Business Away Days & Retreats

Nutrition & Gut Makeover

With Jeannette Hyde

Work, Rest & Play Nutrition & Gut Makeover – corporate programme

This progressive programme is based on cutting-edge nutritional science, focusing on preventing illness & encouraging a high rate of adoption. It’s designed to:

• Help staff learn to make beneficial food choices throughout the day to stay energised & focused, manage weight & build resilience.
• Encourage eating to match heritage & genes to avoid major illnesses that may run in families.
• Suggest foods to aid relaxation & sleep, mitigate stress & prevent coughs & cold

Work

Here we focus on eating to be energised throughout the working day, building resilience, managing weight, and avoiding burn out.

Rest

Here we look at reducing hidden stimulants in the diet, and getting the right nutrients every day to make sleep hormones. We explain the importance of relaxation when eating to improve absorption of nutrients to boost the immune system, and prevent falling ill.

Play

This is all about the fun areas. If you eat cakes, which ones are better choices and why? If you take just one supplement, which one, and in which form? What can you eat to reduce the risk of coughs and colds? There is also a section on the new field of nutrigenetics and how genetic information can be used to tweak your diet, to reduce risk of switching on genes connected with major illnesses which may run in your family.

This programme includes:

Initial consultation

3 x 1 hour talks

A personal booklet to accompany each talk to keep and refer to

Easy food preparation and demonstrations

Healthy food/snack giveaways as gifts

DNA testing, and one-to-one genetic nutrition consultations and reports*

* Designing an individualised diet to an employee’s DNA is a new method used to reduce risk of switching on genes associated with familial illnesses.

What you can expect from this series of workshops and talks

Your employees:

You’ll find there will be strong staff engagement for starters.  The information delivered on this workshop is engaging and you can expect to see implementation of new behaviours from those that have attended.

Your organisation:

You’ll see improved absence rates, increased energy and increased motivation.

This workshop is available as part of a corporate programme. Please get in touch to discuss how we can design one just for you.

Open Leadership with Horses – Equine Guided Leadership

With Jude Jennison

We all have the capacity to be extraordinary, so why settle for anything less?

Equine Guided Leadership Development is a unique and powerful way of learning that involves leading horses on the ground through a variety of exercises to gain direct feedback on your leadership style. It’s an experiential-based learning program where you embody your leadership skills, resulting in sustainable behavioural change. You learn your personal impact, both individually and within a team.

No riding is involved and no experience of horses is required. The focus is on leadership skills that can only be learned experientially. You get direct feedback on your leadership impact by how the horse responds moment by moment which will give you the opportunity to recalibrate until you get the results you want.

Why Horses?

Horses mirror your non-verbal communication so you quickly identify the impact of your leadership, explore how to use emotional intelligence with instant feedback and recalibrate to get results. This profound way of learning creates fast results that are repeatable back in every day situations.

We work with horses because they have been proven to:

• Respond based on the 90% of your communication that is non-verbal
• Provide non-judgmental feedback by mirroring your leadership style
• Only interact with authentic behaviour
• Help you identify your core strengths and highlight the areas where you get stuck, often in the first few minutes of the day
• Follow leaders and teams who are compelling, compassionate, authentic, clear and work in unity
• Provide a different environment where leaders learn how to lead out of their comfort zone and take bold action
• Work as a cohesive team and mirror your team’s behaviour
• Require you to work collaboratively together
• Help you identify solutions to long-standing challenges
• Research from the University of Kentucky showed that people who had attended a one-day workshop with horses showed an increase in self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management.
• The learning is authentic, sustainable and transferable to all leadership situations that you may encounter in future.
• People are repeatedly surprised at how quickly behaviours are uncovered and quickly they can change them

What you can expect to gain from working with horses?

Previous clients have reported an increase in confidence, gained clarity on key challenges and overcome barriers to success that were previously holding them back.

You’ll also:

• Understand your impact
• Identify your strengths, get feedback on your leadership behaviours and increase awareness of your impact on others
• Build better relationships
• Discover how to use the subtle art of non-verbal communication to build rapport, embrace differences and influence others
• Collaborate more effectively
• Explore your default patterns of behaviour, find new ways to work with other more cohesively and overcome barriers to success

As well as:

• Take high-performing leaders to another level with increased self-awareness and ability to recalibrate their approach in the moment
• Enable more courageous leadership, creative thinking, flexibility and innovation
• Maximise the use of personal strengths to overcome obstacles and achieve business goals more quickly
• Accelerate team cohesion through greater understanding of self and other team members
• Inspire and influence clients and teams with differing personalities and needs
• Improve relationship and communication skills
• Be assertive under pressure, without resorting to coercion or avoidance
• Greater awareness of conflict and default patterns
• Increase trust within the team and the wider organisation

“I am now more interested in achieving collective results rather than individual success. I have more empathy now, not only with the rest of the team but with others in general.” Jorge Ribeiro, Head of IT Infrastructure, Telefonica

“Jude is the secret weapon called upon by major global brands to help them address hidden leadership issues that are limiting vision, stifling productivity, and damaging trust and team effectiveness.”

The cost

£6025 total for the day which is based on up to 8 people attending. This includes all preparation for your individual leadership team needs as well as including a copy of Jude’s book per person, photos from the day and a follow on 15mins coaching per person. Excludes travel to the location.

Contact us to book and discuss your requirements.  We can bespoke each workshop to your organisational needs, values and vision.

Pause – a one day micro retreat for B Corp teams

With The Life Adventure

EXPLORE REVIVE ENGAGE : A ONE DAY RESET FOR B CORP TEAMS

Discover the transformative power of somatic movement & conscious connected breath.
Immerse yourself in a rejuvenating experience that will leave you feeling grounded, centred, and deeply connected to your body and breath.

Breathwork coach and Life Adventure founder, Justine Clement, has teamed up with the incredible somatic movement coach, Shaun Brooking, to launch a brand-new 1-day retreat in the stunning Cambridgeshire countryside, specifically for teams from B Corp organisations. This mind and body-blowing experience will take place in, and beside, nature, where you’ll feel more relaxed, more expansive, more creative. It’s an experience where you’ll come away having connected more deeply to your body, to your breath and to members of your team.

Why?

We so often get caught up in the busyness of life, it can be difficult for us to slow down, step back and move forward in a better way. It’s only when we learn this skill that we’re able to fully reset, recover and recalibrate. Instead of a simple respite from the daily grind, this reset day has been carefully designed to empower you with the tools you need to reconnect to your natural internal rhythm. It’s an opportunity for every member of the team to rebalance and return to life and work with renewed energy. It’s also a gentle, yet expansive learning experience too, where you’ll each discover ways of replenishing your energy stores through the power of movement, breath and reflection. But this day is not just about nice-to-have-wellbeing tools. It’s about helping each member of the team create greater impact as a B Corp organisation. It will help to improve team cohesion, so you go back to work not only feeling better, but working better, more effectively, with greater productivity and enhanced performance.

