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Reflecting and re-reviewing everyone’s posts in the Foundation Four module is so energizing and reinvigorating. The passion, energy, and creativity from everyone is truly inspiring. It truly points to the virtually infinite possibilities for what we as nature connected coaches can create with the knowledge and experience this program p…

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Ah, the beauty and power of Threshold. As Sara calls out in her summary post, Threshold is THE thing that makes nature connected coaching unique and differentiated in a sea of (somewhat) sameness in coaching modalities. This is not something that I appreciated when I was consciously evaluating the NCC program which, as Sara also…

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The exploration of ecotherapy, ecopsychology, and nature connected demonstrate the importance and need for nature’s collective healing, that is the healing of us as individuals, as nature, and the interconnected system from which we all spring and thrive. We suffer when nature suffers, nature suffers when we suffer because we are o…

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Reflecting on what it means to be connected to nature and the role that plays in supporting our coaching practice brings back a wave of energy and emotion from our time together with nature on the land in Gunnison. For me during the start of our time, that was so much unknown. What truly is this nature connected coaching program? Why…

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Joy + Hannah: love this Gestalt lesson that Derik discussed with us around being a part of the client experience in the here and now. This allows us to maintain our client-led approach but recognize and leverage our own presence and awareness to serve our clients needs. As John called out below in his post, it takes ‘two to tango’ in Gestalt so…

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Lindsay — love how you connect with the experimental aspects, matches and mirrors your thoughtful + creative approach to coaching and guiding. This experimental aspect matches so well to the NCC coaching model and the conscious experimentation we bring to our clients via the coaching ceremony.

Gestalt is admittedly one of the more challenging concepts we’ve encountered for me to fully wrap my head around. For me, it seems most useful as a set of concepts and principles that can be applied primarily in part throughout a coaching or guiding session. Even more specifically, it has been a set of things to ‘listen’ for in a session versu…

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I have long struggled with the question of which population most excites me for guiding and coaching. Feeling the call to guide, but feeling not oriented towards a clear sense of direction.

Throughout the Foundations Modules and beyond, I have struggled with the tension of wanting to guide people find purpose through coaching work versus helping…

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As a client, my personal “threshold” experiences have been among the most profound and transformative of the NCC program. As we were first learning about the phases of the Nature Connected Coaching process and ceremony, the threshold hold framing as “conscious experimentation with the deeper need” helped unlock greater understanding about what is…

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Ecopsychology provides the foundational principles that undergird our work as nature connected coaches and guides. Ecopsychology roots the coaching experiences we offer in a rigorous and deeper exploration of the benefits of nature connection in a psychological and applied therapeutic sense.

In “Psyche and Nature In a Circle of Healing,” Buz…

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

Leading up this program, I reflected on the role of nature in my own life and the meaning of nature connection. I often found myself coming back to language related to safety, support, and connection. Safety from the tumultuous challenges I faced…

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Hello everyone! My name is Josh. And, I am thrilled to begin this journey with you all in just a few days. I recently moved to Salt Lake City from San Francisco where I had been living for the past five years. Nearly two years ago, I founded a strategic communications and research agency with a few former colleagues. The process of founding and…

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