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Nature Based Coaching Skills

Transform your coaching in partnership with Nature!

Learn to integrate Nature into your coaching practice, enhance your coaching skills, accelerate your growth and deepen your impact as a coach,

Nature Based Coaching Skills is the first course of its kind to be led by a Chartered Environmentalist and Professional Certified Coach.

It will cover the major frameworks, theories and models that underpin Nature Based Coaching; develop your understanding of the imperatives and benefits behind working with Nature; and provide a rich environment for experimentation and growth.

Expected benefits

  • Inspire confidence through an understanding of the science and art of Nature Based Coaching
  • Accelerate your development as a coach
  • Unlock greater clarity and creativity for your clients
  • Find a richer, more rewarding relationship with Nature
  • Join a supportive community of likeminded people
  • Inspire action to support the natural world

In a nutshell

30 hours CPD with certificate of completion via a 10 week virtual live course.

Live, interactive training online. Small group discussions, plenaries and teachings. Practices and action learning.

  • Six, 2 hourly sessions of live teaching online.
  • 2 hours live action learning
  • 6 hours reflective self-study
  • 6 hours co-coaching
  • 4 hours memory supportive testing and reflective journalling
  • 6 hour face to face workshop (optional)
  • Online resources, recordings and graduate community
  • A copy of the book ‘Being in Nature: 20 Practices to Help you Flourish in a Busy World’
  • Discounts on retreats.

Learning objectives

By attending this course you will learn to integrate Nature into your coaching practice, enhance your coaching skills, accelerate your growth and deepen your impact as a coach.

  • Understand the imperatives and benefits of being with Nature, and the key models that underpin nature based approaches.
  • Understand how to apply the ‘Five pathways to nature connectedness’ in your work
  • Develop your coaching through practical experience and reflective learning
  • Apply natural methods, including working with metaphor, seasons and systems
  • Learn personal practices to build connection with Nature
  • Ensure ethics and safety when working outdoors
  • Learn about scales you can use to measure benefit and impact.

Start date: 17 September 2025, 4pm-6pm GMT/UTC

Modules and dates

ModuleDates
Module 1 – Orientation The global and psychological context for our work as Nature Based Coaches17 Sep
Module 2 – Root finding Learning a framework for nature based coaching, its benefits, and considerations for ethical practice31 Sep 
Module 3 – Branching out Learning how to work with emotion and the senses in Nature Based Coaching8 Oct
Module 4 – Growing together Learning how to work with beauty and meaning in Nature Based Coaching22 Oct
Action learning set Supporting learning and
growth, in community
29 Oct
Module 5 – Protecting what we love Learning how to work with compassion in Nature Based Coaching and maximise our environmental contribution5 Nov
Module 6 – Blossoming Presenting and sharing our learning19 Nov
Option: Face to face workshop Nature coaching masterclass, Knepp Wilding project, UK8 Nov

Course structure

Module 0 – Introduction

Key learning: Refresh yourself on the overview and requirements of the course; Understand definitions of terms used in the course; Begin a self-coaching practice.

Lessons

0.1 Introduction

Module 1 – Orientation

Key learning: The global and psychological context for our work as Nature Based Coaches. Models and scales, ICF coaching competencies.

Lessons

1.1 Orientation

Module 2 -Root finding

Key learning: Learning a framework for nature based coaching, its benefits, and considerations for ethical practice.

Lessons

2.1 Root finding

Module 3 – Branching out

Key learning: Learning how to work with emotion and the senses in Nature Based Coaching.

Lessons

3.1 Branching out

Module 4 – Growing together

Key learning: Learning how to work with beauty and meaning in Nature Based Coaching.

Lessons

4.1 Growing together

Module 5 – Protecting what we love

Key learning: Learning how to work with compassion in Nature Based Coaching and maximise our environmental contribution.

Lessons

5.1 Protecting what we love

Module 6 – Blossoming

Key learning: Presentating and sharing our learning, gratitude and feedback

Lessons

6.1 Blossoming