Join The Biophilic Hub Summit to discover how to unfold your relationship with your places, and make them more biophilic, by including more nature around you, intentionally. Also if you are looking for ideas and inspiration to bring more nature into your lived spaces, at work or on the job.

It’s online for free from 30th March to 8th April.

Dozens of speakers will be talking about innovative ways to make the places where you live and work more healthy and more nature-centered.

I’ll be speaking about the Genius Loci (the unique identity and character of a place), offering practices and ideas to develop your relationship with your places – because we design our places, but they also design ourselves, offering spaces to reflect, have fun, enjoy and relax.

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The talk is on Nov. 17th, between 1.15pm and 2.45pm (UK Time) and Diana will talk about “Nature Coaching Foundations”. Discover cutting-edge principles and practices in coaching with nature!

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ARBOREA: entering the breath of trees. The practice that I teach at The Nature Coaching Academy during my Deep Forest Bathing, Forest Coaching® and Nature Coaching courses.

I’ll be talking about this deep tree connection practice with Alex Strauss (“The Mindful Walker”, bestselling author and walking mindfulness teacher), on Nov. 2nd, during the Rise Up Rooted Global Wellness Symposium.

JOIN ME FREE+ONLINE and discover a new, more profound way, to connect with the trees’ states of consciousness.

By registering for free you also get access to an exclusive freebie: an audio-guide ARBOREA practice, with my voice guiding you for 30 minutes in deeply connecting with a tree of your choice. A deep mindfulness experience, in synergy with a tree.

This unique global event is designed to give busy people practical ways to lean into the healing power of the Earth in challenging times.

You’ll get so many unvaluable resources from authors, speakers, coaches, physicians, teachers, and other visionaries, on how to recognize and embrace the wisdom and wonder of the Natural world in our lives and work.

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Each year on 21 November we celebrate the National Tree Day, an anniversary established by an Italian law, which was promulgated in February 2013 and is dedicated to promoting awareness of the importance of trees and forests for not only human life, but for the entire planet.

The root of this celebration is actually much older, and goes back to the festivals that human beings have always dedicated to connecting with the spirits of nature, and even further back to the original awareness of the intimate connection between the plant world and life in all its manifestations.

In fact, the plant not only gives us oxygen, food, materials to clothe ourselves, build our homes, produce thousands of everyday objects, and obtain electricity. Trees, plants and other plant life are also the foundation of the richness of life on the planet.

The deeper meaning of trees for our inner growth

But we want to give the life of trees a deeper meaning, and one related to nourishing our inner life, and building our capacity to positively impact life around us.

In the Nature Coaching Academy we train people to enhance their ability to connect with nature and develop biophilia, the feeling of affiliation and sharing with the rest of the living world. It is in fact by reactivating our capacity to love and feel our deep connection with the life of the planet, that we can nurture our motivation to develop an ecological and regenerative lifestyle for the earth’s resources, and to do everything to make our beautiful planet well.

The ultimate goal of our courses is therefore to extend an ecological awareness all over the worlds, to spread it and encourage that process of cultural repair in the principle of reconnecting with the intelligence of life, of valuing all that is alive, human and not human.

This is why the Forest Coaches and Forest Ambassadors who have trained or are training with our Academy have decided to share images and thoughts inspired by the profound wisdom of trees, which you will find below and on our Facebook Pages (Nature Coaching and Forest Coaching, Forest Bathing, Shinrin-Yoku Italia), which we invite you to follow.

Below is a selection of the shots received!

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In “il Bosco dei Talenti” with Monica Gagliano

In “Il Bosco dei talenti” with Monica Gagliano, Diana Tedoldi interviews Italian-Australian ecologist Monica Gagliano as part of the project ‘Il Bosco dei Talenti’ developed for Blog Intelligenmza Primitiva, in synergy with The Nature Coaching Academy, an international organisation dedicated to training professionals in coaching and deep connection with nature.

According to us, primitive intelligence is the natural ability to take care of ourselves and the life around us, which each of us has and which we share with other living beings, human and non-human.

You can attend one of the many live events we have organised for Monica’s Italian tour in April. A way to get to know her in person and experience deep synergy with nature.

In particular, I would like to suggest the ‘Being Nature’ workshop on 22 and 23 April at Remedia, and the nature immersion in the woods along the Adda river on 29-30 April and 1st May.

the interview with monica gagliano

Today’s guest is Monica Gagliano, an internationally renowned scientist who has contributed like few others in the world to developing the vast field of knowledge inherent to plant intelligence.

Monica is a marine biologist who later converted to the study of plants. She is Italian but has lived in Australia for 20 years.

She teaches evolutionary ecology at the University of Lismore, Australia, where she also directs the Biological Intelligence Laboratory. She is also a researcher at the Environmental Institute of the University of Sydney.

In short, Monica is a woman who has dedicated and is dedicating her entire life to learning about plant intelligence, the cognitive, learning, awareness and communication processes of plants, on which she has published countless scientific articles.

But to scientific knowledge, Monica combines something that few scientists in the world have the courage to do: the exploration of a deeper, invisible dimension of the relationship with her research subjects.

In her latest book ‘Thus spoke the plant’, Monica tells us about her encounter with extraordinary plants, involving us in an absolutely overwhelming way in incredible but true stories.

Monica shows us how plants hear us, how they constantly talk to us, how they want to help us grow.

She guides us to connect with the ‘plantness’ within us, the part of us that is plant.

On the borderline between science and biography, Monica herself calls her book a ‘phytobiography’, written by plants through her.

It is a powerful book that will open the door to a different way of perceiving plant life, and our own lives. Here is a small extract from the book:

You are not looking for the answers, the answers are all already here. You are looking for the questions, know your questions, and you will see the answers.

