Gestalt Initial Post:

Like most of my posts, I base them off of my current work. Although it is not one-on-one or a “session”, I often see the module topics show themselves within work, so I am able to integrate and utilize the teachings then.

I can see myself using Gestalt within my work in coaching. My senses are fine tuned to picking up bod…

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Cecile,

Totally feel you on reading and feeling people’s emotions was a curse. And as you said once one is able to harness and get to understand a gift, then we are able to utilize it, and wow what a skill and tool to use with clients!

Great observation about your client! It’s cool how these new awarenesses become so obvious when in space with…

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Oh my goodness this is amazing Lindsay!

Thank you for sharing your session in depth! Amazing. Such a good representation of bringing nature, the way of being and how to approach daily life tasks in a more conscious way. This particularly resonates because I personally want to create a business basically out of nature, which I feel many of us…

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John!

Thank you so much for this reflection and sharing your notes, I feel that you put your energy and effort into it. The key parts that stuck out to me within your post are: “Gestalt therapy focuses more on process (what is happening) than content (what is being discussed). ” (Oof what a relief!, I feel like this at least personally drops the w…

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Aloha Joy! So neat that you stated your intention to the client at the start of session. I feel like that is very Gestalt-like and reminds me of when Derik mentioned ” As coaches we want to include ourselves in our experience our client. Because you are in the room, apart of your clients experience in the here and now.” I can see this helping the…

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Summary Post:

I have loved being apart of this module. As I get to know each co-student more, their gifts and ways of serving in the world make so much sense with whom they all are at a deeper level. One’s dharma fully shines here!

My take aways are there are so many avenues you can take coaching, and it can always change. There is not just one…

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Summary Post:

The takeaway from this module is how potent the threshold experience is. This is a space where the client and coach enter and experience almost becomes more contained, a sense of pressure, transformation, emerging to become a butterfly, crossing a bridge.

The threshold is truly a beautiful experience. And for myself as coach, an…

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Summary Post:

Reflecting on the entire experience of this module has brought me to the recognition that it is through nature that one and we heal. There is not one without the other.

The more we can sink in with the rhythms, the ways of our surrounding the more we become not only in our highest health mentally, physically and emotionally but our…

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Summary Post:

Yup it has taken me like 4 months to complete this summary post. While reading Cece’s summary post it hit me like a ton of bricks, with the statement of “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…

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Thank you Sara!

I hear confidence, conciseness and a firm knowing in who you want to be as a coach. It seems like you are paving your way to your ideal client.

I also at times feel you in working with women, I personally go back and forth with whether or not to stick with one gender or work with all.

I also resonate with working with 18-22 age…

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When you think about coaching and/or guiding others, who comes to mind?

– Who initially comes to mind are young adults going through an initiation of going through the transition of becoming an adult.

I see both male and females, whom are looking for an improved lifestyle. One more connected with who they are at a core level and how to recreate…

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Wow Sara,

This post has really blown me away.

I feel the heart and passion behind your words, even through the internet.

I can personally relate to wanting to learn from the “First People”, and to cultivate a deeper understanding of cultural appropriation. How to use this wisdom in a thoughtful authentic way. It feels like a big topic.

There is…

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Lindsay,

Thank you for writing this post.

Upon reading, what stuck out most for me is the part on Indicators of awareness… Using baseline, deep listening skills, metaphor and speed of nature to be able to guide a client. This is so potent! I personally feel like this is what is at the heart of NCC.

As for the section about how it may fall short,…

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John, I am in awe of your post.

While trying to write my own post (which I am not completely happy with) I found myself more caught in emotion, and having a troublesome time putting words to what I thought about this initial question.

With reading your post, I gained confidence in my own personal thoughts about this question. You have put words 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?

– As noted in “The Humanistic Psychologist” Ecotherapy coaching is applied Ecopsychology. What a rich question. What I gathered from Ecopsychology is how Nature…

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John,

I always love reading your posts! Such depth and poetry!

I feel the same when I enter into threshold “Fear, apprehension and release”. The detail of your core competencies is pure beauty. I resonate with Demonstates Ethical Practice, how you mentioned especially in the early phases of the coach/client relationship how important it is to…

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Reflecting on what it feels like to be in the “threshold” experience, it feels like a vortex, or amplified space for the opportunity to re-create who you see yourself in the world. A opportunity to shed the layers and begin anew. There is anticipation, unknowingness and yet excitement for what is on the other side, where it will lead you. The…

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John,

I love how you mention nature is out natural birthright, and the use it or lose it. What truth! When I am out of my practice of nature connection I notice how my connection to the external slowly fades, and a deep sense of sadness or longing comes through.

In your post I see/hear a responsibility to nature that many have discarded.

Thank…

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Apologies on being so late in this discussion… better late than never 🙂

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

Each individuals connection to nature is so different, which makes this relationship especially special. It is a place to drop into a “being” rather than a “doing” state. A…

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Hi Amy,

I am still looking for a way to get from Denver/ Boulder to Gunnison,

I saw that you and Lindsay connected, and curious is you have any more room in your carpool?

If works better I can make my way to Boulder from Denver. Let me know 🙂

Looking forward to further connecting!

Hannah