Coaching Cards for Nature and Outdoors: Bring the Wisdom of Nature into Your Coaching Sessions

Are you looking for fresh, engaging ways to help your learners and clients break through challenges, unlock new perspectives, and connect more authentically with their language journey?

Introducing the Nature-Inspired Coaching Companion – a unique set of 52 beautifully designed cards created specifically for language and communication coaches and educators like you.

We know that our environment significantly impacts insight, reflection, and connection. Nature offers a powerful resource for enriching our coaching conversations and provides ample opportunities for holistic growth. These cards are your key to making the most of that power.

Why Nature? Why These Cards?

The Coaching Cards for Nature and Outdoors is more than just a set of prompts; it’s a versatile tool designed to:

• Spark deeper reflection by use natural metaphors and observations to help learners unlock new perspectives on their language learning challenges, communication goals, and personal growth. 
• Enhance sensory engagement and encourage learners to connect with their surroundings (real or imagined), grounding them in the present moment and stimulating different ways of thinking, feeling, and expressing themselves.
• Facilitate powerful metaphorical thinking and help your clients draw insightful parallels between natural processes – growth, resilience, cycles, ecosystems – and their own unique language learning adventure.
• Develop a fresh perspective, offer a creative and engaging alternative to traditional exercises, reducing learning anxiety and fostering a more holistic engagement of the whole person, whether in one-to-one or group settings.
• Provide flexible and adaptive prompts so you can use them as inspiring session starters, catalysts for deeper exploration mid-session, or as thoughtful reflective closing activities.

Imagine guiding your clients to:

• See their resilience reflected in a tree in a storm.
• Explore their learning journey like a winding river.
• Find clarity from the perspective of a mountain top.
• Recognize their potential in a blooming flower.

How to Use Your Nature-Inspired Coaching Companion:

These cards are not prescriptive; they are invitations designed to complement your coaching intuition.

• Coaching Outdoors? Let the natural environment be your co-coach! Select a card that resonates with what you and your learner are observing or experiencing in the moment.
• Working Indoors? Effortlessly bring the essence of nature into your space. Invite your learner to visualize, recall, or imagine the scenarios depicted. You might even pair a card with a small natural object (a stone, a leaf, a shell) to enhance the sensory experience.
• Adapt & Co-create: The beauty of these cards lies in their adaptability. Tailor the questions to suit your learner’s specific goals, language level, and cultural context. Better yet, invite your learner to choose a card that speaks directly to them.

A set of 52 cards, with 40 coaching cards complete with activities, close to 200 questions and usage tips if you want to tap into the wisdom of Nature – whether you work outdoors, online or indoors, in a face-to-face setting. 

Order your batch today. 

Print in a size convenient for you, or use online or on your phone:  it’s versatile and the format choice is yours.

Available in pdf format.