A day that gives your team
something they can actually use.
Most workplace wellbeing provision asks people to stop. A break. Something pleasant before Monday reasserts itself. This day offers something more durable: an understanding of the mechanism, a felt experience of the alternative, and a small set of tools grounded in neuroscience that work on a Tuesday morning at a desk.
The Red Mind to Blue Mind arc describes a real shift in nervous system state: from the high-alert, ruminating attention of chronic busyness, toward the soft, present, restorative attention that blue environments reliably produce.
Participants feel it happen. And they leave with the tools to bring it back.
The aim is useful.
What the day looks like
A full day at Arden Sailing Club on the River Avon, 9.30am to 4.30pm. The environment is part of the programme throughout.
The science behind the day
Blue health is an emerging field with a robust and growing evidence base. The science is real. The day is designed so people feel it rather than just hear about it.
Tools they will actually use on Monday
Six practices, all taught and used on the day. Each one fits inside a working day. None require a mat, a quiet room, or any performance. These are tools for a car park before a difficult meeting, not a yoga studio.
Every workshop includes
a return to the river
The redeemable paddle day
Your group returns to the Avon, April to October, with everything from the workshop already in their bodies. This time they take it onto the water.
All equipment provided. No experience needed. Dates coordinated to suit your team. All included in the workshop price.
Why the water matters as a second chapter
The same nervous system that tightens at the thought of standing on a paddleboard tightens at a difficult meeting, an overloaded week, or an inbox that never empties.
On the water, participants meet that response directly, in real time, in their bodies, with everything from the workshop already available to them. The safety briefing becomes a nervous system awareness practice. The feeling safe pause, learned on the workshop day, is applied mid-paddle.
People leave the paddle day with a physical memory of the shift. The body holds that differently to anything heard in a room.
In their own words
Straightforward pricing.
Everything included.
Everything is included in the price: the full day workshop at Arden Sailing Club, a seasonal riverside picnic from our neighbouring farm shop, all materials, guided audio practices to take home, and a redeemable two-hour paddle session on the River Avon taken April to October. Nothing to arrange separately.
Full Day Workshop and Paddle Session
Both options include everything listed.
- Full day workshop at Arden Sailing Club, River Avon
- Up to 12 participants, any season
- Seasonal riverside picnic lunch provided by our neighbouring farm shop
- All printed materials and reflection cards
- The marble practice and take-home anchor for each participant
- Guided audio practices to continue at home and at work
- Redeemable two-hour paddle session on the River Avon, April to October
- All paddleboard equipment and instruction included
James founded Wittering SUP and Wittering Wellbeing on the River Avon in Worcestershire. For the past several years he has worked with the science of blue health and mindfulness in the place he knows best: beside the water. He is a qualified MBCT teacher trained through the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation, and has developed blue health programmes for the Academy of Surfing Instructors and delivered workshops internationally.
His approach is direct, evidence-grounded and genuinely sceptic-friendly. He does not ask people to believe in anything. Only to notice what is already happening.
Ready to bring your team
to the river?
If it sounds like something your team needs, get in touch and we can talk through what a day might look like for you.
Book a call with James