Michael Jospé
Michael Jospé
Earth-Based Institute (EBI) was founded by Michael Jospé. Michael is the main instructor for EBI and has been coaching, guiding people into the wilderness, and teaching students to be outdoor leaders and guides since 2004. Scroll Down to see all of the courses Michael is a part of.
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Applying Nature Connection to Your Life and Career – Summer/Fall 2018- Online
This live, three-month training meets twice a month for 2 hours at a time through video conferencing. The focus is on deepening your own connection to nature and how that applies to work with others. In other words, your experience with the exercises will provide an applicable understanding of coaching competencies and skills. This is an experiential training that will require a few hours of practice in between sessions. Register Here
Find out more »Applying Nature Connection to Your Life and Career – Summer/Fall 2018- Online
This live, three-month training meets twice a month for 2 hours at a time through video conferencing. The focus is on deepening your own connection to nature and how that applies to work with others. In other words, your experience with the exercises will provide an applicable understanding of coaching competencies and skills. This is an experiential training that will require a few hours of practice in between sessions. Register Here
Find out more »Toolbox Module: The Brain and Change Part 2 and Working through Grief Intensive
Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 2 - Overview - When we as coaches can grasp how change occurs in the brain and how Nature supports that change for the greater good of the individual, the depth behind our questions and the choices we make in sessions are on a deeper level. These modules will develop your “x - ray” vision as a coach, providing you with the ability to better understand what is happening in the brain as…
Find out more »Applying Nature Connection to Your Life and Career – Summer/Fall 2018- Online
This live, three-month training meets twice a month for 2 hours at a time through video conferencing. The focus is on deepening your own connection to nature and how that applies to work with others. In other words, your experience with the exercises will provide an applicable understanding of coaching competencies and skills. This is an experiential training that will require a few hours of practice in between sessions. Register Here
Find out more »Applying Nature Connection to Your Life and Career – Summer/Fall 2018- Online
This live, three-month training meets twice a month for 2 hours at a time through video conferencing. The focus is on deepening your own connection to nature and how that applies to work with others. In other words, your experience with the exercises will provide an applicable understanding of coaching competencies and skills. This is an experiential training that will require a few hours of practice in between sessions. Register Here
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Brain and Change 1 and Guiding through Trauma Intensive
This event is for registered Nature-Connected Coaching students Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 1 - Overview - This is the first of three modules that explore the process of change. Each module blends together essential tools and information about Interpersonal Neuroscience, change theory, and eco-psychological practices that support the intentions and motivations of the nature-connected coach. The information provided will greatly enhance your ability to listen, establish trust, create awareness, and guide learning. It will also deepen your…
Find out more »Nature Connected Coaching Foundations Intensive
This 9-day Intensive is the very beginning of a deep and immersive journey into becoming a Nature-Connected Coach. Here students will learn the following: To root deeply into connection with nature using a fined tuned set of awareness techniques. Learn and practice transformational guiding and coaching competencies (Including those stated by the International Coach Federation). To practice coaching others. To collaborate with nature in the coaching process. After the Foundations Intensive students are equipped with the tools to be highly…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: The Brain and Change Part 2 and Working through Grief Intensive
Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 2 - Overview - When we as coaches can grasp how change occurs in the brain and how Nature supports that change for the greater good of the individual, the depth behind our questions and the choices we make in sessions are on a deeper level. These modules will develop your “x - ray” vision as a coach, providing you with the ability to better understand what is happening in the brain as…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Gestalt and Partswork
Scroll down to RSVP Gestalt - Overview - The core principles of Gestalt Therapy offer Nature-Connected Coaches a powerful set of tools for enhancing coaching awareness, listening, presence, and questioning skills. Principles such as boundary defenses, contact, and presence strengthen your listening skills, helping you to see more clearly beneath the surface in a way that can establish a deep sense of trust between you and your client. Understanding how to facilitate a “Gestalt - based experiment” will directly improve…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: LongTerm Coaching and Advanced Partswork
Scroll down to RSVP Long Term Coaching - Overview - This module looks closely at long-term coaching and supporting a client through a change/growth process that may take 8-months to a year, or longer. Building off the coaching format we established in the Foundation Modules, you will learn how to hold a long-term perspective with your client that maintains a nature-connected point of view. Different from the Stages of Change and the Four-Shields, discussed in other modules, this perspective uses…
Find out more »Nature Connected Coaching Foundations Intensive
This 9-day Intensive is the very beginning of a deep and immersive journey into becoming a Nature-Connected Coach. Here students will learn the following: To root deeply into connection with nature using a fined tuned set of awareness techniques. Learn and practice transformational guiding and coaching competencies (Including those stated by the International Coach Federation). To practice coaching others. To collaborate with nature in the coaching process. After the Foundations Intensive students are equipped with the tools to be highly…
Find out more »EBI Summer Wilderness Quest 2019
July 12-19, 2019 – Gunnison, CO Wilderness Questing is an ancient ritual found in nearly every culture. The rhythms, beauty, and harsh realities of the wilderness act as mirrors—reflecting deep truths about who we are. The Wilderness Quest can be a catalyst for great change—the perfect answer to meeting the challenges of major life transitions. EBI is committed to co-creating a safe Wilderness Quest that works for you. This program is a 9 day, small-group wilderness immersion experience that involves…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Brain and Change 1 and Guiding through Trauma Intensive
