Hi everyone,

I am so happy to join all of you this weekend, from France! 🙂

My intention for this weekend is to really re-connect to my vision… a lot of things has happened in my life in the past few months and I definitely feel the pull to connect with my EBI community and to help each other. Long term I want to be a nature coach but I feel some r…

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Hi Lindsay, absolutely love the threshold experience that you’ve co-created with your client. What an amazing way for your client to connect with her tree and make it part of her inspiration for her business tasks! 🙂 thanks for sharing!

Hi John, thank you for doing such a good job at summarizing Gestalt key principles and sharing your notes. One thing that struck me in your notes is the comment “No matter which disturbance is employed, when the client breaks contact, I need to repeat the comment back to the client. I will ask the client to speak to whatever/whoever broke the…

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Thank you for sharing Joy! Awareness and insight are definitely keys in the gestalt principles. I love that you’ve been able to experiment and feel like it was flowing just fine. Trusting that the present moment brings us just what we need, whether as a client or as a coach, is a powerful thing 🙂 And I love what you say “it is important to see…

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Initial post

Gestalt is all about awareness, expression, creativity, relationship, authenticity, “NOW” and “how”. As I’ve been practicing more and more with my practice client, I realized that no coaching session can happen without the Gestalt principles. I feel Gestalt is naturally ingrained in my coaching sessions. I’ve always been connected w…

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Rahhh for some reason I can’t modify my previous post… makes it really hard for a perfectionist like me with an owl personality haha.

Ok I am letting go right now 🙂 and adding some websites in here that inspired me! I see myself doing outdoor team building activities for the corporate world where I can use the Nature awareness tools and work…

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Foundation 4 – Summary Post

Foundation 4 was really helpful to understand and to practice the threshold and stages of incorporation. I was able to experience the high energy flow through ceremony where we see things differently in this expansive state and where the belief in ourselves increases. The key is really to pause and to start t…

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Joy – I have a big smile reading your post and visiting the website you’ve shared… this is so you, it fits you perfectly with your unique set of skills. I can see you guiding people wanting more freedom, wanting to travel while understanding themselves better, just the way you did it for yourself! Not using travel as a way to forget things and…

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Sara – Wow I absolutely love your vision, thank you for sharing. It’s beautiful to see you put all the pieces of the puzzle together. I resonate with not knowing exactly who your ideal client is (yet!) but it’s a process and I can see how it it is all beautifully coming together. I think it is a matter of letting things go, surrendering and…

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Hi Tony,

I absolutely love your idea of helping other women going through this important stage in life. I think there is a need and like you said there is currently little support in this area. I remember my mom going through this transition with hot flush and emotional change and clearly struggling. She didn’t have much connection nor support and…

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When I think about coaching/guiding others, I think about bringing life to my potential clients… the word that comes to mind is aliveness, help them discover the power of adventure and nature while understanding themselves better.

I want to help them trust that whatever they put their mind into they can achieve it. I am all about overcoming…

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Foundation 3 summary post

I am still blown away by the power of the threshold experience. This amazing feeling that we get after experiencing it in Nature… this feeling of empowerment and of courage to step into this new person. It is carved forever in our soul, we can easily get back to this feeling by just thinking about it. I can still…

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Hi Tony, thanks for your post. I love how you described the threshold experience as initiating the dance… I used to dance a lot and for some reason this metaphor clicked with me… when dancing you surrender, you let go, you are open… and without knowing the what/how, you can feel that by practicing and experimenting, you’ll step into…

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Thank you John for your post. Absolutely love reading your posts, always so well said! I concur with what you said when describing the threshold “a point of no return” with a blend of fear, apprehension of the unknown, skepticism, what Nature could possibly offer… AND exuberance, anticipation, excitement… After few practices, it is incredible…

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– Reflect on your experience as a client in the “threshold”.