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3 key objectives

EXPLORE your surroundings and connect to nature, with an immersive learning experience on the benefits of nature connection
REVIVE your body and mind, by releasing unwanted stress, strain and tension
ENGAGE with others through restorative connection, by sharing as much or as little as you like

Somatic Movement

Gentle movements, performed with intention and at a very slow pace. The goal of this is to shift our attention from the external appearance of a pose or posture, to the internal felt experience of the movement. Through shifting our attention from output to experience, we notice how tension, stress and worry softens, and we learn more sustainable ways of living in our bodies.

Conscious Connected Breathwork

Conscious breathing is a gentle, simple technique that helps you to open up the full potential of your breathing system for better physical and emotional well-being. It’s been demonstrated to have many benefits, including increased energy, better immune response and increased ability to deal with stress in a healthy way. In the session Justine will give a short intro and you’ll lie on your back, with the whole group breathing together.

Nature Connection

We’ll immerse ourselves in the healing properties of nature. By exploring the four elements of water, wood, earth and sky, we reconnect to our own organic nature, and discover how these elements support us in our daily lives. Research shows that connecting to organic elements can elevate mood, reduce feelings of isolation, promote calm and decrease inflammation.

Wood-fired hot tubs and sauna

The bathing space at our beautiful location invites you to relax in red cedar, wood-fired hot tubs and saunas which are situated outdoors. Whilst your body regenerates and detoxifies immersed in hot water, you are also exposed to daylight, your lungs are filled with fresh, clean air and your eyes rest upon natural, green spaces. The benefits can be felt all year round – whatever the weather.

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Why choose this?

The whole team will leave with more vitality, feeling far more relaxed, less stressed and importantly, equipped with tools to maintain it all after the day. You’ll be guided by two experts in their field through explorative movement situations, tuning deeply into your physical, emotional and personal self via your breath, and feel comfortable getting curious about what you can do with your body. Not only that, you’ll also learn how to connect more deeply with nature (and therefore yourself) and other members of the team whilst spending some important downtime in our location’s wonderful outdoor wood-fired hot tubs and sauna.

Who it’s for:

• Teams feeling over-stressed, overwhelmed, tired and needing/wanting to reset their sleep rhythms.
• Teams seeking more clarity – individually as well as collectively.
• Teams struggling to switch off and slow down.
• Teams wanting to learn a technique that will take them towards optimum physical health, emotional clarity and a deeper connection with themselves.

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Overview:

When: Pause is available as a team day micro retreat year-round on Thursdays and Fridays, subject to availability.

Where: Just outside Cambridge – although we can research other possible venues if this doesn’t work for you.

• A full day that packs a real punch, yet leaves space for reflection and a greater understanding of the true path to wellness
• Guided studio sessions: Movement,Somatics & Breathwork
• Home made, locally-sourced lunch at the Hilltop Bistro
• Guided outdoor sessions: Sensory trail walk learning about a deeper nature connection
• Wood-fired hot tub and sauna time – relaxed connecting time with each other
• Guided closing reflections

Cost:

£4500 for 10 people.

Includes:

• Access to wood-fired hot tub.
• Access to sauna.
• 6 hours (Somatics, movement and Breathwork)
• Head, heart, body alignment practices.
• Sensory trail walk and access to meadows.
• Fully guided day with Justine Clement and Shaun Brooking
• Deep reflection cheat sheet.
• Wholesome, homemade, locally-sourced and seasonal lunch
• Complimentary drink
• Sarong towels and bathrobes

Bring:

Please bring your own water bottle and journal/diary to take notes throughout the day, swimwear, flip flops and appropriate clothing and footwear.  If you have any questions or concerns, do get in touch and we can discuss this with you in more detail.

 

About Shaun Brooking

Shaun is a coach, mover, thinker and educator. In his past life as an athlete, he learnt the hard way – the world of performance and fitness is not about health – burnt out, injured and lost. He’s spent the last 15 plus years figuring out what it means to be in a body and live to his full potential without the cost to his health. He has studied across many fields – neuroscience, physiology, embodiment, movement and spirituality – and integrate these to help people build life-long skills. These skills help you buffer the effects of stress and anxiety, give you the ability to unplug and slow down, and perform in a sustainable way.

About Justine Clement

Founder of The Happy Prize Company and Breathwork coach, Justine was born curious and adventurous. She’s spent the last 15 years exploring ways to live and feel better through ashtanga yoga, kinesiology, Celtic shamanism and mythology, psychotherapy, plant communication and mindfulness, to name a few. For many years, she was a self-confessed ‘on-the-go’ CEO and no words of warning from others about the importance of slowing down, could stop her. She only really listened after a series of injuries forced her to stop. Her slow recovery invited her to start learning how to ‘be’ as well as ‘do’.

 

Pause – a one day micro retreat for teams

With The Life Adventure

EXPLORE REVIVE ENGAGE : A ONE DAY RESET FOR TEAMS

Discover the transformative power of somatic movement & conscious connected breath.
Immerse yourself in a rejuvenating experience that will leave you feeling grounded, centred, and deeply connected to your body and breath.

Breathwork coach and Life Adventure founder, Justine Clement, has teamed up with the incredible somatic movement coach, Shaun Brooking, to launch a brand-new 1-day retreat in the stunning Cambridgeshire countryside. This mind and body-blowing experience will take place in, and beside, nature, where you’ll feel more relaxed, more expansive, more creative. It’s an experience where you’ll come away having connected more deeply to your body, to your breath and to members of your team.

Why?

We so often get caught up in the busyness of life, it can be difficult for us to slow down, step back and move forward in a better way. It’s only when we learn this skill that we’re able to fully reset, recover and recalibrate. Instead of a simple respite from the daily grind, this reset day has been carefully designed to empower you with the tools you need to reconnect to your natural internal rhythm. It’s an opportunity for every member of the team to rebalance and return to life and work with renewed energy. It’s also a gentle, yet expansive learning experience too, where you’ll each discover ways of replenishing your energy stores through the power of movement, breath and reflection. But this day is not just about nice-to-have-wellbeing tools. It’s about helping each member of the team create greater impact as an organisation. It will help to improve team cohesion, so you go back to work not only feeling better, but working better, more effectively, with greater productivity and enhanced performance.

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3 key objectives

EXPLORE your surroundings and connect to nature, with an immersive learning experience on the benefits of nature connection
REVIVE your body and mind, by releasing unwanted stress, strain and tension
ENGAGE with others through restorative connection, by sharing as much or as little as you like

Somatic Movement

Gentle movements, performed with intention and at a very slow pace. The goal of this is to shift our attention from the external appearance of a pose or posture, to the internal felt experience of the movement. Through shifting our attention from output to experience, we notice how tension, stress and worry softens, and we learn more sustainable ways of living in our bodies.

Conscious Connected Breathwork

Conscious breathing is a gentle, simple technique that helps you to open up the full potential of your breathing system for better physical and emotional well-being. It’s been demonstrated to have many benefits, including increased energy, better immune response and increased ability to deal with stress in a healthy way. In the session Justine will give a short intro and you’ll lie on your back, with the whole group breathing together.

Nature Connection

We’ll immerse ourselves in the healing properties of nature. By exploring the four elements of water, wood, earth and sky, we reconnect to our own organic nature, and discover how these elements support us in our daily lives. Research shows that connecting to organic elements can elevate mood, reduce feelings of isolation, promote calm and decrease inflammation.

