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
Workshops
Learn by doing with our dynamic, activity-based workshops. Contact Lisa to learn how you can bring one of these workshops to your school or workplace.
Mindful Stress Resilience
Team Bonding & Development
Active EQ
Outdoors
Experience for yourself the peace and vitality that comes from deep connection with the land in Southern Berkshire County, MA.
Guided Berkshire Hikes
Deep Nature Connection
Outdoor Coaching
About 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 formative years teaching special education and unique depth of experience in Adventure-based learning. 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.
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
Fall Coaching Special!
Now offering FREE sample coaching sessions through December, 2024.A Sample Coaching Session is intended to help address an immediate issue or challenge in order to help you find a greater sense of control and choice in the situation.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 in partnership, clients are able to gain a greater sense of agency in moving beyond habits and patterns that no longer serve and access a radically accelerated path to growth and development.Many clients come to coaching for:
Leadership development
Stress management and self-regulation
Making self-care realistic and achievable
Perspective in navigating life or career changes
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
Workshops
RISE™: A Mindful Approach to Resilience
RISE™ is Kripalu’s research-based program for self-regulation in the face of stress. 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 approach.
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.
Team Bonding & Development
Imagine if your team could come together for a development event that was actually fun... where activities allowed choice in participation and challenges helped bring out their best while deepening trust and connection...where the learning applied to the work and LASTED.
Connected Teams
Reinvigorate your team through inclusive (choice-based), engaging (non-cringey) learning experiences that balance fun with focus so that your team leaves feeling rejuvenated, more deeply connected, and better prepared for facing workplace challenges as a team. Imagine a team with Vitality!
Have Fun! Leave feeling rejuvenated and refreshed
Cultivate vital connections with colleagues
Build trust and increase resilience
Agile Teams
Team communication, problem-solving and decision-making are vital aspects that determine your team's agility and excellence. Agile teams can make decisions fast, fly in formation, and adjust to changes efficiently. Excellent teams feel connected, valued, and empowered while doing so.
Build agility in decision-making and problem solving
Strengthen communication and conflict resilience
Develop and work within team norms and values
Active EQ
Active EQ is an opportunity to learn and deepen awareness of Emotional Intelligence and how it can help improve our ability to collaborate at work, lead others, and participate in social, educational, familial, and community activities with greater resilience and empowerment.
Contact Lisa to learn how you can bring one of these workshops to your school or organization.
Team development
Imagine if your team could come together for a bonding event that was actually fun... where activities allowed choice in participation and challenges helped bring out their best while deepening trust and connection...where the learning applied to the work and LASTED.Imagine if our schools offered more opportunities for active learning, promoted healthy dialogue and facilitated greater resilience and compassion among students all at the same time?How can Adventure with Lisa do all this?Adventure Programming is learning by doing
Rejuvenate & Connect
Reinvigorate your team through inclusive (choice-based), engaging (non-cringey) learning experiences that balance fun with focus so that your team leaves feeling rejuvenated, more deeply connected, and better prepared for facing workplace challenges as a team. Imagine a team with Vitality!
Have Fun! Leave feeling rejuvenated and refreshed
Cultivate vital connections with colleagues
Build trust and increase resilience
Team Agility & Development
Team communication, problem-solving and decision-making are vital aspects that determine your team's agility and excellence. Agile teams can make decisions fast, fly in formation, and adjust to changes efficiently. Excellent teams feel connected, valued, and empowered while doing so.
Build agility in decision-making and problem solving
Strengthen communication and conflict resilience
Develop and work within team norms and values
Adventure Facilitation Training
Adventure Facilitation is a very different methodology from traditional teaching and presenting. While it might seem like "just" fun and games, there's actually a lot more intention and design that goes into it, as well as a lot of skill required in facilitating specific outcomes through discussion.Adventure facilitation training is designed for classroom teachers, retreat leaders, or any facilitator or trainer in a group learning environment who wants to bring more engagement and experiential learning into their work.Workshop Content Includes
Foundations of Experiential Learning
Activity selection and sequencing
Facilitating outcomes-based discussions
Outdoors
Berkshire County Hikes
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 learning experience when we practice mindfulness to deepen our awareness of and connection to the land. Through this practice of presencing and noticing, we learn how to expand our capacity for resilience as modeled by the more than human world.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.
What makes this work vital?
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
~ Marie Curie
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
~Walt Disney
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
~Stephen Hawking
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
~Michael Korda
Testimonials
What clients are saying:
"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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