How it works

We will explore mindfulness in nature through immersive creative exercises and play. We’ll draw from practices such as Shirin Yoku (Forest Bathing) which developed in Japan to support mindfulness and connection. Mindful time in nature has been proven to help reduce blood pressure, blood cortisol levels, and feelings of stress, anxiety and depression whilst at the same time increasing creativity and boosting immune response.

After we’ve gathered together in the woods around a fire we will take time to be together, switching off our devices to remind ourselves what real connection feels like. We will explore the theory behind wild well-being and why it can support us in our life and work. Then we guide you through a range of different experiential exercises that will help you sink into your physical senses one by one, leaving your daily worries and concerns behind. The whole session will be held in a playful and mindful way engaging our whole bodies and all of our senses in connection with the natural world.

Finally we will come back together as a group around the fire to harvest what we have learned and to consider how we can make wild well-being a part of our everyday lives.