Centering Visionaries in Empowerment


Lisa coaches visionary leaders, creators and healers in moving beyond the internal and external challenges and barriers that limit transformation.

Coaching helps:

  • Visionary leaders to uplift and empower themselves and others

  • Artists and creators who envision making the world a better place through the practice and power of art

  • Healers whose work depends upon giving from a place of wholeness and nourishment

Coaching is a space for you to get centered in your vision, access your innate wisdom, and fully embody your power so that you can create the change you want to see. Coaching with Lisa is a partnership; we work together toward the goals and outcomes you are seeking.In a coaching session you are invited to:

  • Express yourself freely and fully in a compassionate space

  • Deepen your presence to access the intuitive wisdom of your body

  • Navigate through the stories to find what is true and most important

  • Identify limitations or barriers and find clear action steps to overcome


Packages Include

  • Sliding Scale pricing

  • 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


Mindful Hiking


Berkshire County, Massachusetts

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.

More than just a hike, it's a practice

A guided hike can become a powerful mindfulness practice when we deepen our present moment awareness through our sensory connection to the land. Through this practice of presencing and noticing, we find relaxation and rejuvenation, and expand our capacity for resilience as modeled by the continuously adapting natural landscapes.

2025 Hiking Routes:

  • 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

All routes are offered year-round, weather permitting. Trekking Poles and Micro Spikes available. Additional routes and customized experiences available. Contact Lisa for Pricing.


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.

2025 Hiking routes


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


RISE™: Kripalu's Evidence-based Stress resilience training

Rooted in Kripalu’s deep legacy of wellness practices and grounded in more than a decade of research and tested application, the RISE™ program provides a pathway to understanding the stress response paired with tools and practices that empower a more skillful, centered approach.Offerings include:

  • Intro session: 90 - 120 minutes

  • Full program: 6 - 8 hours

  • Combination: RISE + Team Connection

Through accessible practices of meditation, breath, and gentle movement, learn how to:

  • Change the brain, making it easier to pay attention and stay calm

  • Build positivity, productivity, and mental clarity

  • Improve stress resilience in the moment and over time.

  • Finish the program more mindful and with experiences you can easily apply to your life.

  • Experience mindfulness tools and practices for self-regulation in the face of stress. Learn how to understand your own stress response and improve your ability to utilize skills and tools in moments of high intensity and challenge.


Adventurous Awareness

What if Adventure could happen right here at home? Adventurous Awareness is an empowerment workshop for growth seekers who love to learn by doing and connect with others in the process.

  • Have fun in an inclusive, collaborative, active-learning environment

  • Deepen awareness of patterns and habits that support or limit personal growth and resilience

  • Identify empowering insights and skills to impact real life challenges and situations


Playful presence

Explore through play how you can be more present with yourself and the people that matter most.


Team development


Building connection happens most effectively in person. Our experiential workshops bring your team together for carefully designed live experiences that help address the following themes crucial to your success.

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Building an Inclusive team

  • Effective Problem Solving

  • Change resilience and agility


Meet Lisa


  • Development Coach

  • Mindful Outdoor Guide

  • Experiential Facilitator and Trainer

  • Kripalu® Center Faculty

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 and inquiry 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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Coaching

Resilience and empowerment coaching for professionals, aspiring leaders, educators or anyone seeking personal growth or a greater sense of control in the face of life's intense fluctuations.

  • First Session Free

  • Referral discounts available

  • Virtual, In-person, Outdoors


Outdoors

Experience for yourself the peace, restoration 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.