Nature Connected Coaching

What do you do with negative emotions? Do you control them? Manage them? Suppress, avoid? That's what a lot of my clients try to do at the beginning.
Our culture has a lot of myths about emotions:
* Emotions are signs of weakness;
* Emotions interfere with making rational decisions;
* A happy person does not experience negative emotions;
* Unpleasant emotions come from not thinking positively
and many many more.

We were never taught what to do with emotions and it cost us happiness and mental wellbeing.

When we learn to approach emotions skillfully, we start listen to them, experience them, acknowledge and resolve. They become our tools of self-understanding, messengers of important information and "guardian angels".

That what I am planning to talk about in my presentation on June 19th in Loveland, CO

Join us if you are in the area. it's an in-person event.

The Day 1 of the Figure It Outside summit: How Nature Can Help You to Live with More Joy, Wellness and Meaning is now available!
Are you watching?

One of the speakers today is Mark Coleman - world famous meditation teacher, the founder of Awake in the Wild.

Some people (including me) struggle to establish a continuous mindfulness practice, but bringing it in nature helps tremendously! Nature holds our attention almost effortlessly.

If you already registered for the event, you should receive a link to Day 1.

Mary Reynolds Thompson who is a speaker at the Figure It Outside summit had a book launch event yesterday at Boulder Book Store.

In her new book The Way of the Wild Soul Woman Mary speaks about 5 Earth archetypes you can learn from:
Desert Woman - to let go of what no longer serves you
Forest Woman - to seed new dreams and nurture them in your depths
Ocean and River Woman - to ride the flow of your deepest longings
Mountain Woman - to rise up in service of a vision
Grassland Woman - to engage with community as your rewilded self
The book is about exploring your inner nature.
To listen to her interview for the Figure It Outside summit register here www.FigureItOutside.com

My path to the work I love was long and winding. It were a series of attempts (and failures) to come closer and closer to the ideal where the work I do is a fullest expression of what I value for myself and what I have to offer to the world.

About 10 years ago I came to realization that this type of work should lie on the intersection of personal growth and nature.

I started offering nature coaching retreats in 2018. Pandemic halted the progress, but it seems that I just can't avoid what I am called to do. This story I share in the new episode of the Elevate podcast together with tips on healing power of nature.