
Type of Method
• Nature Connection Practices
• Movement - Somatics - Embodied Practices
• Meditation - Spiritual Guidance
• Coaching - Transformation - Philosophy
Suitable for
• One to one, personal
• Groups, teams and organisations
Standard Coaching
Generically, a coach is someone who enters into a skilful, intimate, developmental role with a ‘coachee’ – an individual or group – over time. Coaching may include some or all aspects of the following; witnessing, validation, positive psychology, mentoring, training, practise, education, emotional and psychological support, motivation, visioning, alignment, inspiration and transformation. A coach may also have a particular training, expertise, process, knowledge base, or experience to teach within a particular field of endeavour or niche, for example business, relationships, wellness, or spirituality, or they may be a ‘generalist’ Life Coach.
The standard Coaching skill sets were developed to help people function better in themselves and in the world. Standard Coaching usually focuses on particular, chosen aspects of personal development, transformation and success, towards a future which it is assumed will be better than the present, in a world which is fundamentally stable and eternal.
Deep Adaptation Coaching
Deep Adaptation starts with the recognition of immanent and unfolding environmental and social collapse at global scale.
A discovery of the facts of external global collapse often has an intense or catastrophic internal impact. Collapse awareness may trigger a sudden personal crisis where reality and meaning can dissolve overnight, or a longer transformational process which can extend over a long period of time.
Collapse awareness is often characterised by degrees of grief, reluctance, fear, avoidance, denial and perceptions of a world in which ‘success’ and ‘progress’ now seem meaningless, and a future which is precarious, dangerous and frightening. It may also provoke loneliness or isolation when family, peers, colleagues are not able to share or understand the crisis. Beyond grief, Deep Adaptation implies a need to reconnect with meaning, self, soul, spirit, and nature and developmental processes linked to resilience and community, all of which coaching may help help with.
A Deep Adaptation coach will enter into a facilitative role with aspects of this process of deep change that comes with collapse awareness. Many Deep Adaptation coaches will bring aspects of other training and developmental practises into their coaching process. it would be expected that coaches are gaining competencies to usefully facilitate aspects of these unprecedented processes for others.
Some coaches may have a structured programme or process, others may work adaptively and spontaneously to meet the needs and wishes of the coachee or group. Some coaches work online, others face to face.
Any coach will be framing their practise through a particular worldview, and level of personal and professional development, which a coachee should enquire into. Does the coach speak your language, and speak to whatever you need help, guidance, support and development with? There should be a ‘chemistry’ between coach and coachee, the right coach is the one you want to work with, who ‘rings bells’ and can speak directly to whatever aspect of Deep Adaptation you need help and support with.
Guides using this Method

Matthew Painton
Deep Adaptation Coaching
Deepen into Adaptation coaching will help you move out of avoidance, uncertainty and paralysis, thro …

Isabel Santis
MA, Coach
Isabel Santis, MA, Transformative Coach In these times of environmental, social, economic, and poli …

Linda Lombardo
Certified Forest Therapy Guide and Life Coach
A certified life coach since 2001, Linda’s approach has always been one of attraction rather than ni …

Karen Ann Scott
Nature-based Coach and Facilitator
I have a background in activism, community development, coaching and facilitation and am called to s …

Lenore Norrgard
Pastoral Leader, Circle of the Living Earth-AIWP
I have provide individual counselling and healing work, with trauma as a specialty, since 1992. I ha …

Jarrah Schmah
Psychotherapist
Hello dear hearts, I’m offering online psychotherapy sessions in Somatic Experiencing and just being …

Rich Snowdon
Deep Advocacy Coach
Please don’t underestimate how painful the loss of hope can be. Whether it’s a partial loss because …

Fernando García Ferreiro
Experienced beginner
I am a 62-year old experienced beginner. I retired from the European Commission in November 2018 aft …

Terry Rankin
Deep adaptation to 21st century truth and reality is a fundamentally philosophical undertaking. It f …

Lisa Gordon
Accredited Courage & Renewal Facilitator
Thanks for visiting! I’d like to know you. I host Courage Earth circles in Victoria, BC, Canada. As …

Gwyneth Jones
Deep Adaptation and Resilience Coach, Work That Reconnects facilitator
I help guide people through the emotional and spiritual journey of dealing with climate collapse, an …

Dr Ali Young
Currently working for the NHS as a De-Escalation Coach in Mental Health Crisis and Embodied Movement Teacher
Encountering a book about the medical experiments of the Holocaust aged 8, I have had a keen awarene …

Dean Spillane-Walker
Reconnection and Resilience Coach
After 35 years in transformation-based training, coaching and facilitation and writing my 2017 book, …

Emma Mary Gathergood
Holistic Life Coach
Holistic Life Coaching: As a holistic worker I can work with your mind, body, feelings and spirit an …

Inna Alex
WTR Facilitator, Permaculture educator, Yoga teacher, MSc Env Management
I have been teaching workshops & retreats in the Work That Reconnects (WTR) in New Zealand & …

Sarah-Jane Menato
Sarah-Jane’s premise is that while we will not escape the consequences of what has already taken pla …

Terry LePage
Climate Chaplain: Spiritual Guidance and Healing.
I am a Climate Chaplain. I am an excellent empathetic listener and a reliable non-anxious …

Eveline Tijs
Coach - Psychotherapist - Facilitator
Hi, my name is Eveline. I am a 36 year old Belgian and moved to Hastings, East Sussex in 2019 to liv …

Katelyn Dowling
Organizational Consultant and Coach
Dr. Dowling holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is founder and CEO of Sustainable Self, Inc. Th …

Brennan Smith
I’m the founder of the Inspired Action Network, and the author of The Art of Inspired Action. To get …

Zori Tomova
Purpose alignment coach, shamanic guide & Connection Playground founder
It is my purpose to create spaces of connection that bring out the most beautiful sides of our human …

Lori Austein
Council Trainer/Facilitator; Hypnotherapist; Transpersonal Life Coach
Circles of Resilience is based on the ancient way of being together and learning from each other bef …

Silvia Di Blasio
My name is Silvia Di Blasio. While I trained as a special needs’ teacher, I have worked with youth a …

Dr. Christine Gibson
Systems Healer, Family Physician, Trauma and Resilience Specialist
A primary care practitioner, systems entrepreneur, and trauma specialist, I am especially able to gu …

Maria Bliklen
Coach, facilitator and psychological counselor
Being alive as a human on planet Earth is challenging, heart-breaking, and wonderful – even more so …

Neela Paulussen
Bodyoriented (psycho)therapist
Facing collapse asks for being firmly routed in connection. I use somatic and awareness work as well …

Naresh Giangrande
For example Coach, Therapist, Healer ...
As a Co-founder of Transition Town Totnes, the first Transition Town, and of Transition Training, I …

Claudia Junker
Learning & Development expert, Systemic consultant, Coach
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Ami Chen Mills-Naim
Coach, Founder, Ami Chen Coaching and Education
Ami is a coach, trainer, consultant and author with over 25 years of experience helping individuals …

Mario Tomas Lawrence
Energy Healing facilitator, Certified LifeLine Pratitioner (CLP), Personal Harmony facilitator
I spent my whole life looking for what I was supposed to do in the world. In 2010 I discovered that …