Explore and Walk

James Moore was first involved in agitating and co-creating a movement to help people be and do things better in 2012. This has led to close to 1,000 participants and a decade of successfully facilitating regular sessions using the pillars of movement, mindfulness and outdoor space to help individuals, teams and organisations.

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Why will Explore and Walk help you? 

We use wide ranging research and practical experiences to help live the benefits of using movement, outdoor space and mindfulness to support people to be as well as possible and to ”do things better”. We have a track record of helping individuals and teams to deal with issues of stress, burnout, workplace toxicity and to help people to find ways of being their best as much as possible. We have built on peer evaluated research and neuroscience and psychology to help people to safely be with other people so that they can:

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> pause, breathe and re-centre away from the day to day distractions of life

> be more connected with themselves, with other people and with nature

> challenge themselves and get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable

> improve their adaptability and resilience

> build trusting relationships to develop their peer coaching abilities

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What are the pillars of Explore and Walk?

Movement leads to our brains producing a number of chemicals and proteins including endorphins and BDNF proteins. Walking in someone else’s shoes helps us live genuine diversity by feeling other’s perspectives. Movement disperses toxins which build through anxiety: it helps our physical and mental health and develops our IQ and EQ.

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Mindfulness helps us to deliberately pay attention to something and create greater acceptance of our world “as it is”. It creates space to break the “vicious neural cycle”. Pausing stops the damage and helps us to create new helpful and healthy neural pathways increasing our brain plasticity.

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Outdoor space and nature Being in nature helps us to be more energised. Time in nature helps us to build our physical and mental health and resilience. Even small doses of daily time outdoors helps us. When we are outdoors, we are significantly more likely to connect with and be more empathetic to ourselves, others and our situations/ environments. Being outdoors helps us to care better!

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So what..? The impact on participants and organisations...the programme has consistently led to fantastic results and this is what people participants and organisations have said.