Coaching Outdoors Episode 52 - Eleanor Ratcliffe

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Recent Episodes from Coaching Outdoors

Coaching Outdoors Episode 61 - Lindsay Cray

“My life revolves around being outside, I enjoy everything about it, it’s the space I feel most connected to life!”

Meet and listen to Lindsay Cray who is the founder of Integrating Nature, based near Lake Ontario, USA. Lindsay is a professional mental health counsellor and outside clinical based field guide. Developing and delivering progressive style nature-based therapy practices for individuals and organisations. If you are a veteran this is one not to miss as Lindsay’s veteran programs are amazing and truly delivery for this important community who need our love and support.

This episode has everything, true purpose with passion and energy, backed by tremendous academic research and rigor. We explore Lindsay’s early years planting a Lindon tree in the front yard with her father as a celebration of a birthday. Eighteen years growing up together. To her academic years first gaining a degree in environmental studies then three years in Puerto Rico teaching and completing a master’s degree to research scientist in Ecuador. To setting up her first business called Earth works Institute teaching forest school and outdoor wilderness survival.

Lindsay shares her personal story of supporting and caring for her father a Vietnam veteran after being diagnosed with Brain Cancer following exposure to agent orange and how following his death this led to her creating and developing her veteran support program based in nature which is truly phenomenal and inspiring.

Lindsay says, “Taking care of my father, taught me a lot about forgiveness and what it is to be a veteran.” “Veteran community it’s a difficult population and one I love.”

If you know any veterans, this is an episode to alert them to.

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 60 - Michael Jospe

“Remember your client is nature. Their brain is nature. Their body is nature. Their development is nature” Michael Jospe, Founder Earth-Based Institute

Nature-based coaching trail-blazer Michael Jospe joins us from Boulder, Colorado, a hot-bed of nature coaching. Founder, lead instructor and curriculum writer at the Earth-Based Institute he’s dedicated his life to exploring the connection between nature and coaching for over 25-years. The International Coach Federation (ICF) certified Nature-Connected Coaching programme has supported hundreds of students become Nature-Connected Coaches, Nature-Connected Leaders, and Transformational Wilderness Guides.

Our dialogue traces his roots from childhood memories in Concord, Massachusetts influenced by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson; then mentorship under Tom Brown Jnr and Jon Young. His career as a Naturalist at an outdoor science school in Central Valley of California to establish the Earth-Based Institute in 2004.

Michael has amassed an astonishing depth of wisdom over the last 25-years which he generously shares in transformative tales of wilderness quests including an encounter on the trails with a black bear in Utah, the importance of entrepreneurial business skills for coaches to secure their initial clients and the importance of personal nature connection as a resource for everyone.

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 59 - Andrew Wolff

“I am an evangelist for nature connection”

Our last episode of Season 6 of the Coaching Outdoors Podcast takes us to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to meet Andrew Wolff.

Nature has been a steadfast companion throughout Andrew’s life, guiding him on his path toward self-discovery and providing a sanctuary for profound peace.

His deep desire to live, work, and play in nature has materialised into a beautiful mountain property in the heart of the Rocky Mountains which is the home base of Andrew’s coaching business, Wolff Coaching.

Andrew’s episode tells the story of his journey from being an educator and mentor for young people, which has led him through various professional landscapes, cultures, and nature-immersed settings both in the United States and abroad, to becoming a nature-connected life coach.

Specialising in working with men who are at a crossroads in their lives and who are open and curious, Andrew shares his Rocky Mountain home landscape with his clients to explore what more is possible in their lives.

This is a great episode for providing inspiration both for anyone who is thinking of starting their outdoor coaching business and anyone interested in coaching or mentoring young people in the outdoors.

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Paul https://pebbleassociates.co.uk/team-member/paul-jefferies/

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 58 - Georgie Dunn

“I see parallels when I coach people who are really at capacity of their Executive Function and how nature really can unlock that just by giving us the space and perspective to do it”

For this podcast we journey to the stunning hilly coast line of East Lothian in Scotland to meet Georgie Dunn in one of her favourite places to coach outdoors.

Georgie shares her journey to becoming an outdoor coach, from her time spent in the Army developing her outdoor skills and pedigree, to her career change after Covid.

Talking about the burn out that lead to her taking a step away and recovering, Georgie talks about the importance of restoring the Executive Function of the brain and how nature can play a critical role in this – providing space, perspective and time to think. Linking this with Attention Restoration Theory.

Georgie also shares some of the challenges she has faced starting her business as an outdoor coach and some of the ways she has met those challenges. Along with describing the blue and green locations she coaches in around Northumberland and Scotland.

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 57 - Claire Bradshaw

“Being outdoors really connects people with themselves and each other.”

Claire Bradshaw is the founder of Claire Bradshaw Associates, based in near Stockport and the High Peaks of the Peak District. Claire is a professional coach, coach trainer and facilitator plus a Coach Supervisor, working in and around the amazing Peak District.

