Coaching Outdoors : The Essential Guide to Partnering With Nature in Your Coaching Conversations
by Lesley Roberts

Coaching Outdoors offers a journey of professional development, personal development and enriched wellbeing.

Coaching Outdoors : The Essential Guide to Partnering With Nature in Your Coaching Conversations supports practitioners to step outside and make the most of what nature can offer the coach, client, organisation and planet. It contains essential practical advice and activities, together with engaging case studies and research – all laid out in an accessible and logical format.

Discover how to:

  • Articulate the benefits of coaching outdoors from a place of experience

  • Contract for psychological safety outdoors

  • Find resources in nature

  • Collaborate with nature as a coaching co-facilitator

  • Engage with nature when working remotely with clients

Coaching Outdoors is the first handbook specifically on the value of coaching with nature. It is an invitation to leave the fast-paced, technology-focused world and reconnect with what really matters, in an environment where we were born to thrive.

  • “This book is an expression of everything that is Lesley; a remarkably dedicated woman. She is a challenging, provocative facilitator of growth and learning; a lover of nature and the outdoors with a brave heart whose capacity allows her to take others to their edge. She has unfolded all of this through her writing for you to unlock your potential to coach with nature.”

    Sue Knight
    NLP Master Trainer, Author of NLP At Work

  • “If you even needed confirmation that coaching outdoors provided tangible, measurable outcomes, this book gives you just that, along with practical suggestions on ‘how to’. Great advice for coaches and organisations.”

    Alysoun Sturt-Scobie
    Human Resource Practitioner, Coach & Mediator

  • “There is growing evidence for the benefits of working in and with nature in the field of human development. This timely book offers a comprehensive guide to coaching outdoors, from contract through to completion. Packed with vignettes and suggestions, it supports the coach to invite nature to enhance their practice.”

    Professor Charlotte Sills

  • “A wonderful unique and thought-provoking resource for anyone interested in taking coaching conversations outdoors. Lesley writes with an engaging informality that speaks to the reader and makes this an easy read. Coaching Outdoors is packed with research, useful information, coaching methods and real-life examples. The layout is clear and accessible and it is so helpful to have many different strands gathered together in one place. This will be invaluable for so many people. It is exactly what has been needed in the outdoor coaching space.”

    Hannah Vertigen
    Coach, Clear Air Coaching

  • Coaching Outdoors is a wonderful toolkit of the best ideas, experiences and research I’ve come across to help us invite nature into our coaching conversations whilst also appreciating and nurturing our planet. It’s beautifully written by Lesley, whose passion and expertise in this area comes through in the evocative and insightful vignettes, provocations and activities to support both the coach and coachee. Whether you are a professional coach, just starting on the coaching journey, a line manager or want to coach yourself, I highly recommend this book.”

    Sam Clarke
    Coach & Trainer, Believe in You Ltd

  • “Lesley demonstrates the compelling rationale for outdoor coaching through combining empiric evidence with personal experience and testimonials. The practical tips, advice and exercises make it a very useful resource for those wanting to take their coaching conversations outdoors. The book is authentic, I love the way Lesley’s energy and enthusiasm is translated into text - not easy to do! The sharing of personal experiences add a further degree of texture.

    Professor Neil Guha
    Nottingham University

  • “Highly practical, well researched and beautifully written. Ideal for anyone wishing to take coaching conversations outdoors for the first time, or to deepen their existing outdoor coaching practice. The author’s depth of knowledge is clear and authentic. She role models coaching in what she offers to the reader."

    Sam Eddleston
    Clear Focus Coaching & Development

  • “This book is rich and comprehensive leaving no stone unturned. Lesley has a lovely easy readable style coupled with a great structure which is simple and easy to follow. She uses descriptions and stories which bring examples to live and really provoke the imagination.”

    Helen Daniel
    Coach

  • “Coaching Outdoors is ground breaking. It lands the whole outdoor coaching concept for coaches and line managers alike. The gravitas of what Coaching Outdoors can offer is found not only through the evidence and stories shared, but through the personal journey the reader takes when they engage in each of the beautifully crafted activities.”

    Barry Chamberlain
    CEO

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