Occupation:
Jungle Lodge Owner/Author of Wildpreneurs
www.wildpreneurs.com
www.tailwindjunglelodge.com
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
The jungle and waves on the Mexican Pacific

Favorite Activity:
Trail running and surfing

Favorite Nature Elements:
Jungle and ocean

Best Places to Work with Nature:
I love working in the jungle with an ocean view! I work on my laptop but I get to watch tropical birds and whales at the same time.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Nature has taught me infinite lessons (I love the principles of biomimicry!). Specifically, the natural world has taught me to slow down and create space for inspiration to emerge. I get my best ideas while trail running through the jungle or surfing at dawn. When I return to my jungle office after these adventures I nourish myself with greens from a local organic garden and sit down with a clear mind to work--these are my most productive hours (I wrote my book this way!). As an entrepreneur, one of the most important things Mother Nature has taught me is that the the oak tree sleeps in acorn. The most magnificent things in the natural world begin as tiny seeds and grow slowly, sustainably and in harmony with the surrounding environment. This is powerful wisdom for entrepreneurs as well.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
An inspiring natural setting, a clear mind and laptop (or pen and paper does the trick!).

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
I spent 3 years writing my book, Wildpreneurs, in a variety of natural settings. I divided my time between my homes in the jungle on the Mexican Pacific and the Colorado Rockies. I loved sitting down to write by the ocean amidst tropical blossoms and at high mountain lakes surrounded by stunning wildflowers. The natural world supported me through a writing journey that was not easy (a real challenge!) but was absolutely wonderful, transformative and truly rewarding.

Occupation:
Outdoor Recreation Planner~Visitor Services Course Leader
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Outside usually just wandering and exploring reenergizes me

Favorite Activity:
Nature Photography

Favorite Nature Elements:
Water and water falls are my favorites

Best Places to Work with Nature:
My office which overlooks the Potomac River, outside leading a tour, or giving a program.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
I have been able to work in so many natural environments as a Park Ranger from seashores, to canyon and in one unit I was able to work with 12 different ecosystems. Being able to engage and connect people to nature, land stewardship and education always has been the best thing as it recharges me, makes me happy to see people connect and grow.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
A good pair of walking shoes, good pack, camera and paper and pencil

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Working with inner city kids to teach them about the outdoors and get them to connect to nature. My favorite memory is spending an afternoon with the kids from an inner city school and watching them learn, relax and connect to nature. As they were leaving a little girl turned and came back and gave me hug and said "Thank for sharing, and letting me come here. I will never forget you."

Occupation:
Consultant/Attorney
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Nature especially mountains

Favorite Activity:
Hiking, skiing

Favorite Nature Elements:
Trees, flowers, plants, running water

Best Places to Work with Nature:
In the mountains surrounded by running water and wild flowers, with a fresh pine air.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Nature is like oxygen for me, it rejuvenates me, inspires me and stimulates my creativity and productivity. It has an amazing healing power as well!

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
The most essential tool is being present and feeling the power of Nature to its fullest.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
One of the most wonderful Nature Experiences (not work) was a hike to Blue Lake where the trail took me to a crystal clear stream so beautifully landscaped with colorful wild flowers, so surreal that I spent hours just watching it, mesmerized by the breathtaking artistic touch of Nature. It was a jewel no human hand could create. Then when I reached the top of the mountain, there was snow and the lake was partly frozen (hence me in shorts in the picture below:). Another one is hiking in Vail and finding heart shaped Nature "paintings" out of fall colored trees...

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A human being driven by values & a programmer who cares about people & his craft | Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
http://www.mohnishjadwani.com/
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Park with a walkway :)

Favorite Activity:
Walking. Whenever I head for a walk it’s a way for me to get into a reflective and a detached observer mode. It allows me to put my mind at rest and also live in the moment. Whenever I go for a walk and just look at everything around me like people just sitting in the nature enjoying the warmth of the sun, people going for a walk/run and even those people who have dogs and play with their pets and also genuinely connect with other people(over a conversation) who also bring their dogs to the same areas surrounded by the nature it reminds me of how much life’s true joy lies in the little things. I’ve also had some light bulb moments when going for a walk and also walking has many a times reminded me about the importance of letting go by moving forward in life with putting things behind you.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Greenery of the Trees and grass, fresh air, Sitting in the warmth of the sun by a bench and just living in the moment.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Park with a bench :)

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Going for regular walks on a work day like just after lunch. I’m also currently experimenting with taking 2 walk breaks in the day, one after lunch and another one at one more time in the day like in the evenings before my last 1-2 hours of work for the day. Like Steve Jobs, I’m also fascinated to try meetings over a walk whenever I get an opportunity to.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
A laptop, a bench and a mobile with a data plan in case I need to use hotspot to connect the laptop to the Internet.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience: Sitting by a bench, enjoying the warmth of the Sun in a relatively cold city like Berlin and observe children play in the nearby playground or parents enjoying a cycle ride/walk in nature alongside their children or people just having a get together meal like lunch or something similar by the grass or just people taking their dogs for a stroll alongside playing the game of fetch with them and at the same time also naturally connecting with other people who bring their dogs to these parks, all of this serves as a constant reminder of how much of life's true happiness lies in these small things and it also serves as a way to practice an attitude of gratitude in one’s life with what we have at a given point of time and with that feeling/energy of contentment build on top of things with renewed vigor and zeal :)

