Your True Nature Coaching: Using age-old sacred practices, enhanced awareness of self and other, as well as natural spaces to support and challenge those you coach.
Are you a coach? Are you a leader who is using coaching skills? Are you wanting to access the profound wisdom of nature in your work?
Nature offers the opportunity to experience questions and musings and discoveries in a completely new surrounding.
~ Nature allows us to walk our talk, choose a different path, experience getting lost and finding our way again. In nature, we can still ourselves and listen to our bodies, hearts and souls.
~ With nature as our insightful partner, coaches and those using coaching as a way to support others, can use age-old processes to support setting intention; create deep, personal journeys of self-discovery; and facilitate meaningful re-entry and integration through coaching.
~ Particularly during major transitions, these rites of passage ~ some call ‘soul searching’ ~ can propel the coachee to new awareness, new discovery, and a natural sense of well-being.
If this is your first time attending a nature coaching program, you will learn an adult development framework to orient those we coach to their life phases and transitions, with clearer steps to move forward, naturally.
If you have some experience with coaching in nature, not only will you deepen your skills and application, you will also have an opportunity to hone your mentoring skills using nature as your partner.
You will benefit personally as you immerse yourself in wild nature and are coached by your peers as well as enhance your coaching skills by coaching your peers with mentoring and guidance from Melissa and Christiane. Bring your own life questions, ponderings and reflections.
Join us for an in person Coaching Workshop with ICF CCEs. In this ICF CCE program, learn to create and use sacred coaching and leading spaces and times as well as ancient processes for modern times to imbed in your leading/coaching style. Be in wild nature to re-member your own true nature and life story: September 20 (12 noon) through September 22, 2022 (12 noon).
Treat yourself to gorgeous, wild nature while advancing your coaching and leading skills and competence.
Skills you will learn during our time together:
• Understand how to support your coachees in sharpening their awareness of self and other
• Build confidence in working in natural surroundings, including keeping you and other safe in nature
• A process for coaching with nature as a partner, including
Shaping and clarifying intentions as you listen to self and other
Creating a sacred pause and space to let the extraordinary emerge
Generating ideas about self-ceremonies and practices that include nature
Keeping others safe as they spend alone time in nature – their own purpose retreat
Stepping into purpose, and then processing discoveries upon return from their experience through listening, mirroring and integrating nature
Creating action steps and practices for integration and accountability
• Apply nature-based practices in your own coaching to create sacred spaces and times that translate to regular rituals and practices in back every-day life
• Hone your ICF Core Competencies of Coaching Presence, Establishing Trust and Intimacy, Active Listening, Powerful Questioning, Creating Awareness, Planning and Goal Setting, and Accountability
Colorful Colorado – Ridgway in the San Juan Mountains:
Located in beautiful Colorado wilderness and surrounded by untouched National Forest land, Top of The Pines offers rustic camping with fire rings and an outhouse. We will be spending our time together here during the day. For those wanting to stay immersed in nature, camp sites are available at the program site. You are welcome to come early and go for a walk or come a night before and stay a night longer to acclimatize. https://www.topofthepines.org
Coaching in a natural space supports deep connection, profound meaning making, and a unique client experience. When you coach in nature, your coachee has space to venture forth from and to be welcomed back into greater clarity. Their time in nature takes on a special meaning with your coaching of clear intention and enacted beginnings and endings. As coach, you allow awareness and guide supportive personal discovery that is essential for the process to be safe and impactful.
Research shows that being in nature enhances the positive emotions of joy, awe, optimism and courage. The energetic waves found in nature are those found in the human brain when in deep meditation. We slow down, deepen our insights, open to taking in what’s around us. We also connect to a broader purpose and to what is really emerging in us as a yearning or next step on our road.
Being in nature enables us to externalize our internal landscapes. Nature allows us to sharpen our senses and to have a more expansive, deeper and slower experience. Nature doesn’t judge us or make meaning for us or nudge us in any way. Nature simply is. In relationship to nature, we can test ourselves, listen to ourselves and listen to what nature can tell us about ourselves ~ our life phases, paths forward, and next steps.
When: September 20, 2022 (noon), through September 22, 2022 (noon). As an additional feature, we can expand the program and create your individual post program experience. You can go for an additional solo walk and spend another night at the site. The participants may want to have a dinner together or go to the hotsprings together on the night of September 22, which can also be arranged. Just let us know.
You: Everyone is welcome regardless of physical ability, fitness, agility, experience in nature. This program will meet you where you are from novice- to experienced-in-nature.
Cost: 895$ for early bird special up to May 15, 2022 and 995$ after the deadline. We require a minimum of 4 participants to make this program work.
Want to save money? Register prior to May 15, 2022 to receive a $100 early-registration discount. In order to make this program as affordable and as good of an individual fit as possible, we will be charging only for the program design, preparation, facilitator travel and facilitation and the campsite for the program. All other costs will be up to you and your preferences.
To learn more (no obligation) and to register, contact Christiane [email protected]
Planning travel: The closest airports are Montrose (30 minutes away) and Grand Junction (90 minutes away). Durango is 2 hours away. Feel free to email and ask questions.
What to bring: Dress casually and in layers as we will be inside and outside, in various weather conditions. Bring sturdy shoes and a jacket/hat for cool evenings. (Zip code 81432) Bring a journal, pen and water bottle. The venue neither sells nor serves alcohol, however, you may bring alcohol onsite for your own or for shared consumption. We will provide further logistical details upon your registration.
Cancellation policy: Due to payments for the campsite, materials and logistics and plane tickets, we must have a cancelation policy in place. Prior to May 15, a full refund is offered. After May 15, we are unable to offer a refund. We will decide on May 15 if we have the minimum number of participants required to make the program work.