Nadine
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Sorry, I am likely to be posted late, by a couple of days of so.
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On the topic “How do you connect to the natural world? And what does nature-connection mean to you and what does it do for you?” I will refer to John Miles’s article “Wilderness As Healing Place”. Kaplan and Talbot identified three psychological benefits of Wilderness. A growing sense of enjoyment, increased self confidence, and contemplation.
In my daily life, I often times feel overburdened by demands, I feel like I am unable to do what my environment is requiring me to do, and this causes me to have difficulty concentrating, to experience mental work to be difficult and stressful, to be irritable in the face of noise and distraction and unable to focus.
Spending a week in the Aspen Grove seems to have healed me (at least temporarily). I quickly felt a growing sense of enjoyment and I did not to force myself to be present and to attend. As the week went on, I felt increased self-confidence and possibilities seem to pop up in my mind, and light at the end of the tunnel started to show. Then contemplation started to set as I felt more and more in tune with my environment.
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I find it interesting that we did our work in an aspen grove. I see so many analogies with the cohort we have formed.
Here are a few tidbits I have selected to share.
Aspen groves are often all interconnected through their root system – they all come from one source. Aspen grow in large colonies derived from a single seedling – they have a massive root system that new trees pop up from.
They are able to survive forest fires, because the roots are below the heat of the fire, and new sprouts appear after the fire burns out. The high stem turnover rate combined with the clonal growth leads to proliferation in aspen colonies.
The bark is photosynthetic, meaning that growth is still possible after the leaves have been dropped.
Sudden aspen death is also occurring as a result of drought stress.
Do you see what I see?
Hey… let’s keep in touch and hydrated!! 😉 -
Can you please send zoom link for today’s meeting?
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Hello Ivy, Looking at the Personal Packing List you sent us. The link for the solo tarp is apparently no longer available.
Solo tarp… it is referring to be a tarp to be placed on the ground (usually under the tent for protection), or is it rather a tarp tent, which we would lay under? Thank you for the clarification.-
Ivy Walker
Wed, Apr 24, 4:45 PM (16 hours ago)
Hi Nadine, In this instance, the tarp is meant for under the tent. However, if you’d like to sleep on the ground with a tarp tent shelter over you, please feel
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Hello everyone, I am Nadine, I live in Portland Oregon, but I was born and raised in France. I am an avid hiker and backpacker and the Pacific Northwest has been my backyard for 30 years. I teach self-defense for women with the Portland Police Bureau. I also teach safety motorcycle classes with Portland State University. I am currently reconnecting with sailing, a long lost love of mine. My partner of 12 years is a philosopher and she lives in beautiful Bordeaux, France.
I registered to the NCC because I gave myself two years to exit my no-longer fulfilling, yet comfortable corporate career. I am looking to create a new chapter in my Life, where I could capitalize on my passion and my strengths. I cannot honestly say that I know where I am going or what it will look like. It does make me super uncomfortable, but I am up for the Ride of my Life!!
I am looking forward to meeting all of you in person.
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I, like you Melody, try living in harmony with nature, caring and respecting the Earth, but a lot of people are not connected to Nature the way we/Cohort 18 could be simply because they have not been introduced to it in an intimate way.
I strongly believe you protect what you love!
To that end, I believe Nature Connected Coaching could help.
I am not sure what it looks like… but my “not-so-clear Vision” might have a component that ties coaching to Nature to environmental responsibility. I am not even sure I truly know what this feeling in my stomach is, maybe something to do with “partnering up” with a environment cause (plastic in the ocean, protect the elephants, deforestation, noise pollution….) to help people access and maximize their personal and professional potential. (to be developed further 😉 )
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Hello Amber, thank you for your post. I realized this week how difficult it will be to conduct coaching sessions after a long day of work and as a Coach/Guide, I will too need access to Nature to recenter myself before a client session to feel grounded, connected and to be able to effectively partner up with the client. As you also stated, nature calms my nervous system. My Sit Spot also provides me that feeling, right away I feel calm and peaceful.
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And I could easily list many more metaphors drawn upon just the aspens alone. That tells me that an infinite amount of metaphors is available in Nature to gain insights on our journeys! And everyone will see just what they need if open to collaborate with Nature, and will find the answers s/he is looking for. I find the experience to come from the Heart and not for the Head, and because it feels visceral, and unexpected, it has the power to carve itself and stay in memory in someone’s body. Which could then be accessed later to keep the experience alive.
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Awesome!!
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I believe reading from the welcome letter about 20 mn driving from Gunnisson.
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Or you could stay overnight in Gunnisson, I had found a hostel for $25 a night or a hotel for about $50, and fly out the next day, I believe there is a 11AM flight out of Gunnisson. And Gunnisson is so small so could even walk downtown from the airport.
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I am indeed on the 11:05 flight out of Portland. You?
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Sounds good Ivy.