“Trust in connection with outdoor coaching…this starts to build way before your clients even reach out to you. It starts in two pathways. The first, if a client considers outdoor coaching they are going to stalk you potentially longer than they would do another coach because they need to have a bit more trust in you because you’re taking them to a place they’ve potentially never been before”
This episode of the Coaching Outdoors Podcast delves deep into the topic of research into the benefits of taking coaching outdoors, both for the coach and the client.
Claudia Geratz is working hard on her MSc dissertation, looking at how the coaching alliance develops within the outdoor space, and took time out from her analysis and write up to share some of the exciting findings of her research.
Claudia’s research has identified a number of key themes which can help us to understand the benefits of coaching outdoors: space; trust; movement; freedom; connection; side-by-side walking and the coaching alliance.
As well as the vital importance of post-it notes when you’re doing thematic analysis!
Watch this space for the written research once Claudia has completed it.
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Claudia is a Positive Psychologist and accredited Coach on a mission to help people and teams in tech to be happier at work. Claudia merges 20 years of experience in corporate and start-up tech companies with her strong academic background in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.
Her coaching and training style is heavily influenced by strengths-based approaches, applying the magic of Positive Psychology on all organisational levels in the modern workplace. She merges solution-focused approaches with cognitive-behavioural methods to raise self-awareness and self-compassion, creating the foundation for positive behavioural change for leaders and mid-career professionals.
Claudia is passionate about connecting people with nature. As an active outdoor coach and researcher, she has become an advocate for integrating nature into the way we do work. She loves to experiment with creative ways to move work outdoors – or bring the outdoors inside – to help people reap the mental and physical wellbeing benefits of being in nature.