Wood-fired hot tubs and sauna

The bathing space at our beautiful location invites you to relax in red cedar, wood-fired hot tubs and saunas which are situated outdoors. Whilst your body regenerates and detoxifies immersed in hot water, you are also exposed to daylight, your lungs are filled with fresh, clean air and your eyes rest upon natural, green spaces. The benefits can be felt all year round – whatever the weather.

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Why choose this?

The whole team will leave with more vitality, feeling far more relaxed, less stressed and importantly, equipped with tools to maintain it all after the day. You’ll be guided by two experts in their field through explorative movement situations, tuning deeply into your physical, emotional and personal self via your breath, and feel comfortable getting curious about what you can do with your body. Not only that, you’ll also learn how to connect more deeply with nature (and therefore yourself) and other members of the team whilst spending some important downtime in our location’s wonderful outdoor wood-fired hot tubs and sauna.

Who it’s for:

• Teams feeling over-stressed, overwhelmed, tired and needing/wanting to reset their sleep rhythms.
• Teams seeking more clarity – individually as well as collectively.
• Teams struggling to switch off and slow down.
• Teams wanting to learn a technique that will take them towards optimum physical health, emotional clarity and a deeper connection with themselves.

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Overview:

When: Pause is available as a team day micro retreat year-round on Thursdays and Fridays, subject to availability.

Where: Just outside Cambridge – although we can research other possible venues if this doesn’t work for you.

• A full day that packs a real punch, yet leaves space for reflection and a greater understanding of the true path to wellness
• Guided studio sessions: Movement,Somatics & Breathwork
• Home made, locally-sourced lunch at the Hilltop Bistro
• Guided outdoor sessions: Sensory trail walk learning about a deeper nature connection
• Wood-fired hot tub and sauna time – relaxed connecting time with each other
• Guided closing reflections

Cost:

£4500 for 10 people.

Includes:

• Access to wood-fired hot tub.
• Access to sauna.
• 6 hours (Somatics, movement and Breathwork)
• Head, heart, body alignment practices.
• Sensory trail walk and access to meadows.
• Fully guided day with Justine Clement and Shaun Brooking
• Deep reflection cheat sheet.
• Wholesome, homemade, locally-sourced and seasonal lunch
• Complimentary drink
• Sarong towels and bathrobes

Bring:

Please bring your own water bottle and journal/diary to take notes throughout the day, swimwear, flip flops and appropriate clothing and footwear.  If you have any questions or concerns, do get in touch and we can discuss this with you in more detail.

 

About Shaun Brooking

Shaun is a coach, mover, thinker and educator. In his past life as an athlete, he learnt the hard way – the world of performance and fitness is not about health – burnt out, injured and lost. He’s spent the last 15 plus years figuring out what it means to be in a body and live to his full potential without the cost to his health. He has studied across many fields – neuroscience, physiology, embodiment, movement and spirituality – and integrate these to help people build life-long skills. These skills help you buffer the effects of stress and anxiety, give you the ability to unplug and slow down, and perform in a sustainable way.

About Justine Clement

Founder of The Happy Prize Company and Breathwork coach, Justine was born curious and adventurous. She’s spent the last 15 years exploring ways to live and feel better through ashtanga yoga, kinesiology, Celtic shamanism and mythology, psychotherapy, plant communication and mindfulness, to name a few. For many years, she was a self-confessed ‘on-the-go’ CEO and no words of warning from others about the importance of slowing down, could stop her. She only really listened after a series of injuries forced her to stop. Her slow recovery invited her to start learning how to ‘be’ as well as ‘do’.

Notes

Alternative venues are available and the above option is customisable to your organisation’s needs and requirements.

Pause In The Forest Reset For Teams

With The Life Adventure

 

Medical and Psychiatric Contraindications To Participating In Breathwork

Breathwork results in certain specific physiological changes in the body and also can result in intense physical and emotional release. Therefore, for safety purposes, we do not allow persons with the following conditions to participate in a breathwork session:

​Medical Contraindications

• Epilepsy
• Detached Retina
• Glaucoma
• Prior strokes or seizures
• Pregnancy – first trimester only – ok after that
• Asthma (if you have asthma you can participate but you must have your inhaler available)

Psychiatric Contraindications

• Prior diagnosis by a health professional of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia
• Psychotic or borderline psychotic states
• Any other medical, psychiatric or physical conditions which would impair or affect ability to engage in any activities that involve intense physical and/or emotional release.

Please email us if you are at all unsure whether one or more of the above apply to you.

Peak Performance Through Movement (MASTERCLASS)

With Jorge Crecis

Increase personal impact, reduce stress, have more fun

Why this is something you should try

Our body is the most immediate tool we have. Working on our bodies not only enables us to become more efficient, but surprisingly, it also teaches us how to have more fun on a daily basis. This, in turn, increases our personal impact on those around us. In this workshop, which ideally runs for 4 hours, but we can reduce down to 2 or 3 hours if time is short, we’ll share simple, powerful and widely proven routines taken from years of working with top-performing artists, to tap into an ideal peak performative state of mind, at will.

• Less judgment + full commitment = your full potential is released
• Habits disappear in order to leave space for efficacy and immediacy
• Games are very serious things. Games push us to do our best and have fun at the same time

What you’ll be doing

Have you ever wondered why dancers and rock stars possess a special charisma? That special something that attracts everyone’s attention? How they perform at their peak every night? And why they have an amazing presence and vitality?

For many years Jorge has worked with dance personalities such as Carlos Acosta and music legend Paul McCartney, amongst others. Now, for the first time, we’re sharing the secret of their vitality to other professionals, who’s careers demand a high level of physical and mental performance.

This workshop combines the energy of high-performing movement with the creativity of performing arts. By capturing the spontaneity and the immense concentration of being in the moment, you’ll be pushed into an enhanced presence of mind.

How it runs

Day Schedule (4 hours, but can be adjusted to suit your schedule)

Arrival and refreshments (15 mins)

Entering peak performance (1 hour)

o Welcome and introduction
o Mind/Brain Warm up. Gentle physical tune up.
o Demystification of the act of performing: embodying presence

Break and refreshments (15 mins)

During performance (1.5 hours)

o Games are a serious thing: throwing and catching bottles
o Problem solving in real time: it gets complicated
o The Jackie Chan effect. Switching on and off

Break and refreshments (15 mins)

Exiting performance (45 mins)

o Transference to daily life: case study
o Last exercise: the secret of peak performance
o Questions and optional follow up

This workshop is not about teaching dance. It’s about teaching real people with real problems how to embrace life and enjoy every scenario that’s thrown at them. You’ll be amazed at the results.

The follow up

For four weeks following the initial group session, participants will be given a daily task to implement from what they have experienced during the workshop and incorporate it into their daily life and routines. These tasks will be provided through WhatsApp or email, along with access to a collection of continuing resources.

