Kit List

Here you will find our suggestions for a kit list for the Outdoor part of our Workshop together. There are some Recommended items and some Essential items so please take a look through this is good time to ensure you can have everything you need.

Medical Questionnaire and Fitness for Hiking in Mountainous areas

Due to the nature of the Workshop, an element I will have already discussed with you individually (or plan to if not already) is around the outdoor element of these Workshops. The design of our outdoor interactions is to allow us engage with Nature as a ‘Thinking Partner’ and to enhance the Coaching process for the benefit of everyone.

We are not looking to take you mountain climbing or Peak bagging, and as such our routes will be tailored to the fitness and ability of the group. We will be working as a Team during the 2 days to ensure everyone’s engagement and participation and will be supportive of everyone both mentally and physically whilst we are here.

The make up of each day is still in design and we can share soe further information with you as it is developed.

With this in mind, we would ask you to complete the following Medical Questionnaire in order to give us the information we require to help look after the group and keep you safe during the workshop.

Insurance and Health Care

Please be aware that Health Care and medical services in France are paid for services, re-imbursed by the state at 70% of the cost. There is therefore usually a 30% personal liability towards the cost of medical care for French residents.

If you are visiting from the UK, I believe that you can still use your EHIC card until it expires or you require a new GHIC card if a previous EHIC has expired. Here is a link that I found that might be useful. Applying for healthcare cover abroad (GHIC and EHIC) – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

PLEASE NOTE: EHIC AND GHIC CARDS ONLY COVER THE NORMAL STATE RE-IMBURSEMENT OF 70% OF HEALTHCARE COSTS IN FRANCE. We would therefore strongly recommend you find and take out further private medical insurance that will cover the remaining 30% of medical fees that will not be re-imbursed via the EHIC / GHIC system. These are usually not very expensive for a short trip but can be very beneficial in the event of an illness or accident in France.

Research and Feedback

As part of our work with Taye Training, I am hoping to get as much feedback as possible from all of our guest and participants here. I will have a short questionnaire that I would like to share with you at the end of the Coaching Outdoors Experience. Participation is entirely voluntary but will be incredibly appreciated.

I will also be asking for your verbal feedback during the two days and would like to invite your thoughts and feelings in the most open and honest manner possible, as this is still a deep learning experience for me too.

Environmental Impact and our Activities

I am conscious that my work here, and ours collectively when we come together, can not be done without some environmental impact. I am still in the process of defining how I am going to work with Nature as a ‘Partner’ and what this means for me in terms of giving back. I am conscious that we can still achieve a positive environmental impact as well as potentially negative impacts from the likes of travel, materials, outdoor kit etc.

Whilst out in the mountain environment, we will guide you in any specific activities to limit our impact as much as possible, and this has been thought about as part of our Workshop planning. I remain very open to suggestions as to how we can both limit our negative impact, and provide positive impact to the environment and our surrounds in the planning, preparations and undertaking of these activities.

I would like to make a short note here to ask that you also consider your environmental impact as part of your engagement with me and the workshop you are attending. My hope is that by working with Nature, and by us benefitting from connecting with it, we are already enhancing our awareness and therefore our thoughtfulness around our environmental impact and maybe the choices we make more widely.

WORKSHOP TRAVEL CARBON FOOTPRINT – For all of my Coaching Outdoor Workshops, my intention is to calculate the Carbon Travel Footprint for the participants’ main travel components and to highlight them here:

CARBON FOOTPRINT TAYE TEAM WORKSHOP APRIL – Calculated via SCIF’s Carbon Calculator

Following some research, I have found this Organisation MIEUXDONNER.ORG who have, through their own research and that of others, identified The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) as one of the most cost effective organisations in the world tackling climate change.

As such, I will be donating an offsetting carbon charge equivalent to the above calculations for each and every Workshop that I run. I appreciate that there challenges and controversies around Carbon Offsetting, and I remain entirely open to ideas and suggestions of other ways to support climate action and reducing the impact of any of my professional activities in support of nature, diversity and climate impact.

Association for Coaching Code of Ethics

As a qualified Coach, I am affiliated with the Association for Coaching as my main professional body. There is a specific Code of Ethics that I adhere to as part that association. You can find a copy of the AC Code of Ethics HERE.

If for any reason you are dissatisfied with any aspect of my professional conduct in relation to Coaching, then you can find a copy of the Association for Coaching complaints Policy and procedure by following this link:

AC Complaints Policy – Association for Coaching

Institute of Outdoor Learning Code of Conduct

In a similar vein to the Association for Coaching for my Coaching practice, I am also a Member of the Institute of Outdoor Learning covering the outdoor elements of our programmes. So I also adhere to their Code of Conduct which you can find HERE.

Food and Drink

Food and drinks are not included in the price of the Workshop and I believe that you will be organising this amongst yourselves for the trip. I will be on hand to support you during the stay and we plan a supermarket trip on the way back from the airport to stock up in the first instance. A local shop is close at hand for basic items and we can organise details with you as you require.

I hope this information is useful for you in your preparation for the workshop and making the most out of our time together and I am very excited and looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks time.

Many thanks and Kind regards,
Damian