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Into the Woods

A Nature-Connected Leadership Retreat

Two nights · One immersive day · From £1,850 per participant

Some conversations need a different kind of room.

And sometimes the best meeting room has no walls.

Into the Woods is a two-night nature-connected retreat for leadership teams and corporate groups who need space to step outside everyday pressures, reconnect with each other and think clearly about what matters next.

It combines genuine nature connection with professional facilitation, reflective practice and carefully designed conversations.

This is not a packed corporate away day transported outdoors.

It is deliberately spacious.

The intention is to create the conditions in which different conversations — and sometimes different possibilities — can emerge.

£1,850.00

The experience

Day 1 — Arrive

Travel to your chosen retreat destination during the day.

The group comes together in the evening for dinner, an informal welcome and the beginning of the transition away from everyday organisational life.

Nothing needs to be solved tonight.

The first task is simply to arrive.

Day 2 — Connect, explore and think

After breakfast, we move into the landscape.

The day combines guided nature connection, walking, silence, conversation, individual reflection and facilitated group work.

The programme is tailored to the group, but typically moves through three interconnected spaces:

Connection with place

Slow down.

Notice.

Experience the landscape through more than intellectual observation.

Guided nature-connection practices help participants become more present to themselves, to each other and to their surroundings.

Connection with one another

Away from organisational routines and familiar meeting structures, different conversations become possible.

Pairs, small groups and facilitated conversations allow people to listen differently and explore what may otherwise remain beneath the surface.

Connection with purpose

The experience gradually turns towards the question that matters to the team.

Where are we?

What are we noticing?

What needs our attention?

What might we need to do differently?

What do we want to take back with us?

The objective is not simply to generate ideas. It is to help the group develop shared understanding and identify meaningful intentions for what happens next.

The day concludes with dinner and time together.

Day 3 — Return

After breakfast, participants depart — or choose to extend their stay privately at the destination.

The physical retreat ends.

The important question becomes what returns with you.

Why nature?

Nature is much more than the backdrop for this retreat.

Changing the physical space changes the conditions in which people meet.

Leaving the conference room interrupts familiar routines, hierarchies and patterns of interaction. Walking, observing and reflecting introduce a different rhythm into collective thinking.

Nature therefore becomes part of the architecture of the collaboration itself.

Designed for

Leadership teams
Boards and executive groups
Teams approaching an important transition
Strategy and purpose conversations
Groups that need to reconnect after sustained pressure or change
Organisations seeking something substantially different from a conventional corporate retreat

The experience works particularly well with small groups where depth matters more than scale.

Recommended group size: approximately 6–20 participants.

Carefully selected locations

The retreat can be organised in selected nature-connected destinations in the UK and Europe.

Potential settings include forests, mountains, lakes, islands and rural estates where the landscape can become an active part of the experience.

Rather than offering hundreds of interchangeable hotels, we intend to build a curated network of places particularly suited to this way of working.

Your facilitators

The programme brings together complementary expertise in:

  • professional group facilitation and collaboration architecture;
  • nature connection and forest-bathing practice;
  • reflective and participatory methods;
  • corporate team and leadership development.

Where practices such as Shinrin-yoku inform the experience, their origins and traditions are treated with respect rather than reduced to a marketing label.

Investment

From £1,850 per participant

Minimum group: 6 participants

The indicative package is designed around:

  • two nights' accommodation;
  • breakfast and agreed group meals;
  • retreat programme design;
  • professional facilitation;
  • guided nature-connection practice;
  • one full immersive programme day;
  • coordination with the selected venue.

Final pricing depends on the chosen venue, season, room category, food and programme requirements.

Flights and transport to the destination are not included unless explicitly quoted.

Begin with the question, not the destination

We do not start by asking:

Where would you like to go?

We start by asking:

What does your team need space to think about?

From there, we design the conversation, the experience and the place around it.

Leave the meeting room. Change the conversation. Return seeing something differently.