CORPORATE AND GROUP
Bespoke Forest Bathing+ Sessions
Fun wellbeing team building programmes with proven positive mental and physical benefits.
Our exciting sessions support the mental and physical health of individuals, to make them stronger as a team.
Please download our Team Building brochure
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
From both a ‘company’ perspective but also an individual one I can’t thank you enough for what was a truly special event.
CONFIDENCE IN TFBI
Uniquely, multiple universities have tested our work and have measured benefits to 12 areas of well-being. Our peer-reviewed papers (available via the website) give peace of mind to our clients that their investment in our services will provide positive results for their employees.
COST-EFFECTIVENESS
Comparing our results to similar activities highlights our keen pricing point (data available). We have costed our offerings highly competitively to ensure a greater reach, thus bringing the benefits of mindfulness and nature to more significant numbers of people and organisations.
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Team Building Days and Weekends
Welcome to our corporate packages section. We have designed our packages to be a fun way to help de-stress staff members and encourage team spirit and creativity. Executive burnout, staff turnover, and absence are all huge costs which we hope to help reduce for our clients.
As active members of Surrey Chambers of Commerce, we have been able to discuss the current challenges facing large and small employers. Numerous companies now realise they need to assist their staff with health, well-being, and stress related issues.
One of our large blue chip corporate clients summed the situation up: “if we don’t offer staff relaxation sessions on our premises, employees go straight home, cook, work around the house and look after their kids, they never have an opportunity to relax, and stress builds up.”
In addition to half and full day events, we also offer team building weekends. These longer sessions are designed to give an extra boost to well-being, relaxation, team morale, and out of the box, blue sky thinking.
Some of our clientS
69% of those working from home were finding it more stressful and reporting signs of burnout due to the pandemic. MIND*
Based in Science
“The good news is that even a small amount of time in nature can have an impact on our health. A two-hour forest bathe will help you to unplug from technology and slow down. It will bring you into the present moment to de-stress and relax you. When you connect to nature through all five of your senses, you begin to draw on the vast array of benefits the natural world provides.”
Dr Qing Li, ‘Shinrin-yoku, The Art and Science of Forest-Bathing’.
Specific health benefits – there are now significant number of studies from Japan, the UK and elsewhere, that prove that forest bathing can have numerous health benefits:
- Reduce blood pressure
- Lower stress
- Improve cardiovascular and metabolic health
- Desired weight loss
- Lower blood-sugar levels
- Lift depression
- Increase anti-cancer protein production
- Improve pain thresholds
- Improve energy
- Boost the immune system with an increase in the count of the body’s natural killer (NK) cells”
Improved Affect and Cognition – Studies have specifically compared walking in natural and urban environments. Those who to a nature walk experienced decreased anxiety, rumination (worrying) and cognitive benefits such as increased memory performance.
Restored Attentional Capacity – Trials have shown that exposure to restorative environments enables recovery from mental fatigue, enabling them to improve cognitive performance.
The UK’s first research paper into the health benefits of Forest Bathing+ (TFBI’s own brand of forest bathing) was been published in 2021. The paper reports there were improvements in positive emotions, mood disturbance, rumination, nature connection and compassion and 57% of participants showed an increase in heart rate variability.
We will design a package tailored to supporting your organisation, whether that's a one-off session or regular, ongoing support.
What does your organisation need?
Enhance Senior Management Performance Programme
- Intensive day or bespoke programme
- Improve cognitive thinking, decision making, memory etc.
- Improve ability to handle pressure
- Enhanced empathy and relationships
In-house Forest Bathing+ and Meditation Guide Training
- Have your own in-house guide/s
- Cost-effective for large companies
- Employee up-skilling opportunity
- Run sessions for clients, partners etc.
- Add-on to existing service offering
Team and Group Focussed Forest Bathing+ Packages
- Preventative wellbeing programme
- Target specific employees experiencing stress, anxiety etc
- Improve team performance
- Strengthen team relationships
Whatever programme you choose it will have mindfulness and /or Forest Bathing+ at it’s core, but we can tailor programmes to include complimentary activities and therapies, including:
- Sound therapy (gong baths)
- Yoga
- Mindful movement
- Foraging
- + many more
We can provide one-to-one or group sessions and provide online as well as in-person mindfulness. If there is something you are particularly interested in which we have not mentioned please ask!
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Our bespoke team and group sessions are specially designed for organisations looking for an inclusive way of strengthening team relationships and supporting individual wellbeing.
Many traditional team building activities are based around competitive physical and mental challenges. This does not always support those who are naturally more reserved, have a disability or are already experiencing stress and anxiety, and it can exacerbate existing tensions within organisations.
Forest Bathing+ group sessions work in a totally different way; it allows participants equal space to be together as a group and deepen their understanding of each other through shared experience. The whole group can connect in a meaningful way, building empathy and strengthening relationships.
Forest Bathing+ has scientifically proven benefits, moving participants out of their sympathetic (fight/flight) to parasympathetic (rest and repair) nervous states, allowing them to relax. This has been proven to reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, and enhance physical well being on many levels. It can enhance cognitive ability which can lead to improved mental clarity and decision making. We do this through a sequence of invitations in which participants connect with nature in a profound, mindful way, thereby experiencing what it means to be totally in the present. It can be challenging for confident, goal driven team members to slow down and connect in this way, yet the process can build confidence in quieter team members. Everyone is equal in the eyes of nature.