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28/02/2025

🌿 Using Nature as the Catalyst for Leadership & Team Transformation 🌿

At Artgym, we believe nature offers leaders profound insights into their values, vision, and purpose, and teaches us about collaboration and adaptability in ways traditional learning approaches can not.

Over the past twenty years, we've taken leadership teams to the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia, the Swiss Alps, and even rooftop gardens in Shanghai.

🌱 Artgym's immersive nature experiences have created transformational shifts in leaders' mindset and practice. And have been ranked in The Time top twenty life-changing experiences.

🔗 Would you like to integrate the power of nature into your leadership programs?

09/02/2025

🌿 Are you ready to transform your practice in 2025 by integrating the power of nature?

🌿Drawing Nature In is a groundbreaking 3-Day experience for coaches, therapists, and educators.

Join internationally renowned pioneers in the field, Trebbe Johnson and Dr Eugene Hughes, and other experts for this unique three-day experience at Camley Street Nature Park in Central London.

🌍 Why This Event?

In a time when science proves nature’s profound benefits—reducing stress, restoring balance, and sparking creativity—humans’ connection to the natural world has never been weaker. This workshop reimagines how educators, therapists, and coaches can incorporate nature as an active partner in their work.

💡 What to Expect: Interactive workshops exploring:
✔️ The Embodied Experience
✔️ Intuition, Imagination, and Creativity
✔️ Wounded Places, Wounded Psyches
Busting myths that separate humans from nature.
Practical tools to guide clients toward healing and growth through
ecological approaches.
📅 Dates: April 25th, 26th & 27th, 2025
📍 Location: Camley Street Nature Park, Kings Cross,
London
💼 Who Should Attend: Coaches, therapists, educators,
and mental health professionals looking to deepen their practice.
🔗 Join us and reclaim the transformative potential of nature for yourself, your clients, and your community.
🔗 Learn more and register today:
https://artgym.com/drawing-nature-in/

The Director Development Experience program (DDE) we deliver with adidas has won an Excellence In Practice Award from Association of Talent Development.

09/06/2023

BIG NEWS!

The Director Development Experience program (DDE) that we deliver with adidas has won a coveted Excellence In Practice Award from the Association of Talent Development (ATD).

The category it won was Leadership/Management Development and this is the third year in a row that the program has been selected for an award. So lots of happy faces at Artgym right now :)

Researched, designed, and delivered through an Artgym X adidas collaboration, the global program is now in its fifth year and running stronger than ever.

ATD’s Excellence in Practice Awards honor companies that have demonstrated clear, measurable and sustained results.

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone at adidas (past and present) for this awesome collaborative effort and for always challenging us to deliver new and innovative work. This includes Shelly Tuohy Mallory Johnson-Byers, MAIOP, Lauren G., Linda Evenhuis, Petar Mitrovic, Judith Holland, Jessica Schmidt, Zsofia Pajor, Bruce Dudley, Matthew Stone, Susan Wrase-Derkach, Patty Barrett, John Lefebvre, Hauke Stachow and Christina Rudrich.

The same goes for all the Artgymers around the world who continue to deliver and develop this program.

For more information, read the full news article (link in the comments).

24/05/2023

Artgym client AXA GO Business Operations are looking for a new Global Talent Development Coordinator.

This is an amazing opportunity to work with a world-leading Talent and Leadership Development team, alongside the lovely Elodie Jasmin and a fair few Artgymers too 😊

The job details and application link from Elodie are below, along with a video that provides a glimpse into the exciting programs you’ll be working on.

UNIQUE OFFER FOR AN APPRENTICE
➰ Who want to reflect on the Leadership of the future & contribute to our High Potentials programs?

🚀 Curious to learn about the spirit of our programs: 📽 watch this video & DARE to try :) Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e5S-eX5f

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7003733754712064000/

👏 A huge hand to Generation 6 of our Talent Program “Ready, Steady GO: Be the Change” which will draw to completion in January with a showcase of their change… | 15 comments on LinkedIn

18/05/2023

Are you feeling anxious?

