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A full day to decide the big things

Half day and full day facilitated sessions at Mount Kid, West Cork, for leadership teams and core decision makers.

Plan your offsite

What you leave with

Nothing here is a souvenir. Everything on this list is written down before you drive home.

  • Agreed priorities and trade offs
  • Decisions captured, with owners where relevant
  • A practical 30 to 60 day action plan
  • Renewed focus and alignment

Who it is for

Best for teams who need clarity and direction on a live issue. Most sessions work best for groups of two to ten.

  • Leadership teams and boards
  • Founders and core decision makers
  • Project teams working through complexity or change
  • Organisations preparing for a new phase: growth, restructuring, launch, reset

The method

A clear structure, designed around your goals. Three phases, drawn as a path because that is how the day actually moves.

  1. Align

    We clarify goals, context, constraints and what good looks like.

  2. Explore

    Structured facilitation outdoors and at base. Options, trade offs, decisions.

  3. Capture

    We document priorities, decisions and a practical 30 to 60 day plan.

Optional prep and follow up sessions are available to support follow through.

How a full day runs

Timings from our published format. We shape the content around your goals, but the proportions hold.

  • Arrive and align,20 to 30 minutes.Goals, context, constraints, what good looks like.
  • Workshop and Thinking Trail,2 to 5 hours.Facilitation outdoors and at base. Options, trade offs, decisions.
  • Synthesis and next steps,30 to 45 minutes.Priorities, decisions and the 30 to 60 day plan, written down.

Session options

We tailor content to your situation. These are the common starting points.

A small lake surrounded by hedgerow and scrub in mist

Half day strategic reset, 3 to 4 hours

For alignment, a stuck decision, or a reset of priorities. Includes one Thinking Trail and a facilitated synthesis with captured next steps.

A covered outdoor polytunnel workspace with wooden picnic tables in a grassy clearing

Full day strategy offsite, 6 to 7 hours

For a strategy refresh, planning, complex change or multi stakeholder alignment. Workshop blocks plus one or more Thinking Trails, with decisions and an action plan captured.

A cobbled farmhouse courtyard with red stable doors, a garden umbrella, picnic table and potted flowers

Two part offsite, overnight

For deeper work, or when you want more space between the two halves of the conversation.

Discuss the live challenge

What is included

  • Session design shaped around your goals
  • Facilitation throughout, outdoors and at base
  • Thinking Trails as a core part of the process
  • A written capture of priorities, decisions and next steps
  • Optional prep call and follow up call to support follow through

Offsite or Trail?

Four people standing together in a mossy, misty forest, smiling at the camera

Strategy Offsite

A full day to decide the big things, with the whole leadership group in the room and on the trail.

Two people standing on a grass trail on a hillside, looking towards fields and the sea

Thinking Trail

A focused walk for one stuck question, one to one or in a small group.

See Thinking Trails
Snow-covered moorland and mountain under a clear blue sky

Practicalities

Designed for focused conversation in all weathers.

  • Location: Mount Kid, West Cork. Details shared when booked.
  • Weather plan: we shape the day to suit conditions and move between outdoors and workspace as needed.
  • What to bring: waterproof footwear and layers. Notebooks provided.
  • Privacy: quiet and low distraction by design.
  • Our facilitation can also be delivered at your site, though Mount Kid is the recommended format.

Plan your offsite

Tell us what you are working on and who will be in the room. We will recommend the right format and the right length of day.