Episode 70: Tabitha Jayne

by | Sep 17, 2024 | Coaching outdoors, Highlights

“What is your own nature practice? Because if you don’t have your own relationship with nature and earth – how on earth are you even going to think about integrating into any aspects of your life?”

Founding Director of Earthself, a community interest company, Tabi Jayne joins Alex and Anna-Marie from her shed office on her allotment in Scotland for the first Coaching Outdoors Podcast conversation in series eight. Set against the back-drop of the local hills that influence her relationship with nature and Scotland she shares her stories and wisdom.

Our conversation is influenced by her encyclopaedic knowledge amassed over the last decade. She has tirelessly studied how to harness Earth’s intelligence to transform organisations and improve employee wellbeing, performance and productivity as well as enhance organisational sustainability and innovation. From biomimicry to the circular economy; systems thinking to transformation and beyond.

She dives into how she’s tweaked the International Coach Federation (ICF) definition of coaching to include Earth and nature, introduces a systemic lens on sustainable and resilient organisations, and openly discusses how her recent autism diagnosis has created a more authentic relationship with herself and how coaches need to understand neurodiversity within their coaching.

She also raises some hard hitting questions for organisations (and us all!) to face up to about our relationship with nature.

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Our guest

Tabitha Jayne is a globally recognised professional coach and entrepreneur who has spent the last decade focusing on how to harness Earth’s intelligence to transform organisations and improve employee wellbeing, performance and productivity as well as enhance organisational sustainability and innovation.

A published author and academic researcher whose work on Earth connection is considered an emerging field of research, Tabitha has over 12,000 hours of coaching, facilitation and training experience, working with over 1500 individuals and teams in 18 countries over 6 continents.

She also trains coaches to coach with and as nature through Earthself’s NatureProcess Coach Training programme, which is accredited by the International Coaching Federation.