For organisations
For organisations
For organisations
The Turning
The Turning
Team wellbeing workshops for organisations, staff and volunteers.
Team wellbeing workshops for organisations, staff and volunteers.
Team wellbeing workshops for organisations, staff and volunteers.
Four seasons of working life
Four seasons of working life
Every organisation moves through periods of beginnings, growth, transition and sustained demands. These experiences aren't always linear, and different teams can find themselves in different phases at the same time.
Every organisation moves through periods of beginnings, growth, transition and sustained demands. These experiences aren't always linear, and different teams can find themselves in different phases at the same time.
The Turning uses four seasonal themes to explore the human experience of organisational life, bringing together nervous system education, practical regulation techniques and opportunities for reflection and connection.
The Turning uses four seasonal themes to explore the human experience of organisational life, bringing together nervous system education, practical regulation techniques and opportunities for reflection and connection.
The Turning uses four seasonal themes to explore the human experience of organisational life, bringing together nervous system education, practical regulation techniques and opportunities for reflection and connection.
Each workshop has a clear focus and practical takeaways, with the content adapted to your organisation's context, people and priorities.
Each workshop has a clear focus and practical takeaways, with the content adapted to your organisation's context, people and priorities.
Each workshop has a clear focus and practical takeaways, with the content adapted to your organisation's context, people and priorities.
Spring
Spring
Spring
Emerging
Emerging
Emerging
For new beginnings, team development and finding direction.
For new beginnings, team development and finding direction.
For new beginnings, team development and finding direction.
New teams, organisational changes, restructures and emerging projects bring opportunities to establish relationships, clarify priorities and create a shared sense of direction. They also bring different expectations, experiences and levels of uncertainty.
New teams, organisational changes, restructures and emerging projects bring opportunities to establish relationships, clarify priorities and create a shared sense of direction. They also bring different expectations, experiences and levels of uncertainty.
New teams, organisational changes, restructures and emerging projects bring opportunities to establish relationships, clarify priorities and create a shared sense of direction. They also bring different expectations, experiences and levels of uncertainty.
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Building connection and trust, understanding individual and collective needs, exploring shared priorities and establishing ways of working together.
Building connection and trust, understanding individual and collective needs, exploring shared priorities and establishing ways of working together.
Building connection and trust, understanding individual and collective needs, exploring shared priorities and establishing ways of working together.
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
Greater awareness of how people experience beginnings and change, stronger connections and a clearer understanding of what supports the team as it moves forward.
Greater awareness of how people experience beginnings and change, stronger connections and a clearer understanding of what supports the team as it moves forward.
Greater awareness of how people experience beginnings and change, stronger connections and a clearer understanding of what supports the team as it moves forward.
Periods of growth, ambitious targets, increased workloads and major projects place demands on people's time, energy and attention. Momentum can be energising, while sustained pressure affects wellbeing, communication and the ability to recognise when boundaries are being stretched.
Periods of growth, ambitious targets, increased workloads and major projects place demands on people's time, energy and attention. Momentum can be energising, while sustained pressure affects wellbeing, communication and the ability to recognise when boundaries are being stretched.
Periods of growth, ambitious targets, increased workloads and major projects place demands on people's time, energy and attention. Momentum can be energising, while sustained pressure affects wellbeing, communication and the ability to recognise when boundaries are being stretched.
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Understanding stress and nervous system responses, recognising signs of sustained pressure, exploring boundaries, energy and capacity, and practising techniques to support regulation during demanding periods.
Understanding stress and nervous system responses, recognising signs of sustained pressure, exploring boundaries, energy and capacity, and practising techniques to support regulation during demanding periods.
Understanding stress and nervous system responses, recognising signs of sustained pressure, exploring boundaries, energy and capacity, and practising techniques to support regulation during demanding periods.
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
Practical regulation techniques, greater awareness of individual and team capacity, and opportunities to consider how to sustain wellbeing alongside organisational demands.
Practical regulation techniques, greater awareness of individual and team capacity, and opportunities to consider how to sustain wellbeing alongside organisational demands.
Practical regulation techniques, greater awareness of individual and team capacity, and opportunities to consider how to sustain wellbeing alongside organisational demands.
Summer
Summer
Summer
Expanding
Expanding
Expanding
For growth, busy delivery periods and maintaining balance.
