Internal Coaching Journey - Earth Converse

Are you truly committed to liberating potential and possibilities – in your people, your leadership and your organisation as a whole?

Organisations are navigating unprecedented complexity, change and pressure on leaders.

Even though coaching is widely recognised as one of the most powerful leadership practices, many organisations:

+ Fail to invest in their people

+ Overly rely on external coaches

+ Lack consistent coaching quality internally

+ Struggle to embed coaching as a way of leading

At Earth Converse we believe developing internal coaching capacity is no longer a “nice to have”. It is a strategic capability that supports leadership, culture, wellbeing and sustainable performance.

We therefore offer you a proven, 6-month, blended coaching journey to help your organisation develop credible internal coaches while strengthening your leadership and regenerative culture. In a world full of online coaching programmes, the Earth Converse Journey stands apart. Rooted in connection, it is about restoring relationship with people, planet and possibility.

Reach out here to discuss how to bring the Journey into your organisation

Welcome to the Earth Converse Coaching Journey
The Earth Converse Coaching Journey is a proven, 6‑month, blended coaching journey designed to develop credible, ethical and impactful internal coaches – while strengthening leadership capability and regenerative organisational cultures.
The Journey weaves together immersive in‑person learning with virtual sessions, mentoring, supervision and self‑directed practice. It is ICF‑aligned, offering 124 contact hours and can be tailored to your organisational context.
At its heart is a 7‑night, in‑nature residential immersion, creating the conditions for deep learning, reflection and integration that simply cannot be replicated online.
This is a whole‑system, mindful and nature‑based approach, drawing on ancient wisdom and evidence‑based scientific practices and modelling what regenerative leadership looks and feels like in practice.
Who Is This Journey For..and Not For?
This Journey is for organisations that:
- Are committed to building internal coaching capacity, not outsourcing it
- See coaching as a leadership practice, not a remedial intervention
- Are navigating complexity, change or transformation
- Value relational leadership, wellbeing and sustainability
- Are ready for learning that is experiential, reflective and deeply human
- Want a credible, structured pathway aligned to professional standards
It is particularly suited to:
- Leadership and talent development cohorts
- Internal coaches or aspiring internal coaches
- Senior leaders who influence culture and change
This Journey may not be the right fit if your organisation:
- Is looking for a short, purely skills‑based coaching course
- Wants a one‑size‑fits‑all, off‑the‑shelf programme
- Is uncomfortable with experiential learning or reflective practice
- Is not willing to invest time, presence and commitment
- Sees coaching purely as a performance management tool
- Is not in service of people and planet
What This Journey Offers Your Organisation
🌿 Develops internal coaching capacity
🌿 Enhances the credibility, consistency and impact of coaching within the organisation
🌿 Develops leaders who can work skillfully with complexity, change and uncertainty
🌿 Strengthens relational capability, trust and quality of conversation
🌿 Supports wellbeing, resilience and sustainable performance
🌿 Provides a clear pathway towards ICF accreditation for internal coaches
🌿 Can be co‑delivered with internal facilitators, building capability from within
What Makes This Journey Special?
Most coaching programmes focus on technique and models. The Earth Converse Coaching Journey develops the coach as an instrument.
It is special in that it is:
- ICF-aligned (124 contact hours) – supports accreditation pathways and professional credibility
- Experiential & immersive – accelerates learning and integration
- Nature-based – builds awareness, systems thinking and resilience in ways other learning cannot
- Whole-person & whole-system – integrates mindset, emotion, body and context
- Regenerative lens – aligns leadership, wellbeing and sustainability
- Co-delivery option – builds internal facilitation and coaching capacity simultaneously
Journey Overview At A Glance
- Duration: 6 months
- Contact hours:124 (ICF Level 1 aligned)
- Key components:
  - 7-day in-nature residential immersion
  - 1:1 mentor coaching (5 hours)
  - Group supervision (3 x 2 hours)
  - Coaching perspectives webinars (4 x 2 hours)
  - Asynchronous self-study and practice
- Cohort size: Small, intimate cohorts to ensure quality and depth
- Delivery: Blended (virtual + in-person), globally adaptable
A Whole-System Coaching Framework
Using the metaphor of a tree, the Journey supports development across the whole coaching system:
Roots – Foundations
Exploring the axiom “who we are is how we coach”. This includes self‑exploration, ethics, contracting, presence, responsibility, curiosity and deep listening.
Trunk – Relationship
Coaching lives in relationship. We explore relationship with self, others and the world, including holding space, communication, empathy and compassion and working with patterns.
Branches – Skill & Practice
Powerful questioning, storytelling, metaphors, feedback, change and transitions, accountability and nature‑based coaching practices.
Leaves – Perspectives & Tools
Drawing from a wide range of perspectives such as adult learning, emotional and cultural intelligence, ecopsychology, mindfulness, positive psychology, transactional analysis, systems thinking, poetry and rites of passage.
Learning is experiential and embodied, integrating instructor‑led dialogue, peer learning, case studies, practice coaching, reflection and the natural world itself.
Facilitator Lead

