Our guest today is Gabriel DeRita

Gabe is a personal development coach & facilitator helping mission-driven humans live in alignment with their purpose. He left his tech job to travel the world by bike, and in the process found his calling in coaching. Gabe's favorite coaching approach is experiential learning, and he incorporates practices of play and exploration into the process of personal discovery with his clients.

Whether in the forest or in a zoom room, he believes curiosity and joy are the keys to transformation. His approach to personal growth is rooted in neuroscience-based CoActive coaching techniques and Authentic Relating, with a heaping spoonful of Japanese philosophy on top. He is passionate about foraging wild mushrooms, riding bikes, and the transformative power of psychedelics.

You can learn more about his work and connect with him on his website at www.effectiveconnection.com and on Instagram @funngabe. His next big project is a 10-day in-person retreat in Guatemala called the Human Mycelium Retreat. Inspired by Fungi, nature's great connectors, we will learn the powerful practices of Authentic Relating to strengthen connection and relationship so we can be leaders in our human ecosystems of community. Learn more at www.fungiacademy.com/human-mycelium-retreat/

During this interview, we talk about...

• What Gabe's coaching practice is like?

• The Five Practices of Authentic Relating

• Gabe’s incredible “heroes journey” to becoming a Coach. 

• Why coaching is important?

• How we are in the early days of coaching becoming more integrated into society.

• Gabe’s “Human Mycelium Retreat” and other experiential coaching offerings

• The humbling realization of realizing all of the things that you don't know.

• Gabe’s pro tips on how to identify mushrooms and the importance of building a coaching business around something you are authentically excited about. "Find something you love and give it away."

• Gabe asks the four magic words for connection, “Can we slow down?”