Overview
Powerful one-off events and transformational learning programmes for individuals, key relationships, teams, supply chains and networks.
We design and facilitate inspirational learning experiences that expand awareness and spark the new thinking, relating and acting needed to shape the conditions for resilience and sustainable success.
We engage subtly yet powerfully with the outdoors – in wild landscapes, in local parks – to help create new possibilities, new energy, new courage, and new conversations. See why outdoors?
And we help you follow through in the workplace.
Coaching
Clients need help to get “out of their heads” in order to embrace new ways of going into themselves and finding the direction and resources they seek.
Our experienced and qualified coaches draw on a range of coaching approaches to facilitate this discovery and insight.
We also make creative use of location and symbol-based tools such as photography, collage, and writing to help clients move towards powerfully grounded outcomes.
Facilitation
Most working relationships – between key colleagues, within leadership teams, across supply chains – do not generate the fearless and richly productive conversations they could.
Our skilled facilitators help participants voice and explore “what’s in the room”, catalyse a generative process of shared sense-making, and create the conditions for dialogue and collective decisions around what is important and possible.
As with all our services, we believe location helps shape success, and so we will work with you to design the optimum mix of outdoors, indoors, on-site, and off-site venues for the most powerful and resilient outcomes.
See why outdoors?
Accelerated team building
Many teams fail to tap their full potential.
Some teams can be little more than an uncreative collection of clashing egos which demonstrate relational immaturity, fear and other dysfunctionalities. Others just need a little external help to really make them fly.
We specialise in supporting the rapid integration, orientation and performance of newly formed teams e.g. as a result of restructure, project initiation, merger. We also specialise in supporting teams facing a particularly difficult challenge and who need to build resilience. See Resilience advice. And we also specialise in supporting teams undertaking tough adventure projects. See Adventure orientation & training.
Our approach is based on a fearless exploration of context and purpose, and the discovery of ways of thinking and relating together. It is also about deepening curiosity and awareness, expanding behavioural choices, and getting “real” about the kinds of conversations that need to become routine in order to deliver sustained high performance.
The environment in which we conduct our fearless exploration together is important, and we will work with you to design an appropriate level of simulation and stimulation to get to “real” as quickly as possible.
Action learning forums
We learn more when we explore together.
We create facilitated opportunities for peers from within and across organisations to learn together. Using an approach based on action inquiry, the learning is grounded in delegates’ experience rather than in abstract case studies.
Delegates will also be introduced to, and invited to consider and test the latest thinking and tools in the context of their personal challenges and needs.
Our action learning forums are provided as short residentials and/or as themed walks in iconic mountain and coastal locations. See What’s On.
Adventure orientation & training
Well prepared adventurers are safe, successful and inspiring.
Our experienced trek leaders create immersive and interactive programmes that are exciting and fun. They take clients from the basics of self management and safety, through equipment choices and specific health challenges to supportive team behaviours.
Client benefits are the timely development of competence, confidence and cohesive spirit – key contributing factors to safety and project success.
Clients choose to work with us because of our ability to blend skillfully the delivery of basic mountain education with coaching for individuals and facilitation for teams which add value beyond the challenge in hand.
Wild vitality retreats
Individuals and teams need time to reflect, re-orientate, energise and plan their next steps.
We provide tailored retreats and treks, working with you to co-design the duration, levels of accompaniment, facilitation, isolation and challenge you need.
Resilience advice
All organisations carry the negative effects of stress to some extent or other.
This can manifest itself in delays and cost as they try and make sense of changing market conditions and respond to competitors’ initiatives. At a leadership team level, group-think can numb reaction; and, at a personal level it can manifest as fear, avoidance behaviours, fatigue and burn-out.
We use a range of approaches and tools derived from a complexity and ecological view of business to help leadership teams explore the resilience and vitality of their organisations.
Follow-on steps include the facilitation of wider engagements with staff through a range of workshop approaches, such as Appreciative Inquiry, to inform the design and delivery of an appropriate programme of interventions.
