Green seminar - Eco-responsible gîte in the Ardèche Venue

Green seminars and team building in the Ardèche!

A seminar in the countryside, in the Ardèche, to immerse yourself in the heart of nature for a moment of team-building and relaxation.

Businesses from Lyon, Valence, Privas or Marseille, treat yourself to an enchanting break in a self-catering or full-board gîte!

Turnkey packages for your corporate seminar, immersed in the beautiful Ardèche countryside!

Seminar rooms, sleeping accommodation and large rooms for convivial meals.

A welcoming venue for your corporate seminar or eco-responsible team building in the Rhône Alpes region!

Discover a gîte in a green setting in Vernoux-en-Vivarais, in the Ardèche, a natural and friendly place that's sure to charm you!

Rustic, calm and charming, this estate is perfect for a company looking for a friendly place with spacious communal areas.

Close to nature, it's ideal for outdoor activities, games, studious meetings around a table or taking advantage of one of our turnkey packages!

It's not a commercial hotel like so many of those used for company seminars or team building, but a place on a human scale, with home cooking and organic produce, that will encourage exchanges and the creation of friendly links.

NATURE DISCOVERY / WORKSHOPS / TEAM BUILDING R.S.E

We offer events for companies and groups, in French and English

Les Blaches is the ideal place for a green seminar, in contact with nature, not just to talk about the ecological transition, but to enable the participants in the corporate seminar to feel the deep connection that links us to our environment.

• NATURALISTIC OR BOTANICAL OUTING: Naturalist outing by day or night. Botanical outing: discovering and recognising plants, picking...
• SPORT & NATURE: orienteering; sporting and fun challenges...
• LIFE IN NATURE: wood-fired cooking, wild plant gathering, water filtration, shelter mission, etc.
• TRANSITION: Climate Fresco; Inventing our low-carbon lives
• RESPONSIBLE FOOD: Farmhouse Bread Workshop & Pizza Evening; Making homemade pasta; Discovering wild and/or plant-based cuisine
• HERBOLOGY: Natural cosmetics and pharmaceuticals
• ART & NATURE: Vegetable inks and dyes; cyanotypes
• LIVING ARTS: Theatre, clown and music workshops
• PLASTIC ARTS: Painting game
• (RE)CONNECTING WITH THE BODY: Yoga; Sophrology

Location: A large gîte is located in Vernoux-en-Vivarais, 30 minutes west of Valence, 1h40 from Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Étienne, 2h from Marseille.

Les Blaches is close enough to the village to get you there on foot (1.5 kilometres), but far enough away to be quiet!

Accommodation:

- sleeps 40, divided into a 14-bed dormitory, 8 double rooms, 2 triple rooms and a quadruple in two rooms.

- The two living rooms are on the ground floor, measuring 90 m² and 70 m².

Outside and leisure activities:

Outside we have a large bar, barbecue, bread/pizza/gratini oven, table tennis, boules/molky, etc.

EXAMPLE OF A TYPICAL DAY

A day of total immersion in nature, rich in individual and collective experiences, challenges and learning, via a head-heart-body approach, to have fun, surpass yourself, discover and reveal the solidarity and mutual aid within your team.

06:00: Early wake-up call

06H30-07H00: Body wake-up

07H00-08H00: Morning exploration in the great outdoors

08H15-09H00: Outdoor breakfast

09H00-11H30: Orienteering and activity at the finish point

11H30-14H00: Meal in the open air over a wood fire

14H00-16H30: Survival challenge

16:30-17:30: Closing rituals: centring, exchange, reflective sharing of the day's discoveries and feelings.

Find out more about this typical day here!

A little history of Les Blaches...

In the 19th century, a mill was built at Les Blaches. The workers twisted the silk thread and stayed overnight. The machines were powered by water, thanks to the Rantoine, which flows at the bottom of the property.

When the silk trade ran out of steam, the Valence diocese bought the property. The estate was then transformed into a holiday camp. More than 200 children spent their summer months here!

Since the 1980s, a succession of private individuals have run Les Blaches. They have set up a group gîte here, reinforcing the site's vocation as a place to welcome the public.

Owners of Les Blaches since 2017, our family is keen to keep this place steeped in history alive and to write new pages: welcome to our wonderful adventure!