For growth, busy delivery periods and maintaining balance.
For growth, busy delivery periods and maintaining balance.
Autumn
Autumn
Autumn
Releasing
Releasing
Releasing
For organisational change, transitions and endings.
For organisational change, transitions and endings.
For organisational change, transitions and endings.
Restructures, redundancies, leadership changes, project closures and shifts in organisational direction affect people in different ways. Even necessary or welcome changes can involve uncertainty, loss, relief and competing emotions.
Restructures, redundancies, leadership changes, project closures and shifts in organisational direction affect people in different ways. Even necessary or welcome changes can involve uncertainty, loss, relief and competing emotions.
Restructures, redundancies, leadership changes, project closures and shifts in organisational direction affect people in different ways. Even necessary or welcome changes can involve uncertainty, loss, relief and competing emotions.
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Acknowledging the impact of change, understanding different responses to transitions, creating space for reflection and exploring what people want to carry forward.
Acknowledging the impact of change, understanding different responses to transitions, creating space for reflection and exploring what people want to carry forward.
Acknowledging the impact of change, understanding different responses to transitions, creating space for reflection and exploring what people want to carry forward.
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
Greater understanding of how change affects individuals and teams, opportunities for acknowledgement and connection, and space to consider what is needed during the transition.
The workshop does not require people to find a positive interpretation of difficult experiences or share more than they are comfortable sharing.
Greater understanding of how change affects individuals and teams, opportunities for acknowledgement and connection, and space to consider what is needed during the transition.
The workshop does not require people to find a positive interpretation of difficult experiences or share more than they are comfortable sharing.
Greater understanding of how change affects individuals and teams, opportunities for acknowledgement and connection, and space to consider what is needed during the transition.
The workshop does not require people to find a positive interpretation of difficult experiences or share more than they are comfortable sharing.
Teams working through prolonged pressure, significant organisational change, emotionally demanding roles or intensive delivery periods need opportunities to recognise the impact of those demands and consider what supports them over time.
Teams working through prolonged pressure, significant organisational change, emotionally demanding roles or intensive delivery periods need opportunities to recognise the impact of those demands and consider what supports them over time.
Teams working through prolonged pressure, significant organisational change, emotionally demanding roles or intensive delivery periods need opportunities to recognise the impact of those demands and consider what supports them over time.
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Workshop focus
Understanding the effects of sustained stress, recognising individual and collective needs, exploring rest and recovery, and practising accessible nervous system regulation techniques.
Understanding the effects of sustained stress, recognising individual and collective needs, exploring rest and recovery, and practising accessible nervous system regulation techniques.
Understanding the effects of sustained stress, recognising individual and collective needs, exploring rest and recovery, and practising accessible nervous system regulation techniques.
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
What your team takes away
Practical approaches to supporting regulation, greater awareness of the effects of ongoing demands, and opportunities for reflection, acknowledgement and connection.
The focus is on supporting people within the realities of their working environment, rather than placing responsibility for workplace pressures solely on individuals.
Practical approaches to supporting regulation, greater awareness of the effects of ongoing demands, and opportunities for reflection, acknowledgement and connection.
The focus is on supporting people within the realities of their working environment, rather than placing responsibility for workplace pressures solely on individuals.
Practical approaches to supporting regulation, greater awareness of the effects of ongoing demands, and opportunities for reflection, acknowledgement and connection.
The focus is on supporting people within the realities of their working environment, rather than placing responsibility for workplace pressures solely on individuals.
Winter
Winter
Winter
Sustaining
Sustaining
Sustaining
For sustained demands, emotionally demanding work and periods of recovery.
For sustained demands, emotionally demanding work and periods of recovery.
For sustained demands, emotionally demanding work and periods of recovery.
Your organisational season doesn't have to match the calendar
Your organisational season doesn't have to match the calendar
You can book according to the calendar season, or whichever season feels closer to where your team actually is.
You can book according to the calendar season, or whichever season feels closer to where your team actually is.
A difficult restructure in June
A difficult restructure in June
might feel like Winter
might feel like Winter
An exciting start in November
An exciting start in November
might feel like Spring
might feel like Spring
The Ostara Method
The Ostara Method
The Ostara Method
Whatever season your team is in
Whatever season your team is in
There are four things I return to in the way I facilitate.
There are four things I return to in the way I facilitate.
