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Balance by Nature: Walk off the stigma of mental health

Program overview

What is the connection between personal wellbeing and workplace performance?

The Challenge: 1 in 4 people face psychosocial issues each year. In fast-paced work environments, both individuals and organizations are under pressure—making stress management activities for adults more important than ever.

The Opportunity. Stress can be a positive force when managed well. But when left unchecked, it harms performance and wellbeing. A focused stress wellness retreat provides the space to reset and learn how to respond to stress in healthier ways.

The Solution. The Balance by Nature Program, developed by Encontrar+se and Walking Mentorship, delivers a powerful response to rising burnout. This unique stress relief retreat combines effective stress management techniques, self-awareness tools, and the calming benefits of walking in nature.

The Impact. Participants learn to recognise their personal stress limits, gain tools for reducing stress in the workplace, and know when and how to ask for help. The program ends with a personalised action plan to support a healthier, more balanced work culture.

Always walking and always in nature*.

Please read some of the testimonials from those who have already had the opportunity to participate in our programs.

*Walking in nature is at the heart of all our programs because we know it takes the experience to a different level – if you want to know more, visit our About page and check out the science behind this claim.

1 or 2 Days

Program Type:

Corporate

Location:

Near your office or in a agreed area

Group size:

20 people

Distance:

10 - 15km per day

Program overview

What is the connection between personal wellbeing and workplace performance?

The Challenge: 1 in 4 people face psychosocial issues each year. In fast-paced work environments, both individuals and organizations are under pressure—making stress management activities for adults more important than ever.

The Opportunity. Stress can be a positive force when managed well. But when left unchecked, it harms performance and wellbeing. A focused stress wellness retreat provides the space to reset and learn how to respond to stress in healthier ways.

The Solution. The Balance by Nature Program, developed by Encontrar+se and Walking Mentorship, delivers a powerful response to rising burnout. This unique stress relief retreat combines effective stress management techniques, self-awareness tools, and the calming benefits of walking in nature.

The Impact. Participants learn to recognise their personal stress limits, gain tools for reducing stress in the workplace, and know when and how to ask for help. The program ends with a personalised action plan to support a healthier, more balanced work culture.

Always walking and always in nature*.

Please read some of the testimonials from those who have already had the opportunity to participate in our programs.

*Walking in nature is at the heart of all our programs because we know it takes the experience to a different level – if you want to know more, visit our About page and check out the science behind this claim.

Our clients’ feedback

Mariana Alcoforado - Walking Mentorship - Burn(out) stress
Mariana Alcoforado - Walking Mentorship - Burn(out) stress
Raquel Lourenço - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Raquel Lourenço - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Filipe Mendonça - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Filipe Mendonça - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Sara Durães - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Sara Durães - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Joana Alves - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Joana Alves - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Mariana Alcoforado - Walking Mentorship - Burn(out) stress
Mariana Alcoforado - Walking Mentorship - Burn(out) stress
Raquel Lourenço - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Raquel Lourenço - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Filipe Mendonça - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Filipe Mendonça - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Sara Durães - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Sara Durães - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Joana Alves - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Joana Alves - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Mariana Alcoforado - Walking Mentorship - Burn(out) stress
Raquel Lourenço - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Filipe Mendonça - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Sara Durães - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Joana Alves - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Mariana Alcoforado - Walking Mentorship - Burn(out) stress
Raquel Lourenço - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Filipe Mendonça - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Sara Durães - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship
Joana Alves - Burn(out) Stress - Walking Mentorship

We have to be the ones to change the narrative!

We have to be ourselves to look at things with different eyes. The program's exercises helped me a lot to organize my ideas and understand what I have to stop doing and what I have to start doing to limit the bad days and control anxiety.

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Mariana Alcoforado

Director of Operations

This day made me feel grateful for the state I find myself in right now. I am at peace with myself, happy, and have reviewed my immunity.

I tried to analyze and think about how much your program could impact my organization and how it could bring together people who currently need help. I believe that it would indeed be a very useful program that would make a difference within the company and that we could reach a series of people in a completely innovative way that would bring them many benefits.

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Raquel Lourenço

Responsible for Personal Development Knowledge and Talent Center

I today's program with hope. Through thoughts, I can actually change the narrative, and by changing my narrative, I change my story.

Changing the way I look at things. I always said throughout my life that my head was my biggest enemy. And that the strangest, scariest, darkest place I'd ever been was in my head. Now, I leave here with the certainty that my head can be the most incredible and luminous place I can be.

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Filipe Mendonça

Communication consultant

Several shares made me think and gave me important insights.

Throughout this day, there were several "reminders" to wake up. To be in a conscious spot, the signals that my body gives me, and for that to have to listen to something that is something that I know, but that many times, with the day-to-day rush, I tend to go around the hamster wheel and forget about it. The question now is to understand and be more present to recognize that many of the emotions and feelings I have in relation to a certain event are my lens, and as we all know, the map is not the territory.

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Sara Durães

HR manager

Exit our comfort zone is fundamental to tackling such an important topic

The importance of disconnecting and exiting the hamster wheel through the framework of the various dynamics. Mentoring helps organize the information in our heads. I highlight the moments of sharing with fellow travellers that allow us to get to know the human side in greater depth.

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Joana Alves

HR Training at Porto City hall
Walking Mentorship - Ordem dos enfermeiros - Figueira da Foz - Portugal

Duration

The program runs over 1 or 2 full days, taking place either near your company or in one of our selected partner hotels, providing the ideal setting for a stress wellness retreat focused on stress management activities for adults and practical strategies for reducing stress in the workplace.

Walking Mentorship - Ordem dos enfermeiros - Figueira da Foz - Portugal
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Dynamics

The Balance by Nature program includes a carefully designed series of stress management activities for adults. While walking in nature, participants engage in self-reflection exercises, sharing dynamics in pairs, and inspiring group conversations. The goal is to explore effective stress management techniques in a natural and relaxed setting.

By the end of the program, each participant contributes suggestions for improving the workplace environment. These insights are compiled into a blind global report and delivered to the program sponsor, offering actionable steps to reduce stress in the workplace and support a healthier, more sustainable work culture.

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What's included:

  • Exclusive Walking Mentorship methodology.
  • Pre-walk orientation session.
  • A Mentor per 8 participants.
  • Time to walk on your own and with each participant.
  • Personal Insurance.
  • After the program a global anonimized report consolidating the participants suggestions to improve the work environment.
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We believe that our programs can change lives

Payment plans are available. Special conditions for unemployed, and under 30 y.o. If for some reason you cannot afford our prices, drop us a few lines presenting your case, and we will do our best to find solutions.

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