“I really started to notice what a difference it made. Not just to me and my presence as a coach, but how quickly clients were able to open up and feel safe, and feel stimulated by the environment”
On this episode of the Coaching Outdoors Podcast we meet Anna Brown, Executive and Developmental Coach and Coach Supervisor.
Anna talks about how her love for nature has become part of her coaching practice overtime, informed by her experiences of living in Switzerland, Japan and Hong Kong as a child and back in the UK as an adult.
We discuss the Systems Approach, Systems Psychodynamic Approach and Adult Learning Theory and how Anna combines these approaches to coaching with the outdoor setting.
Anna also explains how, as coaches, we are the instrument of our work, so it must start with us and to add value to our clients we should experience all of what we bring to them first and really, truly embrace it ourselves.
Providing a number of really rich examples, such as rushing river and meandering stream metaphors, seed scattering on waste land, and seeing metaphor in the strata of stone that has been created over millennia, Anna utilises storytelling throughout the podcast to enhance our understanding of her clients’ experiences.
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Anna is a coach and coach supervisor working in and with nature in her practice. Her diverse client mix are drawn to expand their self-awareness, connect with a deeper purpose and catalyse lasting change in their work and life.
Anna integrates her 20 years of business leadership experience and her deep curiosity with the natural world into a special blend of personalised development. Inspired by a systems psychodynamic approach and ecological concepts, Anna holds a supportive space to help clients inquire under the surface, creating a springboard for more sustainable transformation.
Her first degree in Environmental Science connected with her love for nature; she enhanced her business leadership skills with an Executive MBA and supported her transition into coaching with a Post-Graduate Coaching qualification from Henley. She then trained as an Advanced Practitioner with Harthill in their Adult Development ‘Developmental Inquiry’ methodology and became a certified coach supervisor at the Tavistock Institute.
Having been raised in Switzerland, Japan and Hong Kong, Anna brings to her work a passion for learning about people’s cultures, backgrounds and experiences. Following a career at Ashridge Business School and ActionAid, she now sits on the coaching panels at Henley and Warwick Business Schools and for corporate clients, as well as offering independent coaching and coach supervision, all with nature at the heart.
