Our drive:

Your team as the place of growth

As WithNature we have 25 years experience in facilitating organisational and team development processes. We believe that an organisation can only thrive and develop where people feel inspired and safe to engage and develop. Your team as the place for growth. For this we create inspiring outdoor programs where people and their content meet differently.

Our understanding

'One foot in business, the other in nature'

We understand a business context and can be a partner when you agree with us that a natural surrounding is a tremendous asset for meeting each other on a deeper level.
This is the basis where we start the dialogue and our experiential learning programs and adventures. Programs where we always focus on blending the working context into the experience. (your project start-up, strategic re-orientation, program implementation, etc.)
We compose such a program, in co-creation with you. With elements like experiential learning, dialogue, reflection, and the silence of the wild, we invest in engagement and an inspiring culture of openness, dialogue. Growing together and taking steps together. As a team and as organization.

Our approach

First Who, Then What

First Who:
Before we dive into the content, we take time to connect. Time to land and invest in trust and openness. In the natural down-to-earthness that nature brings. We have fun, we experience, and we support each other in action. And we reflect on it together, and bring lessons in a broader, organisational perspective. We share insights about ourselves and about our interactions. We get acquainted in taking lessons together in an open and constructive way.
Interspersed with this action learning loop we take time to slow down. Alone, reflect on ourselves. And together, have deepening dialogues with each other. To connect on a more essential level. Create a foundation and acquire a dialogic skillset to take on challenges together.

Then What:
Alternated with energisers in nature, we then take on the challenges we face as an organisation. Dialogically.
We dive into the matter and experientially learn about the art of listening and applying dialogic idea formation and dialogic decision making. Taking on dialogic leadership and fostering team engagement. Coming to concrete plans.

The overall results we go for: Connected people, an engaged team, as a great place to grow, with a clear, shared vision on its why, how, and what.

Follow up- integration

How to bring this home?

How to proceed after such an 'all-time high'?
A good follow-up is essential. Together with you, we plan a follow-up process in which we help to embed the insights, new communication skills tools, and the eventually redefined team/company values into the day-to-day work.
This can vary from continuing with the current team to a orchestrated roll out in the rest of the organisation

Options with the current team:
- (Co)facilitate follow-up sessions,
- Provide courses in facilitating dialogue
(train the facilitator on the job),
- Coaching on dialogic leadership.
- Help designing and installing 'rituals and concrete tools' for a skillful
conversation culture in the team

Ideas for 'Oil-staining' throughout the organisation:
- Co-design and plan a dialogic 'oil stain' process,
- Including narrative creation, an action learning program (eventually including follow-up sessions in nature)
- Via engaged narrative, and a co-design of concrete new do's and don'ts/behavior
- Towards a dialogic defining of new targets and conscious embedding of a revised organizational culture

Referral 1: Prepare for next phase

Evolving principles, empowering upcoming generation

Bernhard led our organisation through a year-long organizational and cultural development process aimed at preparing the company for the shareholding directors' gradual withdrawal in the daily operations of the company. They sought to empower the next generation, address rising employee turnover, and align the organizational culture. The process started with an employee satisfaction survey, followed by team development sessions with the board and leadership workshops with the upcoming generation. Insights were shared during the annual three-day outdoor session.
Bernhard’s skills as a listener, his ability to ask critical questions, and his nature-centered approach created strong engagement for the changes. We redefined corporate principles, introduced peer mentoring, and adopted dialogue as the foundation of our decision-making, preparing us for the future.

Director of Operations
(name and organisation upon request)

Referral 2: Make synergy work

The step from midsize to enterprise

Our company had grown significantly through acquisitions, making integrating the acquired companies a key focus for our management team (MT) and the managers of the purchased companies. We realized that transitioning 'from midsize to enterprise' demands more structured processes and a cultural review. A strong team builds a strong organization; thus, we decided to hold a three-day facilitated retreat for the MT and Extended MT in the Tuscan mountains to strengthen our team and align on future priorities. Bernhard was one of the facilitators.

Through a balanced mix of activities, including hikes, canyoning, sharing life stories, campfire dialogues, and individual reflection moments in nature, we grew closer as a group of 21. Trust and openness increased, allowing us, during a well-facilitated closing session, to address difficult topics constructively and conclude with a clear, engaged plan for future actions.

Bernhard played a crucial role during this sensitive process. His sincere, non-judgmental interest in people and their dynamics, combined with his understanding of our business, made him a trusted partner and enabled him to address sensitive issues with respect. He facilitated the dialogues in a way that created a safe, open environment, establishing a cultural foundation for the team to build upon.

CFO
(name and organisation upon request)