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Bring your idea to life with a Meaningful Walk
You're not alone if:
You feel exhausted by your thinking
Goal-setting techniques don't work for you
You feel frustrated about your unrealised ideas
You yearn for direction & focus
Maybe it's time to take a break from your brain...
...because you've been overthinking, you're drowning in notes, you can't face another self-help book and you haven't taken action on your beloved ideas.
What is a Meaningful Walk?
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A walk to help you think beyond the brain
A Meaningful Walk is guided by intention and based in rest.
It combines the transformative power of Co-active coaching and the deep rest of nature connection/Forest Bathing.
From Co-active coaching, it uses powerful questions to help you get to the heart of what's important for you and what your intention for the walk will be.
Nature connection and Forest Bathing bring the skills of fully connecting to your senses and deeply interacting with your environment. This not only helps you experience restorative rest, but also helps you to have a 'dialogue' with your body and environment and so more easily access the wisdom available there.
At the end of the Meaningful Walk, you return to Co-active coaching questions to help you reflect and gain insights.
On a Meaningful Walk you will rest your brain, then go beyond your brain and generate fresh perspectives inspired by your connection to your body and the world around you.
Why take a Meaningful Walk?
Because you're tired from overthinking and want to get fresh perspectives
You have been stuck in your head and frustrated for too long
You want to feel refreshed and take steps to bring your idea to life
How does a Meaningful Walk help?
Rest your brain, connect to your body, explore
A Meaningful Walk helps you to generate fresh perspectives because it rests your brain, allows you to access the wisdom in your body and environment and supports you to get to what's really important for you.
The brain is rested on a Meaningful Walk because Nature and connecting to Nature helps us to return to the 'wakeful rest' of the Default Mode Network as shown in the research for Attention Restoration Theory. Our brains get fatigued from too much 'directed attention' such as seeking and evaluating information, and need the rest of non-directed, mind-wandering in the Default Mode Network.
Connecting to our senses and our bodies during a Meaningful Walk not only helps us to rest our brains, but also supports embodied and extended cognition. Embodied cognition research says that thinking is shaped by the body, supported by the fact that the same neural circuitry that runs our physical bodies also structures reasoning processes for abstract actions. By developing our skills to connect to our senses on a Meaningful Walk, we are more able to access the fresh perspectives generated by our embodied thinking.
This embodied thinking will also help us to more easily connect to what's really important for us, especially when combined with powerful questions from Co-active coaching. Co-active helps us to create the most meaningful question or intention for our walk and to reflect deeply by encouraging curiosity and building trust in our inner resources.
Generate fresh perspectives and more clarity on your idea
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What people say
"This was an amazing and different experience. It was relaxing, very engaging and thought provoking"
Meaningful Walk participant, Croydon College
"Safe and clarifying…if [someone] were struggling with something, they'll get clarity and renewed energy"
Meaningful Walk participant, Happy StartUp School
"I gained clarity and had a significant shift – phenomenal! Previously I felt I was ‘too much’, now I’m able to be myself…it’s a creative partnership to help you make a shift"
Anna, one to one coaching client
"I found the whole experience life-affirming; it was a validation of who I am and what I see as my purpose; what matters to me and why, what guides me through life and what makes me tick. It was kind of a mind-decluttering experience"
Veronika, one to one coaching client
I always felt refreshed and inspired afterwards, and also 'lighter'. Emma can very effectively and precisely pick up on things that you might be putting in your own way, and invites you to explore these in a way beyond cognition, which is refreshing and actually sticks better - without making it a heavy topic
"It was great for my inner question to be physically represented (as a metaphor) in the outer world. It helped me to clarify A LOT"
Meaningful Walk participant, Happy StartUp School
Kat, one to one coaching client
Meet your coach
When joy is present, confidence is irrelevant.
I love helping people connect to their joy so they can bring their ideas to life.
I'm fascinated by people's unique strengths and delight in helping them recognise, explore and apply them.
I champion the slower, embodied ways of thinking and doing - the 'Meaningful Walks' approach.
That's it.* Joy, strengths, Meaningful Walks.
Bringing people's joy to life, bringing people's strengths to life, step by meaningful step.
*For those who prefer more detail, the 'it' is supported by 25 years experience in facilitation and coaching, the highly respected Co-active coaching certification and International Coaching Federation certification.