286: Jo Casey + Holly ~ Connect With Yourself Through Connecting With Nature

Into the Woods with Holly Worton

Today’s Guest

I'm back with another co-hosted episode with the fabulous Jo Casey!

We’re back with another woo-based episode, which is kind of the theme for our new season of podcasting together. Today’s episode is all about how to connect with yourself through connecting with Nature, which has been a big journey for both of us. We share our own personal journeys, including how we’ve connected with Nature, and how you might want to get started deepening your own connection with Nature.

About Jo Casey

Jo Casey has over 20 years experience of working as a trainer and consultant in the corporate, public and third sectors. Her flashy clients and workplaces have included Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC), The NHS, BT, Toyota Motors, Peugeot Business School, The Welsh Assembly Government, The Girl Guides UK, Vets4Pets/Companion Care, several Local Government Authorities, and The Department Of Work And Pensions. But she's also worked with many no less wonderful smaller ventures, micro businesses and SMEs.

She's a self-confessed nerd and has taught at college and university levels and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Chester. Jo has a Masters Degree in Coaching and Organizational Development and she's an NLP Master Practitioner, MBTI qualified professional certified Emotional Intelligence EQi 2.0 consultant.

She's been coaching for over 15 years now – clocking up over 1000 hours of coaching experience. Basically, she carefully treads that line between being passionate and a tiny bit obsessive about what she does (obsession often wins). Jo runs accredited coach training programs and coaches people from all over the world via the power of the internet.

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What You’ll Learn

• What our own personal journeys in connecting with Nature have looked like
• Whether the land has a feeling, and how to connect with that
• What happens when we’re disconnected from Nature
• What it means to connect with Nature and how to do it
• Why we should even bother: the benefits of connecting with Nature
• Whether or not this is for everyone: should everyone connect with Nature?
• Whether or not you have to spend hours hiking every weekend, or if there are other ways of doing it
• Whether or not it matters what sort of Nature you hang out in
• If some places are more ‘magical’ than others
• Where to go? When to go? What to do?
• How to get started connecting with Nature

Things We Mentioned

• Tracie Nichols
• Forest bathing Meetup
• The Three Day Effect
• Swallowhead Spring - near Avebury

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