TRAININGS & CREDENTIALS

  • Certified Nature-Connected Life Coach (NCC) - Earth-Based Institute

  • Associate Certified Coach Credential (ACC) - International Coaching Federation

  • Wilderness First Responder - NOLS

  • Advanced Trainings in Partswork Facilitation - Earth-Based Institute & Internal Family Systems Therapy

  • Somatic & Attachment Approaches to Working with Trauma - Peter Levine, Diane Poole-Heller, Bessel van der Kolk

  • SomaSource Rites of Passage Training - Melissa Michaels

  • Certified Colorado Native Plants Master & Master Gardener - Colorado State University Extension

  • BFA Art & Photography - Colorado State University

 
 

Mandy Bishop is a ritual artist, folk herbalist, ceremonialist, and a nature-based guide. Her work with folks combines trauma-informed land-based connection to self and the greater mystery through ceremony, ancestral skills, powerful questioning, deep listening and creative expression in order to meet clients where they are, and guide them towards the remembrance of their unique truth.

Mandy is a professional Nature-Connected Coach (certified through Earth-Based Institute, an accredited institution in Boulder, CO) and holding her Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coaching Federation (the ethical and regulatory body for life coaching). She holds over 350 hours of in-depth training in neuroscience and brain change, internal Partswork facilitation, Gestalt therapy principles, working with trauma and strong emotions, and working with grief and loss. She has advanced training in working somatically with trauma through ongoing trainings with Dr. Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk, as well as continued trainings in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Partswork facilitation.

Additionally, Mandy has trained in body-based rites of passage with Dr. Melissa Michaels, as well as integrating her own lived experience with ceremony, rites of passage, and healing from severe trauma. She has been professionally guiding since 2018 and holds over 1,500 hours of experience working individually with clients.