Deep Coaching
Therapy, coaching or mindfulness? Each helps, and each has its limits on its own. I bring the three together, with the body, nature and the group as part of the work.
Three paths that belong together
Most people who come to me have already tried one of them. Many have quietly been combining them on their own.
Therapy reaches the roots of our patterns but can take years. Coaching moves fast but can stay on the surface of behaviour. Mindfulness brings presence, and can also become a gentle way of avoiding what hurts. Deep Coaching uses each where it is strongest: the depth of therapy, the focus and accountability of coaching, and the steadiness of contemplative practice.
- See
- A leadership assessment makes a pattern visible, for example a strong need for control.
- Meet
- With Internal Family Systems we meet the part of you that controls, and learn what it protects.
- Settle
- Mindfulness and somatic practice help you notice the pattern as it arises, and stay steady.
- Try
- Small, concrete experiments in your week carry the change into how you lead and live.
The tools I work with
I don't apply them one after the other. I choose what serves the person and the moment.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Sees the mind as a family of parts around a core Self. Protective parts can let go of old roles, and wounded parts can heal, once Self leads with curiosity and compassion.
IFS for couples (IFIO)
Intimacy from the Inside Out brings IFS into relationships, so partners can speak for their parts instead of from them.
NARM
The NeuroAffective Relational Model works with developmental and relational trauma in the present, without re-living the past.
Ontological coaching
Works with language, emotion and body as the three ways we observe the world, and so the ways we can change how we act.
Leadership Circle Profile
A 360° assessment that maps creative leadership competencies against reactive tendencies, and makes patterns concrete.
Somatic & energy work
Breath, movement and body awareness to regulate the nervous system and let change land in the body, not only in the head.
Systemic constellations
Representatives make a whole system visible: a family, a team or a company, and the hidden loyalties and imbalances within it.
Social Presencing Theatre
Embodied practices from the Presencing Institute and Theory U to sense what a system needs and what wants to emerge.
Collective trauma work
Holding group spaces, in the tradition of the Pocket Project, where shared wounds of history and culture can be met and integrated.
Nature, ritual & meditation
Time on the mountain, silence, fire and water, and contemplative practice as a resource and a teacher.
Body, nature, ritual and the power of being witnessed
In retreats I take inner work beyond the therapy room. Breathwork, touch and movement help people find their parts in the body. Rituals in nature, such as offering an old burden to water or fire, give healing a form you can feel. And being witnessed by a group helps the parts of us that have felt alone the longest. Living together for a few days builds a sense of belonging that carries the work.
Start with a conversation
Tell me a little about yourself and what you are working on. We'll find out together whether Deep Coaching is right for you.