exempt. They are humans, and they too feel the pressure, pain, disappointment and overwhelm. We're a sick nation. A sick world.

But there's good news.

There is a way through. In my eyes, this is the pinch-point for humanity. We are in this, because it's time to change how we work, how we relate and come back to our simple beings (with an upgraded tech system we can't avoid, and we've willingly created).

Personally I work individually with teams and leaders. You are no different. The perceived roles we play might change, but how we are, effectively makes our businesses and teams what they are. So if we address YOU, we address the core of what's unfolding.

As a group or team, Andrew Cuerden and I, and sometime with other practitioners, come together to decipher what you're looking to address, and then we use nature and the outdoors (Soulwalk), with our own Soulwalk methodology to explore and resolve the key root causes.

General Benefits of Soulwalking:

• Reduction in stress/anxiety through regulation & balancing of Nervous System

• Improved clarity, quality and co-ordination of thoughts, words and action

• Deeper self understanding through psycho-bio-education

• Greater sense of trust & belonging.

  
  

Soulwalk – For Teams Outcomes:

• Bonding of new or hybrid teams

• Better understand and compassionate relating within a team and individually, through deeper listening and psycho-bio-education. (incl. nuero-diversity)

• Opportunities for fun and creativity

• Deeper clarity and buy-in of personal and team drivers and goals

• Collaborative solutions to team challenges

• Improved creativity and divergent thinking

• Deeper awareness and appreciation as to the importance of protecting our inner and outer natural worlds.

Soulwalk – For Leaders Outcomes:

As above for teams plus:

• Balancing the masculine & feminine leadership styles

• Developing non-violent communication skills.

• Infinite / Finite Game thinking 

• Avoiding burn-out

Over the years nature and our intentions have helped us find ways through. They're shone a light on what's REALLY going on. Not just what you say, but what's the unconsious conditioning, patterns and behaviours. Only, when we know, can we make different choices.

How we work?

Soulwalk Combinations & Options:

Choose an event duration.

1. 3hr Experience – choose from morning 9-12noon or afternoon 1-4pm

2. Full Day – 6hr experience including 2 hour lunch break. 

3. 2-3 Day – Residential (max 30 people)

   
   

Choose the regularity.

1. One-off Soulwalk – Normally used as a team away day or to support a team, group with a specific goal.

2. Monthly/Quarterly Soulwalks – Designed to keep consistency, often with a themes (managing stress, finding flow etc) and can be tied into other existing wellbeing initiatives. We can provide different or the same Soulwalk Leaders for each walk that bring different expertise (e.g. Focus on women and menopause).

3. Weekly Soulwalks –  A bite size regular offer that believes in the power of practicing consistency.  Often used to encourage a return to the office, team morale, or integrated into an already established wellbeing program. We supply a Soulwalk leader to come to your neighbourhood to lead locally.

In addition, we offer 1-1 sessions with individuals to unpick, evolve and grow for the benefit of all.

We've worked with businesses from the UK, and Worldwide, travelling to them and them to us.

The activities on the day felt natural and easy and not gimmicky and their easy but firm reminders to look inside us as a group was a great way of letting us know that sometimes the stress is created by our own actions rather than circumstances. Saswati Saha Mitra, Team Leader, WhatsApp