INTERNATIONAL SUPERVISION GROUP WITH NATURE AS DYNAMIC CO-PARTNER, commencing July 2024, details HERE.
NEW: MENTAL WELLNESS WITH NATURE AS PARTNER TOOLKIT, details HERE.
With my love of the outdoors and specialist training in ecotherapy, I have integrated nature into my coaching and supervision practice when it is appropriate to do so. This involves much more complexity than simply taking a client out of the office and offers infinite potential. Here are examples of some aspects requiring particular expertise and attention:
- Assessing when taking a client outdoors is (in)appropriate (SEE MY ROUTEMAP HERE).
- Contracting, and spot contracting, for working together in an unpredictable, more democratic environment.
- Ensuring psychological safety and containment in an uncontained open space and varying the natural setting to finetune its holding impact.
- Drawing on the dynamic aspects of nature to accelerate internal processing (e.g. through the lenses of metaphor, Gestalt, mindfulness, somatic noticing for client and practitioner.)
Publications
Book chapter ‘Nature as Dynamic Co-Partner in Group Supervision’ in Coaching Supervision Groups: Resourcing Practitioners. Edited by Jo Birch. 2021. ROUTLEDGE
This article appeared in the October 2019 issue of Coaching Today, which is published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (c) BACP.
Nature’s Invitation http://NATURE’S INVITATION – Coaching at Work (coaching-at-work.com)
This article was published in Coaching At Work March 2021.
Supervision
See HERE for my specialist model: Outdoor Supervision Frame with Nature as Dynamic Co-Partner.
Specialist Supervision Group (Zoom): Nature as Dynamic Co-Partner
Would you like to learn how to:
*optimise the impact of integrating nature into your coaching – both outdoors and virtually?
*create psychological safety and containment for working outdoors?
*invite the natural environment to deepen your inquiry into your own practice?
Click here for new group September 2023.
Please contact me if you would like to discuss any group or individual supervision options.
Masterclasses
Nature as Dynamic Co-partner Virtual Masterclass (covering outdoor and virtual coaching):
31 March and 19 May 2023, 9.30am -12.30pm. Download flyer here.
Speaker events
Die Natur als dynamischer Co-Partner