Gestalt Intro Post

For this session with my client, I established the coaching relationship through stating my intention for the session as a coach, asking to be the coach and stating my confidentiality agreement. To start the session, I asked the client how she wanted to settle into our space together, and we ended up laughing together and doing…

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Summary Post

Foundation Four brought many new aspects of the coaching process to the table for me, including an in depth look at integration and the time between the sessions. Figuring out how to set my clients up for success between sessions is a vital topic that I want to explore more. Within my practice sessions so far, I’ve concentrated o…

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Also, upon reading the organizations that you found while researching your ‘dreamy’ ideas, I can feel your passions coming through in a more concise, yet awestruck kind of way. I can’t wait to see the route you wind up taking 🙂

Hi Sara – I can relate to your struggle of finding the ideal client. I found myself struggling between what I ‘should’ do as part of my original business model and what sounds light and fun for me in the moment.

Upon reading your various options that you presented for yourself, I wonder if being a coach to parents is similar to being a teacher to…

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This is a really tough question for me to answer, and I want to stop avoiding it simply because I don’t know my ideal target client at the moment. I would love to coach those that want to make big life changes but are scared – life changes that lead more to their own personal freedom and inner growth and awareness. I’ve had a lot of people come…

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Summary Post

This module represented not only the impact of actually being in nature during threshold but also how that incorporates nature into the constant threshold of the mind. While being in my sit spot on the ridge and rolling around in the dirt giggling with glee was a spectacular moment that I’ll never forget, it isn’t just a distant mem…

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Hi Sara! I love your expansive approach to this question and exploring the layers of threshold in everyday life and how the nature-based experiences ripple out into the city of your mind. Thank you for sharing your experience with bringing the pinecone into your home and always holding it in your mind, thus bringing you back to that beautiful…

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Hi Hannah! I loved how you described the threshold experience as a vortex or amplified space for opportunity to re-create yourself. That was a beautiful way to describe the experiences within threshold. I also appreciate when you said ‘a sense of unlimited support.’ Thinking of nature as a spotlight and giving you that sense of time-altering…

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Reflect on your experience as a client in the “threshold”. How does that experience inform your coaching and why? How did Nature participate in your process and what does that tell you about coaching others?

As a client going into the experience of threshold multiple times during our Foundations Intensive, I received the awareness of how eac…

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Summary Post

Foundation 2 had many lessons hidden away that were uncovered through layers over the months following the intensive at nature camp. During this module, we learned the phases of ceremony – severance phase, threshold phase, and incorporation phase. I learned the various components within the severance phase as well as how to get to t…

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Hi Lindsay and Sara,

Yes, yes, yes! I have also been pondering this as it has taken me up to now to even see just how the connection to nature has really benefitted even myself (through all of the modalities of healing and connecting every bit of the earth and living creature to aid in that healing, rather than looking at it from simply a ‘me’…

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Wow. John, you really captured the essence of every part of this kickoff question. You wrote with such eloquence. I appreciate how you have tied in every part of our reading and linked together the readings – with your quote from the coaching skills to Coyote in bringing them all together. I felt such a connection with the readings but failed 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? What skills are needed?

When reading the articles surrounding the concepts of Ecopsychology or ecotherapy, simply defining it as ‘healing and growth nurtured by healthy interaction with t…

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Summary Reflection

Wow, as I sit months later, trying to summarize what Foundations One meant for me, I just imagine rolling around in the dirt on the ridgeline at my sit spot all blissed out on nature. It was like a drug. The pure ecstatic bliss of feeling the air on my skin while rolling in dirt and sagebrush, giggling with no one watching but a…

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Hi Ceci! I love what you wrote about the trees and how you mentioned their imperfections (just like humans) but also how those don’t remove their charm (and adding more instead). What a beautiful insight. I also appreciate how you mentioned that they all have their own unique offering and they need each other for survival (just like humans).

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

I used to think that being connected to nature meant being outside while doing something that I loved – such as hiking, trail running, camping, etc. But over the course of our Foundations week, I was quickly reminded that being connected to Nature…

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Lindsay – This was beautifully written. I love how you described your connection with nature – it really felt as though you were dancing through it as I was reading your post. I appreciate how you choose to integrate it into your coaching sessions, especially with the encouragement of your clients creating ideas of what they can do within the…

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Hey Everyone! I can’t offer a ride. I will now already be in the Gunnison area this next week (camping for the next three weeks ;)) But it looks like it worked out with Amy. If anything changes, I will check in with everyone before the 25th.

Hi Everyone!

My name is Joy and I’m getting really excited for the June intensive. I’ve been mostly overseas for my adult life and Denver is my home base in the US. I felt a calling to participate in this program after a series of events led me to a sort of awakening experience in Vietnam during Covid. I recently finished hypnotherapy school in…

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