Occupation:
Corporate Wellbeing Activist / Walking Coach / Career Coach / HR professional
https://careerboots.com/
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Fields where I grew up, the forest & park in my backyard … plus my imagination

Favorite Activity:
Socializing with people I care for, friends & family. Collaborating with and helping others move a stone in their lives whilst getting the best out of them. Walking, hiking in mountains, discovering new places, cultures & people. Simply just being outside. Dining & tasting.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Mountains really matter to me. Their height and landscape … the tiny feeling they give you. It boosts gratefulness. I love wide open views, where you can feel wind & sun on your face and see the horizon far away.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Anywhere…as there is nature around every corner. Even a small park serves to work outside, with nature. Just be curious and discover.
I like places with trees & bushes. It helps with exercises outside, they provide great metaphors.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
The fact of just being outside has impact on every person’s brain, nervous system and well-being. I always work outside, for every talk and every exercise. I use whatever we see and find on our way to ease up talking, explore solutions, make resolutions tangible and help people learn more about themselves and about what makes them feel good. Being outside in nature stimulates creativity and boosts mental and physical well-being.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
The outdoors, common sense, openness and curiosity and waterproof shoes

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Forest bathing requires a forest, of course. The ideal place? A forest where you find pine and deciduous trees, where some water (a river) can be found, and where there are both dense and open spaces.

Occupation:
Strategy and Innovation Consultant, freelance (12 years).

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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Chopping firewood in the barn just behind my office. It’s a perfect way to get out from behind the desk and do something physical.

Favorite Activity:
Anything outdoors with my dogs.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Autumn colours, wildlife (Owls in particular), fields and trees in morning mist.
Undulating English countryside with small farms, hedgerows and orchards … in other words, the landscape around my home. Watching the blissful absorption of my dogs following animal scent trails across a morning-dewy field.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
My home office. Windows on all four sides and the roof look out into woodland and English countryside. My desk looks out past some small oaks and a field maple across gently sloping paddocks - kept wild to provide a hunting ground for barn owls - towards enormous boundary oaks marking the start of the neighboring fruit farm and May Hill beyond.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
My commute – I take my coffee cup and my two dogs and trundle down to edge of the garden where it meets the woods, through a little gate, along a farm path and across a small glade to my wood cabin office.
Job 1 - light the wood burner and then gaze at the flames for the first 20 minutes, nursing a coffee and contemplating life, the universe and everything.
Job 2 – get to my desk and gaze out of the window and over the fields.
Job 3 – do some work.
This blissful location has been my salvation these last two years. I could not work with this intensity, I could not keep my mind so focused and still keep my health and happiness, without being in these surroundings. They absorb the stress and bring me peace.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
I’m not sure… I’ll have to think about that. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to locate my office somewhere very natural. Other than that? A really good pencil and a lovely new pad…

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Being paid to walk the mountains of Nepal for a magazine article I wrote (quite an extreme example).

Occupation:
Working mom and manager. A fan of technologies in support of smart work and healthy food for a bright mind.

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Favorite Place to Recharge:
The mountains everywhere in the world, but the Italian Alps (Valle d’Aosta) are my favorite.

Favorite Activity:
Hiking in the Alps with my children, embracing the beauty of the landscape, breathing slowly and feeling present, in the moment. Letting them feel the true emotions when in contact with powerful nature.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Mountain views: they are beautiful and transfer energy and power.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Nature is “outside” for a walk in the park to recharge your brain, or a ride alongside the river to get an idea on a project. Nature is also “inside” when you look consciously after what you eat or you take time for healthy food shopping after a long working day.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Daily walk alongside a canal close to my house: stops the mind thinking, facilitating a walking meditation for 20 minutes (I use “Calm” app) … letting ideas, answers and solutions arise naturally.

Cultivating my knowledge about nutrition where nature has so much to offer ! Incredible plants empower skills and abilities bringing more concentration or relaxation. I discovered the power of cereals (oat, spelt, rye), brown rise, ginger and organic flour milled with stones. Inspired by books like The Cina study, Eat to live, Il cibo dell’Uomo.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Breathing techniques, fresh fruit or juice, lipstick and fashion sunglasses (fundamental for Italians 😊).

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
I was promoted to Country Manager from Marketing Manager in a small team of 10 associates. It was not easy to step up from the group, maintain friendly relationships with a different hierarchic position, get the best out of every team member and build a successful business for the country. 2017 was an incredibly successful year and we celebrated it in the mountains when we hiked together and had a fantastic lunch at 2600m high.

Occupation:
Chairman, The Sound Agency
Author, Sound Business and How To Be Heard
Five time and all-time top 10 TED speaker
www.juliantreasure.com
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Favorite Activity:
Dog walking at Scapa

Favorite Nature Elements:
Beaches, mountains, silence

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Scapa beach

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Thinking while walking

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Just a brain!