Claire has a long-held belief that transformation happens when we co-create a space for people to feel heard and where, with the gift of our unwavering attention, they can do their most powerful thinking. This coaching philosophy is at the heart of everything Claire does. Claire is a lover of nature and the outdoors and has integrated her passion into my coaching practice.

Claire is a lover of poetry and likes to introduce or share a piece of writing which helps connect people, her love started in early years and lead to a degree in English at University of Lancashire which led her onto a beautifully connected journey into becoming a librarian and supporting others curiosity for knowledge and learning to supporting others ultimately through becoming a coach.

Claire now works with new or senior leaders who wish to unlock potential and incorporate coaching into their leadership style and people wanting to become a coach or experienced coaches who wish to take their practice outdoors. Claire is an amazing connector and enabler, and this is all achieved through her fantastic work, which Claire takes us through, from coaching outdoors, coaching collectives, training events and retreats to her own creatively designed coaching cards.

“Does it really matter what the question is, so long as its well-intended and helps people explore further.”

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 56 - Sam Isaacson

“To be able to put on a headset and effectively go somewhere that is a lot more natural I think could bring a lot of the same benefits that being outdoors does, just through a different lens”

Sam Isaacson, aka global digital and coaching thought-leader, enabler, coach, coach supervisor and author of “How to thrive as a coach in a digital world” and “Superhuman Coaching - Ten technologies that expand coaching beyond what’s humanly possible”, joins us from a park in South Ealing, London to dispel the myths around AI, virtual reality and brain implants in coaching.

It’s a roller coaster ride from monsters hidden in redwood forests, tranquil Japanese gardens and travel high into orbit beyond the earth. We step back in time to meet Eliza the first chatterbot psychotherapist, dig deep into the science of awe and wonder at the magic of the real world.

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Paul https://pebbleassociates.co.uk/team-member/paul-jefferies/

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 55 - Sarah Lawfull

“Nature can talk to us & teach us”.

Sarah Lawfull is the founder of Where the Fruit is, based in Oxfordshire. Sarah is a professional coach, and Chair of the Forest School Association and Co-Chair of the Nature premium campaign as well as an endorsed trainer and education consultant.

Sarah is a passionate advocate of spending time in nature and learning to listen, with clear influences from Nancy Kline’s work. From a lifetime of engaging children, teenagers and families with nature Sarah has learnt the value of play, and observation, alongside the empowerment of trust and creating space to think.

Through coaching and training, Sarah inspires adults to bring the best of themselves to their work with children; using nature as our guide we discover that healthy people, connected to self, others and the planet, are truly connected and able to grow self and explore.

Forest School is the pedagogical approach, that has clearly captured Sarah’s heart. It is the place where this deep connection happens, where responsibility and risk collide to create a richly challenging, creative learning environment. Out in the woods, real life happens, hurts heal, and great fun is had through playful learning.

“Being out in nature is therapeutic”.

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Paul https://pebbleassociates.co.uk/team-member/paul-jefferies/

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 54 - Jim Hughes

“I help people get outside, reconnect with themselves and others and the work they do”.

Jim Hughes is a coach and founder of Untamed Coaching based in Bradford-on-Avon, UK. Untamed was founded in 2017 and Jim works with teams and individuals outdoors using adventure to allow reconnection with themselves, others, and their work on a deeper level, through walking, cold water immersion and campfires. Through the outdoors, Jim offers a creative space, open and flowing which gives rise to conversation and reflection, which helps clients to face their fear and find a way of being which is more contented and authentic.

Jim believes in finding your true self and when we do we find contentment, and peace, regain energy and inspire others. Jim understands this from personal experience having felt misaligned, stressed and burnt out. It was this turning point, a catalyst which led to a nomadic journey also resulting in the creation of Untamed Coaching.

Jim explains his methodology for change and how he helps people move through this by understanding the cost of the status quo and then falling in love with a new alternative to overcoming the blockers or resistance to that alternative. He also talks about micro-adventures, silent walks and some great advice for coaches starting out, “Be authentic, get out there, meet people, connect with people” and be persistent!

The seeds you plant today will grow it may take a year or so.

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Coaching Outdoors Episode 53 - Jenn Bauer

“We imprint on water, our thoughts, our words, our energy, images are all imprinted on water. We dive into what it means to imprint on water and therefore how we engage with water, being that we’re mostly water ourselves”

Certified in a number of modalities for both coaching and energy healing, Jennifer Bauer has integrated them to develop the PECSS Framework (Physical, Emotional, Conscious, Subconscious and Spiritual levels) and create the International Nature Coaching Center.

Jenn started out in corporate Marketing, but following her search for own healing following trauma she realized the tools she was developing in energy healing and coaching would be amazing for everyone.

The 11 month training programme she has created starts by tapping into what makes each person a coach, what is their original medicine, what makes them unique.

The programme then uses techniques from all over the world, such as making nature mandalas and a Hawaiian practice called Ho’ola Loa (energy balancing and realignment), as well as animals and plants as messengers, to further explore and develop her student’s connection to nature.

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