Nature of Business Programme
Workshops and CPD Opportunities for individuals, organisations and businesses.
Our Nature of Business programme offers practical, thought-provoking workshops for organisations and businesses, exploring themes around nature, people, living systems and the workplace. These unique accessible professional development opportunities are designed to give businesses, organisations, managers and professionals and others the chance to learn, reflect and develop new perspectives and practical approaches to their work. Workshops can be booked individually and are open to anyone interested in exploring how our relationship with nature can inform and enrich organisational lifeForthcoming Workshops
Thursday 15th April 2027 - Organisational and Individual Wellbeing
Wellbeing is not simply an individual responsibility or an HR initiative. It is shaped by the conditions in which people work.
Healthy organisations create the conditions for people to be engaged, creative, resilient and able to perform at their best. Where those conditions are absent, the consequences can be significant — from reduced motivation and productivity to stress, absence, presenteeism and staff turnover.
This workshop takes a whole-system approach to understanding wellbeing, exploring the dynamic relationship between individual physiology and psychology, organisational culture, leadership and the wider working environment.
Using the lens of living systems, participants will consider what enables people and organisations to flourish, what gets in the way, and where leaders can intervene to create meaningful change.
The day combines evidence, insight and practical approaches that can be applied at both individual and organisational level. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of the drivers of wellbeing and a clearer sense of how leadership, culture and everyday organisational practices can support healthier, more engaged and more effective workplaces.
The workshop is particularly relevant to organisations seeking to strengthen employee engagement, retention, resilience, psychological health and sustainable performance — and to move beyond reactive approaches to wellbeing towards creating the conditions in which people can genuinely thrive.
Who is it for?
CEOs, executive and senior leaders, HR and people leads, organisational development professionals and those with responsibility for workforce wellbeing and culture.
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Annex @ No 4 - Headington
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Thursday 15th April 2027
9.30am - 4.30pm
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£175 per place
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More than 21 days before the workshop
Full refund
21–14 days before the workshop
90% refund
Within 14 days of the workshop
Payments are non-refundable, but your place may be transferred to another participant.
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Will there be food and drink?
Tea and coffee will be provided. There is a lunch break for an hour and plenty of cafes and shops nearby for lunch. Or participants may prefer to bring their own lunch.What should I wear/bring?
Please wear warm, comfortable layers
Bring water bottle and journal or notebook if you wish and something to lie on like a yoga mat or blanket.
How can I get to/from the venue?
The venue is easily accessible via public transport. Parking is not available on site. The park and ride at Thornhill park and ride is convenient and inexpensive. Or local parking can be arranged in advance through www.justpark.co.uk for around £10 a day.
Please inform organsisers or any special requirements - eg mobility issues.
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Questions before booking?
Get in touch with Sarah Stewart-Brown: sarah@wellbeing-centrues.co.uk
07824 541126
Thursday 13th May 2027 - Coaching Conversations – Working with Living Systems
How can living systems transform your practice and help you develop individuals and teams?
Coaching conversations have traditionally centred on the individual client. But what changes when we see that client as part of something bigger: a living system nested within personal, organisational, community and even planetary systems? What happens when we treat organisations as living, interdependent systems rather than fixed structures to be managed?
This experiential workshop explores how coaching conversations can help people and organisations navigate complexity, change and uncertainty by paying attention to the wider system, including relationships, patterns, context, the body and the living world around us.
Join highly regarded coach-facilitators Annie Davy and Candida March for a day of practical tools, fresh perspectives and nature-informed methods that will deepen and enrich the way you coach.
Based both indoors and outdoors in the grounds and woodlands of the Earth Trust, the day combines research, theory and practice. You’ll leave with practical ways of working with living systems and Nature to bring more life, ease and insight to your conversations, helping people slow down, notice what is happening, see new possibilities and find their own way forward. Alongside coaching approaches, we’ll introduce ideas from living systems thinking and explore how Nature offers powerful metaphors and perspectives on organisational life.
