I’m not exactly Bear Grylls
I’m a coach, scout leader, former IT strategist and trained forest bathing guide.
I have spent nearly four decades outside. But I don’t believe nature has to be difficult, wild or extreme to matter.
And you don’t need to be either.
Modern life makes it very easy to spend almost every hour indoors. Moving between houses, offices, shops and cars. Sitting in front of screens. Thinking and talking without using much of the rest of ourselves.
I don’t think this is good for us.
We think more clearly outside. Our bodies move. Stress and tension loosen. We meet our limits. We discover what we can do. We get time to hear ourselves again.
And I don’t think nature should be something we visit when we finally have a free weekend.
It needs to be part of ordinary life. Not necessarily to make us calm and slow.
To make us steadier. More awake. More ourselves.
It's not about becoming outdoorsy.
You don’t need to climb a mountain. Buy technical trousers. Sleep in a tent. Or start calling yourself a nature person. (If you do love shopping buy the pants, they are great)
A street tree counts. A houseplant counts. Ten minutes outside your office counts.
But I don’t only want you to sit quietly and notice nature.
I want you to use it.
To move. Explore. Try something. Solve something. Meet the weather. Find out what your body can do. Give your thoughts enough room to move.
Nature is not where you escape from your life. It is where you get more of yourself back.
I work with capable women
Women who lead, build, organise, decide and carry responsibility.
Women who are not lost. But usually have a full calendar
And who may have become very good at meeting every demand except their own. You know that something needs to change without knowing what the change is. You may want more from your life, or less. You may want to build something new. Or stop carrying something that no longer belongs to you.
I don’t decide that for you.
We go outside. We look properly at what is there. We test things in real life. We notice what holds and what doesn’t.
Then you choose.
I didn’t leave one world for the other.
I’m Solfrid Bøhler.
I’m a coach, scout leader, former IT strategist and trained forest bathing guide.
I have led people since I was eleven. I helped build one of Norway’s first online insurance systems and later worked at IBM headquarters in US. I have also spent nearly four decades making fires, finding routes, solving problems and leading people through snow and mud.
In my thirties, serious illness knocked my body out from under me. My way back had no breakthrough. It started with a coffee carried outside. Then a walk. Then a fire. Eventually a mountaintop.
I could not think my way back. I had to move, test, meet my limits and try again. That is still how I work.
You don’t need to be pushed through somebody else’s plan.
You need enough room to hear yourself, and something real to do next.
