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Navigate the Way, LLC

Navigate work and life transitions with clarity and confidence.

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Today’s world is complex. Change is a given. Expectations and stress are high.
We crave calm and clarity in the midst of chaos and transitions.

Navigate the Way

a walk to discover fresh perspective and new possibilities on your journey

Are you still walking on the right path?

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Life and Leadership Perspective

  • Are you off course and walking someone else’s path?
  • Are you feeling out of alignment with your values?
  • Are you searching for greater purpose and meaning?
  • Are you ready for positive change and meaningful results?
  • Are you challenged by a time of work or life transition?
  • Are your performance, relationships, and well-being struggling?
  • Are you feeling tired, burned-out and ready to walk a path of resilience?
  • Are you feeling what has gotten you here will no longer work to get you there?

Coaching Outdoors Outcomes

  • Awareness and accountability.
  • Heightened creativity and increased confidence.
  • Greater clarity and focus.
  • Better decision-making.
  • Enhanced resilience and well-being.
  • More calm, gratitude and inner peace.
  • A renewed sense of wonder and curiosity.
  • Improved capacity for listening and compassion.
  • Shifts in perspective that lead to new insight and clarity.
  • Deeper self-awareness that evolves into self-realization.

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

~Lao Tzu

Coaching Outdoors | Julie Smith Coaching

Why Take Coaching Conversations Outdoors?

During these walk and talk sessions, nature becomes the catalyst and metaphor for discovery, transformation, and growth. The valuable impacts of coaching are enriched with the health benefits of walking in nature.

Research shows that time in forests and nature helps you decrease stress, lower blood pressure, and re-align the body and mind to a feeling of peace and well-being. Extended time in the forest allows you to reset your focus, think more clearly, improve decision-making, and be more creative.

Regularly spending time in nature will reset your mind, body and brain for optimal health and performance. Join me for nature-based coaching any time of the year.

“In every walk with Nature, one receives more than he seeks.”

~John Muir (1918)

Navigate the Way combines traditional Life and Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development, and Nature-based Coaching into a customizable program. Coach and client co-create the Navigate the Way experience. Coaching walk and talk sessions combine light to moderate hiking with professional individual, team, or group coaching. We use a framework of activities including compassionate listening, powerful questions, metaphors, journaling, sharing, and connection as we explore life and leadership challenges and skill building.

Life and Leadership Coaching Outdoors

Individual Coaching Outdoors

  • Individual coaching sessions are held at local parks, nature trails and woodlands.
  • Each session lasts 60 – 90 minutes.
  • Choose all outdoor sessions or a mix of outdoor and Zoom or phone coaching.
  • We focus on the whole person and what’s important to you personally and professionally.
  • We take a flexible, tailored approach to meet your needs.
  • Assessments and 360’s are available if appropriate.
  • Half or full day intensives are also available.
Group or Team Coaching Outdoors

Group or Team Coaching Outdoors

  • Sessions are held at parks, nature preserves, or other local, outdoor venues.
  • Available in half day or full day formats.
  • Assessments and 360’s are available if appropriate.
  • We take a flexible, tailored approach to meet your needs.
  • Focus on a specific outcome or goal, or as a team work to build trust, communicate effectively, enhance well-being, or align with purpose.
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WHAT CLIENTS SAY

"Julie's approach is individualized to each client’s needs. She met me right where I was at and helped me move forward." ~Former Client

"I am so thankful for all your love, care, compassion, and expertise with (our daughter). She loves learning and reading and so much of that is thanks to you." ~Parent of child with ADHD and dyslexia
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Julie Smith

Julie SmithI'm Julie Smith, Certified Life Coach, ADHD and Executive Function Coach. I empower others to create calm, clarity, and connection at work, school and at home. Together, we create a customized approach to help you focus, overcome obstacles, build confidence, and achieve your goals. My clients include both professionals and families (parents, children, teens). Learn more.

Contact

Julie Smith, PCC
ADHD, Executive Function and Life Coach
86th Street
Urbandale, IA
515-270-6316
support[at]juliesmithcoaching.com
www.JulieSmithCoaching.com

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