Question 1

What is oasis online?

Accepted Answer

oasis online ℠ is a mindful nature immersion and wellbeing management program for everyday work-life.

At its most basic, oasis online offers calm, clarity and insight. We meet clients where they are, providing structure and guidance as they prioritize and focus on their self-care:

• 🌲 Soothing nature soundscapes quickly disconnect clients from stress while revitalizing them.

• 📝 Quiet self-reflections generate greater self-awareness, learning and impactful action steps.
 • 💬 Expert-led conversation provides guidance while clients work towards their goals over time.

• 🌟 Social connection boosts wellbeing and nourishment during 1:1 and small group sessions.
 • 🎧 Remote, audio sessions are location-flexible, avoid video fatigue and enable easier participation.

• 🗓️ Scheduling builds momentum for and sustains consistency in clients' self-care practices.

If you join oasis online, you'll find that no two sessions are the same, because you, your day and your needs are unique each time. That's why you get to decide how to best take care of you. Nap. Meditate. Journal. Draw. Stretch your body. Clean your desk. Cook a nourishing meal. Get creative. Whatever you choose, there's a very good chance you'll emerge feeling brighter, relaxed, nourished and inspired!

Enjoy a taste of the oasis online program.
Try our relaxing, micro break! (https://www.waterbearplanet.com/micro-break)😌

Question 2

What have others experienced?

Accepted Answer

⭐️ Participants report feeling more inspired, focused, present. On a scale of 1 to 10, many enjoy at least 2 points improvement during their sessions. Here are some snippets about their experiences, both during and after:

• "Rejuvenating!"
 • “A sense of relief.”
 • "I felt calm for days."
 • "It felt like 5 hrs of nature time, in 20 minutes. So good!"
 • "It was so relaxing."
 • "I had the best night's sleep."
 • "Quiet and peaceful."  
 • "A very moving experience."
 • "It was nice to not have to do anything, without any sense of guilt."
 • "It was transporting."
 • "A little bit of quiet can go a long way!"
 • "My mind is much clearer."
 • "Total bliss."
 • "Surprised that the session went so fast, and I got so much done."

⭐️⭐️ Just within a single session, clients enjoy clarity and fresh perspective, realizing new possibilities for enhancing their creativity and better managing their personal wellbeing:

• "I was able to get away from screens and let my mind wander for a bit. I literally just laid on the floor, closed my eyes for a few minutes, and while my mind was wandering it found the poem idea! Scheduled time to be quiet with zero agenda was really good for me."

• "I turned a distraction into something that is possibly constructive."

• "I am getting better at being less aimed at specific outcomes, and able to just create some conditions and enjoy/appreciate whatever comes out of them."

• "I need to pause more and check in with how I am feeling/what I'm thinking about because moving through my days on autopilot going from one thing to the next isn't a good or healthy way to live."

• "Repetitive, mundane tasks, even quiet doodling, are helpful when I'm emotionally stressed."

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Over time, participants settle into a new baseline of wellbeing and resilience. They enjoy positive shifts in mindset to better navigate their lives and what is most essential to them personally. They explore and set effective boundaries, helping to buffer themselves from stress, emotional exhaustion and burnout:

Neil, IT Engineer from New York

"I am better at coping with disruption, managing stress, and making time for breaks and other restorative moments. Depending on my mood and needs, I have used sessions to collect my thoughts, plan and organize tasks, meditate, or simply go to another space, away from my day and its demands."

Kevin, Small Business Owner from Boston

"I am more able to be present with my kid, do what my body wants rather than what I think it needs... and to stop thinking about work! Although doing work is also good during these sessions, if it’s preparing me to think about how to be mindful of my time and energy."

Question 3

What is your approach?

Accepted Answer

Over the years, we've observed that one doesn't need to "know how to meditate",  "find it easy to relax" or "know what to do" in order to enjoy the immediate benefits of participating. Simply showing up, being open to receiving support and getting curious about the possibilities is more than enough. That's why oasis online offers dependable access to moments of deeper peace, calm and joy. Although this can feel elusive in daily life, our clients are able to make moments like these closer to their norm rather than the exception.

Further, we offer a strengths-based approach to clients as they pave their way to a more even-keeled and rooted sense of wellbeing. We encourage clients to bring their current practices to their sessions and cross-pollinate learning from other forms of support. Allowing each session to be a creative, playful, and enriching space, clients realize new ways to make things easier. As they progress through their program, clients grow more specific and nuanced about their goals, needs and mastery of skills, which we'll continually revisit along the way. That's why we also support them with:

• 🛠️ Tools for wellbeing that offer new ways to experiment with and reframe options for daily life.

• 📚 Learning opportunities with our core partners in managing stress and workplace wellbeing.

• 🕰️ Time sensitive sessions that make this doable from 1x/week to 1x/month, with async options.

Because so much of our personal energy revolves around work-family-home, we designed oasis online to boost resilience and thriving — in spite of and in the midst of life's ups and downs. Book a call to learn more! (https://www.waterbearplanet.com/book-a-call)

Question 4

How is oasis online transformative?

Accepted Answer

When it comes to cultivating sustainable, self-care practices that strengthen one's wellbeing, taking little steps over time makes this more doable, momentum building and sticky in the best possible way. In our experience, this is a flexible approach to keep things moving forward, while being responsive to immediate needs.

