How can you make coming into the office more attractive for your hybrid teams? How can you enable your people to live, and breathe a bigger picture in their work to be more creative, purposeful, and overcome the ‘Haven’t got time’ Monster’?
A great new solution is at hand combining expertise in creativity, social capital, and social purpose with a guided walk for your team around their office neighbourhood or on the Tube.
Walkspiration
Walkspiration is a fun, easy-to-do in 60 minutes, flexible new activity to develop more powerful, resilient and positive mindsets among your team that encourages teamwork and builds a stronger sense of community while discovering a wonderful wealth of inspiration on your office doorstep,
Walkspiration is not just healthy but transforms walking into a creative journey using different, surprising, and unexpected prompts to spark new inspirations and experiences to:
#1. Expand your Bandwidth: if you constantly hear your mind saying ‘I haven’t got enough time’ that’s a warning of limited headspace or bandwidth; of scarcity* – your capacity to take on board new ideas, new thinking and saying ‘Yes’ to new opportunities. Like a muscle you can grow its capacity through exercise, such as Walkspiration.
#2. Inspire Creative thinking and Mindfulness: any journey creates time and space to set your mind free to think, prompt new thoughts or to or reframe your question. Walking enables you to connect with yourself, a time free from the usual distractions of phones, computers or other people to let your mind roam free and be more mindful of your own thoughts and what is going on inside your head.
#3. Stretch your curiosity: being a ‘flâneur’ – to wander without any purpose, with no practical goals or plan in mind – enriches your soul and sense of wellbeing by observing and listening – in the fullest sense – to your wider world. You encourage your mindful listening to be more receptive and open to the emerging qualities within your environment. Like a muscle, the more you can develop your sense of being ‘present’, the more you spot the unusual or the patterns that exist around you.
#4. Inspire your Collaborations: doing things with other people – as well as being more fun – builds your sense of cohesion and togetherness to nurture greater empathy with one another.
#5. Grow your humility (your Humble Intelligence): any walk or journey puts you in a bigger context, a bigger landscape. Even the seemingly mundane trip can encourage your sense of humility, awe and wonderment. A walk connects you with your world, provides a greater sense of being. Wherever you work, there’s inspiration around the corner.
#6. Reveal new social and cultural assets: once you are tuned-in to the bigger context and landscape your in-built social capital ‘antennae’ will be more likely to identify those critically mundane social and cultural assets that you previously overlooked the significance of: which street corners are the confluence of social interactions; the benches and other social infrastructure; the noticeboards and local news they carry; the dates on buildings; the relics of history
#7.Invest in your Social Capital: doing things together helps create shared experiences, richer relationships, and deepen your sense of inclusivity and being part of a team and a local community.
#8. Give greater meaning to coming into the office and great for team building and client/key stakeholder engagement: use Walkspiration to build rich, shared novel experiences with your team, clients or key stakeholders.
After doing Walkspiration your journey to work will never be the same again!
We co-create a bespoke Walkspiration programme for you. We unearth unusual points for inspiration in your immediate neighbourhood. We tailor a script for your unique journey. We deliver a series of Walkspiration tours. We help nurture and mentor your own team champions so they can do their own Walkspiration events time and time again.
Devised and delivered by a world-leading creativity expert.
Find out now how you can use Walkspiration for your greater success and well-being.
Email hello@growsocialcapital.org.uk.
*Walkspiration is informed by the research into scarcity of Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.
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