Workplace wellbeing, team building and offsites in Edinburgh
Wellbeing days, team away days and leadership sessions for Edinburgh organisations, led by people who live here and specialists who travel in.
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The occasions Edinburgh organisers bring to us, from wellbeing days to leadership dinners, each bookable directly or shaped to your brief.
Wellbeing team days in Edinburgh, measured in energy
An Edinburgh wellbeing day can open with breath and quiet awareness, move to live music for a slower hour and close with a sound journey, or run as a series through the year. Each session can carry the Impact Index, with team and individual certificates.
LiYing hosts tea in Edinburgh; Caitlin, a Mental Health First Aider, coaches from Leith.
A wellbeing series that builds week by week
A consultant who spent years inside large firms returns to the same team, so each session builds on the practice of the last.
With Christina
Deep rest under the gong
Kitu plays gong, singing bowls and voice while the team rests under blankets, from two colleagues to a floor of fifty.
With Kitu
Breath and awareness to build trust
Breath and quiet awareness help a group let go of control and settle into the room together.
With Omilana
Live music for a slower hour
Voice, live music and immersive design from a multi-platinum artist help a small team breathe out together.
With Bloom
Formats, group sizes and languages
Employers in Scotland have a legal duty to protect employees from stress at work by doing a risk assessment and acting on it, and the HSE Management Standards frame that work in six areas: demands, control, support, relationships, role and change. A session on energy and focus speaks to demands; a writing circle or a breath session gives a team time for support and recovery. Both complement the formal risk assessment.
| Session | Length | Group | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sound journey with Sachin | 60 to 90 minutes | 5 to 100 | English, Dutch, Hindi |
| Nutrition for energy and focus with Samantha | 60 minutes | 5 to 50 | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Writing for wellbeing with Fi | 45 to 60 minutes | 6 to 10 | English |
| Tea ceremony with LiYing | 30 to 90 minutes | 1 to 20 | English, Malay, Chinese |
| Support-network mapping with Caitlin | 30 to 60 minutes | 3 to 50 | English |
Sessions run in your Edinburgh office or a venue you choose, or online for colleagues elsewhere in Scotland. Name the team size, the shape of the day and the pressure the team is under, and options come back quickly.
I run HR for a mid-sized firm: where should I look for a wellbeing-focused team day in Edinburgh?
Start with a brief: your headcount, the date and what the day should change, and tailored options come back quickly. Or browse Edinburgh experts and sessions and book one directly. A typical day pairs Samantha's talk on energy and focus with Sachin's sound journey, or builds around LiYing's tea ceremony, hosted in the city. With the Impact Index, the team sees its energy, focus and pressure before and after.
Can a corporate breathwork session be run for an Edinburgh office?
Yes. Sachin, who closes the day with a sound journey, also leads Breathe to Recharge, a guided breathwork session that comes to your office. Participants leave with techniques they can repeat before a difficult meeting, and the Impact Index records the change in energy, focus and pressure.
What does a workplace wellbeing workshop in Edinburgh involve, and for how many people?
Most run 30 to 90 minutes. Fi's writing hour takes 6 to 10 people, Samantha's nutrition talk up to 50, Caitlin's support-network mapping up to 50 and Sachin's sound journey up to 100. Each works on energy, focus, pressure or recovery, and the Impact Index adds a team report and a certificate for every participant.
Can a whole Edinburgh team practise mindfulness together at work?
Yes. LiYing's tea ceremony brings up to 20 people into shared stillness with tea and gentle sound, and Sachin's sound journey takes up to 100 colleagues into deep rest. Frazer, a mindfulness meditation teacher based in Edinburgh, also designs bespoke meditations for groups and venues.
Team building and away days in Edinburgh and across Scotland
A team day in Edinburgh works best with a craft at its centre. Polly's choir day builds to a performance for 20 to 100, Vivek has a table of colleagues write lyrics together, and Beatriz maps the team as a living ecosystem in two to three hours.
Caitlin travels from Leith anywhere in the UK, from Stirling to Falkirk and beyond.
A choir that performs by the end of the day
Harmony and a first performance in the morning, new repertoire and a second in the afternoon, led by a BBC Proms soloist.
