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Nature Connected Leadership: Course Forum
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Hi Everyone! Please use this forum as a place to connect and share ideas! Go ahead and introduce yourself.
In addition to this forum space we also have a Facebook Group for you to use. Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ebincl
See you soon!
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Hello! My name is Marnie and I am a Certified Mindfulness Course Leader, Outdoor Educator, and a Master Naturalist volunteer for the county where I live and serve as a land steward and caretaker for a local 30 acre Open Space nature preserve. In a previous life, I spent 20 years as a public school teacher but now (especially in the era of COVID) I treasure the time I get to spend outdoors, sharing the awe and wonder of nature with my community. I also cherish being able to facilitate nature-based meditation experiences to help people explore and connect deeply with both their external and internal landscape!
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Hi all! My name is Alicia Muzslai and I’m so looking forward to engaging in this program with you all. I’m a recent Ecopsychology MA graduate from Naropa University and am ready to start exploring what’s next. I have a passion for nature connection and human connection – in these states of connection, I feel most at home. I also love to cook, hike, meditate, read, work hard, and spend time with my sweet pup.
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Greetings, everyone!
My name is Sara and I am writing from the beautiful PNW. I have spent most my life in Western WA and OR, with a meaningful chunk of years in Ecuador. I am looking forward to this journey with each of you as I explore and solidify what is next for me both professionally and personally.
For the past 10 years I’ve worked in education: environmental, international, ancestral skills, leadership development, early-childhood, and currently as a public school elementary teacher. My connection with nature and passion for fostering this relationship in others has been a common thread through my experiences. I feel a deep entrepreneurial drive and am cultivating a vision for how my various passions and skillsets might merge into a coaching business.
I participated in the Spring course (Applying Nature Connection to your Life and Career) and felt so grateful for the community and the learnings that took place. I plan on doing the full coaching certification program down the road a bit. In the meantime, this course feels like a perfect bridge.
In other news, I love to read and write, do yoga, and am a spreadsheet nerd and an overly proud dog mom.
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Hello @marnie.rehn! I’d love to learn more sometime about your transition from being a public school teacher into what you are doing now, if you’re open to sharing. 🙂
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Hello Everyone!
My name is Cynthia and I am enrolled the NCC program beginning in January 2021 and decided to take this course to get me started on this exciting journey. My background is in environmental science and policy and I spent 20 years working in these fields both in the public sector for the State of Colorado and the private sector in the energy business. I left the corporate world in November 2019 to pursue a more balanced life and discover my next step. I’ve always been passionate about preserving and protecting the natural world. In the last few years, I’ve awakened to the knowledge that the more people are connected with nature, the more they’ll want to protect and preserve it. I want to help people awaken to this truth, so they can heal themselves, so we all can heal the world.
Some other things about me; I love spending time outside, hiking, mountain biking, skiing, backpacking, and just sitting amongst the trees. I’m a sculpture artist working with metal, mostly found objects. I love turning someone’s old junk into art. I also love to garden, cook, walk my sweet Lulu dog, and go on road trips.
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It was lovely to see our energy coalesce as a group tonight, I’m thrilled to be part of it!
My name is Jess. Summer camp was my first experience of refuge. The outdoors invited me to explore the backcountry and it’s where I feel most at peace. So much of my joy comes from being with others on the trail, following the meandering river and the ancient water grooved rock. Motherhood has been a rite of passage and has also temporarily distanced me from the ease of going deep into the woods. It’s challenged me to pick up new survival skills and allowed me to peer into deep moon lit pools of wisdom. I am being called to serve as a guide and to live a “nature paced” life. I truly appreciate being a part of this community with you all and diving deeper into the most important work we can do in this world.
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I’m grateful to be in this forum with you. I’m Judy, tuning in from San Diego, CA. Social services have been my employment field for 20 years, from protective services to wellness programs, clinical and administrative. When my family experienced difficulties, I paired the permaculture principles with my social work experience to help manifest a mutually supportive structure that is now evolving due to COVID. These days I’m a respite worker and caregiver for multiple family members who have health vulnerabilities to the virus. I’m working on a new path forward. One that integrates more nature components. My self-care includes daily walks on beaches or trails, meditation, yoga, gardening, and cooking plant-based meals. It’s lovely to connect with you via this venue.
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Hi everyone,
I joined the upcoming January 2021 NCC cohort this week and am jumping into this course to get the ball rolling. I missed last week and hope to catch up quickly. Excited to meet you all!I am an intuitive mentor and guide from Boulder, CO. I’m at the threshold of launching my own private practice after years of working within other people’s organizations and visions. I work with people to heal, transform, and integrate places of pain and contraction, claim the resilience, capacity, and joy of their own wild aliveness, and explore and develop their sense of purpose and soul calling. I’m interested in expanding my toolset for supporting people in claiming their embodiment, their belonging in this exquisite living world, and their sense of the Sacred. This work is a path, not a destination, and my desire is create ripples of interconnection and well-being everywhere I can. I believe that enlivened, connected, and inspired people will be available to co-create a more beautiful world in which we ALL thrive.
