Reflect, Restore, Reconnect: A Day of Reflective Practice in Nature for Busy Professionals
A rejuvenating and nourishing reflective day retreat for busy professionals near to Edinburgh at a venue to be revealed soon! Includes one follow up online 1-2-1 coaching or coach supervision session to continue and build on your reflections from the day.
Do you love the feeling of being in nature? Are you interested in experiencing a reflective practice based in beautiful botanic gardens to boost your thinking and energy?
This is a day for a refreshing retreat, using the power of nature to consider your work practice and more. Enjoy being around like-minded professionals and welcome in the natural world to support and deepen your thinking and provide new wisdom.
Our chosen location for the day
This will be near to Edinburgh in Scotland - the exact location will be confirmed soon.
Practicalities – please see separate FAQ's for essential information you will need to plan for your day with us.
This is an opportunity for you to:
- Have time and space in the inspiring outdoors
- Reflect on your work and yourself
- Deepen your personal connection with nature
- Experience nature-connection practices
- Experience the power of nature as co-facilitator
- Make new connections with like-minded people
- Build on your resilience and resourcefulness
- Reset your parasympathetic nervous system
Who is this day for?
All professionals - coaches, leaders, therapists, mentors and others - everyone is welcome who wants a supported and friendly space for reflection. You may have worked in and with nature before or not experienced this yet and want to see how it feels. Or maybe you want the confidence to start using nature more in your work and/or your reflective practice.
It could be this is a time of transition, maybe you’re seeking greater clarity about your work or life, or you’ve got stuck in a rut and need some new perspective to move you forward. You may want to experience working in nature and see what it can add. Or you simply feel the desire for a day for you - to replenish and restore yourself so you can take a renewed energy to your work and life. This one-day retreat is a chance to breathe and find your path and yourself, with nature as a guide and dynamic co-facilitator.
Late Summer Bundle: Reflective Retreat and follow-up 1-2-1
Late ummer is a time of abundance and slowing down. To make the most of this we will be at a beautiful outdoor location.
Our late Summer Retreat will be surrounded by flourishing fauna and wildlife that speak of the season and fill our senses.
And we will use all this that is around us in nature to support us in our reflections and see what emerges as we learn from its wisdom.
This is a Re-Treat – these days are planned as a treat for you – come and have an enjoyable, relaxed day full of guided reflection, learning and laughter in a natural environment that asks nothing of you, except to simply be.
Sample Agenda
09:45 - 10:00 Arrival and refreshments
Arriving, grabbing a cuppa and settling in.
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome
Welcome and meeting your facilitator: Christina
10:15 - 10:45 Community Agreement
Health & Safety, working in nature, belonging and reflection on our personal outcomes for the day
10:45 - 12:30 Connecting with Nature
A short walk and talk tour of the gardens focusing on Botanical Brain Balms: Exploring Plant Medicine for the Mind. Followed by recharging and relaxing with a mix of grounding, connecting and reflection practices to help us deepen and align our connection with self, our work and nature
12:30 - 13:15 Lunch
Please bring your own packed lunch. Drinks and snacks will be provided.
13:15 - 15:30 Reflection in partner with nature
Working with nature as we walk, sit and explore our inner and outer landscapes, with an offer of practices that will engage us individually, in pairs and as a group. Creative crafting exercise with a summer theme.
15:30 – 16:15 Cuppa & treats, reflections and connection
Developing our learnings and sharing our insights and what we are taking away from our day
16:15 Close
