Connection Days for Teams
Creating space for slowing down, reflection and connection
“The times are urgent, let us slow down”
We are living in times of unprecedented change and growing uncertainty as old systems and structures decay and new ways of being and living begin to be imagined.
As organisations we are being invited to explore different qualities that centre care, humility, openness, creativity and community as well as embody practices that allow those qualities to take root and grow.
As leaders we must help our teams find new capacities and the resilience to navigate deeply challenging times and respond in regenerative ways.
Connection Days are fully guided day on the land at Ghostwood Down - a chance to slow down, immmerse in a living landscape and create space for reflection, processing and connecting.
Exploring relationships with self, with each other and the wider living world.
Ghostwood Down is 27 acres of regenerating downlands with ancient trees, hedgerows, streams and springs on the edge of the city of Bath.
It is home to the on-land work of Becoming Crew.
2 hrs from London by car or 90 mins by train .
How does it work?
These are fully guided, immersive experiences on wild land Ghostwood Down near Bath.
Bookings available Tuesday to Friday between the months of May and October
Arrive for 10am start, coffee & tea
Welcome fire circle and grounding
Walking the Land
Nature connection practices
Creative practice
Lunch
Mini Nature Solo (Time in solitude on the land)
Return to community, reflection session and fire circle
Closing ceremony 4.30 pm
Nourishing vegetarian lunch and snacks included
“We are human only in contact and conviviality with what is not human”
Online integration & ongoing support
Following the experience we host a dedicated integration session online with your team; offering a way to harvest insights & guidance from your time on-land. After that you’ll have access to our ongoing community of practice, including facilitated online sessions organised around the Wheel of the Year.
Sam Roberts, CEO of Boston Tea Party Cafes reflects on connection sessions with Becoming Crew
Find space, community and inspiration with the living world
Why Join
Create space to slow down and listen deeply as a team opening up to the wider intelligence of life
Deepen your connection and belonging to nature, feel presence & aliveness
Open yourself to receiving insight & guidance on your most alive questions in these uncertain times
Your guides
Got questions? Get in touch to chat with one of the guides.
Dan Burgess
Dan helps people to see the world and their place within it differently - as part of an entangled web of interdependent life. A Regenerative catalyst, imagineer and guide, committed to ongoing practices of connection, action and reflection to cultivate courage and our unique creative intelligence to serve these times. He has pioneered brand and creative activism globally, guided radical collaboration and sustainable innovation projects, and led award winning creative engagements to reconnnect with the living world.
As a learning guide training with Chris Salisbury/Wildwise, Bayo Akomolafe/We Will Dance with Mountains, David Wendl-Berry School of Lost Borders. Guest faculty Co-Creating the Emerging Future, Schumacher College,The Bio Leadership Project, Kincentric Leadership 23/24. Founder and host of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.
Mark Sears
Mark weaves together practices and techniques that explore how we might regrow a healthy culture through deep nature connection. He works with myth & oral storytelling, Way of Council and time spent alone in wild places as practices to deepen our connection so we might use our unique gifts in service to all life.
As a guide Mark has apprenticed as a nature based mentor with WildWise/Schumacher College. He has trained in the Way of Council with Pip Bondy of Ancient Healing Ways and apprenticed to myth and story with the West Country School of Myth. He is mentored by Annie Bloom who for many years was lead guide with Animas Valley Institute.
Evva Semenowicz
Evva is an experienced facilitator, ritual artist & somatic practitioner dedicated to weaving ourselves back into belonging; with our own bodies, each other and the wider collective of life.
Evva’s learnings are with organisations such as Change in Nature, Open Edge Foundation, Embodiment Institute, & Bristol Yoga Roots Projects. Her teachings also come from walking this path and putting out offerings into the world.
Cost
£150 per person charities and NGO’s
£250 per person small to medium organisation
£350 per person - large organisation
Maximum 12 people, minimum 6 people.
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