What people say

“Game changer”

 

“I feel physically activated, mentally focus and ready to fight the right battles”

 

“Through this experience, I learned the power of motivating and reinvigorating a tired body and I found a new strength for my daily routines”

 

“The body is great, and so is the mind – it was a liberation!! Thank you so much.”

 

“No matter the hours of sleep I have one day or no matter how tired I am, the exercises help me to stay focused and fully involved in what I am doing”

 

“I explored these aspects in very concrete terms and I came to realise that performance has nothing to do with magic, but rather it can be trained and enhanced. “

 

“It is rare to find classes like yours and more rare to find people like you to inspire other people”

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Restore, Recharge, Reimagine Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire

With Preethi Nair

WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?

“Once they overcome their preconceived ideas about tree hugging and, more worryingly, the view that work should not be enjoyable, we have consistently achieved great results. Working in this type of environment seems to give people a much more balanced sense of perspective on what is important.” Sony Mobile’s Head of Human Resources

It has been years of Zoom and gloom and the silent pandemic is stress, burnout and loss of connection. Put simply, this retreat is to help you hit the refresh button and to start again with a renewed energy that nurtures, connects and inspires possibility. We will provide an opportunity to:

• Take time to reflect and breathe
• Reconnect with yourself and your team
• Create a different story and share these stories around a campfire with renewed vision
• Be nurtured by good food, great company in incredible natural surroundings

Each participant will have their own space in their personal luxury bell tent, have dinner with their colleagues under the shimmering stars (or in a Giant Tipi when the weather is less forgiving), eat local food prepared onsite by our local chefs and experience workshops that are not only fun, but that enhance productivity, improve wellbeing and boost creativity.

Welcome to The Life Adventure in Godstone, Surrey and at The Grange, in Hampshire. It’s time to restore, reimagine and tell a new story.

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ITINERARY

 

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Day 1

3pm: Arrival at the camp

Check in and camp orientation and relax into the natural environment

4.30pm: Gather round the firepit or in the Giant Tipi for a 2hr Storytelling workshop

6.30pm: Relax with drinks around the fire

7.15pm: Dinner

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Day 2

7.30am: 1hr Sunrise Yoga

8.30am: Showers/get ready for the day

9am: Breakfast in the Giant Tipi or outdoors on long tables

10.15am:1.5hr Vision Building session outdoors or in Giant Tipi

11.45am: Relax/break

12.30pm: 1hr Lunch at the camp

1.45pm: 45 mins Journaling session

2.30pm: 1hr 15 mins Conscious Connected Breath session outdoors or in Giant Tipi

4pm: Leave camp for 2 hrs Forest Bathing experience in the nearby woods

6pm: Back to camp to relax

7pm: Relax and drinks around the firepit

8pm Dinner in the Giant Tipi or outdoors on long tables

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Day 3

7.30am-10am: Breakfast in Giant Tipi or outdoors on long tables and checkout

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WORKSHOPS

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STORYTELLING 2HRS

Why storytelling?  Put Simply:

“Storytellers rule the world” Plato

This session will be held either in the camp’s Giant Tipi, or if the weather is fine, in the woods.

In this two hour session, author Preethi Nair will share her remarkable story and give participants the tools of a storyteller to make their stories engaging, compelling and inspiring.

You and your team will:

• Understanding how to influence, inspire and motivate through story
• Learn the tools of a storyteller
• Share stories and create connectivity

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VISION-BUILDING WORKSHOP 1.5HRS

This session will be held either in the camp’s Giant Tipi, or outdoors if the weather is fine.

In this 90 minute session you will create an inspiring personal vision and a compelling group vision. You’ll learn:

• To plot out the narrative of your personal and professional success
• The possible pitfalls on the road ahead
• To be inspired to take the next actions required in achieving your vision

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JOURNALING WORKSHOP 40 MINS

This session will likely be held either in the camp’s Giant Tipi.

According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts. That leaves a very small window for fresh thinking and creativity.

In this session you will:

• Experience the process of journaling as a tool for wellbeing
• Discover the fastest ways to access right brain thinking for innovation/creativity
• Establish a practice that will change your life!

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CONSCIOUS CONNECTED BREATH SESSION 1HR 15 MINS

In our experience, all team gatherings should include this – a Conscious Connected Breath session, designed to detox and destress your system. This session will reconnect your mind and body and ultimately connect you back to yourself.  It will either be held in the camp’s Giant Tipi, outdoors, or possibly even in the woods.

Breathwork is a safe and ancient practice, known for its immune system boosting abilities and self-healing powers, allowing you to come out of your busy mind and drop more deeply into your body. There are literally hundreds of breath practices to try and your stay at Kymani will allow you to experience one of these, known as Conscious Connected Breath. In this session you’ll discover a technique that will:

• Help you deal successfully with stress
• Help you sleep better
• Energise and uplift you
• Show you how to engage with your diaphragm – the breathing apparatus you were born with, but forgot about!
• Boost your immune system
• Help you release emotional tension and stress

Please note this session is not suitable for those with glaucoma, pregnant (1st trimester only) epilepsy, detached retina, prior strokes or seizures, prior diagnosis by a health professional of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, psychotic or borderline psychotic states.

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FOREST BATHING/SHINRIN-YOKU EXPERIENCE 2HRS

Shinrin-yoku means bathing in the forest environment for wellbeing. Humans have spent 99.9% of their development in nature and 0.01% in urban environments. This is a gentle introduction to begin a new relationship with it, including sensory and meditative exercises. In this session we’ll show you how to tune into your micro and macro awareness of nature and notice how it communicates with us.  You’ll experience ways to:

• Reduce your stress levels – research has found that leisurely forest walks yield a 12.4 percent decrease in the stress hormone, cortisol, compared with urban walks. Participants report better moods and lower anxiety.
• Improve your mood – academics at Derby University have conducted a meta study of existing research which concludes that connecting to nature can be linked to happiness and mental wellbeing. Spending time in nature releases hormones that relate to the pursuit of joy, connecting to calm and avoiding threats.
• Free up your creativity – University of Utah research shows participants saw a 50% improvement in creative problem solving after time immersed in nature with all access to modern technology removed.
• Boost your immune system – trees and plants emit ‘phytoncides’ which we breathe in when we spend time in the forest. These have been proven to enhance the activity of Natural Killer cells that help our bodies fight disease.

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WHERE YOU’LL PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN

We provide truly luxurious glamping accommodation – even though you’ll be in the great outdoors there is definitely no slumming it here. Each tent will be lavishly furnished with proper beds (each bell tent contains a double and two single beds) and all of the home comforts you can imagine.

