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Coach training and leadership development
Transform your coaching
Training in Nature Based Coaching Skills
Transform your coaching in partnership with Nature.
Early bird discount available now
Training in Nature Based Coaching Skills
Course starts 29 April 2025
Course overview
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.
Early Bird discount now available for start 29 April 2025.
Course details
Course dates
Courses start on Tuesday 29 April 2025. There are 2 options to choose from: Course A (Oak) which runs at 0900-1100 BST/UTC+1, Course B (Willow) which runs at 1700-1900 BST/UTC+1
Module 1, 29 April 2025
Module 2, 13 May 2025
Module 3, 27 May 2025
Module 4, 10 June 2025
Action Learning Set, 15 June 2025
Module 5, 24 June 2025
Module 6, 8 July 2025
Face to face workshop (optional), 19 July 2025 1000-1700
Course fees
Early bird price for subscribers is £999 £899.
To secure your place, please complete the registration form and pay a deposit of £200 using the details provided.
Optional face to face workshop at world famous Knepp Wilding project is subject to an additional cost of £150.
Training terms and conditions can be found here. VAT is included in all prices.
Course objectives
By attending this course you will:
- 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.
“The obvious emotional connection to nature is backed up by science, but we do need to think about it properly to respect and protect it.”
CIEEM ‘Science of Nature & Health’ training participant
“I will have more faith and courage in my convictions and will deliver more for the environment”
Nature Based Coaching client
Why this course?
Our world is changing fast, and coaching needs to adapt. Our clients and their organisations are facing challenges with health and social justice, the climate crisis and the ecological emergency. Coaches can help our clients navigate these challenges. We can make a positive contribution to the planet, as well as the people we support. This new course equips coaches with the skills to do this vital work, which we call ‘Nature Based Coaching’.
There is a growing interest in coaching outdoors, and working with Nature and climate change. More clients are asking to work in this way, and are aware in their personal lives of the great benefit of being in natural places. More organisations are looking to improve their impact on environmental and social issues, and contribute positively to their communities.
Who is the course for?
Nature Based Coaching Skills is aimed at coaches working at, or above, ICF Associate Certified Coach, EMCC Associate, Association for Coaching Coach or other relevant level. If you’re not sure, please ask.
You may be new to working outdoors with clients, or looking to enrich your existing practice. You may want to find out how to bring Nature and the planet into indoor coaching conversations, or you might just be curious about the benefits of nature-connected life and work.
There is no requirement to have any special access to, or expert knowledge of, wild, green or blue spaces. Nature Based Coaching can take place anywhere – in wild places, busy urban areas, or even indoors. In person, or remotely.
However, there will be a commitment to invest in your personal development and nature-connection every week, as well as participate fully in reflective learning and co-coaching.
Our courses are not yet accredited. They are based around the competencies of our professional body, the International Coaching Federation, but will work for coaches from all professional backgrounds.
Our expertise
The course leader, James Farrell, is passionate about the relationship between human and planetary health.
James developed the first professional training on nature and health for the Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (CIEEM), and has led workshops, webinars and conferences on Nature Based Coaching for the International Coaching Federation and Climate Coaching Alliance, and for Government departments. He has delivered a range of other relevant training for staff and senior leaders – including collaborative working, positive psychology, equity diversity & inclusion and urban greening.
James is an experienced leader, and brings over 30 years of learning from creating change in the environment and sustainability sectors. He is a Chartered Environmentalist, with a Masters Degree in Conservation.
As a Professional Certified Coach, he specialises in leadership transitions, ADHD coaching and supporting mental health. He has been coaching clients outdoors and with Nature for nearly ten years.
James has lived a life full of Nature – from managing remote Scottish islands, to work in urban greening. He is author of ‘Being in Nature – 20 Practices to Help you Flourish in a Busy World‘, and TEDx speaker ‘Let Nature be your coach’.
You can read more about James here.
Join us!
Secure your place now by filling out the registration form via the link below. We look forward to hearing from you.
Leadership and team building
Harness the power of Nature to boost health, happiness and planetary action
Fun, engaging and inspiring support for leaders and their teams
We offer customised learning, development and team building sessions for organisations large and small. They can take place outdoors, or online via Zoom, and are delivered by expert facilitators and underpinned by sound science. Former clients include the NHS, Greenpeace UK, and Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management.
“I don’t know that I can express the depth of my gratitude for this session.
I left feeling I had been immersed in nature!”
Course participant
This work can be extended to helping your organisation think about how becoming more nature-connected is good for your people, your customers and your estate.
Photos ©The Natural Coaching Company, TEDx Aston University, Matt Ellery