Are you truly committed to
liberating potential and possibilities?
Earth Converse offers a transformational coaching journey for conscious leaders, managers, and consultants who see developing others as essential—not just for their organisation, but for the planet.
Coaching is one of the most powerful leadership practices of our time—a way to bring forth new ideas, expand awareness, and catalyse change. But when coaching is guided by nature as our source, mentor, and stakeholder, it becomes even more potent, regenerative, and transformative.
This journey is about reconnecting with what matters most—to yourself, your leadership, and the world.
Along the journey you will:
🌿 Evolve your mindset, heartset, and skillset to step up to your leadership potential.
🌿 Be inspired and empowered to lead in service of people and planet.
🌿 Rejuvenate by experiencing the self-care needed to sustain impactful leadership.
🌿 Develop an understanding of what regenerative coaching truly feels like.
🌿 Connect to a network of conscious leaders committed to change.
🌿 Enhance your confidence in your coaching abilities and be clear about the path to accreditation.
What Makes Our Journeys SpecialThe Earth Converse Coaching Journey is not just a coaching programme. It is a profound experience co-created with the human and the more-than-human world.
It is special in that it is:
For the world – Coaching to liberate potential within yourself, your organisation, and the sustainability movement.
Lived and alive – Coaching isn’t learned from books. Nature isn’t experienced through theory. This journey is fully experiential.
Immersive and expansive – A one-week residential retreat in a nature-rich environment, with 1:1 mentoring, group learning, and solo work before and after to sustain transformation.
Holistic – A deeply soulful experience integrating self-care, nature, rest, nourishment, meditation, and movement to sustain you as a coach and leader.
Relational – A small, intimate group setting, where learning is heartfelt and deeply connected to each other and the world.
Blended learning – A fusion of virtual and in-person experiences to reflect the global, interconnected nature of our work.
ICF-aligned – Offering 124 contact hours to support those seeking International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation.
More than – More than coaching training. More than a leadership retreat. More than a personal or professional development course. More than what we believe we are capable of—individually and collectively.
For Those WhoThis journey is for you change agents — the intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs and conscious leaders who:
🌿Sense that true leadership requires a deep connection with self and the earth.
🌿Feel disillusioned by conventional leadership and seek a new way.
🌿Want to integrate coaching as a way of being and a tool for impact — to inspire, empower, and create lasting change.
🌿Are committed to embodying sustainability and leading from a place of awareness, authenticity, and wisdom.
It will be run in English, so it is for those who are fluent.
No formal coaching experience is necessary. The main requirement is your full participation with an open heart, mind and will (and a good internet connection, private quiet space and camera on for our online work!).
Journey ElementsThe journey comprising 124 contact hours over a 6 month period, involves a weaving of the following elements:
- Solo work: Before, during and after the retreat, there will be self-study to deepen self-awareness and mission as a coach. These include nature-based practices, reflection and contemplation, journaling, reading, podcasts, coaching perspective assignments and practice (asynchronous, 60 hours – and it your personal responsibility to track and validate these hours if you intend to seek accreditation.)
- Retreat: A 7 night holistic immersive in-person in-nature experiential learning experience focused on self-care, exploring consciousness and competencies, practicing coaching and gaining collective momentum. (45 hours including observed coaching sessions)
- 1:1 mentor coaching: Supervision where the ‘coach gets coached’ on their coaching. To deepen reflection and embed learning as a professional (5 one-hour sessions virtually or in person)
- Group supervision: Collective supervision where the coaches reflect on their coaching practice and share learning. So supported and challenged by each other and a PCC Accredited lead facilitator (3 x 2 hour webinars).
- Coaching perspectives: Exploring the range of coaching perspectives to enhance your knowledge base. And to reaffirm that coaching education is only the beginning: other knowledge and proficiencies will be needed to become a successful coach (4 x 2 hour webinars)
- Ongoing support: As you can start the journey whenever you want, you can receive support via email on an ongoing as-need basis.
Our ApproachWe take a whole-system, mindful and nature-based approach, drawing on ancient wisdom and evidence based scientific practices weaved into blended learning.
To use the tree as a metaphor, the journey will be where:
The roots are the fundamentals, exploring the axiom, ‘who we are is how we coach’. This will be about self-exploration, and will extend to exploring key mindsets, heartsets and skills including setting the environment (context, contracting, coaching ethics and standards), mindsets (consciousness and responsibility). As well as the fundamentals of curiosity and listening.
The trunk is relationship, for coaching is in the relationship. We therefore explore the facets of relationship with self, others and the world including presence, holding space, understanding transactions, spotting and liberating patterns, expanding clear communication abilities and the difference between empathy and compassion.
The branches expand and deepen skill and mindsets. They include powerful questioning, storytelling and mirroring, metaphors and mystery, goal setting and feedback, change and transitions, monitoring and accountability and nature-based coaching.
The leaves are the unlimited perspectives and tools we can draw on and weave through as coaches, acknowledging we add to them on our life long journey as a coach. These can include but not be limited to, adult learning, emotional and cultural intelligence, ecopsychology, cognitive behavioural therapy, positive psychology, transactional analysis, constellations, mindfulness, team development theory, poetry, rites of passage…
To continue with the tree metaphor, we help prepare the ground in the solo work prior to the retreat, attend fully to the whole tree in the residential, and keep nurturing and pruning through the mentoring and collective input sessions. In blended learning terms, we bring a mix of instructor led discussions, whiteboard, storytelling, interactive methods, peer to peer, case studies, practical/hands on coaching, demonstrations, media, video, web-based and most of all, the natural wild world with all its surprises.
A way we will be exploring the competencies in our immersive experience will be through the lens of the Four Shields. An eco-psychological way and adult learning tool to understand our human nature in relationship with the world.