There are four things I return to in the way I facilitate.
Pause
Pause
Pause
Create some space from the usual pace of work. Nobody needs to arrive ready to perform wellbeing.
Create some space from the usual pace of work. Nobody needs to arrive ready to perform wellbeing.
Notice
Notice
Notice
Become curious about what's actually happening — individually, between people and around them.
Become curious about what's actually happening — individually, between people and around them.
Connect
Connect
Connect
With ourselves and each other — through conversation, reflection, movement, creativity or laughter.
With ourselves and each other — through conversation, reflection, movement, creativity or laughter.
Choose
Choose
Choose
Consider what, if anything, feels useful to take forward — individually or for the organisation.
Consider what, if anything, feels useful to take forward — individually or for the organisation.
These aren't four steps to work through. Awareness can create choice — but not everything is ours individually to change.
These aren't four steps to work through. Awareness can create choice — but not everything is ours individually to change.
There's more to workplace wellbeing than looking after ourselves.
There's more to workplace wellbeing than looking after ourselves.
There's value in exploring what supports us — boundaries, rest, connection, movement, noticing when we're stretched, or finding different ways to respond when things are difficult.
But none of us exists in isolation. How we experience work is shaped by the people around us, the demands placed on us, the environments we're in and everything else happening in our lives.
There's value in exploring what supports us — boundaries, rest, connection, movement, noticing when we're stretched, or finding different ways to respond when things are difficult.
But none of us exists in isolation. How we experience work is shaped by the people around us, the demands placed on us, the environments we're in and everything else happening in our lives.
There's value in exploring what supports us — boundaries, rest, connection, movement, noticing when we're stretched, or finding different ways to respond when things are difficult.
But none of us exists in isolation. How we experience work is shaped by the people around us, the demands placed on us, the environments we're in and everything else happening in our lives.
Wellbeing doesn't always have to be serious
Wellbeing doesn't always have to be serious
Some teams need space to acknowledge difficult things. Others have spent quite enough time talking about them.
Wellbeing can also be about connection, laughter, creativity, movement, play, celebration or simply enjoying being together.
Some teams need space to acknowledge difficult things. Others have spent quite enough time talking about them.
Wellbeing can also be about connection, laughter, creativity, movement, play, celebration or simply enjoying being together.
Some teams need space to acknowledge difficult things. Others have spent quite enough time talking about them.
Wellbeing can also be about connection, laughter, creativity, movement, play, celebration or simply enjoying being together.
Joy belongs in wellbeing too.
Joy belongs in wellbeing too.
That doesn't mean forcing positivity or pretending difficult things aren't happening. There's room for both, and a workshop might be reflective, playful or a mixture of the two.
Sometimes what people need is an opportunity to feel a little more human together.
That doesn't mean forcing positivity or pretending difficult things aren't happening. There's room for both, and a workshop might be reflective, playful or a mixture of the two.
Sometimes what people need is an opportunity to feel a little more human together.
That doesn't mean forcing positivity or pretending difficult things aren't happening. There's room for both, and a workshop might be reflective, playful or a mixture of the two.
Sometimes what people need is an opportunity to feel a little more human together.
No forced fun
No forced fun
Everyone comes into a workshop with different experiences, preferences and levels of comfort. There's no expectation to share anything personal, take part in movement or engage in a particular way.
Everything is an invitation. People are welcome to participate in their own way, adapt an activity or sit something out entirely.
Everyone comes into a workshop with different experiences, preferences and levels of comfort. There's no expectation to share anything personal, take part in movement or engage in a particular way.
Everything is an invitation. People are welcome to participate in their own way, adapt an activity or sit something out entirely.
Everyone comes into a workshop with different experiences, preferences and levels of comfort. There's no expectation to share anything personal, take part in movement or engage in a particular way.
Everything is an invitation. People are welcome to participate in their own way, adapt an activity or sit something out entirely.
What does a workshop actually look like?
What does a workshop actually look like?
Before the workshop, we'll discuss your team's current priorities, working environment and what you'd like the session to achieve. I'll use that understanding to shape the content around your organisation and the people taking part.
Each workshop combines accessible nervous system education, practical regulation techniques, guided reflection and opportunities for conversation and connection.
Participants leave with a greater understanding of how stress and everyday experiences affect them, practical techniques they can use beyond the session, and fresh perspectives on their own needs and ways of working together.