Going through a threshold is unbelievably powerful. It enlightened me during the process and gave me so much more food for thoughts afterwards. There is no going back. It will never be the same. It gave me a new pair of eyes, a new approach, a real awakening. One special threshold for…

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F2 Summary post

Foundation 2 was rich in so many ways:

– a real pillar to understand the ceremony steps and especially the severance part

– reading the coaching skills book and coyote’s guide taught me the skilled language for coaching and the effective questions to ask a client during a session. Being able to experience it in the field with…

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Thank you Sara for sharing your reflection. Your post provoked an aha moment for me… Originally I didn’t really know what the word severance meant.. and you expressing “a literal severing from the old, disconnected way of being” made it crystal clear to me… I see it as the beginning of the transition; getting more awareness, getting more clear…

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Hi Liv, I really resonated with what you said when you shared that NCC falling into the discipline of Ecopsychology brought more credence to it and provided more foundation. Everything interweaves somehow and it is really interesting to understand all the different pieces. As we learn more and more, I feel it is going to be easier to explain it to…

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Hi Liv, I really resonated with what you said when you shared that NCC falling into the discipline of Ecopsychology brought more credence to it and provided more foundation. Everything interweaves somehow and it is really interesting to understand all the different pieces. As we learn more and more, I feel it is going to be easier to explain it to…

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Where does Ecopsychology and Coaching come together? How does this blend add foundation to your interests as a Nature-Connected Coach. How might it fall short? And what skills are needed?

Ecopsychology holds that there is a “synergistic interplay between planetary and personal well-being” as described by Roszak, T in “Ecopsychology- The Princ…

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Summary reflection

I’ve been waiting to do this summary until I was done reading all the book chapters/pdfs…this is the perfectionist in me… and I realize now that nothing is perfect and it needs to stop right here right now… Just like Nature, I am perfectly imperfect and I need to embrace it. I can still remember being in Gunnison and…

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Hi John! Thank you so much for sharing your childhood memory about watching the sunrise while fishing. What an amazing experience and recollection at such a young age! Your writing is amazing and as I was reading it, I was right there with you and I could observe this sunrise through your eyes and still feel the warmth on my skin… just…

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Hi Toni. Couldn’t agree more to what you said about this society DOING more than BEING. The feeling of needing to be busy and overwhelmed to show that you are “on track” resonates so much with me. And it is absolutely true that nature gets everything done the way it is supposed to, on its own time so why can’t humans do the same?! Thank you for…

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Joy – I love the awareness that you have! Knowing that you WANT to slow down, sit down and observe. I feel “sit still” is a big one for you and you’ll become a master at it.

Meditation IN NATURE is the best! no need to have one or the other, you can have both 🙂

Lindsay – I could feel your appreciation, gratitude and peace for nature in your post. It really resonated with me when you mentioned the sense of belonging, as an element of nature itself. And I really enjoy the part where you say that being connected to Nature also means respecting nature; its lessons and its mystery. Often times, we, as humans,…

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What does it mean to be connected to Nature, and how can that relationship support your coaching?

I always loved nature without really knowing WHY it was making me feel so good. I’ve also always dreamed about having classes outside and remember enjoying doing my homework in the backyard whenever I could… I’m all about having fun, playing,…

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Hi Amy, excited to learn more about you and what you do in craniosacral. Never heard about it before 🙂 Similar to you, I love to learn new things and connect with nature! Thanks for offering a ride, I’d definitely be interested, I am arriving late in Denver on June 24th (and returning on July 4th at 10am) and can definitely find my way to…

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Yes please 🙂 I’d be happy to connect/coordinate with you and Sara for a ride on the 25th.

Hi everyone!

My name is Cecile Bonnet (Cici if it’s easier to pronounce 😉 )

I am French and have been living in Pennsylvania for about 10years. My husband and I recently rented our house in PA and are now living full time in our RV. Currently in Florida and about to go to Nashville, TN then Texas and Las Vegas (where my husband’s family lives).

My…

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