Occupation:
Content manager at CUTESolutions
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
The ocean, doesn’t matter which one ;-)

Favorite Activity:
Taking long hikes in nature until my brain shuts up.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Watching the birds fly so freely in the sky.
Hearing the wind through the leaves of the trees.
The smell of the forest after a rainy day.
The sound of the ocean-waves.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
I love to work outside, with a view of my garden.
Having a creative meeting, while walking around the ‘Watersportbaan’ in Ghent.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Cycling to and from the office makes sure that I start and end my day with a more positive, relaxed attitude.
Taking a walk around the block with my colleagues helps me to recharge during the workday.
Having skype-calls together with my pet Ernie always brightens the mood.
When I’m out of ideas, I like to take a minute to watch the clouds go by. Often this helps to spark my creativity.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
An awning at my house so the sunlight doesn’t hit my screen directly.
A small notebook to write down some ideas when they hit me ;-)
Sunscreen!
Solid rain pants, and running shoes, so that the bad weather doesn’t ruin my cycling-habit.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
A couple of years ago I had one of the most creative workdays while sitting in my garden. I had written the largest proposal of the year, and the customer and my manager were absolutely thrilled with the idea. I truly felt like a good writer that day, and I’m sure this all came about because I was surrounded by nature.

Occupation:
Co-founder and CEO of Coconat a workation retreat
http://coconat-space.com/
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
In my neighbourhood, the walk between Coconat and my home in a near-by village is about 3 kilometers and has plenty of big skies, fields and a forest to keep my senses filled. The wind can pick me up into the trees and long distances with reflections and memories. The thoughts of the wolves and wild boar can bring an electric sense of mystery.

Favorite Activity:
I really enjoy walking. No matter the landscape or season, going by foot offers me the tempo and vantage point allowing me to experience the NOW like no other activities. Best is a long walk ending near water when the weather is hot. Or when the weather is cold, getting cozied up indoors with a hot drink around the fire.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Animal encounters are for sure the most amazing experience for me. I never outgrew my childhood awe of animals. I had the opportunity to work in South East Asia for a number of years and with the wonderful assignment of trying to capture animals in the wild with my video camera. Whether it is a soaring bird of prey, a long line of ants that has no end, or mammals big and small, the giddiness completely overtakes and truly energises me. It is an energy I can pass on to others as well, my excitement is uncontainable!

Best Places to Work with Nature:
My best 'work-time' in nature is during walks. When a challenge I am presented with grows large and I have a block, the best thing to do is to leave the indoors and move my body through the outdoors, breathe in fresh air and take in the new environment. Experiencing the NOW alone with the wind in the trees or along the fluffy path of clouds will really carry me over the wall that is blocking my thoughts.
My team agrees, when we have spent too much time in the meeting room and start to circle a problem instead of over-coming it, we go outside for a walk together, we talk about our lives, we share our thoughts on the flowers or fish we see, and have a different perspective when coming back to the topic at hand.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
What is wonderful is that at Coconat you can simply walk outside and directly into the fields, 5 minutes later you are in the forest, the connection with nature is immediate. We encourage those who experience the benefits of connecting with nature to take it home with them in their city life, to go to the park for a walk, to sit in the grass, to listen to the birds, nature is everywhere.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Well, since I am a walker, the footwear is key. When it's cold, no matter, if my feet are warm and dry, I can go on walking for miles. In hot weather comfy sandals are key. Going into grassy areas in summer, I have my light sport shoes and socks to keep pest critters from getting me, If mosquitoes are about, then I cover-up in light clothing that protecting arms and legs.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
In the middle of nowhere in the French countryside, my partner and I spent a few days working on our business plan for Coconat. Wel, fun fact, Coconat did not always have a name. That is where we came up with it! Coconat stands for Community, and Concentrated work, in Nature. Janosch said it first - how about 'Coconat' (pronounced 'coconut'), my eyes lit up - That was the name we had been looking for. We laughed, we loved it.

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Director of Wilderness Risk Management Linkedin Profile
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
My Favorite place to recharge is a trail. Just about any trail as long as it’s difficult, lonesome, and new. Much of my recharging and regeneration comes from the active journey of exploring places I have not been or routes I have not taken.

Favorite Activity:
Backpacking, by far. Adventure motorcycling and offroad driving second.

Favorite Nature Element:
If I had to pick one setting, give me a mountain with an old forest on it. Favorite element in nature is the scenery.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Any place where I’m able to get work done out of doors is great. There’s a picnic table downstairs that’s under an oak tree. The atmosphere and light is very different than just inside the building’s walls and I am able to get wifi there too.
The Best places I’ve found are national parks. There’s decent infrastructure, cellular service, and most importantly there’s views and opportunities to enjoy and interact with nature

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Any time I’m outdoors and working in nature I’m happier and I tend to focus more. Time management and work/life balance become easier since there’s no transitionary step between outdoor enjoyment and work life. Working in an office I lost track of the waste and resources needed to keep that going- a/c, water, infrastructure, paper, printers, electricity, everything. Working in nature requires a purpose and things with versatility. There’s much less waste and a greater connection with the purpose of what I’m doing

