Creative Workshops & Retreat Experiences
Sensory, embodied, and nature-based sessions for team retreats, wellbeing days, and meaningful gatherings.
At Calm Nest Collective, we believe that creativity, care, and calm belong at the heart of how we work and connect. These workshops are more than just a pause. They’re an invitation to reflect, reconnect, and explore what’s possible when we step out of urgency and into intention.
Whether you’re planning a team wellbeing day, designing a retreat, or simply want to offer your group a meaningful shared experience, we craft sessions that combine reflection, play, and deep listening, all in a welcoming, inclusive space.
All workshops can be coupled with Calm Nest Spaces and are suitable for outdoor and indoor environments.
Drawing Breath workshop
A mindful art and breathwork session to reset the nervous system and reconnect with yourself.
This gentle, grounding workshop offers space to slow down, breathe deeply, and regulate the nervous system through a unique blend of breathwork and neurographic art.
It’s an invitation to step away from overstimulation and return to your own rhythm, no pressure, no performance, just presence.
We begin with calming breath techniques designed to settle the body and bring awareness inward. Then, through a meditative drawing practice called neurographic art, we translate thoughts and emotions into flowing lines and organic shapes on paper.
It’s a quiet, intuitive process that helps release tension, improve focus, and create clarity through creative expression.
No artistic skill is needed, only a willingness to show up, exhale, and explore what your hands and breath can reveal when the mind is at ease. Ideal for teams, retreat groups, or individuals in need of a nervous system reset.
A soft pause in a fast world, where creativity meets calm.
Upcycle Your Mind
A creative resilience workshop that transforms personal and collective challenges into meaningful, symbolic art.
This is a hands-on, heart-open session that explores the stories we carry and how we might reshape them. Using found, natural, and repurposed materials, we create art that speaks to transformation.
Think scrap fabric, thread, pressed leaves, forgotten objects, and words that once held weight. Together, we reflect on what’s felt heavy and reimagine it into something new.
This workshop is designed for purpose-driven teams or communities, groups navigating change, or growth, and retreats focused on creativity, reflection, or sustainability. It’s also a meaningful experience for anyone craving a fresh lens on resilience.
Participants are invited to reflect on personal or collective challenges, select materials that symbolise stories or emotions, and create meaningful art either individually or as a group.
Designing for Neuroinclusion
Real tools for diverse minds in events, workplaces, and beyond.
This is a practical, perspective-shifting session that explores how to create spaces where neurodivergent individuals feel welcome, safe, and supported without assumptions or overwhelm. Together, we look at how environment, communication, and sensory input impact the nervous system, and how inclusive design can support regulation, focus, and emotional safety for everyone.
We explore concrete tools like sensory zoning, communication preferences, and flexible design features that reduce overstimulation and increase comfort.
The session blends lived experience with evidence-based insights and invites teams to reflect on their current practices and imagine what true accessibility could look like. This isn’t about fixing people. It’s about fixing systems and offering environments where different minds can thrive, not just survive.
Whether you’re designing events, workplaces, or shared spaces, this workshop gives you practical ideas and a deeper understanding of what it really means to include everyone.
LETS TALK
Let’s co-create and design something different, together.
Tell us about your team, your space, or your next event. We’ll help you bring your values to life.