BLUE HEALTH coaching
rewild yourself and get calm, clear and confident about your purpose-driven creative business
Try out a nature-informed coaching tool
Get this page up on your phone, find a spot in a blue (or green) space where you can spend some time without being interrupted and try out this ‘four directions meditation’ to reflect on the sustainability journey you’re on and try out a nature-informed tool at the same time.
Does this sound like you?
- You’re looking for purpose and meaning. You’ve got big questions about what’s next for your making-based business and need a safe and compassionate space to explore the answers
- You’ve hit a major milestone or experienced a pivotal life event and want to take time out of the busyness and overwhelm to reflect and re-assess
- You’ve got an important decision to make and are feeling uncertain – you’re looking for impartial advice and a champion in your corner to help you find clarity
- You are sinking in scarcity (not enough time, money, confidence, qualifications, control, health…) and want to float back into buoyant abundance
- You feel out of alignment and like you’re just treading water and need help getting back into aligned flow
- You have a great team but lack a sounding board – running a business can make you feel isolated and disconnected, especially when you’re swimming against the tide
- You’re fed up with business advice that assumes you’re white, straight, male (even if you are!) and looking for nothing but profit and growth at the expense of all else – you’re looking for a coach who can hold space for all of who you are and the impact you want to make
- You have tried online courses or group programmes, and now want undivided focus on you and your sustainability journey – after all, Olympic swimmers get coaches, so why shouldn’t you have one too?
Introducing: BLUE HEALTH Coaching
Blue Health Coaching combines environmental psychology, applied neuroscience, philosophy, somatic practices and a good dose of fresh, salty air to support and encourage a more nature-connected, intuitive and aligned approach to your purpose-driven business and your life.
- Blue Health Coaching is a three-way conversation between coach, client and their natural environment that seeks both internal and external alignment
- Ideally, we will work in-person on the Cornish coastline, but there is an element of blue in every green space and ways to bring the ocean into virtual conversations too
- You can choose to have either pure coaching, which supports you to find the answers within nature and yourself, or a blend of coaching and mentoring, which will include advice where appropriate
- Together with nature, we will create non-judgemental and compassionate space in which to explore the big questions
- You will find support and empowerment to build a purpose-driven business that is good for you and for the planet
- I will encourage you to think of yourself as part of nature and that means no more treating yourself like a machine or a resource to be extracted from to the point of depletion and instead caring for yourself like the natural being that you really are
- Learning with blue spaces, we will value connection, curiosity, purpose, imperfection and defiant hope
- You will find calm, clarity and confidence in your purpose-driven creative business.
- I am committed to inclusivity and offer wheelchair-friendly locations as well as flatter and slower-paced routes, I can provide a BSL interpreter, and I take into account neurodiversity and different learning styles in all of my work. If there’s anything else you need, just ask
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Work with me
If you’re running a making-based business and trying to navigate the environmental crisis with your values in tact, you’re in the right place. Join me for 1:1 coaching that is informed by the rhythms of nature and the wisdom of the sea.
Katie Treggiden is a certified coach with 20+ years experience in the creative industries. She has trained with both the MOE Foundation (Association for Coaching accredited) and the BioLeadership Fellowship and recently qualified as a Blue Health Coach (International Coaching Federation accredited) giving her a skillset that is informed by both traditional coaching modalities as well as the more-than-human world.
This also means that she adheres to the ICF code of ethics and upholds the values of Blue Health Coaching through living in connection with blue spaces and working in service to the UN’s 14th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 14) ‘life below water’.
— David Angelo, David & Goliath
How it works:
- You can choose to ‘dip’, ‘plunge’ or ‘swim’ – that is a one-off 60–90-minute session, a full-day’s deep dive or a 6-month package.
- We will start with a curiosity call so you can ask any questions and we can make sure we are a good fit and then I will ask you to complete a short questionnaire.
- If you are based in, or can get to, West Cornwall, we’ll meet in person and take a walk along the coast, taking in stunning landscapes and bringing blue wisdom into our conversation. (Wheelchair friendly options and flatter, slower-paced routes are available.)
- If you can’t get to Cornwall, we will either meet on Zoom and retreat into our nearest blue (or green) space before/during/after sessions – or we’ll conduct our sessions via Voxer from those spaces.
- You can bring a specific question or challenge (recommended for ‘dip’ sessions), or just see what bubbles up as we talk.