Monica represents the highest expression of the potential I saw in our relationship with the plant world.

The preface was written by Suzanne Simard, another internationally renowned scientist, a pioneer in the study of plant intelligence, who popularised the concept of the wood wide web and the knowledge of the existence and function of mother trees in a forest.

We now leave you to Monica’s words.

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For the past three days, James Farrell (The Natural Coaching Company) and I have been attending the ICF Converge event held every October. This year the event was held online because of the pandemic.

We all need nourishment for our psyche.
It is impossible to find such nourishment in urban tenements without a patch of green or a blossoming tree.

CARL JUNG

Just as Jung said, it is important for all of us to relate and connect with nature in our daily lives, and to feel the oneness with the natural world.

For this reason, James and I coined the acronym C.A.R.E. in which we incorporated the importance of connecting with nature.

CREATIVE

• Just 25 minutes in nature can activate the default mode network
• Improves working memory, cognitive flexibility and attention
• Plays particular role in the Preparation and Incubation phases of the creative process.

ACTIVE

• Lower morbidity amongst people living within 1km of green space
• 10% reduction in local green space is equivalent to 5 years of life expectancy
• 2 hours+ a week to unlock health benefits

RELATED

• Awe: “vulnerability, fragility, and respect for nature, which is perceived as vast, powerful, and mysterious”
• Increased ethical decision making, generosity, helping
• Improvements in personal

EUDAEMONIA

• Nature connection increases life satisfaction up to 1.7x
• Nature connected people 63% more likely to have higher self esteem
• Route to basic psychological needs: autonomy, competence and relatedness

In the end we will conserve only what we love…

BABA DIOUM, IUCN 1968

This leads us to ask what is our relationship with Nature, how we see Nature impacts the way we’ll relating with it.

You cannot lead a nature-connected session if you don’t lead a nature-connected life.

Who we are is how we coach and we are what we practice, therefore we can’t facilitate a nature-connected coaching if you don’t practice nature connection.

So what we can do in order to improve our coachins session? The answer is growing your nature-connectedness and exploring the coaching partnership with nature.

The side effect of coaching with nature is called BIOPHILIA, which is a deep sentiment of love, affiliation and belonging to the natural world.

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People no longer allow their companies to make big claims and then not act, and this is especially true for Gen Y Millennials, 1980-2000) and Gen. Z (2000-2020).

Hope to see you online, and share thoughts about this emergent, relevant trend.
In this workshop, I’ll engage participants in a self-reflection and deep inquiry process to understand the powerful connection between cultivating biophilia, ecophilia, engagement and motivation in eco-action.

Join me, online and for free, to talk about biophilic activism, discover your activism style and share ideas and values to sustain a radical change in our communities.
Check out the details, and register for free through the link below

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There can be no human health on a sick planet.

– CRAIG CHALQUIST, Deep Psychology Professor, Psychotherapist, Ecopsychologist.

REFLECTION: what helps us and what hinders us from adopting ecological behaviour?

We are bombarded with depressing information about the health of our beautiful planet, and many of us begin to react by refusing to listen to yet another news of environmental disaster. Or even worse: we lose faith in our positive potential, the capacity that each of us we still have to affect the well-being of Nature and all living things constructively.

Through my studies in ecology and ecopsychology, I have understood that insisting on negative information about the health of the environment has adverse effects on the motivation to develop pro-ecological behaviours. Therefore, people move away from Nature as a source of suffering rather than bringing them closer to it.

What can you do to be more Nature-friendly?

What we really need is to define a personal program of small daily steps that make us feel active contributors to the well-being of the planet.
These “small steps for the Earth” program can reactivate our sense of effectiveness, the confidence in our potential and the desire to positively impact the web of life in all its aspects.

This way we also reactivate our BIOPHILIA: the natural love and attraction that all humans feel for other living beings.

Join me live in Italy for 2 special events dedicated to becoming Friends of the Earth!

If you want to discover how to become the protagonist of a global movement of friendship with the Earth, take part in my upcoming events at Menscorpore, in Treviglio (BG).

• November 8th, 9 pm: FREE CONFERENCE “As I live, so I am: self-care and care for the environment”. You will understand that there is no personal well-being without the well-being of the planet, and you will discover many concrete and daily actions that each of us can do immediately to help improve your life and that of Nature. Click here and read the complete description of the experiential, interactive and engaging conference (website page available in Italian only).
• November 30th, 10 am-1pm and 2.30pm-6pm: WORKSHOP “IMPACT ZERO LIFESTYLE“. The morning is dedicated to immersing ourselves in Nature (in a beautiful wood of the Bassa Bergamasca) to awaken your deep connection with the natural world and with your own inner Nature. You will develop your sensitivity and you will acquire an “embodied awareness” (incarnated, alive, rooted in the body) of your belonging to the web of life that unites us to all other living beings. The afternoon is then dedicated to getting to know ourselves through the “Life Principles”, the principles that Nature uses to carry on life on Earth since 3,8 billion years ago. Thanks to this approach you will discover how to shape your daily life so that it reflects the sustainable strategies of Nature, and we will end the day with a program of “Small steps for the Earth”, your personal daily actions plan that bring life to our life, life to the people around us, and life to life.

Will you join me?

Let’s be friends with our planet!

With your small, daily steps, we all can contribute to saving our planet, for us, and for future generations of human and non-human forms of life.

Diana Tedoldi

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• Nature coaching Foundations: diana tedoldi’s talk at the “Coaching at work” annual conference
• The Rise Up Rooted Global Wellness Symposium 2022
• free webinars for the international coaching week
• 5-day nature immersion in the amazon rainforest

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