Second Nature is a response to the growing need to re-discover simple, considerate ways of living together. In our increasingly divided and distracted society, we are becoming more and more disconnected from our selves, our families, our communities and our environment.
Created by Katy Kent, a qualified Integral & Systemic Coach, Warm Data Host, Forest Bathing & Therapy Guide, Yoga Teacher & Action Learning Practitioner, who takes an ecological and systemic view on challenges we face, individually and collectively today.
Our simple intention is to create spaces of truth and integrity, that become bridges back to feeling connected — where people are able to safely explore what really matters to them, and who they might collaborate with to bring their visions for our changing world to life.
Katy blends developmental coaching with an eco-therapeutic approach to learn from nature’s systems and cycles. Hosting and holding transformative spaces that help us recognise the intricate webs of relationships we’re part of, and how they might support us to lead fulfilling lives.
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A natural connector with a passion for joining dots and nurturing intentional relationship, I have spent the last 8 years studying coaching, facilitation, somatics, nature therapy and community engagement.
I currently work with place-based social enterprise, Onion Collective at East Quay cultural centre in the small coastal town of Watchet, Somerset. As Network Weaver on a project called Understory, which works to uncover the ‘story beneath a community’ - making visible the strong relational ties that bond us together, especially in times of crisis.
Understory blends a progressive relational mapping software with a deep theoretical reappraisal of the places and stories that influence and shape us over time. The idea is that relationships enable action, and that collective memories of what’s happened before, brings the confidence to imagine different possibilities. and the knowledge that community can bring about its own change. The project gathers people around nature, imagination and hope to inspire community action.
Alongside that, I run Re-Gathering - retreats to bring us together when so much in our world feels disconnected. Introducing nature inspired practices and experiences to groups of people across the UK who are ready to face into what an uncertain future means to them.
To do this work, I am certified in a number of ‘whole person’ methodologies that consider not just the ‘head’ space, but the heart and hands too. I am accredited with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and adhere to their code of ethics.
Prior to starting Second Nature, I spent a decade in London’s advertising agencies (Mother, Ogilvy & Karmarama) learning lessons about the power of narratives and metaphor to support behaviour change, and also about creative collaboration in large international groups and teams.
Following that, I worked and lived in remote locations from Iceland to Colorado, The Alps to Amsterdam for an experiential outdoor adventure company, shaping transformational experiences for international groups, and training and developing cross-cultural teams.
I also continue to collaborate with learning organisations You Can Now and The School of Life to design and deliver leadership programmes from a range of large global organisations from WPP to Campari, Apple to Frieze, Cubitts to Hubbub.
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Thriving Networks: Greater Than Academy (2025)
Bringing it Home: 8 Shields Cultural & Community Repair (2024)
Forest Therapy Guide: Nature & Therapy, Devon (2024)
Alef Trust: Nurturing the Fields of Change: Holistic Change Facilitation (2023)
Advaya: Sensing Harm by Design, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (2023)
Regenerators Academy, Regenerative Leadership (2022)
Warm Data & People Need People Host (2022)
Integral Development Coach (2022)
Advaya Bodyfulness Somatics (2022)
Earth Body Institute: Introduction to Ecotherapy (2022)
ORSC Relationship Systems Coach (Fundamentals) (2020)
50 hr Vinyasa Yoga Training, Stretch London (2019)
Mental Health First Aider (2019)
Action Learning Facilitator (2019)
Kaospilot, The Art & Craft of Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces (2019)
Co-Active Coach (2018)