Exercises that generate conversations and an exploration of ideas promotes open communication in the team, horizontally, across departments and vertically too.

With good communication, ideas can flow between interns and management as much as they can within teams. Diversity of opinion, different perspectives and richness of feedback, it all drives up quality and deepens work relationships.

Have you got an away day to organise? Don’t want to take the team paint-balling again? Here are 3 alternatives if you’re in or near Bristol and looking for something a bit different for your dose of team building this time.

We believe that forest immersion can provide a super-boost to any organisation’s innovative capacity.

Here’s how:

Observing nature’s processes, patterns and practices give rise to elegant solutions to complex problems. This is a practise often referred to as biomimicry.

A major factor in why forest training benefits organisations is that when teams spend facilitated time in nature, as a group and as individuals, they experience the creation of a strong container and a felt sense of containment. 

One of the many interesting things that we learnt was what ‘phytoncides’ do to humans. These are the plant chemicals that trees release into the air to protect themselves from bacteria, insects and fungi. They also act as signals that communicate with other tress.