Previously I’ve been a web developer, a bookseller, and a wandering wench. I have deep roots in the natural world and am only now really seeking to weave what brings me so much personal gratitude and resource into my professional life. I’m also mother to an astounding, fierce tween daughter and live with two adolescent feral kittens.
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Hi everyone! My name is Toni Blanton. I live in the beautiful Pacific NW in Olympia, WA. I grew up in a small town in the middle of the woods where the forest was the mainstay of the local economy and consciousness. Nature has been my playground and refuge for as long as I can remember.
I found EBI about a year ago. It seemed to just appear in my browser one day. I didn’t know I was looking for my next thing until that moment. I’m in the Nature Connected Coaching program cohort that starts January 2021. NCL is my first step into that larger program. In the first couple weeks, I’ve already noticed some shifts taking place as a result of the work. I’m looking forward to discovering more about myself as this all unfolds.
As far as my professional background, I have several hats that I wear interchangeably. I’ve spent almost 30 years working as a Business Systems Analyst designing IT systems in both the public and private sectors. I’ve been a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner for 11 years and spent several years as an instructor and the Program & Curriculum Manager for the school. I’m also certified in multiple energetic healing modalities, including Food & Spirit and Reiki.
When I give people this list of professional labels, their first response is usually to think that these are all such different things. But really, they’re all about managing and guiding change. Whether I’m using software to help an organization change or nutrition and energy to help a person change. Same skillset, different tools.
I’m looking forward to seeing how NCL and NCC help me bring more of me to all of these.
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Hello All!
My name is Anna and I’m very grateful to be on this journey with all of you!
I am a body and energy worker. I graduated from Massage Therapy school in October 2019 and was just getting my personal practice off the ground when COVID hit and put a hold on the progress.
I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to work for the Earth Based Institute as an admission’s guide and have since taken on administration work. I never pictured myself working behind a computer, mostly because I have the special gift of killing/technology, (I impress my partner, a cyber security specialist, with my ability to continuously disrupt a WiFi signal, etc…) I am continually surprised at how excited I am to step up to assigned tasks and how rewarding it feels to accomplish them. I imagine a large part of that has to do with EBI and my desire Working with EBI has opened up a ton of opportunity for me. For as long as I can remember I’ve been in pain. I started experiencing migraines at the age of 11. In my late twenties I started seeing a massage therapist regularly after ending an abusive relationship and noticing an increased sensation of pain. That experience helped influence my desire to become a massage therapist. During school I had less time to focus on my yoga and meditation practice and again noticed the overwhelming sensation of pain.
Upon entering the Coronaverse, I have found myself diving deeply into the practices of yoga and meditation. I am currently my only client, not because of COVID restrictions, but because the journey inward has brought forth clarity surrounding my deep need of self healing and the removal of blockages in my mind, body, and spirit. I don’t know that I would have the opportunity to delve so deeply inward without EBI and the financial and community support provided within this organization.
I view NCL as a necessary step toward self discovery and leadership. I find myself getting in my way often, noticing internal messages of self doubt, procrastination, imposter syndrome, and anger, to name a few. I am looking forward to the day when I get beyond these thoughts and embody my wholeness, to when I trust my voice and the voice of the universe, and to when my vision and Dharma are clear.
I see NCL as a gift. To engage with all of you and to expand my toolbox is incredibly supportive in a way I have always desired. -
Hello Everyone, My name is Jackie I live in TN and am part of the January 2021 NCC cohort, I look forward to being on future calls and meeting everyone
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Hi all!
so, I’m late to the party in the Learning Center!! I was unable to log in until just this week!
Anyway … I am honored to be able to be navigating this NCL journey with all of you!Homebase for me is Minneapolis, Minnesota… but the Mountains call often!
I am in the finalizing steps to attend the NCC Certification Cohort starting in January, and this course was the Catalyst in my discernment process to see if this was truly where I felt I needed to go next ( and it appears to be exactly that!)
after losing my job due to the Global Pandemic, I was left feeling flat and drifting. I knew that I wasn’t at all pursuing what I was called to do, and that now more than ever was the time for me to take steps to align who I AM, with what I DO.
In all things (and I have done MANY things, worn MANY hats) I strive to make it BETTER. what ever IT happens to be.Nature and the Outdoors were critical Tools that I have employed in my own journey back to myself and it is my sincere wish to help others make that same connection!