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Have to have power. That’s just the way it is. The goal zero yeti 400 is my go to for charging tablets, computers, drones, phones, cameras, and everything else. I can charge it from a 12v cig lighter port or a solar panel. Give me a telephone, laptop, and that power bank and I can be sufficient to work from the out-door office for weeks at a time.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
It’s hard to pick one, but I think back to one recent trip. I was renewing my Wilderness First Responder training just outside of Yosemite and decided to go up to the park for a couple of days. It was a dry winter, and this was in February, but I was able to hike up and camp in Little Yosemite Valley where I set up my basecamp. I had a small battery pack with me to charge devices, my sleeping bag, a bivy sack, and some other essentials. It got down to 15 degrees that night and I slept under the stars. In the morning I started a fire in the firepit and answered emails, submitted some paperwork, and communicated some time critical steps of action that needed to be taken. I was in a pine forest, surrounded by mountains, next to a fire, surrounded by silence and bright Sierra sunlight. That was a good work day. I climbed up to the base of halfdome afterwards. I would have tried to go to the peak, but I was not comfortable being unable to tie in to the cables (no harness or prussik) and I was also (unknown to me) beginning to come down with the flu. The fatigue, body ache stage of the flu…It was still fantastic.

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Intuitive Guide, Physician of Oriental Medicine
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
My favorite place to recharge is in heavily wooded forests. Places full of trees that include a high degree of solitude and silence; silence from the human world inviting the silent melody of the forest and its creatures.

Favorite Activity:
Walking through the woods, stopping to hug a tree and taking moment to lay on the earth.

Favorite Nature Elements:
TREES. I'm totally obsessed with trees; hugging them, being surrounded by them, laying next to them. I have some favorites, but love them all. My new favorite is Pines.
Moving water: streams, rivers, waterfalls. I love being in the woods and encountering aspects of moving water. The sound of it rumbling, the smell of it's freshness, the feel of its warmth or coolness and even more amazingly when its crisp drinkable water.
Mushrooms. There are so many different mushrooms to be with on this planet. I love how they are connected with the root system of trees, their texture, their multitude of variety of physical structures, their soft or hardness and their earthy smell.
Moss. I especially love moss when it's vibrant green and moist.
Snow. The silence that snow covered earth provides is such a gift and I love the crunchy sound of it walking through the woods. I actually could go on and on I love it all so much!

Best Places to Work with Nature:
In the woods. I take people into retreats and experiences in the woods. And use being in the woods as a place for clarity, peace of mind, and writing.
Beach. I use being the beach as a place for clarity, peace of mind, and writing.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Most effective habits for working with nature: putting it on my calendar (intentionally time to be out in nature every week, for silence and solitude), getting on my bike or getting in my car and taking the action to be with nature, the awareness of the impact it has on my life.
Impact of nature: INSTANT peace of mind. Nature is a place I can be with that instantly provides an internal knowing that "all is well/everything is ok". It impacts my productivity such that when I'm outside I receive the necessary clarity for whatever I'm dealing with in my life; relationships, career, wellbeing. Such that I have clear guidance on what actions to take. It impacts me on decluttering my mind to only reveal what my true hearts desires are and which actions are the path of most ease. Nature awakens an aliveness inside of me such that its impossible for me to not follow through on the inspiration moving through me.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
My phone: taking videos, photos and notes
Journal & Pen.
Boots: for walking through the woods.
WATER: hydration is key.
Comfy clothes: so I can sit and be on any type of earth (leaves, dirt, etc).
Backpack: where I keep my water, journal, pen, phone, etc.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Was when I took my first client on an intentional journey of being naked in nature. We traveled to beautiful Costa Rica and spent time walking through the woods, being at the beach, swimming at waterfalls, eating food, doing deep soul work through intuitive guidance and energy work all in the expression of raw natural beauty. It was such a transformational time of the power of not just nature, but the experience of being unconstrained from material things; an expression of true self, a revealing of what truly exists within self.

Occupation:
Multimedia Storyteller

https://mooremediaco.com/
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
My favorite place to recharge is Costa Rica. It's easy and inexpensive to reach from Texas and the nature there is unreal!

Favorite Activity:
My favorite activity is yoga.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Sunlight. Water. Flowers.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
As a photographer and videographer, I find that some of the best work I do is performed outside in nature because of the natural light. And I'm inventive in finding all sorts of spots to do my work in, from outside coffee shops to the greenbelt.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
My most effective habits for working in nature entail looking specifically for work that keeps me outdoors. I've found personally that sunlight invigorates me. I physically cannot be trapped inside for too long before I begin to mentally and emotionally break down.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Essential tools for me working with nature are my spare batteries. I HAVE to have spare batteries just in case where I'm working does not offer power.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
My most wonderful (and recent) work with nature experience was a photo shoot that had the subject and me take a short hike to a beautiful area of Austin's greenbelt on Barton Creek. This was after a couple of days of rain and the water was rushing! I took photographs of Kelly in his hammock. The sun was high in the sky and it's light sparkled like so many diamonds on the water. I recall standing there thinking how blessed I was, after decades of working in loud newsrooms, to be able to work in this kind of environment whenever I wanted.

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Head of Carrier Business Development Iberia

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Favorite Place to Recharge:
I love the parks that surround my home … but Yosemite is the most beautiful place I ever visited.