Your bed has a proper mattresses, lighting, bedside tables, a sofa and all manner of soft furnishings. And to keep you warm and cosy? Your very own wood-burning stove. Also includes:

• Beds with soft linen Comfy sofa
• Woodburning stove with a bag of wood (if you need more you can order more onsite at an additional cost) Full-length mirror
• Clothing rail and hangers Rugs & mats
• Hanging candelabra
• Bedside tables and reading lamps Vintage storage trunk
• Boot rack
• Power supply to charge your phone

WHAT YOU’LL EAT

 

BREAKFAST SUGGESTIONS

MINI PASTRIES
Selection of Mini Pastries and Mini Croissants with Butter & Jam

FILLED CROISSANTS
Rosemary Roasted Portobello Mushroom & Baby Spinach (vg)
Tomato & Montgomery Cheddar (v)

SUMMER POTS
Homemade Seasonal Fruit Puree, Toasted Granola, Coconut Yoghurts

FRUIT POTS
Cut Fruit Salad & Pomegranate (vg)
Kentish Strawberries with Minted Honey Syrup (vg)
Mango & Blueberries (vg)

HOT BREAKFAST
Full English, plus vegan option, Bacon/Sausage/Egg sandwich, porridge with all the toppings

DINNER – THEMED OPTIONS

NO MEAT MONDAY
With more people aiming for healthier options, we’ll serve up vegetarian versions of favourites such as burgers, pies, wraps and risottos.

TENT TUESDAY
Each individual bell tent is assigned their own kettle BBQ and given cast iron skillet with ingredients. The chef will then give a lesson on a one-pan-wonder meal for the group. It’s a great way to interact, work as a team and compare at the end for judging perhaps…

WEDNESDAY WONDERS
The chef will supply a feast of all things fun and filling such as stone baked pizzas, pasta dishes, Mediterranean Salads, Beef Bourguignon, Potato Mash, Green Beans Vegan Shepherds Pie, Maple Roasted Parsnips (vg) and Thai Red Chicken Curry.

 

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ABOUT PREETHI NAIR

Preethi is all about creativity, taking risks and inspiring through story.

She left her job as a management consultant to publish her first novel Gypsy Masala after it had been rejected. Establishing an ‘international PR agency’ in her bedroom and appointing feisty director ‘Pru’ (an alter ego) to hype her book – (whilst putting on a suit and pretending to go to work – don’t ask!) Preethi got the novel into charts and signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins. Her alter ego ‘Pru’ was short-listed as Publicist of the Year!

Preethi went on to set up Kiss the Frog, a company that fosters storytelling in organisations and is a professor at various business schools, promoting creativity as a key skill for leadership.

Most recently, having never acted before, she wrote, acted and produced her first West End stage play, Sari: The Whole Five Yards, which is currently being adapted for television and she has just completed her fourth novel.

Preethi has spoken at many business conferences but most notably; she delivered the keynote to the Women in Wall Street Conference to 3,000 women. She has also shared a platform with Sir Bob Geldof on “Talking Less and Doing More.”

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ABOUT JUSTINE CLEMENT

Justine has always loved working with, and managing, teams of people and has a great admiration for innovation. All this came along in the form of a CEO role for a ground-breaking £2m backed start-up called Unmissable that focussed on experiential travel, working with global brands such as Unilever and PepsiCo, along with some of the best marketing and advertising agencies in the world. It captured a growing thirst for new ideas in the world of travel and experiences. She subsequently went on to set up a similar, B Corp certified business, called The Happy Prize Company.

Shortly after leaving Unmissable, she entered the world of another passion of hers – wellness – setting up wellbeing agency The Life Adventure, which works in the main, with UK government departments to set and improve the wellbeing agenda for government officials. She’s studied with, and learned from, some of the world’s leading masters in yoga, meditation, kinesiology, sustainability, psychotherapy and Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing), as well as becoming a certified Conscious Connected Breath coach. She’s a Mental Health First Aider and a Verifier for the Mayor of London’s Healthy Workplace Awards.

She recently became a Non-Exec Director for a community solar farm project in Selsey, West Sussex, and crowd-funded a community project called the Selsey Sea Bathing Society to encourage people of all ages back into the sea.

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OUR CLIENTS INCLUDE

LEGO, BBC, ITV Imagine, Channel 5, ?Whatif!, MTV, Citibank, British Chamber of Commerce, DEFRA, Dimensional Data, Terrapinn, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, UBS investment bank, ICA, Southbank Centre, Saville Group, Ernst & Young, PWC, ARLA, Oracle, Orange, Yorkshire Forward, Astra Zeneca, London Business School, Cranfield University, Henley Management School, Headspring, BEIS, Dept for Work & Pensions

We hope you will join us and be part of the adventure!

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LOCATIONS

South Godstone, Surrey

Nearest train station is Godstone and this is the nearest site to London. To drive, take junction 5 off the M25 and it’s around an 8 minute drive off the A22 heading south.

We call this site our “room with a view”. Set in the beautiful rolling AONB Surrey Hills, this has a gorgeous vista of the English countryside. You’ll have a whopping 9 acre field to call your own so that you can really get away from it all and take the time to enjoy the soundtrack of nature.

The Grange, Hampshire

This is a stunning self-enclosed site surrounded by beautiful woodlands and trees on the stunning Grange Estate, home of The Grange Festival. Not only does the estate feature the Greek revival mansion, but also a beautiful lake and rivers running through the grounds. This is the perfect site to get away from it within the grounds of an iconic destination

Other locations may be possible.

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RESTORE, RECHARGE, REIMAGINE COST AND INCLUSIONS

• Sole use of the site for 36 hrs
• Bedding, linens and all the home comforts you need in 10 bell tents
• Hot showers and proper toilets
• Central Giant Tipi with banquet table, library, lounge and games area
• Breakfasts and dinners each day cooked up for you by our onsite chef made with locally-sourced ingredients
• Lunch on Day 2
• 1.5 hrs Storytelling workshop
• 1 hr Sunset Yoga session
• 1 hr Vision Building session
• 1hr 15 mins Conscious Connected Breath session
• 2 hrs slow walk and Forest Bathing experience
• Preethi Nair and Justine Clement on site for the majority of the time plus 2 staff and chef

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Cost: bespoke packages and durations available, price on application.  The site has 10 bell tents in total and takes 20 people maximum (either 1 or 2 people per tent).

Please note, longer durations of a week or even a month are also possible for larger teams. Please contact Justine Clement at justinec@thelifeadventure.co.uk or call on +44 7714333418 to book or discuss.

Revive, Refresh, Recharge In Nature: Surrey, Hampshire & Wiltshire

With The Life Adventure

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?

It’s been a tough few years, we can all agree on that. Put simply, this retreat is to help you hit the refresh button and to start again with a renewed energy that nurtures, connects and inspires possibility.

Your own exclusive glamping site for 20 people comes with a private chef and luxury surroundings in nature, giving you the opportunity to:

• Take time to reflect, breathe and take stock on all that’s happened this past year
• Reconnect with yourself, your partner, your friends, your family (whoever you choose to invite) around the campfire
• Be nurtured by good food, great company in incredible natural surroundings

In your own exclusive glamping site for 2 nights, there are 10 luxury bell tents, where you’ll sleep on proper beds and mattresses. You’ll have dinner with your guests under the shimmering stars (or in a Giant Tipi when the weather is less forgiving), eat local food prepared onsite by local chefs and try experiences that are good for the soul and great for your wellbeing.

