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Mappiness days

What is a Mappiness Day?

Mappiness days connect people leading in environmental organisations with leading nature experts in inspiring settings.

Mappiness days:

  • Inspire people with a deeper understanding of the environment, reminding them why they do what they do.

  • Provide an opportunity for personal reflection and peer to peer support.

  • Help people find calm, clarity, and develop new relationships;  connecting people with nature and each other.

  • Help people with similar goals form supportive relationships, that can lead to collaborations and new opportunities.

  • Get conversations flowing without the distractions of technology and day to day work priorities.

  • Focus on wellbeing to boost resilience and inspire creative thinking.


Mappiness 2024: Thursday 19th September

This year, Mappiness will be focus on birds, and will be delivered in partnership with one of the UK's leading birders, David Darrell-Lambert.

Guaranteed to inspire and amaze, David will help you experience a wildlife walk like never before. David is so passionate about birds he jogs in the gym. He tried outside once, but it was impossible for him not to stop all the time and stare up at a feathery friend. Read more about David here: https://www.birdbrainuk.com/about

The practicalities

Meet: 9:30 @ Chichester station to jump in a taxi with others.

Walk begins: 10:00 @ https://www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/pagham-harbour-local-nature-reserve

Fodder: A light packed lunch will be provided, followed by a delicious late afternoon seafood meal (+ veggie options) @ https://www.crownandanchorchichester.com/

Taxi returns to Chichester station 18:00?

Cost

£250? including taxi, guided walk, and meal.

Booking

To check availably and book:

 

How did Mappiness days start?

At Maplango we generally travel the world from the GIS on our desktop, taking a birds eye view of the world. But we have fond memories of fieldwork. And although we don't get out into nature in a work capacity that much anymore, we find great solace, clarity, calm and inspiration in nature. Through conversations with contemporaries at the CIEEM conference in Liverpool, we realised that others felt the same. And Mappiness Days were born.

Matt (in the hat) radio-tracking Manx Shearwater c.2003