Favorite Activity:
Running, walking and biking ! When I am stressed, I grab my smartphone and walk to empty my mind and take distance from problems, avoiding a reactive mode.

Favorite Nature Elements:
The sound of the sea and water is magic … as is the sound of tree leaves in the wind … it’s the best way to forget all the tensions. I enjoy the smell of wet earth, grass, plants and flowers. I really need clean air and I work hard to find silence away from city noise. The feeling of the sun on my skin in winter is absolutely wonderful.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
At home I have many parks, so I go there to relax and get inspiration. You feel really privileged being able to work surrounded with nature.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
When it’s too busy in our open plan office, I can’t focus nor be creative. I then leave ASAP … beating traffic. Nature breaks routines and allows me to thoroughly plan customer meetings. It clears my mind of negative thoughts and produces fresh perspectives … boosting creativity, forgiveness and appreciation of the miracles of life. I love my work, especially listening and discovering a diversity of challenges, ambitions and needs. But deep down I am a bit shy and Nature brings the balance and solitude I crave.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
A smartphone and paper notebook to brainstorm are essential. Sometimes I use a laptop to deal fast with a load of emails. Good connectivity is necessary to avoid the feeling of not being reachable by those that may need you.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
When I have a demanding week ahead, I get out for a walk and then go through my assignment list, mapping out a great plan.

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Founder Link Coworking & GCUC, the world’s largest Coworking conference series
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www.gcuc.co
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
The beach – Seaside, Florida

Favorite Activity:
Taking photos

Favorite Nature Elements:
100% watching Waves

Best Places to Work with Nature:
We purposely picked the location for Link Coworking based on the wide awning and green courtyard which allows our members the freedom to work outside. It also gives us a beautiful green view and wildlife to watch and nurture.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
A journal and a pen so when your electronics run out you don’t have to stop.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
We recently held a GCUC Retreat in Banff which is in the middle of a national park. It was absolutely stunning beyond words. I took time with other friends at the conference to go explore the area and happily make a bucket list visit to Lake Louise. My head was clear, my heart was full and went back to work invigorated, recharged and will memories to last a lifetime.

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Head of Sales & Marketing at startup ROOMZ SA
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
The Swiss Alpine mountains, but I also love to spend time in the big forest around my home.

Favorite Activity:
I started Mountain Biking 30 years ago and never looked back. I clock around 250 hours per year.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Mountains and forests … for fresh/healthy air, car & stress free. The sound of birds, bees, wind and SILENCE. I LOVE the view of a lake surrounded by mountains !

Best Places to Work with Nature:
For me, the best place for work activities is definitively NOT just IN nature but WITH the power of nature. Working is like sport – after a hard work-out, the body needs a rest and that’s when nature does it’s magic.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
My daily/weekly nature program looks like this :

Start the day in the garden with 10 minutes stretching & breathing session

Halt a work session after 45-60 minutes to go on the balcony, watching nature… again concentrating on breathing.

Alternate sitting / standing working sessions to stay alert and energetic

Taking time for a 30min walk or a 90min bike ride to recharge my batteries during the workday

Spend a lot of time in nature during the weekend

The impact of nature on my professional life is huge!

With my nature rituals I can re-energize body and refresh my mind … driving creativity, generating new ideas and solving business issues.

Nature also puts major challenges in a bigger context, showing fresh ways forward. It keeps me very positive & energetic, making the difference in collaborations and negotiations.

In essence: as business pressures are getting bigger every day, nature habits help me stay strong, productive and at my best ! All along, I may be ageing on paper but staying young in my mind & my body ☺

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
I find a notebook computer unfit to work in nature as screen reflections are a big headache. However, I like reading business books and articles when outside and my iPad with Kindle and Evernote apps are doing the job for me

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
The rebranding of our logo was the result of a thinking session on my mountain-bike and solved a big issue. As nobody in Switzerland understood the ".io" internet domain extension (we were not able to buy the ".com" domain), I decided to have IO to stand for Intelligent Offices ☺ . Go visit www.roomz.io.

Occupation:
Event Coordinator and Marketing Manager

Favorite Place to Recharge:
The Austin Greenbelt and Lady Bird Lake

Favorite Activity:
Sand Volleyball

Favorite Nature Elements:
Any body of water and sunshine!

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Outdoors at Cosmic Coffee
My parents’ home in Florida overlooking the palm trees and ocean.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Working out doors at a coffee shop or taking a walk around my apartment community to get some fresh air.
The impact is a re-charge of energy and relief of stress.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Laptop, Laptop charger, a bottle of water

Occupation:
REI Sales Lead and Outdoor School Instructor,
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Rocky Mountains, Central Texas and Lower Alabama Rivers

Favorite Activity:
Backpacking, Kayaking, Climbing, Hiking

Favorite Elements:
All things water, including lakes, rivers and a good IPA

Best places to work with nature:
Radio Coffee Bar in Austin. TX
Paddling on Town Lake in Austin, TX
Hiking Trails in Bull Creek, Austin, TX

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Walk my dog and have coffee in the morning to contemplate my day and schedule.
Paddling before work gets the creative juices flowing.
I find that walking meetings produce great results and meetings while paddling on the lake have delivered the most creative solutions.