If so, you’re not alone. Recent research from The Mental Health Foundation found that nearly 73% of us felt anxious at least sometimes in the previous two weeks, with 20% of us feeling anxious most or all of the time.

Increasingly, this and other mental health problems are impacting the bottom line for business, with productivity, engagement, retention, innovation and more affected.

Globally, the World Health Organisation puts this economic cost at US$ 1 trillion per year.

Below (in the comments), we share some simple tips published by the Mental Health Foundation to help people cope with this anxiety.

Ultimately, however, we need deeper, systemic solutions. We can’t just treat this at the individual level.

In the workplace for example, employee wellbeing must be proactively embedded into an organization’s culture and learning programs—something we help our clients with at Artgym.

What are your thoughts on this pressing issue? Do you have personal experiences and insights you’re comfortable sharing?

16/03/2023

20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE? SO WHAT...🤔

The truth is, if you don't take the time to reflect and capture your learnings, those 20 years of experience may not be as valuable as you think! 😲

Neuroscience shows that without reflection, your brain doesn't get the chance to consolidate and integrate information, making it difficult to retrieve any learnings for the future. 😬

But don't worry, we've got you covered with some simple yet profound tips from the Artgym coaches:
🚶‍♀️ Take a 20-minute walk at the end of your working day to ask yourself 'what have I learned today?'
🤝 Team up with a colleague once a week to reflect on what you're learning at work
📝 Keep a learning journey to regularly write down (or draw) your reflections and learning
💼 Get a coach to help you reflect and use your learnings to up your game
So, it's time to stop coasting and start reflecting! 💪 Your future self will thank you for it.

15/03/2023

WHAT GOOD IS LEARNING...

if it can't stimulate fresh thinking and new actions. That's why Artgym brings people together to practice and apply new mindsets, behaviors, and skills to their real-life challenges. Experience the power of people thinking differently and practicing consistently together.

06/03/2023

THE FIVE DIMENSIONS TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN THE WORKPLACE

Workplaces must prioritise mental health to create a healthy working culture that supports exceptional performance and employee wellbeing. However, many organizations rely on reactive approaches that provide access to mental health services only after an issue arises.

At Artgym, we believe in a more proactive approach we call Wellworking, which focuses on five key dimensions of a healthy working environment: Contribution, Self Expression, Empowerment, Creativity, and Belonging.

Read our latest article that lays out why and how a systemic approach, using the five dimensions, works: https://buff.ly/3IQ260V

And why offering therapy is not the answer.

01/03/2023

Learning new skills or behaviors can be challenging BUT....

PRACTICING THEM WITH OTHERS BOOSTS PERFORMANCE.

When you practice with others, you have a built-in support system and can learn from your successes and mistakes. This increases motivation and accountability and leads to far better results. So whether you're trying to learn a new mindset, behavior or skill, team up with others and start practicing together. Together, you'll achieve your goals faster and more effectively!

27/02/2023

What is your intention for this week?

ACTION FLOWS WHERE YOUR INTENTION GOES...

So before getting caught up in a busy week, take 10 minutes to set your intention for the week, a simple statement to keep you on track. Your intention can focus on how you what to BE this week, and not just what you want to DO e.g: “I will create ‘x’ in a calm and enjoyable way”.

And if you get distracted or bored or frustrated this week, just think of your intention and let your actions flow from them.

24/02/2023

WHY BOTHER TO UNDERSTAND SOMEONE ELSE?

Research shows that understanding different perspectives is better for our mindset in several ways. It helps expand our thinking, challenge our assumptions, and develop more nuanced and complex ideas. It activates cognitive processes in our brains that are associated with creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, and empathy.

Furthermore, it helps reduce the cognitive biases and stereotypes that we may hold and can cultivate a more open-minded and flexible approach to others and the world around us, which can lead to greater success and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives.

So why not challenge yourself this week to seek to understand the perspective of someone very different from you, to try to stand in their shoes and imagine the world through their eyes?