WELLBEING

A calm mind is a creative mind. Which is why spending time outdoors in nature can deliver an event with far greater impact than spending hours in a conference room staring blankly at a PowerPoint presentation. Get your leadership team into the woods for some mindfulness before a strategy and planning session and their levels of creativity and innovation will skyrocket. Involve your team in some friendly-competitive axe throwing and watch as issues with team dynamics in the office will suddenly diminish. And get everyone toasting marshmallows around the campfire under the stars and marvel at how easily the fresh ideas and the honest feedback flows. There is something about being in the liminal space that an off-grid location provides that sparks a deeper level of connection and authenticity that is often lacking in today’s fast-paced urban workplace. Maybe it’s the digital detox and the opportunity to switch off screens and find time to just ‘be’. Maybe it’s remembering what it’s like to actually just hang out with colleagues without the pressure of a myriad other demands. Or maybe it’s because when you actually just stop and pause for a moment, you gain a new level of clarity and perspective on everything.

SUSTAINABILITY

When you book an event at The Forge, you are not just booking a space, you are investing in biodiversity, regenerative land use, and local community resilience. Our business was founded to support our twenty-year rewilding project and everyone who stays here contributes to this, by using composting toilets, recycling grey water and getting involved in our tree planting and habitat restoration projects. If ESG and CSR goals are important to your business, then running an event at The Forge is the perfect opportunity for you to turn those commitments into tangible actions. Not only can you make an impact by getting involved in environmental stewardship activities, you can also leave with a better understanding of how you can reduce your environmental impact elsewhere. You are also supporting the rural economy as we only use local suppliers and recruit our team from the surrounding area.

OUR TEAM

With over twenty years of corporate consulting and ten years of retreat hosting under her belt, Sheena Corry has the perfect combination of skills and experience to fully grasp your event goals, and work with you to shape a retreat to best meet them. Highly qualified in both change management and wild swimming, she has also published research on the benefits of off-grid retreats for mental health and wellbeing.

Jamie Corry has spent over twenty years working in the bushcraft industry where he is one of the UK’s most highly qualified instructors. He thrives working with big groups and his sense of fun combined with a razor-sharp eye for safety, means that his corporate clients return year after year for off-grid weekend retreats. With a passion for wild food, especially wild venison, Jamie combines his background in hospitality management with his love of sustainable food to cook up outdoor feasts that never fail to delight.

We work with a network of specialists across many professions including burnout recovery, yoga and breathwork, nutrition, as well as business experts in AI, culture change, leadership development, DEI and HR.