Conscious Corporate Retreats: when happiness is more than profitable

blissbody — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:17:12 +0000

There are times when slowing down is the best way to speed things up. Investing in Corporate Retreats is an efficient way of bonding and engaging your team. While providing time and space for people to establish a more intimate and truthful communication, you will be able to access the best in each one of your collaborators.

A team is a group of individuals

The relationships between co-workers and the environment created in the workspace directly affect the mental wellbeing of each one of us. During a retreat, people have the chance to connect on a level they don’t normally do, which helps them understand where others come from and how to best relate to them.

The program should be careful designed for including a set of activities that bring transparency and compassion while focusing separately on each individual – as we, humans, wish to be seen. Meditation, yoga and other wellness practices allow the participants to dive into trust and open-heart communication, where long-lasting connections begin.

Projecting the future

Retreats are a pause to reflect, realign and proceed in a more effective pace. After encouraging these tighter bonds and doing workshops for people to share their opinions and ideas, the feeling of being heard and valued is given. This creates a creative dynamic with durable effects, way beyond the final day of the retreat.

Sharing a mission is not remembering what the company tag line is, sharing a mission is living it altogether in an organic way. Obstacles are not definitive, they are problems waiting to be solved, and a cohesive team will be able to co-create a path of success while supporting each other from exhaustion or unnecessary stress.

Bliss Body Journeys is proud of offering customized Corporate Retreats to support you building a beautiful team and creating a moment in time in which happiness is more than profitable.

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Conscious Leadership: acknowledge the beliefs of each team member

blissbody — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:16:18 +0000

We all experience our personal reality with dozens of beliefs that strongly affect our mood and our ability to create and cooperate with family members and co-workers. These occurring worlds have an inextinguishable quality of malleability and addressing them are quick wins for our wellbeing. This also applies to the work environment, as quite often the combination of unconscious forces and challenging memories come in the way of our workflow. It is the role of a conscious leader to be able to recognize these individual patterns and bring light into the context.

Setting the ground for active listening

Just recently, in our Team Conscious Retreat, we did an exercise in which each member shared his or her most damaging work-related occurring world. As soon as we started, a barrier fell, as if it was allowed to be vulnerable for a moment, and we began to see each other in a more empathic way. This created a safe space for us to openly share our struggles, without judgments, and building together a bridge to deeply understanding each other.

Most of the times our thinking mind tends to be over dramatic, and sharing these internal thoughts helped us look at things from a different perspective. During the exercise, the new joiner of our team mentioned she was feeling overwhelmed and feared she wouldn’t be able to deliver the tasks on time. Our Area Manager & Chef, who used to host our retreats but now, given the pandemic, had to assume a back-office position, mentioned she was looping on the notion that she lost the capability of having impact on our clients’ experience.

Shifting challenging beliefs in a collaborative way

After putting these feelings into words and discussing them, we all helped each other realize that there are other ways to look at the same exact thing. Situations tend to be neutral, and we can choose how to look at them – this is the wisdom higher conscious brings. The second part of the exercise consisted of spending 15 minutes on each team member’ occurring world to find together a new belief that could replace the old one – not intellectually, but in an embodied way – transforming fears into strengths.

By building this growth container, based on communication and acceptance, we started working as talking mirrors, exposing the fragility of each other’s anticipatory fears, and helping our co-workers to see the light of hope that comes when we shift our perspective in a more constructive way.

In our retreat, we replaced the fear of the new joiner with excitement to explore growth and we helped our Area Manager understanding the real scale of what she is doing by onboarding hundreds of people in retreats all around the world. Self-transformation occurs then naturally, and the team dynamics change in one go, as if new potential was unblocked.