Nature Based Organizational Development Strategies
Align your organization’s infrastructure, systems, and mindsets to nature’s laws and experience the ease and flow of sustainability.
What barriers, challenges, or missing pieces are you experiencing?
SILOED TEAMS & COMMUNICATION
Expand Your Perspectives & Build Interconnectedness
Today’s dynamic work schedules and structures can leave teams disconnected, leading to missteps and an interrupted work flow.
UNCLEAR EXPECTATIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES
See Your Organization As An EcoSystem, Each Part Important to the Whole System
The high demands of change work can narrow your focus making it difficult to see the larger organization and all of it’s parts influencing each other.
LACK OF CULTURE OF CARE & WELLNESS
Bring Balance & Long Term Sustainability with Healthy Boundaries
Finding new ways to create the same or bigger impacts can be more challenging without a culture or care, leading to burnout and sometimes compassion fatigue
Let Nature Guide As You Improve Your Agency’s Structures & Functions
Join mission-driven organizations who've implemented nature-based strategies in their organizational development.
What our clients have to say…
★ “My awareness has been heightened as to interactions with others. I'll try to be a better listener.”
★ “I am actively choosing to actively listen and I’ve used empowering questions to help better understand others.”
★ “I’m reflecting on my tendencies towards caretaking others and how I worry about creating a culture at [agency] of disempowered caretaking versus a culture where we celebrate our shared humanity and connection to nature.”
Wellness in Action, a program of the center for refugees & immigrants, oakland, ca
Team Build Indoors & Outdoors
🌿 Build healthy boundaries and self-awareness to prevent team overextension.
Move Through Challenges in Safe & Shared Spaces
🌿 Heal communication breakdowns and internal conflicts through restorative practices.
Honor Individual Growth For Collective Impact
🌿 Develop leaders who can sustain their impact through nature-guided strategies.
“Healing hikes and the other services Rino provides are situated somewhere between wilderness therapy, mindfulness practice, and corporate team building”
Where To Start
Take some time to understand what your organization’s needs are at the moment. You can follow the list of reflection questions below to help you get started on a journey to create your organization’s dream program!
Pre-assessment questions:
What specific area of support am I looking for?
better communication skills, programming design, stronger relationships, alternative team building experience, etc…
Identifying specifically what your team’s needs are will be key in narrowing in on the focus and whether I can provide support in those areas.
How ready is my team to do the work?
staff are requesting support, leadership sees potential in cultivating workplace wellness or address ongoing issues, there’s been a sharing of resources or previous effort to receive support
As a decision-maker, you don’t want to blind-side your team with a mandatory or exploratory effort to adjust or change the way things are going. Knowing there is some level of readiness to tackle the needs of your team/community can show up in many different ways. Think about how these have shown up and be prepared to share this story with me!
Is there existing buy-in at the leadership or team level?
you can speak to an existing budget or allocation of funds to work on your team’s needs, higher level decision-makers like directors or supervisors are advocates for this work and may already engage in some form of wellness whether on the personal level or within the organization on some level
Coming to the table with a better sense of how this investment in your staff will operationalize shows a level of readiness and buy-in. Make sure you’ve gone through the process of “proposing” or “convincing” your leadership that this is well worth the long-term health, wellness, and success of your organization.
What conversations have happened to lead you here and what are key talking points to share with Raynelle?
there’s a story to tell and a chain of events that have led you to reach out for outside support, someone recommended my firm and the services qualify for your interest in moving forward, your insights tell you the nature-based approach will resonate
Being able to bottom-line the key points from the story that has led you to me not only saves us a tremendous amount of time on a call, but we can also identify your core needs. As I listen I pay attention to the level of urgency, practical ways my services align to your needs, and whether you can clearly identify the trailhead (or starting point in our potential work together). A valuable takeaway I can offer you on a call are the hidden dynamics that may be playing a key role in your challenges and why the needs are showing up.
Even if our call doesn’t lead us to working together, there are still valuable resources and practitioners I can share with you so that you land the appropriate support system!