Why Your Team Needs to Get Outside and Unplug for a Long, Slow Break
An opportunity for team-members to step outside, slow down, unplug, de-stress, connect and cultivate creativity.
The underlying key to the well-being and performance of any diverse, competent and cohesive 21st Century work environment, is a healthy, balanced team.
Corporate walks offer a significant wellness program for most companies. These immersive walks foster employee relationships, boost creativity, promote healthy communication and offer tools for regulating stress in the supportive environment of nature. As well, the experience supports and addresses the well-being of the whole individual; physical, emotional and mental. This balance is fundamental to the function of any healthy working team.
This guided experience, offers an opportunity for team-members to slow down, unplug, de-stress, connect in a new way and quiet their busy minds. Through the heightened sensory awareness which opens during the facilitated activities, new channels for focus, creativity, imagination, communication and self-awareness begin to flow, offering relevant tools to bring into daily work life and relationships.
A corporate walk is ideal for team building activities and wellness retreats. If you have a business group or team that you feel would benefit from relaxation, team building and creative communication through a nature immersion experience, book a Corporate Walk. Wild Wellness Guide offers Forest Therapy for corporate retreats, employee wellness programs, and public events.
"Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive." "The #1 trait leaders look for in incoming employees is creativity, and exposure to natural environments dramatically improves our ability to think expansively and make superior decisions."
"Before they were to find a “sit spot” in the forest, resisting the urge to check their phones and just pay attention to the nature around them, before they played games under soaring western red cedars like “blindfolded ninja” to sharpen their senses, a group of stressed-out, high-tech workers who spend most of their days inside, tethered to their devices, faced the toughest challenge of the day. Turning those devices off."