I forgot to put this at the end of my post!

A nature and soul connected guide that seems very aligned with what I want to explore is SoulSkin Journeys (https://www.soulskinjourneys.com/offerings). I particularly like the range of offerings they have: shorter circles, one on one sessions, a 9-month deep dive, and support for those who are parenting…

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Summary:
I want to consider what it would be like to be as beautifully explicit as Cynthia in my work with clients. I want to ask them to explore Soul-centered practices (like 360 awareness, sit spot, gratitudes, journaling, wandering, vision council, pendulation, radical daydreaming, altars, parts work, ceremony, and so on) and choose one or two…

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Wow, Cynthia! This is such a beautiful vision. I feel that, like Suez, you speak so clearly here because you know this territory intimately. Your expertise in the field, as a professional woman in male dominated arenas, and as someone with such a deep relationship to nature, will be an incredible gift within the coaching container.

Reading how…

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Suez, once again the depth and clarity of your vision, and how developed your sense of what you are up to, inspires me. I agree with the others that your personal experience with these topics brings such richness and integrity to your vision.

I also came at this from places of resistance on multiple fronts. Thanks for modeling how it can be done…

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I’m coming back to this very belatedly, here at the end of our program. Other than the discussion for Foundations 2, this has been a spot I have felt most resistant. Prior to EBI, every time I looked at how to start a coaching practice, the talk has been about niche, client avatar, very specific demographics, and so on. This has stirred up s…

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The core of threshold for me is experiential. It is the direct contact with what is and what might be. It is embodied, felt, congruent. It is contact with self, Soul, world, Spirit, that has the capacity to transform us, at least in the moment, or to invite us into new territory. In threshold, something becomes possible that might not have existed…

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I love the inclusiveness of your exploration here – with your own experience, with how you are in threshold, with the way you reflect each of us with such clear seeing, with how nature came through even in this virtual context.

Your Cloak of Coaching! I want to know more – what color is it, what texture, what is in the inner pockets? How do you…

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I feel like I actually wrote most of my summary and take away questions in my initial long post.

After reviewing what we’ve all written here, I continue to walk away with a desire to explore how broadly we can hold the ecopsychological perspectives, in our lives and in our coaching. We have these amazing tools through the NCC program and our own…

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Two lines stand out to me in the overall richness of your post, Rachel.

Juniper saying “you treat nature the way that you treat yourself.” And the question you ask:
“I wonder how many people may be turned off to the idea of connecting with nature.”

I’m coming back to the experience and concept that WE are nature. If we are treating nature the way…

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Whew, I’m really feeling your framing of the Great Disconnect. My child (he/they) is totally absorbed with their phone. It runs in the background even when they are doing other things. And the need for a phone and computer arose during Covid and the necessity of having ways to contact friends or participate in school during lockdown. I feel this…

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Amanda,

I love your statement about nature-connection itself being the practice of your spirituality, from the ideas in books and studies, to the experiential aspect of being outside. And the modified Trinity – Humans / Source / Nature – what a way to reinvigorate those concepts.

I’m curious, all this time later, how you are committing to the…

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This has been the hardest aspect of the whole NCC course for me to engage with and speak to. The enormity of this territory originally left me feeling utterly overwhelmed, struck with grief and love, wanting to speak eloquently to the essentialness of this question and not leave anything out, and afraid to touch the raw core of my own experience.

T…

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Hi Amanda,
I’m belatedly going back and completing Foundation homework. Your post here was so rich and brought me right back into the fullness of this work (both personally and as a coach).

I love the range of your experiences in the threshold: haven, the threshold of the whole intensive (that left you grateful and charged, yet tired and exhausted)…

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