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YOUR EXPERIENCE INCLUDES

 

Day 1

3pm: Arrival at the camp. Check in and just take your time to get to know your vibrant new surroundings and immerse yourself into the natural environment.
6.30pm: Relax with drinks around the fire
7.15pm: Dinner

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Day 2

7.30am: 1hr Sunrise Yoga
9am: Breakfast in the Giant Tipi or outdoors on long tables
10.15 am 2 hrs Bushcraft Workshop
12.30 pm: Lunch break/relax
2.30 pm: 1hr 15 mins Conscious Connected Breath session outdoors or in Giant Tipi
4 pm: Leave camp for 2 hrs Forest Bathing experience in the nearby woods
6 pm: Back to camp to relax
7pm: Relax and drinks around the firepit
8 pm Dinner in the Giant Tipi or outdoors on long tables

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Day 3

8.30 am: Breakfast in Giant Tipi or outdoors on long tables
10am: Leave your camp

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YOUR EXPERIENCES

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BUSHCRAFT 2HRS

A fantastic and fun introduction to bushcraft for all. You’ll learn to build trust and communicate like the best expedition teams and figure out how not to get lost. You’ll learn about fire, shelter, water, wild foods, tracking and stalking. This is a brilliant two-hour session packed with games and activities throughout and is a great chance to learn the basics of bushcraft and survival skills.

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BREATHWORK WORKSHOP 1HR 15 MINS

In our experience, every day should include this – a Conscious Connected Breath session, designed to detox and destress your system. This session will reconnect your mind and body and ultimately connect you back to yourself. It will either be held in the camp’s Giant Tipi, outdoors, or possibly even in the woods.

Breathwork is a safe and ancient practice, known for its immune system boosting abilities and self-healing powers, allowing you to come out of your busy mind and drop more deeply into your body. There are literally hundreds of breath practices to try and your stay at Kymani will allow you to experience one of these, known as Conscious Connected Breath. In this session you’ll discover a technique that will:

– Help you deal successfully with stress
– Help you sleep better
– Energise and uplift you
– Show you how to engage with your diaphragm – the breathing apparatus you were born with, but forgot about!
– Boost your immune system
– Help you release emotional tension and stress

*Please note Conscious Connected Breathwork is not suitable for those with glaucoma, pregnant (1st trimester only) epilepsy, detached retina, prior strokes or seizures, pior diagnosis by a health professional of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, psychotic or borderline psychotic states.

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SHINRIN-YOKU/FOREST BATHING EXPERIENCE 2HRS

Shinrin-yoku means bathing in the forest environment for wellbeing. Humans have spent 99.9% of their development in nature and 0.01% in urban environments. This is a gentle introduction to begin a new relationship with it, including sensory and meditative exercises. In this session we’ll show you how to tune into your micro and macro awareness of nature and notice how it communicates with us. You’ll experience ways to:

– Reduce your stress levels – research has found that leisurely forest walks yield a 12.4 per cent decrease in the stress hormone, cortisol, compared with urban walks. People report better moods and lower anxiety.

– Improve your mood – academics at Derby University have conducted a meta study of existing research which concludes that connecting to nature can be linked to happiness and mental wellbeing. Spending time in nature releases hormones that relate to the pursuit of joy, connecting to calm and avoiding threats.

– Free up your creativity – University of Utah research shows participants saw a 50% improvement in creative problem solving after time immersed in nature with all access to modern technology removed.

– Boost your immune system – trees and plants emit ‘phytoncides’ which we breathe in when we spend time in the forest. These have been proven to enhance the activity of Natural Killer cells that help our bodies fight disease.

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SUNRISE YOGA 1HR

These one-hour morning or early evening yoga sessions are infused with mindfulness and personal development elements and are all suitable for beginners as well as more experienced yogis of all ages and abilities. Best done before breakfast at 8am or towards the end of the day when the sun is going down.

Yoga sessions will be held outdoors if the weather is good, if not, it will be held under canvas, in the Giant Tipi) and lasts 1 hour.

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WHERE YOU’LL PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN

We provide truly luxurious glamping accommodation – even though you’ll be in the great outdoors there is definitely no slumming it here. Each tent will be lavishly furnished with proper beds (each bell tent contains a double and two single beds) and all of the home comforts you can imagine.

Your bed has a proper mattresses, lighting, bedside tables, a sofa and all manner of soft furnishings. And to keep you warm and cosy? Your very own wood-burning stove. Also includes:

• Beds with soft linen Comfy sofa
• Woodburning stove with a bag of wood (if you need more you can order more onsite at an additional cost) Full-length mirror
• Clothing rail and hangers Rugs & mats
• Hanging candelabra
• Bedside tables and reading lamps Vintage storage trunk
• Boot rack
• Power supply to charge your phone

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WHAT YOU’LL EAT

BREAKFAST SUGGESTIONS

Continental Cold buffet:
Juices/Water/Tea & Coffee/Milk
Granola/Nuts/Berries
Yoghurt
Cereals
Toast and Pastries
Condiments (S&P, Honey, Jams, Butter, Nutella? Etc)

Kilner Jars to fill with granola, yogurts, seeds, berries, nuts and have as a personalised breako pot or made for them with a variety of flavours (fruits of the forest, chocolate, tropical fruit, think overnight oats too)

DINNER SUGGESTIONS

NO MEAT MONDAY
With more people aiming for healthier options, we’ll serve up vegetarian versions of favourites such as burgers, pies, wraps and risottos.

WEDNESDAY WONDERS
The chef will supply a feast of all things fun and filling such as stone baked pizzas, pasta dishes, Mediterranean Salads, Beef Bourguignon, Potato Mash, Green Beans Vegan Shepherds Pie, Maple Roasted Parsnips (vg) and Thai Red Chicken Curry.

FISH FRIDAY
We’re thinking big pots of Moules Mariniere, baked cod with roasted veggies, traditional batter fish and chips, sides of pea and mint puree, homemade tartare sauce and all the best accoutrements. Happy Friday y’all.

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LOCATIONS

South Godstone, Surrey

Nearest train station is Godstone and this is the nearest site to London. To drive, take junction 5 off the M25 and it’s around an 8 minute drive off the A22 heading south.

We call this site our “room with a view”. Set in the beautiful rolling AONB Surrey Hills, this has a gorgeous vista of the English countryside. You’ll have a whopping 9 acre field to call your own so that you can really get away from it all and take the time to enjoy the soundtrack of nature.

The Grange, Hampshire

This is a stunning self-enclosed site surrounded by beautiful woodlands and trees on the stunning Grange Estate, home of The Grange Festival. Not only does the estate feature the Greek revival mansion, but also a beautiful lake and rivers running through the grounds. This is the perfect site to get away from it within the grounds of an iconic destination

The Glade, Charlton Park, Wiltshire

This is a cosy, self-contained location, surrounded by trees and perfect for bringing your group together for a couple of days. Close to the main house yet remote enough to feel like you’re completely cut off from the rest of the world.

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RESTORE, RECHARGE, REIMAGINE COST AND INCLUSIONS

• Sole use of the site for 36 hrs
• Bedding, linens and all the home comforts you need in 10 bell tents
• Hot showers and proper toilets
• Central Giant Tipi with banquet table, library, lounge and games area
• Breakfasts and dinners each day cooked up for you by our onsite chef made with locally-sourced ingredients
• 1 hr Sunset Yoga session
• 1hr 15 mins Conscious Connected Breath session
• 2 hrs Forest Bathing experience
• 2hrs Bushcraft experience
• 2 glamping site staff and chef on site for your stay

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Cost: bespoke packages and durations available, price on application.  The site has 10 bell tents in total and takes 20 people maximum.