The Journey is lead by Penelope Mavor, founder of Earth Converse.
Penelope brings over 25 years’ international experience in sustainability and leadership from the United Nations to multinationals. She has trained 100s of leaders in the art and skill of coaching through both open programmes and in-house programmes.
She holds three Masters degrees, including an MBA in International Business and a Masters in Business and Corporate Coaching, and is an ICF PCC‑accredited coach.
Known for her ability to hold courageous, spacious, and deeply human learning environments, Penelope role‑models the coaching journey through curiosity, presence, and a belief in potential and wholeness.
Penelope is happy to co‑deliver with internal facilitators as a further way to develop internal coaching and facilitation capacity within your organisation.
Testimonials
The Earth Converse Coaching Journey was piloted with 3 leaders and is now ready for your organisation.

“This 6 month coaching journey has been transformational. Seeped in the ethos of Earth Converse, Penelope is authentically invested in helping us recognise and develop our individual skills, gifts and strengths. With her years of experience as a leadership coach behind her, she is an inspiring, informative and generous facilitator. The retreat part of this course was above and beyond what I had envisioned. And after every one to one session I felt more positive, confident and capable of delivering my own form of coaching. I also looked forward to the group sessions. We were all so different in personality, background and experience but all on the same journey and I felt supported the entire way. I joined this course to develop my coaching, mentoring and facilitating skills for my new initiative, and I have not been disappointed. I can highly recommend this truly unique Earth Converse Coaching Journey!”
Paula Dickens, Founder, Sage Seas
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The 6-month Earth Converse Coaching Journey has really been a journey that has showed me so many new paths to walk on!
It all started with a 7-day retreat that really had blown my mind! It was a treat in all senses, and for all senses! Every day was a combination of self-care, touching hands-on coaching content and putting them into practice. The nature-based exercises made me dive deeper into who I am as a person and revealed who I could be as a coach. The food we got served definitely deserves an extra mention, as it was absolutely delicious as well!
The journey obviously didn’t finish after the retreat!
The 1:1 sessions brought me each time more clarity and showed me the path how to move forward on my personal coaching journey.
The “Coaching Perspective” sessions expanded our toolbox with so many amazing useful & very practical tools that not only come in handy to reach out to as a coach, but also in daily life.
The Group Supervision sessions made us aware, observe and reflect even deeper on how we are doing as a coach, through very practical models that we learned by doing in those sessions.
Last but definitely not least, Penny with her warm, ever supporting and playful personality makes all the difference! She creates this safe & open environment, where you have all the space you need to be able to learn and grow! Such an inspiring & loving person!
I signed up because I had this idea of working with humanitarians and challenging them in outdoor settings, not really knowing if I would want to be a coach, or what that actually even meant. The Earth Converse Coaching Journey brought me so much clarity on how to develop this idea and how to be able to work with people on a much deeper level!
I’m beyond grateful for what this journey has brought me!
The new paths that have been revealed are endless!
Sofie Knapen, Founder, Adventures Alchemy
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How to capture what felt so truly different and special about this 6-month training. An unexpected freshness and vitality, crisp language, real depth of knowing and understanding – these are some of the qualities Penny Mavor brings to this Earth Converse programme. Plus, tremendous generosity sharing her learning, experience and wisdom, and commitment to guiding participants in their coaching journey, wherever they each might be at. She offers rigour and she brings in fun. The week-long intensive in particular offered an opportunity to sink deep into exploration and learning, feeling supported, held and challenged. Oh yes, there were surprises and challenges. The best learning – thank you.
Andrea Dechamps, Director of Patient & Family Support, St Wilfrid’s Hospice
Implementation Options
Your organisation can choose to:
- Run the Journey as a pilot cohort
- Integrate it into an existing leadership or talent programme
- Co-deliver with internal facilitators to build facilitation and coaching capability
- Use it as the foundation for an internal coaching faculty or pool
Curious To Explore What This Could Look Like For Your Organisation?
Let’s begin with a conversation to understand your priorities, context and how the Journey could support your people and your system.
Please reach out here.