For example, some of the experiential elements to bring the competencies alive as mapped out against the Shields will be:
North:
Key models such as GROW and the 4 Shields, purpose and process steps, feedback and gratitude
West:
shadow work, nature as a mirror, life scripts, boundary setting, soulcraft
East
vision and visualisation techniques, future self meditation, silence and stillness
South
somatic awareness, innocence walks, embodied practice, intuition
Facilitator Lead
The journey is led by Earth Converse founder, Penelope Mavor. A courageous and skilled coach who will role model the coaching journey for you in her belief in potential and wholeness, growth mindset and curiosity. A gifted space holder, facilitator and wise guide she will inspire you to take self-leadership to be that coach in service of people and planet.
Penelope holds ICF’s PCC Accreditation. And has over 25 years international experience in sustainability and leadership, 15 years of which has involved leadership coaching and delivering coaching training, from the United Nations to Nissan.
Amongst her qualifications and experience, she holds 3 Masters including an MBA in International Business (Italy) and a Masters of Business and Corporate Coaching (Italy) and is a Vipassana meditator.
She co-delivered the Lane4/Middlesex Open Coaching Programme, trained hundreds of leaders as coaches with Impact International, has trained and co-guided with the rites of passage organisation School of Lost Borders and is a facilitator of Trust Circles for global business leaders and entrepreneurs with The Argonauts.
OutlineThe next cohort will run from September 2025 – February 2026 (retreat 20 – 27 September) – applications have now closed. Please reach out for the next cohort.
Each Journey runs for 6 months depending on the group’s needs, based on the following outline.
The schedule is designed to offer you both certainty and flexibility. And takes the following shape:
To sign up, make sure you can reserve the dates specified for your particular Journey (times all CET).
Retreat: 7 night retreat typically based on 2pm check in and 11am checkout (confirmed retreat by retreat basis)
Group perspectives webinars: There will be 4 x 2 hour sessions over the 6 months. As a group we will decide which time slot suits best out of 10am – 12pm/3pm – 5pm/7pm – 9pm. They are held mid-week on Wednesdays.
Group Supervision: There will be 3 x 2 hour sessions over the 6 months. As a group we will decide which time slot suits best out of 10am – 12pm/3pm – 5pm/7pm – 9pm. They are held mid-week on Wednesdays.
1:1 mentoring: There are 5 x 1 hour sessions scheduled in agreement with individual participants over the 6 months.
At enrolment, we will ask you to pay in full immediately. If you wish to spread the fee over a number of months, we can come to an agreement. And bursaries are available to allow a diverse range of leaders to join.
Sept 25 - February 2026 Journey (Mallorca)This group is limited to 8 courageous curious souls. Will you be one of them?
If so, to sign up, make sure you can reserve the following (all timings are CET)
- Retreat: The 7 night retreat component of the Journey will run from Saturday 20 September (3pm) to Saturday 27 September 2025 (11am). We will be held in the beautiful World Heritage site of the Serra Tramuntana in Mallorca, between the mountains and sea.
- Group perspectives webinars: These expand our minds hearts and toolkit. Please reserve the following Wednesday’s in the first instance:
3 Sept
29 Oct
3 Dec
14 Jan 2026
- Group Supervision: These bring rigour and support to our practice. Please reserve the following Wednesday’s in the first instance:
15 Oct
12 Nov
4 Feb 2026
- 1:1 mentoring: 5 x 1 hour sessions giving you 1:1 attention, scheduled in agreement as we go.
Your contribution for this entire 6 month programme with 124 contact hours will be €6,200 (incl VAT).
Applications closed on 21 August 2025.
(Please reach out for 2026 dates)
Other Important MattersAccreditation: With 124 contact hours this journey is designed to satisfy Level 1 of the International Coaching Federation standards for coaching eduction. This will be important for those of you who wish to apply for the likes of the ICF Gold Standard Individual Accreditation (Associated Certified Coach) in the future via a Portfolio Path. The ultimate responsibility for a successful application lies with you, but at the time of completion of your Earth Converse Coaching Journey, each of you will be given detailed information to support your application. In particular you will want to make sure you can validate your own asynchronous (self study) contact hours such as reading, writing, research, journaling, practice coaching and other activities.
As part of the ICF Accreditation process for the programme, there are some policies to help you feel it is fair and just.
Complaint/Grievance: We invite feedback and see it as an opportunity to enhance our learning and service. If you have a particular complaint or grievance, please raise it with us directly, even if you prefer to do it by email at info@earthconverse.com as a first step.
Equality: We believe in equality and diversity. Within the confines of the nature-based retreat, we will make every effort to accommodate special requirements including for disabilities, that we have been notified of and discussed in advance.
Attendance: If you have an emergency or become ill and are not able to attend all or part of a session, you will need to notify us at info@earthconverse.com.
If you miss any of the total live training hours, you may be given the option to work with the facilitator to cover the missed material at an additional cost.
In the event of partial completion of a programme, you can request a partial-completion certificate stating the hours that you completed. Though no refund will be given.
Cancellations and Refunds: For your peace of mind, we offer a 14 days full-refund cancellation period after enrolment. If you have to cancel after the registration closing date, you will be refunded 25%.
(If, in the unfortunate event we have to cancel, you will be fully refunded. And if for some reason we have to change venue or chef, the change will be of comparable standard and of no price change to you).
Personal risk: We will make every effort to keep you emotionally and physically safe. Ultimately you will be responsible for your own personal safety and risk-taking.
Unsure? Need testimonials?It goes without staying, please reach out if you want to explore whether this is right for you.
Do you need testimonials?
“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
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