Expat Mentoring Meets Outdoor Coaching 🌍⛰️

Over the past two days, I had the privilege of mentoring and coaching a young gentleman, Nikolas, as he prepares his strategy and project to return and settle permanently in the magical land of Aotearoa — New Zealand. 🇳🇿

With a beautifully atypical profile, his ambition is to give back to his adoptive country by becoming a ranger for the Department of Conservation (DOC).

Together, while hiking, playing, navigating a via ferrata, and discovering a local alternative coffee shop, we explored some of the core themes of my participative research project:

✨ Why do you travel?

✨ What drives you to invest your time and energy into a country that isn’t the one you were born in?

✨ Why New Zealand?

✨ What has your life journey taught you so far?

✨ What do you need to secure permanent residency?

✨ What could hold you back?

…and many more deep, open questions.

In return, I’m deeply grateful for his generous feedback on my website and the insights he brought into my ongoing research : a true exchange of perspectives and energies.