to deep too fast — why coaches go to supervision Caution for coaches Be careful not to go to deep too fast. In Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings the wizard Gandalf tells the tale of the what happened when the dwarves of Moria got greedy. They dug too fast too…

Constant criticism of leadership will not create better leaders. In fact it has the opposite affect. It also impacts your brand! What will help leaders grow is compassionate, courageous, coaching conversations. Coaching to grapple with life’s difficult challenges. The Nature of Leadership — growing leaders who want to create the world of tomorrow today. #leadership #selfawareness The Nature of Leadership - lennie noiles The Nature of Leadership merges Traditional Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development, Ecopsychology, Art Therapy…www.lennienoiles.com

Working with leaders When leaders want to work on their leadership presence, I first ask if they are present? This 10-second 2-question exercise provides a shortcut to being present in any moment: First ask yourself, Where am I in space and time? Second, Am I present in this moment? There is no judgement just observation. The act of observation alters the behavior of the observed. The first step of having presence is to be present.

Answering the calling What brings the client (and the coach for that matter) to Nature-based coaching? There are some who have a predisposition towards nature. Ironically these can be some of the more difficult clients as they have a preconception of what they should experience. The client who seeks out…

Pace — Speed of walking The average walking speed on level ground is between 2.8–3.2 mph. Stated as 3mph. What if you intentionally altered the pace of walking, using pace as a coaching tool to elicit discovery? “The association between personality traits and walking speed among middle-aged and older adults…

Looking backwards — A Timeline of Psychological Safety: 1999 — Amy Edmondson (Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams) is credited with popularizing the term to mean an absence of interpersonal fear. Defining team psychological safety as a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. 1965…

A little knowledge is dangerous! Check in with yourself How am I? What is my body doing? What are my thoughts doing? What emotions am I having? What do I need right now? Where am I in relation to this present moment? Years ago on the lecture circuit I talked…

Nature-based coaching works with the same topics brought to a traditional coaching session. A leader may come to develop confidence, delegation, strategic thinking, etc. A team may need to focus on communication and teamwork. Are you looking for ways to manage stress? Maybe finding purpose or direction is the topic…

Coaching, although future focused, is inherently about the present moment which is built on past experience. A wholistic coaching approach incorporates past, present, and future. Nature-based coaching is a wholistic modality with an emphasis on moving between moments. In addition to considering the entire perspective of tense- past, present, future — it also simultaneously looks inward (self-reflection) and outward (expansive contemplation). This approach expands beyond most coaching philosophies and concerns itself with the relational aspect of the coaching experience over the transactional aspect of what the coach provides to the client.