Nature-Connected Coaching℠

Professional training for nature-connected life coaching

Nature-Connected Coaches operate within every human sphere

Our Nature-Connected Coaching℠ program provides you with the professional training needed to bring valuable nature-connected skills and strategies into fields from therapy to business, education to adventure, science to art. Nature-Connected coaches look to nature—within themselves, their clients, and the environment—to help:

make life changes
navigate transitions
improve health—both mental and physical
build connections
develop career and leadership skills

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Earth-based Institute (EBI) offers two levels of certified coaching. Nature-Connected Coach (NCC) is the core program. Transformational Wilderness Guiding is a second level of certification.

The low-residency NCC course takes 12-24 months to complete. The program includes online coursework (four Foundation Modules and eight Toolbox Modules), as well as five face-to-face intensives.

Foundation Modules

• Immersion, Relationship & Connection
• Creating the Nature-Connected Coaching℠ Container
• Crossing the Threshold: The Unknown and Deep Listening
• Creating Awareness and Facilitating Integration

Toolbox Modules

• Using Gestalt Therapy Gestalt Therapy is experiential therapy that focuses on an individual's present moment experience principles in Nature-Connected Coaching℠
• PartsWork PartsWork is a gestalt-based tool for self-awareness, self-acceptance, integration, and forward thinking
• Brain and Change
• Brain and Change #2
• Long-term Coaching and Change Models
• Partswork 2
• Working with Trauma and Strong Emotions
• Working with Grief and Loss

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Certification and College Credit

This program is approved by the International Coach Federation and satisfies the training requirements for the highest level of credentials: Master Certified Coach (MCC). College credit is also available.

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