Two redwoods challenge us to consider how our coaching can serve nature as well as our clients. One way we can do this is through making nature the basis of our work – through ‘Nature Based Coaching’.
Here at The Natural Coaching Company, we train coaches to integrate Nature into your coaching practice, enhance your coaching skills, accelerate your growth and deepen your impact as a coach. Our next course starts is called ‘Redwood’, and starts in September. It is open for registration now.
Watch an invitation to join our ‘Redwood’ course in September
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Film transcript
I’m here in the New Forest and behind me are two redwoods that were planted in 1850. So, they’re babies. One day they will grow to be 2,000 years old. But at the moment, as they’re growing, their roots are probably touching underground and they’re in conversation with each other and with the other trees in the forest, communicating about water availability, nutrients, pests, and other threats.
A conversation with nature and our clients
As coaches, when we’re talking with our clients, we’re also, of course, in a conversation. We’re thinking about what we want from the world, how we want it to be different, how we want ourselves to be different in some way.
And when we take our work outdoors and we work in partnership with nature, we unlock a huge richness of opportunity. As coaches, we can help our clients feel calmer, more creative. We can help our clients find new meaning and attach to natural places that are important to them locally where they live. We exercise all sorts of health and well-being benefits.
Allowing us to give back
But but more than that, time outdoors in places like this, stopping and thinking and feeling allow us to want to give back. They give us space to think beyond ourselves and our own internal boundaries and bring in other people, other beings into our world and think about, well, how can we how can we be of use? How can we be of value to them?
So nature-based coaching is a skill set which allows us to greatly extend the impact of our work as coaches and think about an impact which involves the planet, the environment and nature that we depend on.
An invitation
The next course I’m running in September is called appropriately enough, ‘redwood’. And these two trees here would like to invite you to come and join me. I hope to see you then.