We also find that when participants can integrate their everyday needs with experiences of deep relaxation and wellbeing, fresh perspectives and insights emerge more easily, even within one session. Clients then better appreciate what works well for them and commit to implementing that on their own, or at least incorporating more of that into their daily lives. This also opens up space to feel more comfortable exploring other forms of personal support, like therapy or coaching, and to have a clearer sense of next steps.

Therefore, transformation happens with consistent, focused work. Finding the right support for you can be key to accelerating this process in a nourishing, effective way.

Question 5

Why connect with nature?

Accepted Answer

It is because we are somatic, feeling beings and are part of nature — in spite of hectic days that keep us running and/or glued to our computers and devices! oasis online is a gentle reminder to allow the experience of nature back into our daily lives and reignite our curiosity about this.

Although it is different for each of us, connecting with nature (https://workrbeeing.com/2020/06/14/nature/)helps with self-regulation and soothes us (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-my-brain-works/202308/can-the-sounds-of-nature-help-heal-our-body-and-brain)— slowing us down like a gentle speed bump in our days and softening our resistance to receiving nourishment. This nudges us to listen to our bodies more, syncs us up with the pace of the Earth, evokes awe (https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_is_nature_so_good_for_your_mental_health)and offers us space to reflect on who we are and what we need in the moment and over our lifetime.

Nature experiences during the workday also boost wellbeing and job performance.(https://workrbeeing.com/2024/01/08/exposure-to-nature/) Because nature breaks relax and restore us, they also help us to show up for ourselves and others in more balanced, effective ways.

Question 6

Can this solve workplace burnout?

Accepted Answer

oasis online can help everyone from executives to individual contributors to:

• Manage and reduce stress
 • Increase self-awareness
 • Build breaks into their workday
 • Personalize boundaries around work
 • Boost their psychological capital
 • Recover from stress and burnout

However, while oasis online by itself can help address the experience of burnout and create space and openness to make change in the workplace among individuals, it cannot fully solve burnout when the underlying drivers are still operating actively. This is because burnout in the workplace is usually an organizational-level problem.(https://ssir.org/articles/entry/burnout_from_an_organizational_perspective)

Therefore, while employees unfortunately often have to cope with the downstream impacts of work stress and burnout (https://www.apa.org/topics/healthy-workplaces/workplace-burnout)in their personal lives, this is not something they can or should need to solve at the individual level. It will however take strong, aware and committed leadership to shift things into a different gear.

Learn how we help companies mitigate burnout.(https://www.waterbearplanet.com/workplace-wellbeing)

Question 7

Is oasis online kid-friendly?

Accepted Answer

Yes! Because kids are very connected with and curious about the natural world 🦖🦋, enjoying our sonic immersions is a great way to help them strengthen their unique relationship with nature. oasis online also can create more calm at bedtime 😴 (and during the day!), while offering the possibility of each member of your family discovering what self-care means to them individually, over time.

Question 8

Is this mental health care?

Accepted Answer

This program does not offer professional mental health care or therapy. For those working with a therapist, oasis online provides a nourishing, gentle complement. Setting aside supported time and space to explore, prioritize and implement one's self-care and stress management needs can be invaluable.

All participants are responsible for their own mental wellbeing at all times during the program. If you're not quite a fit for this program at this time, we can share a list of resources that may better serve you.

Question 9

Anything else I should know?

Accepted Answer

As a creative studio 🎨, Waterbear Planet designs experiences and spaces to catalyze wellbeing, self-care and connection with nature. We're here to help our clients pursue a more rested, relaxed and nourished life, while navigating the waters of change and transformation.

This program is a calming oasis within daily life and an encouraging touchstone when things feel challenging. Clients enroll in oasis online to shore up their energies and make space for additional personal work. For each client, this looks different.

Deciding if oasis online is a good fit for you (and how to best structure the program for you), is something we will discover together.

Let's find out.(https://www.waterbearplanet.com/book-a-consultation)

Question 10

How can I get started?

Accepted Answer

We now offer oasis online through private programs for individuals and self-organized cohorts of friends, family and colleagues. Invest in the personalized 1:1 support you need to catapult you to your next level of wellbeing. It also can be powerful to come together with a trusted group of people you know and love.

If you're curious about starting a small group, start simple by drawing up a list of potential people who might love doing an oasis online program with you:

• Parents in your close family or friend circle
• Colleagues or associates from work
• Friends from college or grad school
• Business owners from your mastermind group
• Any people you adore sharing life with...

Base pricing, which depends on your chosen program structure, is comparable to higher-end executive coaching rates and is offered as a flat fee, whether you're an individual or a small group. That means, whether you go solo or band together with your favorite people, the fee will be the same. As an add-on, by drawing on our network of work-life experts, you can extend and enhance your program with us to better meet your specific learning and growth goals. Joint programs involve further investment.

Email us at oasis@waterbearplanet.com (oasis@waterbearplanet.com)or book a call (https://www.waterbearplanet.com/book-a-call)with our team to learn more.

Revitalize in minutes.

Revitalize in minutes.

Release stress with more ease.

Wellbeing is
not negotiable.

Tune into your personal needs.

Carve out space, just for you.

I.
Let us transport you.

II.
Take care of you.

III.
You'll feel better.

Revitalize in minutes.

Revitalize in minutes.

Release stress with more ease.

I. Let us transport you.

II. Take care of you.

III. You'll feel better.

I.
Let us transport you.

II.
Take care of you.

III.
You'll feel better.