Essential Tools for Work in Nature:
Phone with Hotspot, Laptop, Pelican Case, Pen and Paper, Thule Backpack, Portable Charger for Phone, Sunglasses, Hat, Quick Drying Clothing, and Sunscreen.

Most Wonderful Work in Nature Experience:
Held a meeting on Stand Up Paddle Boards while testing different products on Town Lake in Austin, TX. After the meeting I was able to lay in my hammock and type my review on three different products.

Occupation:
Co-Founder Out of Office Workations
Founder Out of Office Consulting

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Favorite Place to Recharge:
I love recharging in the snow or in the sea. Riding with my snowboard or kiteboard makes me be completely in the moment. I enjoy the activity and the views. What a beautiful world we live in!

Favorite Activity:
Kitesurfing and Snowboarding

Favorite Nature Elements:
The Sea and Snow

Best Places to Work with Nature:
The ocean is incredible. I love teaching kiteboarding. It gives students the opportunity to be outside in the elements, wind and water. Seeing the beach from the water gives you a different perspective. Making progress, step by step gives you a great feeling of accomplishment. It encourages to take bigger steps in your life off the water, too. In a workation, you can take the energy you won on the water straight back to your desk, and get wonderful projects done.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Working in nature gives inspiration and energy.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Workations and team retreats in nature are great tools to help people add a learning and recreational aspect to their work routine.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Teaching kiteboarding in the Dominican Republic was a special experience. Clear blue flat water, warm temperatures, and wonderful locals and travelers. Sharing my passion every day, and encouraging people to get out of their comfort zone and grow.

Occupation:
Founder and partner of Connected PR and Connected Sisters

www.connectedpr.com
www.connectedsisters.com

Favorite Place to Recharge:
I am currently living in Marrakech, Morocco and every day I drive my children to school, I get a wonderful mountain view

Favorite Activity:
I love to horse ride, at the moment I am blessed with being able to ride Moroccan Berber Arabian Stallions – lean, fast and intelligent!

Favorite Nature Elements:
The forest and the Mountains are two of my fav places, through in some animals too for maximum happiness!

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Anywhere with a wonderful landscape, fresh air and the opportunity to incorporate some exercise, whether it be walking, bike riding or yoga.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Start each day with a kundalini yoga meditation for 20 mins, helps me feel present, grounded and connected. Once a week, I work outside (easy to do in Marrakech with the warm weather) When I am feeling blocked or unmotivated, I unplug and go for a walk – this helps free my mind and recharge my energy and creativity.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Sunglasses and some sort of shade to see the screen
Extra Power packs for my phone and laptop

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
I get great inspiration from traveling, often putting myself into an unfamiliar environment wakes up all my senses and my mind. Once I get to a new place, I like to walk around, whether it is in the city or the countryside, touching the ground of a new land and absorbing’s its vibrations. This summer, my sister (which is my business partner) and I took a trip together and ended up having a walking meeting by the ocean, we brainstormed a lot about our true purpose and came up with the idea of Connected Sisters, the world’s first digital woman’s circle, we are launching on the 1st Jan 2019!

Occupation:
Artist
@twogoatspottery
www.twogoatspottery.com

Favorite Place to Recharge:
Outside!

Favorite Activity:
Hiking, kayaking, swimming, camping, doing art, making things, gardening, home remodel

Favorite Nature Elements:
All of them. Water, trees, earth, sunlight, vistas, fresh air, plants, animals, birds... etc!

Best Places to Work with Nature:
I paint outside and do pottery outside. I am outside a lot when remodeling homes. I'm also out when I'm making things or gardening. I left my "work" 20 year career in public health by investing in real estate and now I play. Managing my rental properties (repairs, etc) also keeps me outside and on my own schedule. But mostly I play, hike, do art and pottery, and travel.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Being outside and surrounded by nature and animals all the time is what makes me quintessentially joyful. It was scary but effective to invest in fixer-uppers, put in sweat equity to remodel them myself on a shoe-string budget, manage the rentals myself so I don't pay for a management company, and live low-budget on a modest income such that my priorities are freedom, creativity and nature instead of stuff. I've also set up my life so that everything I love to do is a business, and so all my expenses are essentially tax deductible, and doing my passions is an "investment" in my businesses. I love to garden and create beautiful spaces so I spend time landscaping my yard which has an Airbnb, so expenses are considered property maintenance. I love art so I opened Two Goats Pottery so I could make and sell my pots. I am not learning to paint and just had my first show where I had not only pottery but also eco-dyed scarves, paintings, photography cards for sale. I love animals and fell in love with two goats, and so they became the namesakes for Two Goats Pottery. They are both part of the marketing of Two Goats Pottery, and are also a huge draw for the Airbnb. So while they make me laugh every day and fill me with joy, they also do their "job" just by being goats. I love dogs and have two which is my "security system" at my home business. I love to travel and all my travel is essentially research and development for my art. I seek inspiration and ideas for things to make and sell. All the money I spend to travel is an investment in my creative work. I went to Zambia in 2006 and have a series of pots and photographs that I've been selling with images of elephants. I went to Anguilla earlier this year and have a new glazing scheme that was inspired by the blues, greens and turquoises that are found in Anguilla. I also like to visit artists in these places to learn new techniques and also how others' business models work, since being an artist can be financially challenging. What's important in doing your passion is always finding ways to do it on a budget. Learning to save and find inexpensive ways to travel is key. I travel with air miles, I use House Sitters of America for free house sitting while I'm away. I leverage every opportunity to make or save money, renting my house while I travel, for example. I am also taking classes at the community college to improve my art. Again, this is my "professional development" and so expenses (tuition, materials, etc) can be written off as business expenses. As a result I am becoming a much better painter, and beginning to integrate creative writing into my arts. I plan to write a book soon, possibly a children's book about goats and gardens. If you love something, build your life around it and don't be afraid to charge money for your services. People want to buy what makes you happy, just because it makes you happy! People like to be close to joy and others who are living their bliss!
The impact of nature on my professional life is huge!
With my nature rituals I can re-energize body and refresh my mind … driving creativity, generating new ideas and solving business issues.
Nature also puts major challenges in a bigger context, showing fresh ways forward. It keeps me very positive & energetic, making the difference in collaborations and negotiations.
In essence: as business pressures are getting bigger every day, nature habits help me stay strong, productive and at my best ! All along, I may be aging on paper but staying young in my mind & my body ☺

