Walking as a professional practice
What if walking became a true professional practice, capable of transforming the way we work, collaborate, and think together?
A powerful resource to support learning, develop leadership, strengthen team cohesion, and foster authentic relationships, resilience, and collective commitment to act together.
In this spirit, The Schumacher Sprouts are proud to launch a walking‑facilitator learning path alongside experienced trainers who help professionals design and lead structured walks to deepen connections with self, others and nature.
Join our learning and practice community, where together we will reinvent transformative spaces and bring the power of walking in nature into our professional practices.
Walking in Nature as a Space for Work and Transformation
In a world marked by rapid change and growing complexity, organisations and communities are being called to respond in new ways—more creatively, more collaboratively, and with a renewed sense of connection to one another and to the Earth.
Among the most natural — yet often overlooked — practices that can support this shift is walking.
Rooted in our evolutionary biology and long practiced by visionary thinkers—Socrates, Gandhi, Alexandra David-Néel, Darwin, and Einstein —walking has been a gateway to deep thought and fresh insight. Today, neuroscience confirms its benefits: not only for physical well-being, but also for cognitive performance, creativity, and emotional regulation.
But beyond the individual, the power of collective walking remains largely untapped. When we walk—alone or with others, especially in nature—we enter into a state of mind particularly suited to deal with complexity.