Join us for this introductory workshop to explore climate biodiversity coaching!
This interactive workshop will support you to reflect on how you and your work is embedded in the climate and biodiversity context we face on planet Earth.
We hope to spark your curiosity to find out more and to develop some next steps for your own personal and professional development and provide you with tips, tools and awareness of what the world needs from coaches and supervisors given our own and our clients’ current and future challenges.
During the session, we will explore what emotions arise in you when you think of climate change. Many coaches and coach supervisors are seeing the need to be able to support their clients as they become aware and increasingly concerned about how we as humans are treating our Earth. What are your clients facing and feeling? Are we as coaches ready to support? Have we prepared ourselves for this? We will explore how we can listen to and support our clients as we realize that our busy lives are not supporting us to look up and think longer term.
Topics we will focus on:
- Changing context of the world and what is needed for our clients
- Eco-phase cycle
- Eco-systemic mindset with practical exercise
- Eco-anxiety and building resilience including our connection to nature
- Q&A
- Please prepare any questions you have which we can cover during the session.
Common questions may include:
- How to meet clients where they are at?
- How do we consciously and unconsciously relate to the ecology and more than human world and how does this show up in our coaching?
- Are we coaching the person in front of us or the wider system of which they are part of?
- What questions do future generations have for us today?
- What are the biggest challenges faced by our clients now and in the future which we need to resolve today?
We will provide some top tips from our experience and leave you feeling empowered when embracing the future we and our children are facing.
What to bring with you.
Your full humanity and somewhere to capture your insights and reflections.
About the facilitators
Lydia Stevens is a co-founder of Climate Biodiversity Coaching - a social enterprise specializing in coaching, supervising, training and facilitation for the transformation towards a thriving planet for all living species and future generations. Lydia has co-created and delivered Climate and Biodiversity Coaching courses for Natural England - the British Government’s adviser for the natural environment in England. She has co-designed and delivered 4 ICF accredited training courses for coaches and supervisors who would like to focus their coaching in relation to nature, climate related issues, regeneration and biodiversity. She works outdoors wherever possible either in person or on the phone walking and talking with clients around the world.
Lydia is an active member of Climate Coaching Alliance, the Royal Society of Arts and the Association for Coaching. She is an executive & leadership coach, facilitator, trainer, mother and grandmother. Before coaching, Lydia was an entrepreneur and international development consultant – she founded Triple Line Consulting in 1999, which she grew and sold to IPE Global in 2014. After three years as a board member she re-trained as an executive coach at Henley Business School to work with businesses, communities and individuals to serve people and the planet. Lydia uses her coaching skills to find the spark that we all have within us that motivates us to contribute both small and big steps to a sustainable regenerative world.
You can hear Lydia in a Coaching in the Climate Crisis podcast with Jackie Arnold, author and co-founder of Climate Biodiversity Coaching. Topics covered: Sustainability (climate and biodiversity coaching), founder-leadership transition, feminine leadership, mindset, effective conversations, trusted relationships, personal and company resilience. Lydia is based in London, UK and can coach in English and Spanish and also speaks French and some Italian.
Education
Professional certificate in executive coaching (Henley Business School) accredited by ICF, EMCC and ACMSc rural development (Colegio de postgraduados, Mexico) – distinction BSc geography and European Studies (Durham, UK and Aix-Marseille, France).
Interests: Gardening, composting and walking in nature, outdoor adventure and challenges (running, cycling, ski-touring), and volunteer work for homeless charity (Glassdoor).
Laura Wolfe is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, a member of the ICF Gulf Coast Chapter, and recently earned an ICF accredited certification through Climate Biodiversity Coaching. While completing her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Laura gained experience in both large private and government entities; after graduation, she worked as an internal consultant with a Fortune 500 company. For years, she enjoyed teaching management courses at LSU as an award-winning faculty member.
Additionally, Dr. Wolfe’s involvement with Dialogue on Race Louisiana as a participant, facilitator, and supporter has allowed her to be part of a cause she believes vital to our communities—that is, ending racism. In the same way, she sees taking action to arrest climate change as vital to our future. She coaches individuals, leaders, and people doing climate work to discover ways they can make a difference, both large and small.
Laura has coached for more than ten years around matters related to influence, difficult conversations, coaching others, self-efficacy, emotional regulation, stress, resilience, and more.
She recognizes the relevance of these qualities to individuals and leaders not only in organizations but in a world experiencing climate change. Her work is supporting the evolution of leaders, careers, and climate consciousness.