You may have lost someone or something in your life. Perhaps this is a situation you are navigating currently, or you are still trying to find your way through a past experience.
Grief, Loss and Bereavement isn’t always linked with losing a person. Over the years of coaching clients, grief and loss experiences have been linked to the loss of an opportunity like a career, having a baby, or the end of an relationship.
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For many clients, a parent or partner who needs caring for, particularly when faced with loss of mind or terminal illness has its own grieving experience, as you navigate the shifts in roles and feelings.
You may be someone who needs support to guide yourself through grief and loss, dealing with a long term health condition that has felt like its prevented you reaching a particular goal or living a lifestyle. This has its own unique experience of grief and you might be feeling stuck or misunderstood in accepting the life you have now.
Nature coaching has been additionally helpful to those impacted by adversity in which you find yourself with a sense of grief for the life you could have had, before the event or experience occurred.
Whilst not therapy, Life and/or Career coaching for loss and bereavement can be therapeutic, validating and healing in nature.
This isn’t about ‘trying to fix’ you, I appreciate that grief can come in all sorts of shapes, feelings and time. However coaching does help you focus on the present and future, supporting you to be restorative, compassionate and caring to yourself now and find beauty, joy and hope in the life you have to lead.
You may not be affected by your grief everyday, but at times it can feel all consuming, leave you feeling disconnected or totally catch you off guard.
Nature offers a really beautiful environment and explorative space for our sessions. Nature is very much a co-coach and mentor when working with clients with this need. Time connected with Nature offers natural calming and reconnecting experiences. You might currently struggle with 'feeling real' or 'present' and our work together in Nature will offer experiences to help bring your senses back, as well as process emotions.
Everyone's experience of grief and loss is different and I’ll meet you where you are.
Our focus together is to help you reconnect with yourself and the things you find meaning and purpose in, where you might feel a little lost or disconnected or overwhelmed right now or at times.
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Coaching in Nature can be a place to be sad, and also find joy in a moment. Clients share how important this space can be for themselves. From sessions providing simple structure, to offering space in which to make sense of an often nonsensical experience like losing a friend or loved one.
Life or Career coaching gives a focus to help create actions and intentions, whilst being wise and caring to yourself as you live within the emotional mosaic of grief, knowing your needs and feelings might change from one day to the next.
Through Nature connection and emotional regulation techniques, supported by psycho-education. You’ll have the opportunity to find ways to respond and help yourself when feelings arise, that need support.
Learning to manage your energy, not just navigate time.
Connection forms a central part of working together, ensuring you have your own ‘woodland’ of support, from connecting to friends and family - or finding new spaces or services. Or discovering or reconnecting with hobbies, interests and creative projects for expression and celebrating of life.
There will be no expectation to be this or that. To reach a benchmark at a specific time. Yet coaching will help you find routine, rhythm, focus and hopes to activate life and purpose in a new or evolving way.
Amongst the trees we’ll find metaphor, explore ritual in a way that’s right for you, learn from nature’s own cycles of energy, seasons, life, recovery and loss. To help you find your own way, in these times.
Whilst there will be space for remembering, honouring and exploring your past [regrets, sadness, grief, anger or hurt]. We won’t dwell here for too long. With every exploration, returning us back to the present and helping making a difference for your future. Even if you have no idea on how that might look right now.
Expected the unexpected to emerge as we leave space for it. Coaching in Nature from private woods near Ripon (March to October) or in walk and talk sessions across West and North Yorkshire.
How coaching can help you?
Coaching is a space to articulate where you are with your experience of grief and loss, where others might have moved on, or be experiencing it differently to you.
Working one to one, the time and space together focuses simply on you and your circumstances. Helping you create change that can be possible, and offer help and hope.
If your loss doesn’t relate to a person passing away, you might have felt apprehensive to name it as grief, so this alone can help you with change and acceptance.
You’ll be given the space & guidance to explore approaches that support emotions linked to the grief, particularly where you feel you struggle or need help with these (for example at work or in conversations with family members). Usually within the coaching approach our main focus will be on helping you create a life or career plan or redirection, where you currently feel confused, overwhelmed or lost with your choices from here. Our aim will be to help balance a place for yourself, with a place for your future steps.
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Nature Connection practices and Ecopsychology are woven into this unique coaching approach. Time in Nature will help you reconnect with yourself and process emotions, through metaphor and reflecting on nature's own strategies, you'll find meaning and approaches that will help with feelings, believes, habits and identifying aims and intentions for your self or your life.
How we work together
This might be a difficult time for you, and your wondering if coaching will help with your grief. Whether your clear on how to utilise sessions and what you want to be different, or you actually need space to make sense of that. Booking a short discovery call together (On Zoom or by telephone) will help you and I ensure we are a great fit and this is the right time for you.
That conversation will be a space to share what’s motivated you to get in touch. Shared in confidence together.
I can answer questions you might have about our time coaching together. Cover the options for coaching online, in person in the woods, or walk and talk sessions. As well as prices for packages and pay as you go. If it all feels like an opportunity you’d like to get started with, you’ll receive the coaching agreement, client registration and booking links to make payment and secure your session. We get started from there.
I encourage people to take part in sessions in person in nature and my private woodland spaces offers sanctuary to explore together.
Sessions will be one to one, usually 90 minutes for packages. Or I do offer personalised coaching retreats. Where you can take some time and stay on site, in the cosy glamping cabins. With a tailored coaching approach woven into this personal retreat experience.
Everyone is different, and our time together on the discovery call will help to understand how many sessions you may value, with no obligation to sign up to more than you'll need.
Shared Experience
In 2017, I lost my dad. It's one of many losses I have navigated in my life and time in Nature, learning from it. Not just in it. Has been an essential part of my own experience.
Over the year's I've worked with numerous clients who have their own stories of loss, bereavement or grief. From losing family, becoming a carer for a parent, losing friends/family by suicide, or losing a part of themselves like their chance for parenthood, the career they always wanted, living with a long term condition or 'that' relationship. I've sat in the woods with people whose loss of a pet, had more impact on their life then a tour of Afghanistan. Not all these people come to coaching for their grief. Often its something else but the stories of their grief are always important part of the change they seek.
My hope is that working together we can find the glimmers of joy and moments of peace and connection, in your life as it is now.
Over the years I've seen how coaching can help people. How therapeutic it can be, but practical and supportive as well. I even experienced that for myself, in times of bereavement.
Coaching helps putting life back together or finding a different direction after a loss, its a place to feel more real again within the woods through Nature Connection practices that support our coaching approach.
Nature continues to be a dear friend to myself and clients in these times. Some grief's you'll never get over, but things can change I believe Nature can teach us how.
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I'll be releasing a book Spring/Summer 2026. Or come join me in the woods for a session, and we'll let things unfurl amongst the trees, the birdsong and the dappled light.
