A Forest Bathing Ceremony — Closing London Climate Action Week
Epping Forest, London. Meeting Point: Holly Trail Cafe, E4 7QJ Chingford, London.
About this Event
After a week of climate conversations, step into the forest where they all belong. illumine.earth & synarchy invite you to close London Climate Action Week the way nature intended.
A week of climate action for nature. One morning in the forest with nature. New actions, charged conversations, difficult truths, inspirations. All in rooms, all about her. Finally, we meet under the canopy to talk with her.
The leaders driving the most urgent work of our time are doing it almost entirely from their heads. Cognitive, linear, pressured. The connection that would make those actions sustainable, and genuinely transformative, is the one most consistently left outside the room.
After filling our minds with content during the week, this is a moment to integrate so that we can focus on changing rather than just going back to the fullness of our day to day which prevents the spark of inspiration and action.
This is where the week’s work lands in the body, takes root, and becomes something you can actually act from.
🌳 A ceremonial opening under the canopy, meeting the Summer Solstice on the threshold of its arrival.
🌳 A guided sensory experience in full presence with nature.
🌳 A tea ceremony to close, honouring the land, and everything the week stirred in you.
How you feel when you return to the forest:
Stress held in the body 🌿 softened.
Sleep, attention, and concentration 🌿 restored.
Blood pressure and heart rate 🌿 lowered.
Immune function 🌿 strengthened.
And beneath all of that, you will feel something harder to name but instantly recognisable 🌿 the feeling of having remembered something you didn’t know you’d forgotten.
illumine.earth catalyses leaders to accelerate a flourishing future, synarchy brings those leaders back to nature’s intelligence where something older than thinking happens.
This is what that looks like together.
Places are few — this is an intimate experience by intention.
Synarchy and illumine.earth
Synarchy reconnects organisations with nature's intelligence. For 3.8 billion years, nature has been optimising for resilience, reciprocity, and long-term thinking. Synarchy brings that intelligence into how organisations lead, decide, and build culture. Through Forest Bathing experiences, year-long leadership transformation journeys rooted in seasonal intelligence, and culture transformation grounded in indigenous wisdom, we guide teams to lead in ways that regenerate, not extract. This work supports what organisations need most: creativity under complexity, resilience through change, and the capacity to make decisions from clarity, not pressure. Part of every engagement supports Indigenous-led rainforest protection through Cool Earth, honouring the forests and peoples that sustain life on Earth.
Illumine.earth exists to help leaders flourish as they do Big Good Fast - so the way we lead, live, build, and transform systems can move toward a flourishing future, where all people and nature thrive in equilibrium. The world does not need more leaders managing by the old rules. It needs leaders who align with flourishing as both a mindset and a mission - and who carry that alignment into every boardroom, every strategy session, and every organisation they touch. This is the work illumine.earth exists to do: to help usher in a new way of leading. A world where leaders flourish as they do Big Good Fast. Where the way you lead and the way you live are not in tension, but in harmony.
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