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Expert leadership, mental health and nature coaching, training and resources

James Farrell, The Natural Coaching Company

Find your path

The Natural Coaching Company can help you find and navigate a path through the complex and challenging world we find ourselves in.

A path to a place of freer thinking, greater clarity and new perspectives. Where you can be more confident, more connected, more yourself.

A place where you are happier, delivering even greater benefit for your organisation, your community, and the world.

In short, we can help you grow.

James Farrell

I am a warm, curious and genuine coach and environmentalist. I care deeply about the challenges and opportunities you may be facing, and I am dedicated to helping you overcome them.

My work is grounded in my experience as a leader in the environment sector for over 30 years. I have worked as an Executive Manager, and in a wide variety of other roles including business management, operations, partnership and policy.

I have a Diploma in Professional Coaching Skills and I specialise in nature based, mental health and leadership coaching.

My credentials include Professional Certified Coach (ICF), Corporate Member Association for Coaching (CMAC), MSc Nature Conservation, and Chartered Environmentalist (CIEEM & SocEnv).

I am the co-author of ‘Being in Nature – 20 practices to help you flourish in a busy world’, a TEDx Speaker, film maker, and an experienced facilitator, trainer and communicator.

I have a range of complementary qualifications including in Systems Thinking, the Science of Happiness, Mind Management Skills for Life and Self Determination Theory.

My sister business is The Human Nature Partnership, where we enable organisations to connect to nature. I am the founder of community organisation Building Green, and I work at a Government agency.

The work we do

People come to us with a range of concerns and desires. Here is a sample, but don’t let it constrain you if your work isn’t listed here. Give us a shout and we can explore whether, and how, we can help.

☆ Boosting confidence and self esteem
☆ Career and life planning
☆ Vision and strategy
☆ Better relationships – at work, and at home
☆ Interview performance and success
☆ Improving mental health
☆ Living with the power of ADHD
☆ Connecting more deeply with nature

Often this work looks deeper at who we are, and how we are getting in our own way. It may involve understanding the signals from our bodies, as well as our minds, and working with the nature around us for metaphor, meaning and fulfilment.

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Why nature based coaching?

Coaching in all forms is great, but working in partnership with nature offers many extra benefits including:

Greater life satisfaction and self esteem

Increased calmness and creative thinking

Expanded horizons and an increased sense of possibility

Deeper connection and oneness with the natural world

There is also good scientific evidence that connecting to nature – through nature based coaching for example – inspires people to make more pro-environmental decisions in daily life.

Good for you, good for the planet.

CALMNESS

Time in nature reduces anxiety, and enables us to be calmer and more positive

CREATIVITY

Working outdoors leads to 47% greater capacity for creative thinking

WELLBEING

Nature connection leads to 1.7x more life satisfaction and increased self esteem

CLIMATE CRISIS

We donate 2% of profits to projects that address the climate crisis, and have retired 10 Tonnes of Carbon

SUSTAINABILITY

Our donations have contributed to 10 UN Sustainability Goals including clean water

BIODIVERSITY

One project we support replants degraded pasture in Panama with biodiverse forests


We work with low carbon Gold Standard projects which contribute to UN sustainability goals such as biodiversity, education and hunger

We have signed up to the SME Climate Commitment as part of our responsibility for reducing our impact on the planet.

We are a member of the Climate Coaching Alliance, and have contributed to global learning and networking for nature coaching.