This event is for registered Nature-Connected Coaching students Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 1 - Overview - This is the first of three modules that explore the process of change. Each module blends together essential tools and information about Interpersonal Neuroscience, change theory, and eco-psychological practices that support the intentions and motivations of the nature-connected coach. The information provided will greatly enhance your ability to listen, establish trust, create awareness, and guide learning. It will also deepen your…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Gestalt and Partswork
Scroll down to RSVP Gestalt - Overview - The core principles of Gestalt Therapy offer Nature-Connected Coaches a powerful set of tools for enhancing coaching awareness, listening, presence, and questioning skills. Principles such as boundary defenses, contact, and presence strengthen your listening skills, helping you to see more clearly beneath the surface in a way that can establish a deep sense of trust between you and your client. Understanding how to facilitate a “Gestalt - based experiment” will directly improve…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: The Brain and Change Part 2 and Working through Grief Intensive
Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 2 - Overview - When we as coaches can grasp how change occurs in the brain and how Nature supports that change for the greater good of the individual, the depth behind our questions and the choices we make in sessions are on a deeper level. These modules will develop your “x - ray” vision as a coach, providing you with the ability to better understand what is happening in the brain as…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Brain and Change 1 and Guiding through Trauma Intensive
This event is for registered Nature-Connected Coaching students Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 1 - Overview - This is the first of three modules that explore the process of change. Each module blends together essential tools and information about Interpersonal Neuroscience, change theory, and eco-psychological practices that support the intentions and motivations of the nature-connected coach. The information provided will greatly enhance your ability to listen, establish trust, create awareness, and guide learning. It will also deepen your…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: LongTerm Coaching and Advanced Partswork
Scroll down to RSVP Long Term Coaching - Overview - This module looks closely at long-term coaching and supporting a client through a change/growth process that may take 8-months to a year, or longer. Building off the coaching format we established in the Foundation Modules, you will learn how to hold a long-term perspective with your client that maintains a nature-connected point of view. Different from the Stages of Change and the Four-Shields, discussed in other modules, this perspective uses…
Find out more »Nature Connected Coaching Foundations Intensive
This 9-day Intensive is the very beginning of a deep and immersive journey into becoming a Nature-Connected Coach. Here students will learn the following: To root deeply into connection with nature using a fined tuned set of awareness techniques. Learn and practice transformational guiding and coaching competencies (Including those stated by the International Coach Federation). To practice coaching others. To collaborate with nature in the coaching process. After the Foundations Intensive students are equipped with the tools to be highly…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: The Brain and Change Part 2 and Working through Grief Intensive
Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 2 - Overview - When we as coaches can grasp how change occurs in the brain and how Nature supports that change for the greater good of the individual, the depth behind our questions and the choices we make in sessions are on a deeper level. These modules will develop your “x - ray” vision as a coach, providing you with the ability to better understand what is happening in the brain as…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Gestalt and Partswork
Scroll down to RSVP Gestalt - Overview - The core principles of Gestalt Therapy offer Nature-Connected Coaches a powerful set of tools for enhancing coaching awareness, listening, presence, and questioning skills. Principles such as boundary defenses, contact, and presence strengthen your listening skills, helping you to see more clearly beneath the surface in a way that can establish a deep sense of trust between you and your client. Understanding how to facilitate a “Gestalt - based experiment” will directly improve…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: LongTerm Coaching and Advanced Partswork
Scroll down to RSVP Long Term Coaching - Overview - This module looks closely at long-term coaching and supporting a client through a change/growth process that may take 8-months to a year, or longer. Building off the coaching format we established in the Foundation Modules, you will learn how to hold a long-term perspective with your client that maintains a nature-connected point of view. Different from the Stages of Change and the Four-Shields, discussed in other modules, this perspective uses…
Find out more »Nature Connected Coaching Foundations Intensive
This 9-day Intensive is the very beginning of a deep and immersive journey into becoming a Nature-Connected Coach. Here students will learn the following: To root deeply into connection with nature using a fined tuned set of awareness techniques. Learn and practice transformational guiding and coaching competencies (Including those stated by the International Coach Federation). To practice coaching others. To collaborate with nature in the coaching process. After the Foundations Intensive students are equipped with the tools to be highly…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Brain and Change 1 and Guiding through Trauma Intensive
This event is for registered Nature-Connected Coaching students Scroll down to RSVP Brain and Change 1 - Overview - This is the first of three modules that explore the process of change. Each module blends together essential tools and information about Interpersonal Neuroscience, change theory, and eco-psychological practices that support the intentions and motivations of the nature-connected coach. The information provided will greatly enhance your ability to listen, establish trust, create awareness, and guide learning. It will also deepen your…
Find out more »Toolbox Module: Gestalt and Partswork
Scroll down to RSVP Gestalt - Overview - The core principles of Gestalt Therapy offer Nature-Connected Coaches a powerful set of tools for enhancing coaching awareness, listening, presence, and questioning skills. Principles such as boundary defenses, contact, and presence strengthen your listening skills, helping you to see more clearly beneath the surface in a way that can establish a deep sense of trust between you and your client. Understanding how to facilitate a “Gestalt - based experiment” will directly improve…
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