With Polly
Your team as a living ecosystem
A design-thinking teacher uses biomimicry and nature-led exercises so the team maps how it really works and what keeps it healthy.
With Beatriz
Lyrics written by the whole team
Guided reflection and hands-on lyric-writing tools turn a group into co-writers of a song about what keeps them going.
With Vivek
Painting how the team feels today
Colleagues turn the feelings of the week into colour and shape, talk through what they made, and leave with an artwork and calmer heads.
With Fulya
Formats, group sizes and day shapes
For an evening social, Frazer, an Edinburgh mindfulness teacher, leads whisky meditations and mindful-drinking evenings shaped with the venue.
| Format | Length | Group |
|---|---|---|
| Choir and performance with Polly | Full day | 20 to 100 |
| Improvisation with Anna | 45 to 120 minutes | 8 to 40 |
| Laughter yoga with Angela | 60 minutes | 4 to 50 |
Polly, Anna and Angela travel to Edinburgh for the day. For an away day outside the city, tell us the venue, the headcount and the slot, and tailored options come back.
What can a company away day in Scotland include besides the venue?
A facilitated session that gives the day its centre. Polly's choir builds to a group performance for 20 to 100, Anna's improvisation suits 8 to 40 and Angela's laughter session takes up to 50. Each fits a half-day or full-day agenda, and the specialist travels to wherever in Scotland the team meets, from Edinburgh to Stirling.
Which team building companies in Edinburgh run facilitated sessions?
Culture Vitale brings named specialists to Edinburgh teams: Polly, a singer and accredited coach; Anna, an award-winning actor; and Angela, who leads laughter yoga. Each leads their own session. Send a brief for tailored options, or browse Edinburgh experts and sessions and book directly.
What team building ideas suit a team day in Edinburgh?
For a big group, Polly's choir day takes 20 to 100 colleagues to a closing performance. A team that needs to talk more freely gets more from Anna's improvisation, for 8 to 40. An evening social can become one of Frazer's whisky meditations, and after a reorganisation Caitlin's support-network mapping shows who helps whom in 30 to 60 minutes.
Leadership offsites and corporate events in Edinburgh, facilitated from Leith
An Edinburgh leadership team can bring a facilitator into its own offsite: Caitlin, an ICF coach based in Leith, works on change and accountability, and LiYing closes a leadership dinner with a tea ceremony. For a kick-off, Kieran's world-music set lifts 150 or more.
An agency booked stretching, mindfulness and sound breaks for a 150-person sales kick-off.
Trust and support, through play
Group dynamics, play and embodied activities let a team test trust and support, and come closer as a group.
With Alexandra
Tea to close the leadership dinner
LiYing guides tea, gentle sound and stillness for up to 20, after a long day of decisions.
With LiYing
Creative coaching for a clear decision
Collage, characters and visual cards put a hard question on the table faster than talk alone, with no artistic skill needed.
With Amie
Presence, purpose and impact, in half a day
A device-free leadership experience of storytelling, reflection and facilitated dialogue that looks at team dynamics and how decisions get made.
With Natalie
Formats, rooms and agenda slots
Competing Commitments uses the Immunity to Change framework to surface the unspoken assumptions that keep a team stuck, and treats resistance as a system built to keep people safe. Before she turned to coaching, Caitlin spent a decade as a technology strategist working with senior leaders and leadership teams. For a whole programme of sessions and speakers, start with conference and kick-off sessions.
| Format | Length | Group |
|---|---|---|
| Competing Commitments with Caitlin | 30 to 60 minutes | 3 to 50 |
| Courage coaching programme with Caitlin | Several sessions | Leaders and teams |
| Tea ceremony with LiYing | 30 to 90 minutes | 1 to 20 |
| Interactive world music with Kieran | 20 to 120 minutes | 5 to 200 |
| Improvisation with Anna | 45 to 120 minutes | 8 to 40 |
| Stretching, mindfulness, energy and sound activations | 5 to 10 minutes | A full room, 150 and more |
| Perform better under pressure with Armgard | 15 hours across a programme | 6 to 15 |
The facilitation sits inside your offsite or event, wherever it is held. Caitlin travels anywhere in the UK, and further afield for longer programmes; Kieran travels to Edinburgh. Send the date, the room, the headcount and the slot in the running order, and options come back quickly.
