Taking coaching outdoors

Posted on: 24 Jul 2024

While the vast majority of coaching sessions happen indoors, there exists a unique niche referred to as outdoor coaching or eco-coaching. Until recently, there has been little scientific evidence behind this form of coaching, but now research is beginning to demonstrate that being outdoors in nature not only improves brain function but that there are numerous other benefits of taking coaching outdoors.

 

This month’s issue of Coaching Research in Practice features a study of outdoor coaching experiences. The article highlights six key themes among participants of outdoor coaching, including many benefits.

 

Complementing last month’s issue on Walk and Talk Coaching, this article also offers the opportunity to experience and experiment with coaching while walking outdoors in a safe peer coaching environment through ReciproCoach’s first round of Walking Peer Coaching. The round starts late August and registrations close on Sunday, August 25. Register here.

 

Be quick! This issue of Coaching Research in Practice is freely accessible to all ReciproCoach members for one week. Thereafter, this article, like all other past issues of Coaching Research in Practice, will require a paid subscription to read. Most paid ReciproCoach memberships include full access to the Coaching Research in Practice library.

 

Read full article here: https://reciprocoach.com/coaching-research#!#181

 

Written by Kerryn Griffiths, PhD, PCC and Global ReciproCoach Coordinator

 

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