🚶‍♀️🚶 Reflective Practice is Having a Moment — and Socrates Saw it Coming.🚶

There’s growing momentum around reflective practice as an essential tool for leaders navigating complexity.

While deliberate practice works wonders in stable, rule-based environments (think tennis, chess, coding), much of leadership — and life — doesn’t work that way. We face ambiguity, shifting contexts, and wicked problems where the rules aren’t fixed.

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
— Heraclitus

That’s why WILD Coaching and Therapy (Wisdom and Wellbeing Whilst Walking and Talking in Nature) makes such intuitive sense.
It’s not a performance hack — it’s a philosophical method of reflection in motion.

🌳 Like Agnes Callard reminds us in Open Socrates, the Socratic method is less about clever questions, and more about courageous companionship — using another person not to get answers, but to get unstuck.
To reopen questions we’ve accidentally closed by habit or culture.
To challenge our assumptions — together.

And what better place to do that than outside?

In wild places, the noise of modernity fades.
Walking fosters presence. Nature prompts humility.
Conversation slows, deepens, and often surprises.

In WILD Coaching:

• We walk beside, not ahead.
• We listen more than we solve.
• We use tools both ancient (like carved runes) and embodied (like silence).
• We help leaders reflect, reconnect and respond to the questions that matter most — not reactively, but wisely.

“You are engaging someone to the fullest,” Callard writes,
“when you call on them to help answer your own questions and challenge your own answers.”

WILD Coaching isn’t just aligned with reflective practice — it is reflective practice, in its most elemental, embodied form.

For those ready to lead with more wisdom, not just more willpower —
Let’s walk.

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