Immerse your team in a unique corporate wellbeing experience at our seaside academy. Foster collaboration, reduce stress and unlock creativity through the timeless craft of stool making – and everyone leaves with their own handmade stool to keep.
Our Corporate Wellbeing events tailored to your team that can run from one to three days for up to eight members. Everyone will make their own three legged solid timber, wedged tenon stool. Other exciting activities can be included depending on the length of your stay.
Stool Making
The project involves the use of a range of hand tools and will be made from English and recycled timber when available. Each member of your group will take home their own stool, and the course is suitable for all levels from complete beginners to experienced woodworkers.
Why a Wellbeing Event?
Invest in Your Team’s Wellbeing and Cohesion. In an era of remote work and digital fatigue, our retreat offers a vital opportunity to:
- Foster Genuine Connection: Face-to-face bonding in a relaxed, inspiring environment away from the office.
- Boost Mental Health: Leverage the proven stress-reducing power of immersive, creative activity.
- Reward and Re-energise: Show your team they are valued with a memorable, rewarding experience that breaks the routine.
- Build a Collaborative Culture: Solve problems and communicate effectively through a shared, hands-on project.
Additional Activities
In addition to the woodworking element, for an additional cost we can create a package for you that lets your group get the most out of their time with us. We can book everything from accommodation, travel arrangements and additional activities such as:
- Gig rowing
- Learning to cook over fire on the beach
- Sea swimming with beach side sauna
- Foraging the coastline with expert foragers
- Breathwork sessions with a breathwork coach
Your Dedicated Hosts
Our tutors are committed to passing on heritage skills and their passion for woodworking. The training and resulting work of our students has gained us international recognition as a Centre of Excellence.
We want to share the Boat Building Academy experience with your team, as we truly believe in the positive impact woodworking, in our environment, has on building team cohesion, personal wellbeing and mental health.
“Mental health related absence is the most common cause of long-term sickness absence in UK workplaces. Work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounts for 44% of work-related ill health and 54% of working days lost.” -(CIPD)
It is well understood that creative activity (regardless of skill level), reduces stress and anxiety, builds self-esteem and improves well-being (BBC survey on craft reducing stress) – and this is something that our students frequently comment on.