A drinks package is also available including wines, prosecco and local ale.

Please note, longer durations of a week or even a month are also possible for larger teams. Please contact Justine Clement at justinec@thelifeadventure.co.uk or call on +44 7714333418 to book or discuss.

Risk-taking for Change Makers

With Kamala Katbamna

We work in a climate that’s volatile, uncertain and complex. It’s also full of exciting possibilities – if you’re willing to take a risk. By developing courage and exercising our risk-taking ‘muscles’, we can begin to adapt to a new way of thinking and working. And by taking even more risks, we’ll start innovating faster and creating positive change within our organisations.

This fun and fast-paced session will help you experiment, learn fast and move forward with greater courage and resilience. The workshop will use singing and conducting to create a practical experience of risk and innovation, of leading and being led through change.

Together, you’ll learn a song in simple harmony. You’ll then have the excitement and challenge of leading an experiment using this song, engaging with constructive critique and being part of a group trying to interpret and respond to change. It’s an exciting challenge.

This hands-on, interactive session will help you:

• Explore your personal relationship with risk 
• Strengthen your courage to innovate and experiment faster and more frequently
• Give and get fast, relevant feedback on your own and colleagues’ ideas
• Offer challenge and dissent constructively and in the moment
• Learn practical tools to improve your resilience and help you take risks more sustainably

The session will close with practical actions to help you apply your learning back in the workplace. There are no solos, and you don’t need any musical experience to participate fully!

Praise for previous sessions:

We’re creatives, so our job is all about taking risks and innovating. But that doesn’t mean we always find it easy! Kamala really helped me understand my personal response to risk, and be bolder about the ideas I put into practice. I’m now more confident about trying out ideas faster and with more of a game plan. And I back it up with the breathing exercises to stay calm! Definitely recommended.” Participant, Risk-taking for Change Makers

and another..

The risk session was fantastic, and really different to other sessions I’ve tried. Kamala really knows her stuff, and quickly had us challenging ourselves and doing things we wouldn’t have dared to a few minutes before! The idea of singing was a bit scary to begin with, but it was actually a great leveller. And it really helped us draw on that feeling of “what will people think of me, what if it goes wrong, what if I make a fool of myself” when you try a new idea at work. The directness and honesty of feedback within the group was amazing. Being able to experiment, develop what works and ditch what doesn’t quickly and confidently is such an important skill. I’ve been able to take this learning back to work and share it with my team.”  Participant, Risk-taking for Change Makers

Click here to read more on Choice, Risk & Innovation.

Set Your Business-Thinking Free In The Alps (2 nights)

With The Life Adventure

“I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”
Strange Fruit author Lillian Smith

Dream Valley is an alpine playground where business people escape the office, experience nature and have realisations about the things that make their working lives better. This adventure will liberate confined business thinking from the pigeonholed confines of diary, email and office pods.  It’s about meetings in snowshoes or hiking boots (depending on the time of year) that will unblock your thinking and enable your team collaborate with each other in new ways. It’s about vision-setting on a mountaintop. Hand shakes on a cliff face.  Product launches in a parachute. It’s about clear thinking and big decision-making for the year ahead, about leading through challenging times, understanding how to nourishing the ‘green’ community, learning how to give clear and consistent vision and about being agile.

We’ve created a 2 night itinerary as follows. This is based on travel in the summer – we suggest September as an ideal month for this – and can incorporate/incorporate other mountain activities such as white water rafting and parapenting if desired.  The trip can also be bespoked as a snow/winter programme, too, which is just heavenly (but colder) on the senses.

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Itinerary

Day 1

Airport transfers from Geneva airport
Wild lunch
Rock climbing
Overnight treehouse

Day 2

Full day hike
Up ladders
Over a high mountain pass
Past lakes and marmottes
Picnic lunch
Overnight and dinner at a mountain refuge

Day 3
Morning Mindfulness with coach Sally-Ann
Hike to Dream Valley
Incredible lunch spread in a stunning 1830’s renovated mountain chalet owned by mindfulness coach Sally-Anne Airey
Electric fat bike tour to the waterfalls at the cirque Fer-a-Cheval
Ride back to Morillon
Dinner in Jack’s treehouse
Airport transfer back to Geneva

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The location

The area where you’ll spend these few unforgettable days is the alpine playground of Haute-Savoie, in the French Alps. Neighbouring Chamonix and Morzine have already been defined, but the future of the area of Samoens, where you’ll be based some of the time, is undecided and we believe something very special is going to happen there.

The valley is unspoilt, traditional and free from corporate influence. The landscape is breath-taking and unbeatable for adventure and space – space to breathe, think and connect. It’s a place where people hike, bike, ski, board, snowshoe, paraglide, raft, slide, climb and abseil their way around this beautiful natural park. Those that visit here stay in rustic farmhouses, luxury chalets and remote refuges. Our bespoke trips often include meeting in stone circles, lakeside amphitheatres, beneath waterfalls or in the sanctuary of a hillside dojo.

We tend to work with like-minded souls from small to medium-sized organisations and bring ideas to life that put Dream Valley on the map as a centre for positive energy and change.

The transfer is less than an hour from Geneva Airport.

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Team

Jack Hubbard – CEO of Propellernet, Co-Founder Crafted Crate & Founder of Dream Valley Projects
Arno de Jong – Mountain Guide specialising in adventures off the beaten track
Jess de Jong – A gifted chef who loves to produce delicious meals using fresh, local, organic Jess de Jong produce.
Sally-Ann Airey – former Commander in the Royal Navy turned mindfulness executive coach in the Alps
Justine Clement – CEO The Life Adventure

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Cost

£1495 per person (based on 6 participants) for absolutely everything except flights.

Flights to Geneva from approximately £100pp depending on dates and notice given. We are an ATOL & ABTA bonded travel agency so can organise these all for you.

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The best time to go?

September ideally.  We can also arrange an alternative winter time itinerary in the snow (Jan-Apr)

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Minimum numbers

5 participants

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If there’s one thing you can expect to feel it will be..

Your fear of the unknown (which is exactly as it should be). Previous participants have noted the following:

In terms of our preconceptions, the biggest thing was that we didn’t know what to expect. It was revealed to us at each step of the way. We did, however, expect that we’d learn something completely new and that we’d have to push ourselves in some way.  We were right!”

As for the rest, that will be for you to figure out along the way.

The mountains are calling, can you hear them?

Contact us to discuss or for a quote for numbers of 5, or 7 and over.

Shinrin-yoku and Connected Breath for organisations

With Justine Clement

I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t”  Steve Martin, Actor

Who is this for?

Getting a team out of their present environment (home or office – either way, out from behind a screen) and into the forest.  It’s suitable for any team, at any level, within an organisation.  The session can be adapted according to level, outlook and challenges. That said, this session can also be run as a 1-1 for one specific person looking for clarity, a mind shift and a greater understanding of how to reconnect with themselves through breathwork.

