🌿Why taking your team into nature might be the smartest move you make this year.
In a world where leadership meetings often mean stale air, fluorescent lighting, and PowerPoint fatigue, there's a radical but ancient idea gaining momentum:
Take your team outside.
Not to a five-star hotel with whiteboards and breakout rooms, but out into real nature — fresh air, open skies, birdsong, and ancient ground.
This isn’t about bushwalking for the sake of it. It’s about accessing a deeper kind of strategy, creativity, and connection — the kind that rarely emerges in the boardroom but flows freely around a fire or beneath a gum tree.
Nature Doesn’t Just Calm the Nervous System — It Unlocks Higher Thinking
The research is clear: time in nature improves problem-solving, collaboration, and stress resilience. But more importantly, it disrupts default thinking. When you’re not surrounded by the usual walls, screens, and distractions, something powerful happens:
Ideas emerge from a deeper place
Conversations become more honest
People let their guards down
Collective intelligence rises
In short, people stop performing and start connecting.
Planning and Team Building that Actually Works
Most corporate planning days are well-intentioned — but let’s face it, often forgettable. If your goal is to build alignment, trust, and a shared vision for the future, you need an environment that supports real breakthrough.
That’s what Boardroom in the Bush was created for.
Nestled in the Valley of Joy on Wonnarua and Darkinjung Country, it’s not just an offsite — it’s a whole new way of working and being together. Here, your team gets to:
Unplug from screens and distractions
Participate in outdoor team challenges that build genuine bonds
Walk mindfully through bushland to access clarity and creativity
Cook a meal together over a fire and connect like humans, not titles
Learn Steward Eldership — a deeper, values-based approach to leadership
Experience Indigenous culture and country with reverence and insight
It’s Good for Business — and the Land
Every time a team visits the Boardroom in the Bush, a tree is planted in the valley. It’s more than a symbolic gesture — it’s a practice of walking right way into the future. You leave more grounded, more connected, and with a clearer path forward.
Ready to Reimagine Leadership Offsite?
If you’re curious about how this could work for your team, we invite you to download our Boardroom in the Bush brochure below and explore the experiences available.
Or reach out to me directly: aj@alexandrajoy.com.au | 0415 843 654
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." — Rachel Carson