Can leadership training in Edinburgh be run inside our own offsite?
Yes. Caitlin facilitates inside a leadership team's own offsite, in person at your venue or online, and travels from Leith anywhere in the UK. A single session of 30 to 60 minutes fits one agenda slot for 3 to 50 people; her courage programme runs across several sessions. Send the date, the group and the aim for tailored options.
What corporate training in Edinburgh helps a leadership team through change?
Caitlin's Competing Commitments session applies the Immunity to Change framework: leaders uncover the assumptions behind the commitments that keep them stuck, then plan how to move past them. It runs 30 to 60 minutes for 3 to 50 people, in person or online.
What can be added to a corporate event in Edinburgh beyond the venue?
A facilitated session in the running order: Kieran's interactive world-music set for 5 to 200, Anna's improvisation for 8 to 40, or five-to-ten-minute activations of stretching, mindfulness, energy and sound between items, the format a UK events agency booked for a 150-person sales kick-off. Kieran and Anna both travel to Edinburgh.
More experiences in Edinburgh
Mindfulness
Mindful Connection Walk (Zoo Edition)
With Lara
Team
The Cohesion Catalyst: Strengthening communication and connection to spark team performance.
With Claire
Dance
Choreographic Team Building Workshop
With Alexander
Somatic
The Opening
With Leila
Mindfulness
Mindful Presence at Work: Beyond Managing Stress
With Nuno
Visual art
The Art of Being at Work: Creative Wellbeing Workshop
With Gemma
Team
The Business Pyjama Party
With Thomas
Resilience
Feedback Resilience & Emotional Stability: Understanding triggers, reducing self-judgment and staying grounded under pressure
With Consuelo
From Leith to the BBC Proms: who leads
Polly, Susan and Danielle travel in for the day, and so do Mehak, Fadila and Molly. Between them they bring choir singing, hand casting, creative stress relief, emotional release, a guided pause for teams under pressure and yoga for the mind, so the wellbeing day, the team day and the leadership dinner each have a natural lead.
Mehak
Emotional release practitioner
An emotional release journey that helps people let go of the tension the body holds.
Fadila
Coach and facilitator
Leads A Pause Beyond the Problem, a session that gives a team room to step back from a difficult issue.
Molly
Yoga and nature-connection teacher
Yoga for the mind, nature connection and rest-and-restore sessions for teams.
Polly
Singer and choir leader
She has recorded on more than 100 film soundtracks and spent 16 years as a Director of Music in schools.
Susan
Artist and glass specialist
A practising artist for 25 years, specialising in glass, who teaches anyone the joy of making in three dimensions.
Danielle
Creative trainer and stress-relief coach
More than ten years teaching creative, expressive and meditative ways to release stress and prevent burnout.
Booking in Edinburgh: the calendar, lead times and languages
- Lead times
- UK briefs usually reach us three to twelve weeks before the day. Send yours as soon as the date is clear, and tailored options follow quickly.
- August
- The Edinburgh Festival Fringe puts artists and performers on hundreds of stages across the city. Book August sessions early, or hold them in your own office.Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Scottish holidays
- 2 January and St Andrew's Day on 30 November are bank holidays in Scotland, and the summer bank holiday falls on the first Monday of August. Edinburgh also keeps local holidays of its own, among them Victoria Day in May and a holiday in September.Bank holidays in Scotland
- Where
- Your office or a venue you choose in Edinburgh, Leith or anywhere in Scotland, or online for colleagues across the country.
- Languages
- English throughout; LiYing also leads in Malay and Chinese, Samantha in French, Spanish and Portuguese, and Sachin in Dutch and Hindi.
Plan an Edinburgh day, or browse and book
Send a brief with your headcount, date and the kind of day you have in mind, and tailored options come back quickly. Or browse Edinburgh experts and sessions and book for yourself.
Tailored options, quickly.