Connecting Humans to Nature
Nature-Connected Training
to Transform Your Life
to Transform Your Life
Are you ready to transform your passion for nature into a career?
Our life coach certification programs is a pathway to a nature-connected career.
Are you ready to connect to
nature and change your life?
Our Wilderness Quests,
Online Trainings, and Coaching Services
will start you on the journey of your life
TAKE A COURSE
MAKE CONNECTIONS
MAKE CONNECTIONS
Earth-Based Institute Offers a Variety of Nature-Connected Life Coach Certification Programs and Training Options
Successful completion of EBI outdoor leadership training courses can help qualify participants for a wide range of outdoor jobs in areas including:
adventure therapy • business coaching • career counseling
community development • ecopsychology • nature therapy • outdoor education
outdoor leadership • wellness • wilderness therapy • workshop facilitation
WHO WE ARE
Earth Based Institute (EBI) is global leadership development organization dedicated to helping people connect to nature. EBI offers professional coaching certification for Nature-Connected Coaches and experiential learning for everyone.
EBI is a supportive place for people with a passion for nature to grow that passion Iinto a meaningful career
OUR INSTRUCTORS
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Daniel Brisbon, NCC, ACC, TWG Admissions Guide, Instructor, Student Mentor
Daniel Brisbon is a teaching assistant and student mentor in the Nature Connected Coaching NCC and Transformational Wilderness Guiding TWG programs at Earth Based Institute. He is a certified Nature Connected Coach and Transformational Wilderness Guide who focuses on aligning people to a place of greater self-awareness and discovery in the great outdoors. He works with passionate and driven individuals that are seeking a greater bond and connection within themselves through their experience in nature.
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Julie Thomas, MA, LPC Grief and Loss Instructor
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Hannah Tirrell-Wysocki NCC, TWG, MA Program Director, Student Mentor, Instructor, Quest Guide
Hannah Tirrell-Wysocki is a teaching assistant and mentor to students in the Nature Connected Coaching program at Earth-Based Institute. She is a certified Nature-Connected Coach who uses mindfulness and land based practices to help clients unlock their inherent wisdom and knowing. Hannah was trained in the Groups as Living Systems facilitation model and applies this interconnected framework to her coaching, wilderness guiding and group work. Her background with Outward Bound allows her to hold a structure solid enough to support the necessary fluidity, unpredictability and wildness of unfolding growth and transformation.
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Sheri Peterson, NCC Student Mentor
Sheri Peterson is a graduate of EBI’s Nature-Connected Coaching program and continues as a student mentor. Sheri coaches clients through her company, Your PATH Coach, LLC, where PATH stands for Personal Accountability To Harmony. Her passion is to walk alongside seekers, co-creating with them and nature, a life in harmony. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University and currently resides in beautiful Colorado. She is also a Walking Movement Leader with Walk2Connect and a Row Coach at the Row House-Smoky Hill, where she encourages movement, self-awareness, and personal growth.
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Maria Rosa Galter Student Mentor
Maria is a graduate of EBI’s Nature-Connected Coaching program and a current EBI student mentor. Through her coaching practice, Wild Wisdom Coaching, Maria guides clients to seek Nature’s guidance as they tap into their unique wild wisdom to discern their next steps forward. Prior to pursuing her NCC certificate, Maria led a 10-year career in the international non-profit sector, first as founder of Into Your Hands-Africa, later as the Executive Director of AfricAid and Africa Network for Animal Welfare-USA. She has a Master’s in Non-Profit Management from Regis University. She is also a certified Spiritual Director and graduate of the Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program.
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David Fontaine, NCC, TWG Student Mentor, TWG Instructor, Quest Guide
David is a graduate of EBI’s Nature Connected Coaching program and a Certified Transformational Wilderness Guide. He is a Student Mentor for our NCC program and an instructor for our TWG and Quest programs. David also coaches and guides clients, regularly, while letting his vision of how he’ll bring the work to the world continue to unfold. David is passionate about bringing people closer to nature, whether through educating, mentoring, coaching, or guiding. Originally from Vermont, he currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. He is building a nature-connected community there, leading a meet-up group called Connect To Nature, Connect To Yourself, and hosting events on a pro bono basis. He is an avid woodworker, kayaker, hiker, explorer, and camp chef.
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Jen LeCompte Student MentorJen is a graduate of EBI’s Nature Connected Coaching Program and is currently a student mentor. She seeks to offer space and safe passage while clients explore their inner and outer worlds. As a guide, Jen loves working with a client’s beliefs, dreams, ancestral wisdom, fears, joys, ways of being, and dark nights of the soul. She utilizes nature as a playground and teacher, with an emphasis on cycles and seasons within and outside of ourselves. Her favorite aspect of being a guide is her love of people and the opportunity to walk with them in all their humaning endeavors.
TESTIMONIALS
This program combined the tools to connect deeply to nature and ourselves with really practical skills that we can use to serve other people.
— Karl
Nature Connected-Coaching℠ student
The program connects people to nature, with a heavy emphasis on brain change and neuroscience, and that was a big draw for me.
— Erica
Nature Connected-Coaching℠ student
I’ve gained a new community and that is inspiring—being around other people and realizing that nature is all around us all the time.
— Pete
Transformational Wilderness Guide student