Two ways to bring your team together: Team Building & Leadership Days and Corporate Wellness Experiences

Nature-based coaching experiences that help leaders and teams create the conditions for healthy, sustainable high performance.

Many leaders and teams are under constant pressure to deliver more with less. The pace can become relentless, leaving little opportunity to step back or notice the hidden costs of the way people are working. Yet sustainable high performance isn’t created by pushing harder – it’s created by building the conditions in which people, teams and organisations can truly thrive.

Thriving Together Days offer leaders and teams the opportunity to step away from the demands of everyday work and take an honest look at how they’re leading, collaborating and performing. Set in beautiful natural environments, these experiences combine the science of wellbeing and performance with expert coaching, meaningful conversation and the restorative power of nature.

Together, we’ll explore whether your current ways of living, leading and working are creating the energy, resilience and connection needed for long-term success. We’ll also identify the practical shifts that will enable you and your team to perform at your best, without compromising wellbeing.

Every Thriving Together day is tailored to your unique needs, but typically includes:

• Grounding arrival – Gentle movement, breathwork or mindfulness to settle the nervous system and create space for deeper thinking.
• Leadership and team coaching – Reflective and creative activities exploring leadership, wellbeing, resilience, and performance.
• Facilitated coaching conversations – A blend of guided walk-and-talks and structured group dialogue that encourages fresh thinking, honest conversation, deeper trust and collective understanding.
• Immersive nature experiences – Forest bathing, mindfulness, playful exploration and a unique Japanese-inspired tea ceremony using locally foraged ingredients, creating moments of calm, perspective and connection.
• Commitment to action – Practical, meaningful commitments that strengthen the way you lead, collaborate and perform together.

Kate Barker is an Executive Coach, Team and Systemic Coach, leadership facilitator and founder of Make a Bigger Difference. Accredited as a Senior Practitioner Coach with the EMCC, she holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching for Behavioural Change from Henley Business School and brings together expertise in executive coaching, team coaching, neuroscience, positive psychology, wellbeing and leadership. She is also a certified Yoga Teacher, a qualified Lowland Leader with Mountain Training, and holds Outdoor First Aid certification, equipping her to safely facilitate coaching experiences in natural environments. Before founding Make a Bigger Difference, Kate held senior leadership roles across global brands and purpose-led organisations, giving her a deep understanding of the realities and pressures leaders face. Her coaching combines evidence-based practice with warmth, challenge and practical insight to help leaders and teams create the conditions for healthy, sustainable high performance.