Coaching
Learn how personal development coaching can provide you with the clarity and insight needed to feel more resilient and empowered to face life's challenges and changes.
First Session Free
Referral discounts available
Virtual, In-person, Outdoors
Hiking
Experience for yourself the peace and vitality that comes from mindful, experiential connection with the sacred land in Southwestern Massachusetts.
Guided Berkshire Hikes
Deep Nature Connection
Outdoor Coaching
Meet Lisa
Lisa Marie Howard is an experienced teacher, coach, and outdoor guide who is deeply committed to facilitating powerful growth and development through intentional and insightful coaching and outdoor experiences.
Winter Coaching Special!
Now offering FREE Sample coaching sessions through January, 2025.A Free Sample Session is intended to help address an immediate issue or challenge in order to help you find a greater sense of self-empowerment and choice in the situation. It's also a great way to explore coach and client rapport in order to determine whether ongoing coaching is a good fit.Some examples include:
Get clarity on a decision you are facing
Find new ways to manage stress or change
Gain new perspective on challenging situation or conversation
*Limited to 1 free session per person. Subject to availability.
What is Presence-Based Coaching?
Presence-Based Coaching is an approach to personal development coaching that emphasizes the importance of cultivating both presence and partnership within the coaching relationship. Through deepening presence and working through inquiry-based partnership, clients are able to gain a greater sense of agency in moving beyond habits and patterns that no longer serve and access an empowered approach to personal growth and development.Leaders come to coaching for:
Managing Reactivity with Ease
Communicating with Confidence
Stress Management and work/life Balance
Support in taking your Leadership to the Next Level
Coaching Packages
6-12 months of active coaching
Clearly articulated goals and structure
Accountability for action-items and skill development
Virtual or in-person meetings every 2-4 weeks
Outdoor Coaching available
Guided Outdoor Experiences
Berkshire County Hikes
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.
2024 - 2025 Hiking Routes. All routes are offered year-round, weather permitting. Trekking Poles and Micro Spikes available. Additional routes and customized experiences available.
Flag Rock ~ Great Barrington, MA
Monument Mountain ~ Great Barrington, MA
Ice Glen & Laura's Tower - Stockbridge, MA
Olivia's Overlook to Kennedy Cliffs ~ Lenox, MA
Deep Nature Connection
A guided hike can become a powerful experience when we deepen our present moment awareness through our sensory connection to the land. Through this practice of presencing and noticing, we learn how to expand our capacity for resilience as modeled by the continuously adapting natural world that surrounds us.Customized experiences at alternative locations available upon request.
Outdoor Coaching
Take your outdoor experience to the next level with a coaching walk. This can be a great way to enliven the energy and shift perspective on a tough topic or challenge. In person walks deepen rapport between coach and client. New or potential clients can choose this option to get coaching on one topic of concern before deciding on a longer term package.
Contact Lisa to schedule your customized hike or outdoor experience.
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Meet Lisa
Lisa Howard is an experienced coach, facilitator, and trainer who is deeply committed to fostering continuous growth and development for herself and others through intentional and insightful coaching and facilitation. She brings a warm, welcoming presence and intuitive wisdom that creates an engaging, open, and choice-filled environment where transformation becomes possible.Lisa's professional journey has been deeply guided by her decade of experience in teaching special education and unique knowledge and skill in Adventure-based facilitation. Over the past decade her work has been increasingly guided by her study and practice of yoga, presence, and mindfulness, and continues to be shaped by her ongoing learning in the field of human growth and development.Lisa's vision is to contribute to creating a more connected, empowered, and self-aware society amidst the constantly changing landscapes we live in.
Special Education Certification - Immaculata University
M.Ed. Experiential Learning - Plymouth State University
High 5 Adventure Certified Trainer & Facilitator
Navigating Challenging Dialogue® Trained Facilitator
Yogaspirit Studios® 200 hr. Certified Yoga Teacher
Kripalu® Certified RISE™ Facilitator
Kripalu® Certified Restorative Yoga Teacher
In Training - Presence-Based® Coaching
Testimonials
What clients are saying:
"Within a few minutes in Lisa's presence, she is able to ground me and remove weeks of built-up stress. Her mindfulness and calm radiate through the screen. Before I know it, her presence-based coaching has led me down a path that enables me to think clearly about the challenges I'm facing, determine what I want the outcomes to be and create a list of feasible actions to achieve them. I'm so grateful to have met her."
~ Clare; Coaching Client
"Lisa Howard is the missing link in Berkshire County. She not only listens very well, she's a dynamic presenter and knows how to bring people together. She is a total inspiration."
~John Pritchard, President - Pritchard Digital Arts
"I feel a sense of relief when I think about my action steps and the control I have in the situation."
~ Julia; Coaching Client
"She listens without judgment or expectation. She has a unique ability to guide me to finding my own answers without leading me down a particular path. When I have felt like I was at a standstill or in a state of confusion she asked insightful questions that allowed me to process and come to decisions based on my own innate knowing and truth."
~Caitlin; Coaching Client
"In our group interaction, Lisa inspired an atmosphere of trust and mutual goodwill while communicating clear objectives such that participants enthusiastically collaborated to successfully accomplish what could not have been accomplished by any one individual. It was a sheer joy to work with Lisa!"
~ Howard Rosenberg, Owner - Anahata Schoolhouse
"Thanks again for all you did for our team last month. The training was great because you are great. You fit in so well with our group and you kept us on track which is not always an easy task with this group! Anyway, everyone was raving about it and we are already putting some of the strategies we developed into place. Thank you!"
~ Jonathan B. Project Manager
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