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
The most important tools are heart to see what you want and courage to say yes to what you want, and no to what you don't want. Also helpful are good financial management skills and the ability to spend less than you make.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Oh gosh, where do I start? This morning I spent walking my dog at sunrise along the Guadalupe River near Boerne TX taking photos of massive weather- and flood-worn balled cypress trees and a deep blue sky dotted with purple and orange cotton-ball clouds. In August I went to Quetico Provincial Park in western Ontario camping and fishing for 8 days- so remote and pristine that we drank the water straight out of the lake. Earlier this year spent time in Anguilla riding a beautiful white horse bareback on the crystal clear turquoise waters of the Caribbean, followed by trip to Oaxaca Mexico to visit family and to get a fill of the oranges and salmon pinks that decorate so much of Mexican architecture (the photo previously attached is a "plein air" watercolor I did sitting in the garden there). Now I'm preparing for a bike trip across Vietnam and Cambodia followed by a week in Thailand. I am absolutely overwhelmed with gratitude for these opportunities, and for my life outside.

Occupation:
Managing Partner Veldhoen + Company
“Creating a better world of work”
www.Veldhoencompany.com

Favorite Place to Recharge:
No Phone, No www, No Electricity, No nothing! To recharge my best place is to be out of charge and free from any network reception or distraction other than being in nature and be provided by nature for your “survival”.

Favorite Activity:
Swimming, watersports, enjoying the infinite space that an ocean (view) is giving you to experience the Vision of Oneness in the tangible world of nature. The ocean connects all of us!

Favorite Nature Elements:
Water in general … and mountains in one experience one go. All animal life can be experienced if you are on the boundaries of land and ocean!

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Just on the terrace, deck or garden at home. Or at the beach on the rocks at the Tasman Sea……

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Working with Nature allows me to BE STILL AND LISTEN

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
For Australia and New Zealand think of a hat, sun cream, sunglasses, shadow to ensure your phone doesn’t overheat!

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Having a breakfast with colleagues and birds (they need some food too!), just out and about in New Zealand.

Occupation:
Conference Programmer & Community Grants Coordinator, SXSW

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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Shoal Creek Trail in Austin Texas

Favorite Activity:
Yoga, gardening, hiking, kayaking, flower arranging, volunteering with Central Texas Pig Rescue

Favorite Nature Elements:
The ocean; animals; flowers; trees; sunsets

Best Places to Work with Nature:
The park; my backyard

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
I try to take breaks during my work days to walk around outside, or to eat lunch outside. Sometimes stepping away from the stress of working in events and communicating with lots of people virtually each day, I notice I’m more centered and focused upon returning.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Open-mindedness; If there’s no wifi, I may need to download materials ahead of time to be able to work offline efficiently.

Occupation:
Head of Corporate Sales - Benelux
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
The mountains surrounded with water

Favorite Activity:
Cycling and hiking because it allows me to discover new places that otherwise never would be

Favorite Nature Elements:
Water sounds that brings me back to a Zen state.
Trees bring me a feeling of disconnection towards a digital world.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
My laptop and mobile allow me to work form any place and having a fantastic view works inspiring for my brain. It allows me to think out of the box.

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
It’s essential to create a moment of distraction during a work day to recharge the battery and I do this often by going for a walk in a park next to my home office.
In my head office in the Netherlands I have often 121 with my sales and we have walking trail in our business park so we can have this outside the office walls. People feel more freely to discuss matters when they are connected to nature, so they don’t feel the office pressure.
My favorite meeting room is the one with a table carved out of wood that seems to come directly from a tree. Just touching the table and feeling the structure of the table brings you back to a relaxing state of mind.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
My headset to keep my handsfree during long calls and walk around without holding a phone to my ear and feeling locked to one place.
While travelling I take my umbrella with me so no more excuses not to go for a walk when it rains.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Each year I organize a cycling trip for my customers to a location surrounded with mountains. The relationship you build up with these customers is unique. You go for epic rides surrounded by beautiful nature and this allows to collaborate while being disconnected from the office environment.

