An online course for the beginning of your journey…
Our EMCC award-winning online course to get you started with coaching outdoors.
Running part-time over 2 weeks, this experiential course is designed to provide inspiration, confidence and conviction for coaches and line managers to begin your outdoor coaching practice. You will finish feeling engaged, inspired and equipped to run outdoor coaching sessions with your clients or direct reports.
Join Lesley (MSc Executive Coaching, EMCC Senior Practitioner, 2020 EMCC Global Coaching Award Winner) for our virtual programme using on-line tools to provide bite-size learning modules, in a blended learning format, that you can access whenever suits you.
Throughout the course we will cover:-
The benefits for organisations, clients and the coach
The logistics of being outside: venue, clothing, kit, weather etc.
The experience for coach and coachee
Contracting and psychological safety
“For me this course was an opportunity to combine two of my passions, exploring nature and people development. The reality has been so much more than that.
Breaking the shackles of the boardroom and taking coaching conversations outdoors has far more value than I ever expected. I encourage you to explore for yourself. I briefed my team today on coaching outdoors, there was some initial scepticism, but when I outlined what we had learnt so far they really got it. I think we are going to be busy!”
- Barry Chamberlain, Company Head
An introduction from Lesley Roberts.
COGS awarded the EMCC Global Coaching Award.
The EMCC Global Awards Selection Panel awarded Coaching Outdoors as an organisation for combining their two passions of coaching and the outdoors, into two innovative and inspiring programmes (interactive and online) which are an impactful and effective way for coaches to reconnect with the natural world. The programmes supports the coaches’ development as well as that of their clients, whilst strengthening their relationship with nature.
Why Coach Outdoors?
It is now widely acknowledged that a connection to the natural world enhances our physical and psychological wellbeing.
Businesses are recognising the efficient benefits for their leaders of simultaneously improving wellbeing while developing through coaching.
In a natural setting both client and coach find a sense of deeper awareness, creativity in solutions and accelerated progress compared to an office environment.
Is this virtual programme for you?
Are you a coach who would like to work with clients outside? A line manager who would like to have one to one conversations with your team outdoors? Then this is for you.
Our virtual programme can be accessed flexibly from home and will enable you to confidently take your coaching conversations outside.
The learning time commitment is being able to take a walk most days and spend around 30 minutes reading and writing.
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees”
Henry David Thoreau
The Format
10 Learning Sessions inc. 3 Coach-Led Zoom Sessions
Outdoor Activities
Private Facebook Group
CPD Completion Certificate
Learning Content
Coaching input from the Programme Director
Live group sessions to share with, and learn from others
Real life learning from your practice
Videos, Articles, Journaling, Research
A safe and supportive cohort
One to one coach supported learning also available
Timetable
Monday to Friday for 2 weeks (10 days)
A couple of hours each day, including time outdoors
Programme Director Lesley Roberts
FEEL FULLY EQUIPPED AND INSPIRED TO
COACH OUTDOORS
COGS Programme Feedback
“For me this course was an opportunity to combine two of my passions, exploring nature and people development. The reality has been so much more than that. Breaking the shackles of the boardroom and taking coaching conversations outdoors has far more value than I ever expected. I encourage you to explore for yourself. I briefed my team today on coaching outdoors, there was some initial scepticism, but when I outlined what we had learnt so far they really got it. I think we are going to be busy!”
Barry Chamberlain, Director of Consulting
“I'm part way through this great program at the moment and it's opened my eyes even more to the benefits of coaching - and being coached - in nature. It lifts boundaries, lifts spirits and elevates the outcomes!”
Liz Clayton-Jones, Coach
“Lesley you and your programme are truly an inspiration. Your course was a little oasis for me during the last 2 weeks and most definitely reconnected me to the outdoors, the power of blue and green space as a leader, coach and importantly as a human.
Thank you.”
Amanda Nelson, HRD at QuinteiQ
“I’m taking bucket-loads from this experience and the sharing in the group, so thank you!”
Jonathan Stanford
Feedback from a COGS Programme Participant:
Next Programme Dates :
If these aren’t suitable for you, at the bottom of the page you can sign up to be informed when new cohort dates are released.
The next adventure - our online course for experienced coaches.
As COGS is for those beginning their outdoor coaching practice, NCF is designed to encourage experienced coaches to grow their confidence in working with the opportunities that nature provides for both coach and client.
Support Your Learning
Coaching Outdoors : The Essential Guide to Partnering With Nature in Your Coaching Conversations
by Lesley Roberts
Coaching Outdoors offers a journey of professional development, personal development and enriched wellbeing.
Coaching Outdoors : The Essential Guide to Partnering With Nature in Your Coaching Conversations 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.