- I will use nature-informed coaching modalities to help you explore the challenges you are facing and encourage you find the answers within nature or yourself
- If we agree upfront to blend mentoring into our sessions, I can also offer pragmatic advice drawing on 20 years’ experience in the creative industries and a career spanning books, journalism, Making Design Circular and training with the BioLeadersip Fellowship, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the University of Oxford
- We can continue the conversation after each session via an app called Voxer through which you can send me text or voice messages at any time of day or night(!) and I will respond when I’m online.
Hey, I'm Katie Treggiden
I grew up in Cornwall when wild swimming was just called ‘swimming’ and time spent immersed in the natural world was the norm. I had an idyllic childhood, but moved away to study and then headed to the bright lights of the big city to seek my fortune. I was successful by all external measures, but my mental and physical health suffered and I lost touch with who I was.
A move back home in 2017 prompted a slow unfurling and a reconnection with nature, the sea and myself, culminating in undertaking the BioLeadership Fellowship in 2023 and Lizzi Larbalestier’s Blue Health Coaching course in 2024. I realised I had brought a lot of city life home with me and needed to unlearn as much as I needed to learn.
Getting back in the sea and spending more time doing the things I love such as walking, paddle boarding and beach yoga has helped me to overcome mental and physical health challenges and find a way of living – and making a living – that feels aligned with my heart, head and gut – and aligned with, and positively contributing to, the planet I am lucky enough to call home.
I have seen first-hand the transformation this work can have and I want that for you too.
Here’s what you bring:
- Your whole nuanced, contradictory, imperfect self
- A commitment to progress over perfection and cultivating defiant hope even when the going gets tough
- A sense of openness to new ideas, new ways of being, and new ways of doing
- A sense of accountability to doing the work as well as being fully present for sessions by showing up on time, well prepared, free from distraction, and ready to dive in
- A healthy dose of self-compassion when these things don’t quite all line up
- …and some proper outdoor clothes, appropriate footwear and/or sunscreen for whatever the Cornish weather throws at us!
Are you ready to invest in yourself and your sustainabilty journey?
Whether you want to dip your toe in the water with a one-off session, plunge into an immersive full-day session or swim the distance for a six-month package, I’ve got you.
So, let’s dive in, shall we?
DIP
£275 + VAT
Dip your toe in the water with a one-off 60-90-minute coaching session.
This is for you if there is one specific challenge you would like to explore or you’ve had coaching with Katie before and want to check back in.
Ideally, we will meet in person in West Cornwall for a 60-90 minute walk and talk along the coastline. (Wheelchair-friendly options and gentler routes are available.)
If you can’t get to Cornwall, we can either both go into our nearest blue (or green) space and talk via Voxer or we can have a 45-minute Zoom session combined with an exercise for you to do in nature in your own time.
This session includes a pre-questionnaire for you to complete plus a full day of Voxer support the day after the call. (Voxer is a ‘walkie talkie’ style app that enables us to exchange text messages and voice notes.)
PLUNGE
£975 + VAT
A full day of immersive coaching aligning your business with your values, making sure it feels regenerative for you and the planet.
We will plunge into a full day together. Ideally, we’ll spend the day walking along the Cornish coastline and have 2x two-hour coaching sessions with a break for lunch and an optional sea-swim (Wheelchair-friendly options for walk and swim and gentler routes are available. We can also do the whole day in a local spa – please enquire for supplemental charges.)
Or can can meet on Zoom and spend the break in our own local blue (or green) spaces – or both head out into nature for the whole day and talk via Voxer.
This option includes a pre-questionnaire for you to complete as well as Voxer support for 5 days after our day together. (Voxer is a ‘walkie-talkie’ style app that enables us to exchange text messages and voice notes.)
Plunge sessions normally happen on Fridays so you can combine them with a weekend in Cornwall if you’re not local – other days may be possible on request.
SWIM
£500 + VAT pcm x 3 months or £1,500
If you’re ready to get into the water and stay in, choose this three-month package. This is for you if you want a more spacious container that enables us to explore things as they bubble up and dive deeper into persistent challenges.
We will get together for fortnightly 60-90-minute coaching walks along the Cornish coastline. These can be done in-person or via Voxer and wheelchair-friendly options and gentler routes are available.
Or we can have a 45-minute Zoom session combined with an exercise or reflection for you to do in your nearest blue (or green) space in your own time.
This package includes 6x sessions over three months, a questionnaire for you to complete, unlimited Voxer support (Voxer is a ‘walkie-talkie’ style app that enables us to exchange text messages and voice notes).