Nature Based Coaching
In nature based coaching, we guide you to find your own health and fullest version of yourself and your life. We offer sessions for individuals, couples, and families. Meeting outdoors or a private foothills location, we utilize nature and the natural world for hands on experiential processing to help you explore and grow.
Our Compass:
North – South – East – West – Above – Below – Within
Fire – Water – Earth – Air – Mineral
It starts with getting centered and oriented. Do you know where you are? Where you are heading? You have access to all the elements already, but perhaps you don’t know how to access the wisdom all around us and within you. Pulling from a decade of experience working with the elements, ego state work, ritual, and mindfulness Chuck coaches people to connect with the guidance offered from the natural world.
What you can expect:
In nature, everything has a place, and everything has equal value. Knowing your place in the world is important, and it starts with a personal assessment and mapping – knowing yourself and orienting to creating balance within.
In Nature Based Coaching we assess your level of health and balance within the elements and work to strengthen and reconnect you to all aspects of yourself and nature. Your heart, mind, body, community, and relationships to all those elements within and without. We draw on the lessons and teachings of the natural elements, seasons of the year, the seasons of life, the brilliance of the light and the mystery of the darkness and the shadows created by the interplay of both.
Coaching sessions can take place in wilderness or natural areas, in mid-town at my spacious windowed office that has been designed to bring nature indoors, or at my foothills office outside of the city limits. All of these settings are designed to help you connect more directly with these elements.
Nobody is broken; we have just forgotten our wholeness. These coaching sessions are holistic, designed to help you re-member your wholeness by reconnecting yourself to all parts of your authentic self, reconnecting to people closest to you, the natural world, and the entire Earth.
Nature Connection Consists of a Direct Felt Sense Experience Of:
Relationship to self – You are a part of nature, not separate
Then relationship to nature – Understanding your place in the world of living beings – trees, plants, animals, elements, and other people
Then connection to mystery – Your relationship with all that is beyond what we can see and know
Ways to connect
Recreation (body) – Hiking, biking, skiing, etc.
Information (head) – Learning about science, ecosystems, facts
Connection moments in the above (heart) – Those moments of awe and wonder we experience when we are recreating or studying information in the field
Living connected (soul) – Integration of all of the above which leads to a supported, empowered, meaningful life.
The actual content of sessions will vary depending on where you are at and what you are needing in the process. All coaching starts with either a detailed narrative assessment if you are more logical and verbal or it can start with a cowry shell divination if you would rather connect in more through intuitive and feeling assessment. Your relationship to each of these elements of life and your personal nature as assessed and then an initial direction will be discussed and co-created. The first step in navigation is knowing where you currently are.
After assessment and direction is set, sessions may include:
- Goal Setting
- Accountability to goals and steps agreed on
- Experiential inner work (collaborating with your mind, heart, psyche, ego, spirit, etc)
- Experiential outer work (collaborating with nature, your body, your community, etc.)
- Working with your Dreams
- Ritual
- Ceremony
- Mindfulness and awareness exercises
- Solo time in nature
- Art, music, poetry, and much more.
Session Costs, Locations, and Ideal Use
Here are our offerings:
| Session Length | Cost | Location | Recommended For |
| 1 hour 15 min | $130 | In Office or Walk Near the Office | Weekly or Bi-Weekly Sessions for Gradual Steady Growth |
| 1 hour 30 min | $150 | In Office or Local Natural Area | |
| 2 hour | $200 | In Office or Local Natural Area | |
| 3 hour | $300 | Anywhere – Including More Remote Trails and Wilderness Areas | As desired for Depth Work or more remote Wilderness Work, Ritual or Ceremony |
| 4 hour | $400 | Anywhere – Including More Remote Trails and Wilderness Areas | |
| Full Day | $650 | Anywhere – Including More Remote Trails and Wilderness Areas |
Access and accessibility to all that desire and need this work is important to me. A limited number of sliding scale slots are available if you are willing to negotiate giving back to the community in any way you choose through volunteer work equivalent to the value of the work we do.
The foundation of our world and nature-based work is relationship. Many people live in a world of broken or dysfunctional relationships. The first step is a healthy relationship with yourself, then you can heal your relationship with other people, nature, and your ancestral lineage.
Every difficult journey is made easier with a guide. Regardless of whether your destination is the outer wilderness or the inner wilderness, making sure you get where you intend and come back safely is the most important part. When you are ready to make your journey, reach out. We’ll be here ready to walk with you.
If you are ready now, pick up the phone or write us today.