Why?

Forest bathing is scientifically proven to improve health. Countless Japanese studies have revealed how it boosts immune systems, reduces stress hormones, enhances mental wellness and bolsters brain health. It can provide emotional healing, decrease blood pressure, improve general sleep-wake cycles, improve relationship skills, reduces stress and reduce aggression.

Conscious Connected Breathing on the other hand is a powerful and safe way to infuse the body with oxygen and energy, recharging our own (often depleted) systems to work to their healing capacity. It facilitates openings to higher levels of consciousness, allowing us to tap into our deeper resources and live our lives more joyfully with better functioning immune systems and a greater resilience to stress.

The combination of learning to connect more deeply to ourselves, as well as to the natural world is undeniably powerful.

How?

Shinrin-yoku and Connected Breathwork can be used in a number of ways to enhance training and leadership skills. If you are organising an off-site board meeting or away day and there is access to a forest, we can come to that location and hold the session there. These can be used in so many ways, but a few examples include boosting customer and staff engagement in retail stores, as inspiration for the creative industries and by CEOs seeking a breathing space and by individual senior staff members as a powerful personal tool.

What?

Justine, your guide, will facilitate a safe gentle walk, providing instructions — referred to as “invitations” — which are used as ways to open up the senses. We spend so much time using our vision that the other senses often get forgotten and are under utilised. Each walk begins with establishing embodied contact with where you are. Next comes a series of connective invitations, often improvised in the moment and adapted to the needs of the team. These will be followed by wander time with a specific focus and/or sit spot where you’ll then get to experience the power of your own breath.  Breathwork is tested and proven by elite performers such as UFC fighters and Navy seals and is now being used by the likes of Google and BCG to enhance the emotional wellbeing and mental performance of their people.  You’ll be given a scientific understanding of how your breathing effects you, and how incorporating it into a daily routine will bring immeasurable benefits and rewards. If you’d like to receive some of the many studies now done on the power of breathwork, please get in touch and we can send these to you.

The walk ends with tea made from foraged local plants.

Shinrin-yoku walks are not hikes in the traditional sense.  The walk and breath session is typically four hours in duration and often covers no more than a quarter mile distance. In that relatively short distance and time most people experience contact with nature in a much deeper way than they ever have prior to the session. People have a wide range of experiences, some of which they feel are significant, even profound. As a guide, Justine is a CPD-certified Shinrin-yoku practitioner, awarded by the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine (INFOM) trained in the skills and perspectives needed to be a supportive witness of these experiences.  She is also a qualified Conscious Connected Breathwork practitioner.

Four hours is the ideal time you should allow for this experience and it’s ideally run for up to 8 people. It doesn’t matter if you are all from one team or spread amongst a few different departments. The session is based on you coming to Surrey, Kent or Sussex in the forests I work in there. But if you’re short on time, it’s also possible to run a shorter two-hour session. If you’d like us to travel to woods/forest near you, that’s also possible.

Duration and numbers

4 hours for up to 8 people. We can accommodate larger numbers in two groups with 2 facilitators.

Dates

Shinrin-yoku and Connected Breathwork is run on a bespoke basis for organisations, so please get in touch to discuss your needs and for more details.

Anything else to consider?

We suggest wearing comfortable non-restrictive clothing so that you’re relaxed throughout the session. Please check for any Breathwork contraindications here before booking and if you have any questions in relation to this please get in touch to discuss. If there are any concerns, then the safest way is for us to give that participant a different exercise to focus on whilst the breath session is taking place.

Street Wisdom For Businss

With Justine Clement

“Whether for personal exploration or to encourage creativity in business, Street Wisdom is an incredible tool and important movement”
David D’Souza: Head of Engagement, CIPD

If you’ve not heard of this yet – where have you been?!  When you’re looking to create something new, fresh and memorable for your people, you don’t need to look as far as you think. There’s inspiration right outside your office. If you know how to find it. We’ll create a bespoke experience for your organisation.

What’s it about?

Street Wisdom is a powerful, innovative tool that helps reboot thinking, set new directions and unlock ideas. An immersive walking workshop that teaches individuals to use city streets to find fresh answers to the questions on their mind. Street Wisdom is already a global social enterprise popular in over 30 countries with powerful applications to help your business.  You’ll be joining other forward-thinking organisations such as Ogilvy, FT, Google & Samsung who have already tried it and loved it.

A growing number of businesses are waking up to Street Wisdom as a fresh new way to:

• Crack problems
• Inspire people
• Unleash Creativity
• Develop collaboration
• Boost well-being
• Connect with the community
• Enhance personal development

What is it?

Street Wisdom is a global social enterprise with a mission to bring inspiration to every street on earth. It’s a technology that allows you to get unusual inspiration from your everyday surroundings. As fully trained-up Street Wizards, we’ll give you the skills to access the ‘invisible university’ that’s all around you on the streets and help you as individuals, or teams, to find fresh answers to personal or work-related questions – with profound results.

Why the streets?

Because they are many and varied. They are free to use. They are where we spend an increasing amount of our metropolitan lives. And they are a rich source of untapped wisdom. It turns out, you don’t need an exotic getaway to find inspiration, it’s right outside your door. And you won’t burn a tonne of fossil fuel getting there.

How can you experience it?

Street Wisdom is a generally run as a three-hour workshop, although our team will create a bespoke experience for your organisation. Plenty of individuals use Street Wisdom to solve their business problems, now, entire businesses can do the same.

It’s an innovative and sustainable way to:

• Inspire your people and give them a way to inspire themselves
• Find new ways around problems
• Collectively set a new direction
• Improve wellbeing
• Connect you better with your community and customers

How does it work?

It’s very simple – that’s because the process has been refined for years.

Tune Up. Quest. Share.

1. First, our street guide helps you and your group tune up your senses so you can pick up much more information from the urban environment that you would normally.
2. Then you’re off on a journey by yourself – your street quest – where you ask a question and see what answers present themselves.
3. Finally, you gather together again to share what happened and, more often than not, wonder at how magical an ordinary street can become when you’re really aware of those hidden messages, chance meetings and unexpected discoveries.

Who came up with the idea?

Founder David Pearl is an internationally renowned speaker who specialises in igniting creativity and changing working cultures. With expert facilitators based around the UK, we can work at scale. Our toolkit and bespoke training sessions give in-house facilitators the ability to roll out Street Wisdom within an entire workplace – inspiring whole companies to use the streets as a source of new ideas.

What about the results?

In just three hours of walking and wandering, participants have resolved problems that have dogged them for years, found new business ideas, discovered new directions, and learned how to deal differently with living, learning and loving.

Street Wisdom by The Life Adventure can be run as a group experience booked by an individual on behalf of a group of friends, or for a team within an organisation who may be looking for answers to problems, or to innovate.  Ideally, you’ll need a minimum of 10 people, but get in touch here or tweet us to discuss.

It’s such a fascinating experience so if you’d like some further reading on it see this review on Street Wisdom by The Times.

Or read more about our own very first experience with Street Wisdom, as participants, here.