Dirt Time is designed to help your organisation thrive
Over the last few years the evidence has become overwhelmingly clear, if you want your organisation to thrive you need to do more to support the wellbeing of the people at the heart of it. Flexible working hours, on-site massage and fitness classes, and duvet days are just some of the perks you might already be offering in a bid to increase employee happiness, engagement, and productivity.
We think there is something even simpler that you could try - meaningful time spent outdoors, or Dirt Time as we call it?
Dirt Time is a curated experience of nature connection, play and meaningful conversations that combine great fun and challenge with learning. It has been designed to support your organisation to adapt and thrive in the modern world and is perfect for anything from a management team away-day to a longer, more immersive retreat.
Here are three reasons why you need Dirt Time in your organisation:
- Improve Wellbeing. Many of us are struggling with too much busyness and it is becoming increasingly apparent in the workplace where we spend around 35% of our waking lives. The work pressures and challenges that all of us face in an ‘always on’, volatile, challenging environment are preventing people from thriving and all too often it leads to burn-out. For organisations, teams that are burnt out, disconnected and lacking in purpose rapidly become inefficient and ineffective, they become less productive, focussed and cohesive.
- Develop Purpose & Meaning. We live in changing and uncertain times; we need brave, creative and adventurous leaders who can navigate the way forward. Dirt Time opens up new ways of understanding our role in the world and gives us permission and space to consider how we can work more effectively so we can build regenerative organisations.
- Support Young People to Thrive. We invest the profits from DirtTime into our long-standing youth mentoring programmes. So getting involved will not only help your organisation but also support amazing young people to grow, develop and thrive. Our Wild Time and Wolf Pack programmes are designed for those aged between 12 and 16 years. They offer a transformational experience for teenagers at this vital threshold in their life. By taking part in Dirt Time your organisation can support more young people through these life-changing programmes and at the same time be a core CSR initiative for you.
How it benefits you
There is now compelling evidence that shows that if individuals and teams can disconnect from their busy lives it is possible to improve well-being and resilience in the workplace. In particular, finding ways to disconnect from technology is proven to increase problem-solving skills and creativity. More than this, however, nature-based interventions can support the development of the types of leadership skills that more of us need in order to catalyse and lead change. Here are a few of them:
- emotional intelligence,
- empathy,
- communication skills,
- rapid appraisal of risk & reward,
- collaboration
At the same time Dirt Time provides a canvas upon which we can create an internal culture that supports communication and creativity by forming deeper connections to one another and to the living world.
How it works
All of our programmes are personalised to meet your needs. We can offer Dirt Time as a single day for your team and we can also create longer, personalised retreats and camps in some spectacular settings and supported by in-house coaching and mentoring.
We work with organisations of all shapes and sizes, from local businesses, social enterprises and charities to national and international organisations and we’ll tailor Dirt Time to your specific requirements to support a deep and profound journey of change and development on both and individual and collective level.
