CLIMATE BIODIVERSITY COACHING
Bespoke programmes for businesses, organisations & networks
Are you ready to lead your organisation towards a regenerative future?
We will accompany you across the bridge to a place where you are leading a motivated sustainable team.
Our previous courses have enabled teams to …
- think long term for a more sustainable future
- deeply listen to partners’ opportunities and challenges in a changing world
- ensure that climate biodiversity solutions are collaboratively owned
- welcome diverse opinions and find common ground
- facilitate mindset shifts
- build trusted relationships
- engage different stakeholders including nature
- understand our own emotions and beliefs
- become more resilient
- be comfortable with uncertainty and taking risks
- engage your team and lead with confidence
- be vulnerable and ask for support when needed
Examples of our previous bespoke training programmes
ARITICLE: HERE’S HOPING
A coaching intervention at Natural England shifted employee mindsets, supporting them to move from overwhelm to inspired action. – Jackie Arnold and Lydia Stevens report
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Developed a a three module short-course in climate and biodiversity coaching for UK Government’s agency – Natural England
- To develop coaching skills including deep listening, emotional intelligence, well-being and health together with action on the ground.
- To support a shift in the culture of the organisation and demonstrate how coaching approaches can enhance the way in which climate change is discussed.
- To integrate emotional regulation for a more balanced way of working, building individual and collective resilience.
- Enabling language, stories and conversations to adapt for a greater positive impact on biodiversity and climate change.
- Discussing how climate change is embedded within the need for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at all levels of the organisation.
- The impact of the course has been written up in Coaching At Work (May 2023)
Webinar delivered together with Natural England course participants as part of Climate Coaching Alliance festival [March 2023]. Recording here.
Process for participants (outside in nature where possible)
- 4×3 hours of on-line live sessions with facilitators (including breaks)
- 6.5 hours self-study and reflective practice (pre and post live sessions)
- 3 x 1 hour cross-cultural buddy co-coaching conversations after each live session (walking in nature on phone)
- 1.5 hours on-line live session (to integrate learning, planting of seeds and reflection in nature)
Outline of content
What is coaching, who are we, our stories, for whom is this relevant in the context of climate and biodiversity needs
- An initial discussion of needs and interests. Mapping their potential networks for use in course content.
- Discussion of internal needs – wellbeing and health in relation to the current status of climate and biodiversity. Emotions and values, aligning our head, heart and gut
- One tool/technique to develop beyond module 1 with buddy
- Coaching Skills tailored to the language of the organisation and their partners
Jackie Arnold (2017) “Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace: How to unlock potential and maximise performance” Pub. Little, Brown Book Group
Emotional intelligence and thinking systemically
- What is climate related emotional intelligence
- Regulating our emotions around climate change (check our head-heart-gut alignment)
- Frameworks and innovative tools for co-creating the relationship with clients
- Ability to think and relate systemically
Inspiration, integration and action
- Visioning future (sustainable) goals and professional directions
- Reframing personal and profession challenges for a positive & healthy future
- Action planning and next steps
- Accountability