Before the workshop, we'll discuss your team's current priorities, working environment and what you'd like the session to achieve. I'll use that understanding to shape the content around your organisation and the people taking part.
Each workshop combines accessible nervous system education, practical regulation techniques, guided reflection and opportunities for conversation and connection.
Participants leave with a greater understanding of how stress and everyday experiences affect them, practical techniques they can use beyond the session, and fresh perspectives on their own needs and ways of working together.
Before the workshop, we'll discuss your team's current priorities, working environment and what you'd like the session to achieve. I'll use that understanding to shape the content around your organisation and the people taking part.
Each workshop combines accessible nervous system education, practical regulation techniques, guided reflection and opportunities for conversation and connection.
Participants leave with a greater understanding of how stress and everyday experiences affect them, practical techniques they can use beyond the session, and fresh perspectives on their own needs and ways of working together.
Who is The Turning for?
Who is The Turning for?
The Turning is for organisations booking private sessions for their staff, teams or volunteers.
I work with charities, community organisations, businesses and teams across different sectors. Some are looking to invest in their people and make space for connection, reflection and wellbeing. Others are navigating change, uncertainty or demanding circumstances. Often, both are happening at once.
Workplaces are made up of people, and people bring different experiences, needs and circumstances. The Turning offers space to explore some of that together, while recognising that wellbeing is shaped by more than what we do as individuals.
The Turning is for organisations booking private sessions for their staff, teams or volunteers.
I work with charities, community organisations, businesses and teams across different sectors. Some are looking to invest in their people and make space for connection, reflection and wellbeing. Others are navigating change, uncertainty or demanding circumstances. Often, both are happening at once.
Workplaces are made up of people, and people bring different experiences, needs and circumstances. The Turning offers space to explore some of that together, while recognising that wellbeing is shaped by more than what we do as individuals.
The Turning is for organisations booking private sessions for their staff, teams or volunteers.
I work with charities, community organisations, businesses and teams across different sectors. Some are looking to invest in their people and make space for connection, reflection and wellbeing. Others are navigating change, uncertainty or demanding circumstances. Often, both are happening at once.
Workplaces are made up of people, and people bring different experiences, needs and circumstances. The Turning offers space to explore some of that together, while recognising that wellbeing is shaped by more than what we do as individuals.
Planning a conference, festival, community event or other public event?
Planning a conference, festival, community event or other public event?
Ways to work together
Ways to work together
Formats & pricing
Formats & pricing
90-minute workshop
90-minute workshop
Priced by group size, format & location
Priced by group size, format & location
A focused session around one of the four seasons, shaped around what's happening for your team.
A focused session around one of the four seasons, shaped around what's happening for your team.
Half-day
Half-day
From £450
From £450
More room to explore a theme and combine reflection, conversation and experiential practices.
More room to explore a theme and combine reflection, conversation and experiential practices.
Full-day
Full-day
From £750
From £750
A spacious team wellbeing day with room for different activities, breaks, connection and rest — without filling every minute simply because we have it.
A spacious team wellbeing day with room for different activities, breaks, connection and rest — without filling every minute simply because we have it.
The Turning — quarterly
The Turning — quarterly
Emerging. Expanding. Releasing. Sustaining.
Emerging. Expanding. Releasing. Sustaining.
Four workshops across the year. Each session has a different focus and responds to what's actually happening in the organisation at that point. If your organisational season doesn't match the calendar, we work with that.
Four workshops across the year. Each session has a different focus and responds to what's actually happening in the organisation at that point. If your organisational season doesn't match the calendar, we work with that.
It's not a programme with an end point to reach. It's a regular opportunity to make some room for your people throughout the year.
A quarterly series can be arranged at a reduced overall rate.
It's not a programme with an end point to reach. It's a regular opportunity to make some room for your people throughout the year.
A quarterly series can be arranged at a reduced overall rate.
If you're a charity, community organisation or smaller group working with a limited budget, you're very welcome to get in touch and tell me what you're working with.
Final costs depend on group size, format, location and what we're creating together.
Have something in mind?
Have something in mind?
Tell me a little about your team, what's happening for you at the moment, and which season — if any — feels closest. We can start with a conversation and take it from there.
Tell me a little about your team, what's happening for you at the moment, and which season — if any — feels closest. We can start with a conversation and take it from there.