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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.

Next start date: 29 April 2025, 9am or 5pm UTC+1

Course structure

Module 0 – Introduction

Key learning: Refresh yourself on the overview and requirements of the course, explore definitions of terms and begin to build personal nature connection practices.

Lessons

0.1 Introduction

Module 1 – Orientation

Key learning: To begin to explore the landscape of Nature Based Coaching, the importance of a living and working in relationship with Nature, the models and scales that underpin Nature Based Coaching, and to map out how we work together as a group.

Lessons

1.1 Orientation

Module 2 – Root finding

Key learning: Understand the imperatives and benefits of being with Nature, the key models that underpin nature-based approaches, and explore how to ensure ethics and safety when working outdoors.

Lessons

2.1 Root finding

Module 3 – Branching out

Key learning: To strengthen sensory and emotional literacy, connect these pathways to ICF competencies, and begin expanding coaching practice through action and reflection-oriented co-coaching.

Lessons

3.1 Branching out

Module 4 – Growing together

Key learning: To explore the beauty and meaning pathways of nature connection, deepen cultural awareness, develop appreciative methodologies, and practise tools that help clients create insight, coherence, and significance in their work.

Lessons

4.1 Growing together

Module 5 – Protecting what we love

Key learning: To understand compassion as a nature connection pathway, explore its relevance to coaching and the ICF vision, practise compassionate awareness, and recognise how our coaching can contribute to healthier communities and ecosystems. This module links inner compassion to outer action: how we protect what we love.

Lessons

5.1 Protecting what we love

Module 6 – Blossoming

Key learning: To harvest learning, honour each person’s growth, and acknowledge what has been nourished by the community and by nature.

Lessons

6.1 Blossoming