The Healing Power of Water

About the Author

Lizzi Larbalestier is a PCC Professional Executive Coach, the founder of Going Coastal Blue, and the creator of the Blue Health Coach™ training program - the first professional outdoor coach training program to be accredited and recognized globally by ICF (International Coaching Federation) - with water at its heart. In addition to this she is the designer and co-developer of the IOS Blue Health mobile app. Lizzi has been coastal coaching since 2009, and as an ICF coach Supervisor and Mentor, she is considered a thought leader in the field of nature-connected coaching, promoting and advocating partnering with blue spaces through events, workshops, and as a keynote speaker.  Her 2013 Master of Arts thesis studied ambiguity tolerance, asking how and why some of us are more certainty-reliant than others, exploring the very nature of risk and control and discovering how we can orientate, and navigate during transitional times. Her research was (of course) carried out along the shoreline to invite some lessons from the coast, and her questioning aimed to provoke curiosity regarding the subtle interplay of time, space and energy.  Her work balances internal alignment (regulating the nervous system) and external connection (accessing wisdom from nature) to enable clients to find greater comfort with the analogue world and a more coherent approach to decision making. Lizzi has received a number of awards for both her professional and voluntary activities, including the Global Blue Mind Award in 2018, a Points of Light Award from the UK Prime Minister in 2021 and a Global Animal Action Award from IFAW in 2023. Her experience with behavioural modelling is applied in every aspect of her life and work. She is a systems thinker, passionate about the interconnection of all things and considers her coaching work, animal welfare activities, ocean advocacy, climate activism and circular economy projects to be ALL facets of Blue Health.Lizzi is an advocate of Blue Mind and spends the majority of her free time walking and swimming in a variety of coastal locations around Cornwall with her husband 'JKL' and dog Goose. This book is an invitation to connect and fall in love with water in the many ways it shows up in your life, to experience the healing power of water AND (importantly) to remember to protect these amazing places and spaces.Nikki, aka the BareFoot Photographer, is self-taught and shares the world as she sees it through the lens of her camera, poetry and prose. In our fast-paced, technology-driven lives, where noticing feels like a dying art, Nikki uses photography and the written word to connect both herself and others to the natural environment, encouraging everyone to take a moment to marvel, wonder and notice. She is heavily influenced by natural light, the green and the blue, endeavouring to capture the magic of moments and focusing the senses beyond what is readily visible.Living in Scilly, life is dominated and influenced by nature and the elements, both of which impact and mould what Nikki sees and shares through the lens of her camera.  Dominick's photography career started in student media while he was studying Philosophy at UCL and quickly led to freelance work for national newspapers. In the years that followed, he built up a long list of editorial, commercial and NGO clients. His long-term project The Edge of Two Worlds, documenting the changing lives of a community of Innu in northern Canada, won the Marty Forscher Fellowship Award for Humanistic Photography in 2005, and second place in The Observer Hodge Award in 2004. This work was published internationally and exhibited in the Leica galleries in Frankfurt and Solms, and in the Proud Gallery in London. In 2007, Dominick collaborated with writer Kate Rew on the best-selling book Wild Swim, which was credited with launching an outdoor swimming revival. Dominick wrote and photographed Uncommon Ground, which was published by Guardian Faber in 2015 to wide acclaim - described by George Monbiot as '...an astonishing book of heart-wrenching beauty, which will re-ignite your enchantment with the natural world.'Rosanna Morris has worked in the realm of print for over ten years. She first got excited about relief print at the age of 18 during her foundation diploma at the Bristol School of Art. During the course she took a trip to Paris where she encountered inspiring large-scale street art around the city. Once home, she wanted to make her drawings big and began carving huge life-size woodcuts of British farming and pasted them on abandoned walls around the city.She went on to study Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, where she developed her own unique style, evoking the traditional feel of British Wood Engravings within the aesthetic of contemporary illustration.