Through sensory awareness, embodied practice, life cycles and rhythms, systems mapping and other experiential approaches, we’ll explore what happens when we attend to the whole system rather than only the individual.
The workshop is practical and exploratory, with opportunities to experience the approaches for yourself and consider how they might translate into your own work context. Expect to step out of your usual ways of thinking, spend time outdoors, experiment with different approaches and have some rich conversations.
Ultimately, this is about developing a different quality of attention – to ourselves, to others and to the systems of which we are part – and discovering what that makes possible.
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Gloucester Room and outdoors, Earth Trust, Little Wittenham, Abingdon, OX14 4QZ
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Thursday 13th May 2027
9.30am - 4.30pm
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£175 per place
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More than 30 days before the workshop - Full refund
Within 30 days of the workshop - Payments are non-refundable, but your place may be transferred to another participant
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Access requirements
Please let the organisers know in advance of any special requirements, such as mobility needs.Access requirements
Please let the organisers know in advance of any special requirements, such as mobility needs. -
What’s included?
Tea and coffee will be provided. You can buy lunch at the on-site cafe or bring your own lunch.
What should I bring/wear?
We will divide our time between indoors and outdoors but we will work outside whatever the weather! Please bring waterproof outdoor clothing and/or umbrella in case the weather is inclement, and wear warm, comfortable layers. Bring a water bottle, a journal or notebook if you like to make notes, and something to sit or lie on — a yoga mat or a cushion in a plastic bag works well. If it is very sunny you might need sunscreen.
How do I get there?
By car: Free car parking is available on site.
By bike: Little Wittenham is connected to Oxford and Didcot via the National Cycle Network #5 route. To view the Sustrans cycle route maps visit sustrans.org or plan your cycle journey with CycleStreets.net.
By public transport:
The closest bus stop is in Long Wittenham followed by a 40 minute walk. Long Wittenham is currently served by the following bus routes:
D1 – Burcot – Clifton Hampden – Long Wittenham – Didcot operated by Going Forward Buses
95 – Didcot, Parkway Station – Culham, Science Centre operated by Thames Travel
The closest rail station is Didcot Parkway.
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Questions?
Get in touch: candida.march0@gmail.co.uk, 07809 100098
Details
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Annex @ No 4 - Headington
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Thursday 15th April 2027
9.30am - 4.30pm
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£175 per place
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More than 21 days before the workshop
Full refund
21–14 days before the workshop
90% refund
Within 14 days of the workshop
Payments are non-refundable, but your place may be transferred to another participant.
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Will there be food and drink?
Tea and coffee will be provided. There is a lunch break for an hour and plenty of cafes and shops nearby for lunch. Or participants may prefer to bring their own lunch.What should I wear/bring?
Please wear warm, comfortable layers
Bring water bottle and journal or notebook if you wish and something to lie on like a yoga mat or blanket.
How can I get to/from the venue?
The venue is easily accessible via public transport. Parking is not available on site. The park and ride at Thornhill park and ride is convenient and inexpensive. Or local parking can be arranged in advance through www.justpark.co.uk for around £10 a day.
Please inform organsisers or any special requirements - eg mobility issues.
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Questions before booking?
Get in touch with Sarah Stewart-Brown: sarah@wellbeing-centrues.co.uk
07824 541126
Sarah Stewart-Brown is a coach and facilitator, bringing a wealth of insight and experience from a career spanning health services and higher education. She has worked with charities, local authorities and governments, with wellbeing at the heart of both her professional work and personal development. Her approach is therefore grounded in lived experience, insight and reality.
Sarah Mook is a trainer, coach and facilitator whose work spans the public and private sectors. She identifies patterns that deplete people and organisations, bringing insight into relational wellbeing through the lens of living systems. Her approach explores a shift from scarcity, separation and powerlessness towards flow, connection and choice
About the Facilitators