Occupation:
Marketing Professional
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Lake Pokegama in Minong, WI.

Favorite Activity:
Water Skiing

Favorite Nature Elements:
Water

Best places to work with Nature:
Coffee shop with an outdoor patio/workspace.

Essential Tools for Working with Nature:
Good weather, flexible working conditions from an employer, wifi or cell signal if calls/email are essential to the job.

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
I have had so many! I would probably say working on the "Nobody's Waterproof" boater and water safety campaign for LCRA and Texas Parks and Wildlife while I was working for EnviroMedia Social Marketing. I got to go out on the Highland Lakes and teach lake users how to "Play it safe on the lake" while they were actually out in that environment.

Occupation:
Managing Partner at Rethink, author of non-fiction books
www.markusalbers.com
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Valentinswerder, a tiny island in Tegeler See, a lake near Berlin city center, just 20 minutes from my home in Mitte

Favorite Activity:
Running – wherever I travel I always pack my running gear and explore parks, forests, beaches at my destinations. A great way to get to know foreign cities.

Favorite Nature Elements:
Water! If I can choose between the mountains and the sea I’ll always pick the sea.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
again, Valentinswerder

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
On Valentinswerder we have a refurbished circus wagon and a garden. Both need constant tending and tinkering, whilst producing lots of ideas that make it into my consulting recommendations and books.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Lawn Mover ☺ !

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
I do my serious thinking about work (challenges, new projects, a great intro to a text I’m writing …) with a view on the Valentinswerder waterside. In the beginning I thought I would bring my laptop to the island all the time and actually work in nature. But that turned out to feel wrong: Staring at a screen while being surrounded by old trees, a great beach, and playing children is not how flexible work arrangements should look like. Today when on the island, I leave my laptop at home and put the smartphone in a drawer in our circus wagon. I still get lots of work done there exactly because I allow myself uninterrupted time to contemplate and let my mind wander.

Occupation:
Marketing Expert & Mentor, Creative Director, Advertising
http://www.acesbranding.com/
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
I love the mountains because of the fresh air and views

Favorite Activity:
Hiking

Favorite Nature Elements:
I love all things nature. The myriad of forest sounds and aromas, the rhythm an ocean surf, crisp mountain air, and the stark beauty of deserts give me everything I need to recharge.

Best Places to Work with Nature:
In my backyard, At Cosmic Cafe in Austin, At the Central Library of Austin

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Number one: Before beginning, ask oneself if there is an option to take this task outdoors.
Number two: Pack the gear needed to perform at your best.

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Laptop or tablet, back up batteries, proper clothing, refreshments

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
Getting up early in the morning and watching the sunrise as I listen to nature start the day allows the ideas to pour out of my mind.

Occupation:
Championing Smarter Working & Career, Founding Ozadi Nature@Work Advocate
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
Hiking in the Austrian Nock Mountains

Favorite Activity:
Cycling, walking and gardening

Favorite Nature Elements:
Lake, pond, river, seaside and mountain views

Best Places to Work with Nature:
Facing my garden
Overlooking Lady Bird Lake in Austin
Deck view from Turracher Hohe chalet in Austria

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Start the day with an hour vigorous cycling for max creativity
Authoring with river view for best focus and highest productivity
Afternoon walk to relax

Essential Tools for Work with Nature:
Big iPad Pro with Pencil, Tumi backpack, Salomon Speedcross 4 shoes, Specialized Diverge gravel bike, Seiko XChanger eyewear

Most Wonderful Work with Nature Experience:
2009 Vacation Lago D’orta Italia, great views during lunch spark immense creativity. Realization that when in nature (mostly on vacation) I am in best work condition

Conclusion: Take more vacation (for work) or add more nature at work ☺

Occupation:
Founding Advocate, Ozadi; Principal, RRB Ventures; Strategic Business Development.
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Favorite Place to Recharge:
New Mexico Mountains; Cabo San Lucas; Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

Favorite Activity:
Bowhunting, Paddle boarding, Skiing/Snowboarding

Favorite Nature Elements:
Places with Water, Trees, Birds, Sun/Shade

Best Places to work with Nature:
My outdoor patio with pergola covered with Jasmin vines
Patio deck overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico;
Cosmic Coffee and Beer Garden in Austin, Texas

Work with Nature Habits and Impact:
Walk my dog in the morning to re-energize.
Working in my outdoor living area for productivity and creativity.
Paddle board on Lady Bird Lake to relax and ideate.

Essential Tools for Work in Nature:
Iphone with hotspot; iPad Pro with Pencil; Thule backpack; Goal Zero Sherpa 40, Prana Cayman shirts and Zion shorts, Maui Jim Sunglasses, Sawyer Permithrin

Most Wonderful Work in Nature Experience:
Made most profitable construction contract while in a tree at Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge; while walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain learned WiFi was readily available; and realization that I am most creative when in nature.