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Coaching Outdoors: The essential guide to partnering with nature in your coaching conversations
***FINALIST - BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2023***
Coaching Outdoors offers a journey of professional development, personal development and enriched wellbeing.
Coaching Outdoors 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
Articulate the benefits of coaching outdoors from a place of experienceContract for psychological safety outdoorsFind resources in natureCollaborate with nature as a coaching co-facilitatorEngage 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.
LESLEY ROBERTS BEd, MSc is an executive coach and adventurer who has been coaching outdoors since 1999. Her academic research focused on how nature can support coach and client. After 16 years with Mars Inc she founded Brave Conversations, working with global teams and individuals to unlock their potential. In 2019 she founded Coaching Outdoors to bring the benefits of partnering with nature to as many people as possible.
Coaching Outdoors offers a journey of professional development, personal development and enriched wellbeing.
Coaching Outdoors 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
Articulate the benefits of coaching outdoors from a place of experienceContract for psychological safety outdoorsFind resources in natureCollaborate with nature as a coaching co-facilitatorEngage 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.
LESLEY ROBERTS BEd, MSc is an executive coach and adventurer who has been coaching outdoors since 1999. Her academic research focused on how nature can support coach and client. After 16 years with Mars Inc she founded Brave Conversations, working with global teams and individuals to unlock their potential. In 2019 she founded Coaching Outdoors to bring the benefits of partnering with nature to as many people as possible.
300 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 5, 2022
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September 8, 2023
One of the best coaching books I have read. I bought it after doing one of Lesley's courses and it has changed how I now coach. More importantly, it covers so much and brings front and centre that coaching outdoors is o much more than "just going outside or walking with a client." There are so many important considerations even before leaving the house/office.
Perhaps what most people will get from this is they way she guides you into ysing nature effectively in different situations and conversations.
Perhaps what most people will get from this is they way she guides you into ysing nature effectively in different situations and conversations.
September 27, 2025
Bringing coaching outside
As someone that loves being outdoors, I was looking for a fresh perspective and ideas on bringing my coaching practice outdoors more. Lesley does a wonderful job of laying out the case for coaching outdoors, has included many ideas and exercises as well as reflection questions.
As someone that loves being outdoors, I was looking for a fresh perspective and ideas on bringing my coaching practice outdoors more. Lesley does a wonderful job of laying out the case for coaching outdoors, has included many ideas and exercises as well as reflection questions.
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