Coaching Essentials
Two days filled with inspiration, connection, deep learning, and nourishment
DENMARK, Rødvig Stevns. 26. + 27. April 2025
Needs-Based Coaching Essentials:
2-day workshop at Stevns, Denmark
Upgrade your people skills! Learn the core competencies of Needs-Based Coaching and develop your ability to lead bold and supportive conversations in just two days. You will learn our basic assumptions and skills and practice with examples from your own life. This way, you can immediately apply what you've learned in your personal and professional environment.
What you will take away:
Discover the principles of coaching: Support people from a clear and responsible perspective of human connection.
Learn classic coaching skills: Use proven coaching techniques, combine them with Nonviolent Communication, and apply them directly.
Expand your toolbox: Add professional methods to your repertoire to effectively support people.
Fundamentals of Needs-Based Coaching: Discover the essence and learn the art of integrating values and needs to arrive at plans for a sustainable way forward.
Find your way in 1:1 exchanges: Learn how to lead and structure supportive conversations with heart and effeciency.
This training is for:
People who want to upgrade their people skills with the art of coaching
NVC enthusiasts with the desire to support individuals one-on-one
Team leaders who wish to develop their teams
Managers who rely on creative solutions and self-responsibility from their employees
Teachers and people in caregiving professions for building trust and connection
Psychotherapists and professionals from therapeutic fields as client support
Changemakers who consider coaching as a profession forwardly
Anyone who wants to cultivate trust and honesty in their relationships
date & time
26. + 27. April 2025
start: 9:00 / end: 18:00
location (read more further down)
BusinessByHeart
Vissemosevej 14
4673 Rødvig Stevns, Denmark
financial contribution
early bird (until 16th of March): € 380,-/ DKK 2.800
full price: € 420,- / DKK 3.150
Workshop content:
Encouraging questions: Develop the ability to ask questions that influence conversations and open new perspectives and paths.
Framing the dialogue: Learn how to structure a coaching session to make sure you follow the client’s agenda and tie all loose ends.
Your transformation as a catalyst: Experience yourself as a catalyst for change of outdated patterns.
Your mindset as a coach: Cultivate an attitude and a way of being present that helps others build a life based on their values.
And much more.
What to expect:
The core principles and assumptions of Needs-Based Coaching
Practice and exercises in small groups to experiment with the inputs
Live demo coaching sessions
Time for reflection in individual settings and in plenary
A space of trust and respect for everybody’s experience and boundaries
Organic, partly home-grown vegetarian snacks and lunches
Easy-to-understand English with the option of translation of core concepts to Danish and German on request
Your facilitator
Pernille Plantener
She is a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication, coach at PCC level, seasoned coach educator, Resonant Healing Practitioner, eco-therapist, and workshop organizer. She founded BusinessByHeart in 2013 and the Needs-Based Coaching Institute in 2020.
Originally trained in organic farming and agricultural engineering, she has been part of the organic agriculture movement since the 1980’ies. She was born and lives in Denmark, now in a women’s community with livestock, permaculture demonstrations, and workshop activities. Part of her personal story is about leaving the prisons of an eating disorder and an abusive marriage. Today, she loves deepening her relationships with her wife, adult children, and grandchildren.
organisation & assistance
Anja Perl
Anja is a Needs-Based Coaching graduate, an eco-therapist and a Nonviolent Communication practitioner. Additionally to seeing clients and offering workshops on Nature and Self, she is a committed permaculturist.
Originally from Germany, she has been living in Denmark for a few decades. She used to work with innovators in the tech and animation fields, now offering her artistic and creative skills in organizing events and supporting people through coaching.
Contact: acperl@yahoo.com
The venue
The Fruit Storage
In former times, the seminar room was used for fruit storage from the orchard right outside the door. Especially sour cherries, but also pears and apples were grown and harvested here and offered an alive, active workplace for generations.
Today, pastures and wild nature have replaced the intensively driven fruit fields, and a co-housing project of four grandmothers is tending the land and the buildings. You will find fruit trees, a vegetable garden for self-sufficiency, and livestock. Enjoy the sheep with lambs, horses, chickens, a cat, and a dog on the premises, designed and maintained with inspiration from the permaculture principles.
Enjoy a silent walk under the blooming cherry trees during the breaks, or listen to the rich birdlife and the singing creek near the seminar room.
Where to stay?
Bed and breakfast is available in the village Havnelev at walking distance.
Rødvig Ferieby offers double rooms or cabins with 2-3 bedrooms, 3 km from the venue.
If you prefer, you can pitch a tent or reserve a mattress in the shelter for the workshop days in the natural surroundings by the venue. A separate bathroom is available for our campers.
How to get here
Arrive by car: Insert Vissemosevej 14, 4673 Rødvig Stevns in your GPS and enjoy the trip through rural Denmark.
Or enjoy public transportation from Copenhagen by train to Køge Station and, from there, the local train to Rødvig, 5 km from the venue. You can either catch a Donkey Republic bike for hire or ask us to pick you up.
Stevns is known for its rich soil and agricultural dominance in the landscape. This has to do with the high percentage of clay and chalk in the soil, chalk that you can see by the coast where the white cliffs, Stevns Klint, are visible. Stevns Klint is a Unesco World Heritage Center for its archeological history. This is the best place in the world to find evidence for the end of the dinosaur era, caused by the meteor that hit the Earth in the Mexican Gulf 65 million years ago.
Only 9 km from the venue, you’ll find Stevns Klint and Stevns Klint Experience, a modern exhibition center that tells the story of the dinosaurs’ extinction.
