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?
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
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.
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
- 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.
Julie Smith is a certified Life Coach, Leadership Coach and Health Coach. She empowers others to create calm and clarity through work and life transitions. Together, they build confidence, create postive change, and greater well-being so they can lead themselves and the organizations and families they serve. Her clients include purpose-driven professionals, leaders and organizations. 
