Coaching Outdoors
Practical Inspiration Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78860-342-3 (ISBN)
** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **
Coaching Outdoors offers a journey of professional development, personal development and enriched wellbeing.
Coaching Outdoors supports practitioners to step outside and make the most of what nature can offer the coach, client, organisation and planet.
It contains essential practical advice and activities, together with engaging case studies and research – all laid out in an accessible and logical format.
Discover how to:
Articulate the benefits of coaching outdoors from a place of experience
Contract for psychological safety outdoors
Find resources in nature
Collaborate with nature as a coaching co-facilitator
Engage with nature when working remotely with clients
Coaching Outdoors is the first handbook specifically on the value of coaching with nature. It is an invitation to leave the fast-paced, technology-focused world and reconnect with what really matters, in an environment where we were born to thrive.
LESLEY ROBERTS BEd, MSc is an executive coach and adventurer who has been coaching outdoors since 1999. Her academic research focused on how nature can support coach and client. After 16 years with Mars Inc she founded Brave Conversations, working with global teams and individuals to unlock their potential. In 2019 she founded Coaching Outdoors to bring the benefits of partnering with nature to as many people as possible.
Lesley Roberts BEd, MSc is an executive coach and adventurer who has been coaching outdoors since 1999. Her academic research focused on how nature can support coach and client. After 16 years with Mars Inc she founded Brave Conversations, working with global teams and individuals to unlock their potential. In 2019 she founded Coaching Outdoors to bring the benefits of partnering with nature to as many people as possible.
Table of Contents
PRELIMS
Foreword by Neil Reynolds, Mars Inc
What you will find in this book
MAIN CONTENT
PART 1 – Setting the Scene
About the author and introduction
A brief orientation to coaching in general
What is coaching outdoors?
& Coaching outdoors in the context of other types of coaching
Why has Coaching Outdoors become Topical?
Why has being outdoors become so talked about now – a comment on society today
Today’s business world
Covid-19
Peter Hawkins challenge
Benefits from Being Outdoors
The evolutionary human connection with nature
Benefits of being outside
Positive effects of nature
Research into walking outside and coaching and walking
PART 2 – Getting Started
Choosing the Right Location
The differences between extreme adventures, hill walking and a walk in the park
City, rural, office grounds
Where to go, what is appropriate and what isn’t?
What practicalities need to be considered?
Green space/blue space research
ACTIVITY - Self-coaching walk
Contracting
What’s different to indoors?
What do I need to include?
ACTIVITY - Practice with a client
Weather
Where’s your comfort zone?
Where’s your clients comfort zone?
ACTIVITY – Self-exploration walk
Kit
What to wear
What to take
ACTIVITY – Self-exploration walk/Reflection exercise
Psychological Safety
Considerations
How locations can support a variety of issues
ACTIVITY – Plan for a client session & re-tweak contract if necessary
Give it a Go
ACTIVITY – Prompt to give it a go in a client session & reflect
PART 3 – The Circle of Benefits
Benefits for the Coachee
Space
Perspective
Creativity
Presence
Side by side
Benefits for the Coach
Nature as Co-facilitator/The Evoked Companion
Speed of connection
Depth of conversation
Presence
Bravery
Benefits for the Organization
Making the business case
Overcoming resistance
Wellbeing/Resilience
A new way of working for faster results
Longevity of impact
It’s all about how you introduce it
Benefits for the Planet
It all starts with our relationship with nature
Personal responsibility
Personal choice
PART 4 – Who am I to Coach Outdoors?
Your purpose
ACTIVITY – Self-Coaching & Journaling
Your personal outdoor practice
Model for time outdoors
Your outdoor coaching practice
ACTIVITY – Elevator pitch
PART 5 – Nature as Co-Facilitator
Opportunities for The Coach – Making the most of the outside environment
More than just taking the worksheet outside
Nature as a mirror
Stories and examples
ACTIVITY
Metaphor
Stories and examples
ACTIVITY
Constellations
Stories and examples
ACTIVITY
Seasons
Stories and examples
ACTIVITY
Give it a Go
Trust your intuition
ACTIVITY – Prompt to give it a go in a client session & reflect
PART 6 – Teams & Remote Work
Working Outdoors with Teams
What is the difference to working with an individual?
What to be aware of
Opportunities for teams/team coaches
Stories and examples
Working Remotely with Nature
Over the phone
Over computer
(including examples, ideas and top tips)
PART 7 – Final Thoughts
The Future of Coaching Outdoors
Conclusion
Coaching Outdoors is accessible and multi-beneficial for most and appropriate for many, brining benefits to both coach, client and organization.
END MATTER
Appendices
Sample map of an outdoor space for coaching
Check-list of things to inform client about
Check-list of things to bring; coach and client
List of ideas for working with nature indoors
Risk Assessment form
Acknowledgements
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Tadley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78860-342-7 / 1788603427 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78860-342-3 / 9781788603423 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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