A B O U T

So much of what we want to create lives only in our minds — softly, privately, sometimes and oftentimes buried under a strong inner critic, or under the belief that it is not possible. Maybe there’s also a subtle embarrassment of saying something out loud because it feels too ‘beyond us’.

Many things conspire to keep our visions unspoken.
In Chapter 1, we make the vision exist.

We get your vision out of your head and into the space between us.

Named and real,
even if vague or imperfect.

We hold it lightly, knowing it will change. But we put the current version of it into the world. This is more powerful than it sounds. The act of articulating your vision out loud, making it exist in a small and safe way...

THIS is where everything begins.

A C T I O N S

Coaching call 1 + Foundations:

Our first call also serves as our Foundations session, where I walk you through how Presence is structured, what to expect, and how to make the most of our four months together. Then we begin:

• A guided process to articulate your vision clearly, specifically, and with space for uncertainty

• Naming any blocks or resistances that arise, without needing to dismantle them yet

• Orienting you to the workbook and the inner work ahead

• Making your vision exist in a small, safe, embodied way, just enough to feel real

Workbook 1: Vision

• 100+ reflective questions across all areas of your life for you to review. This gives both of us a clear picture of where you are and where your attention is most needed

• Guiding questions to clarify and deepen your vision

• A template to track your vision and name your blocks

• Somatic exercises to practise in between your days

• A guide on how to simplify your vision into steps small enough to feel genuinely safe in your body

Coaching call 2

• Reviewing the workbook together and exploring what came up for you

• Further simplifying and clarifying your vision, breaking it into such small steps that even within Month 1, a part of it exists in the world

• Introducing morning practice, calendaring, and dedicated time toward your vision

• Ensuring any first step feels not just intellectually feasible, but embodied and safe

A B O U T

This is the heart of the container. If I had to name the most important chapter in Presence, it would be this one.

The difference between those who just ‘have a dream’ and those who ‘LIVE their dreams’ is this:

How they respond when discomfort arises.

Our bodies crave familiarity and comfort. When we notice discomfort, our instinct is to either shut down or flee. We avoid it, distract ourselves from it, or push through it without really meeting it. But the real change — the path toward the vision you want to create — only becomes available when we can learn to hold the necessary discomfort.

Not push past it.
HOLD IT.

I want to spend an entire month here, intentionally, with you, because I genuinely believe it will change your life. All the answers are right here, in this murky, uncomfortable space that most of us desperately want to get rid of.

Discomfort is not the obstacle.
It is THE opportunity.

What we are most uncomfortable with is often exactly what we need to move through. It is a signal that something important is alive inside you, waiting to be understood.

Discomfort is almost always an indication of an inner conflict that needs our attention. But what makes it extra tricky is this: we usually don't even realise there is a conflict, because we are already ‘siding’ with one part of it. That is where we get stuck.

Think of it like being the adult in the room when two children are arguing. If the adult sides with one of the children, the conflict escalates. But if the adult can HOLD both children with steadiness and curiosity of what’s going on, genuinely trying to understand what each of them needs, the conflict may find a resolution. Being this adult is the quality of presence we are building here - with ourSelves.

We carry many parts within us — competing voices, different needs, layers of experiences. When we become absorbed into one of these parts, we lose perspective. What Presence offers is the capacity to HOLD all of it — to notice, to observe, to listen, to understand — without merging with any one part of it.

You are not removing yourself from what you feel.
You are learning to HOLD the different, sometimes conflicting, parts of you with grace.

By practising this holding, you are building the muscles and capacity to hold necessary discomfort, and the more this becomes instinctive, you will find yourself unstuck in ways you didn't expect.

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Coaching call 3

• An introduction to what a 'felt sense' is and experience tuning into your inner wisdom

• Learning to understand the messages your body is sending you

• An introduction to inner parts: what they are, how they operate, and why they create conflict

• Learning how to hold inner conflict without being drawn into it

• Orienting you to the practices in the workbook

Workbook 2: Presence

• Theory on the psychology of inner parts and how they shape our inner world

• A deepening of your felt sense practice: learning to sit with what arises, listen to it, and understand what it is telling you

• Somatic exercises to return to your body when you find yourself caught in your head

• A presence practice logbook: a place to note when you practised, what inner conflicts arose, what challenged you, and what you noticed

• Introspection guides to help you begin understanding the different parts within you and what each one is trying to protect

Coaching call 4

• Processing what came up for you through the workbook (e.g. what opened, what felt hard)

• Deepening your capacity to hold your inner conflicts

• Fine-tuning how you listen to your body and what it is telling you

• Identifying what you will continue to practise going into the next chapter

A B O U T

Now that you have learnt to hold your inner conflicts with presence, a question naturally arises:

So what?
How does this capacity translate into movement?
What bridges the gap between seeing the conflict and actually taking the next step?

That bridge is self-trust.

In Chapter 3, we go deeper into the parts of you that are hesitating or pulling you away from your vision, not to argue with them or push past them, but to genuinely understand them.

What are they protecting you from?
What do they need from you in order to feel safe enough to let you move forward?

When we hear them fully, they often tell us the next steps.

Self-trust is also built through evidence. A phrase I come back to often:

“I did it, and I didn't die.”

So much of what holds us back is a part of us that believes the consequences of stepping forward will be dire. But when we begin to understand that belief more fully, and when we can start to see uncertainty as possibility rather than threat, it becomes less frightening.

Safety in the body remains our priority. We do not rush past discomfort, but we also do not use it as a reason to stay still.

Self-trust is something of a chicken-and-egg situation:

You need some self-trust to take the first step, but taking the first step is also what builds self-trust, and the more steps we take, the more self-trust gets strengthened.

We get this cycle in motion together.

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Coaching call 5

• A deeper conversation with the parts of you that are hesitating

• Understanding what those parts need from you to feel safe enough to move

• Beginning to reframe uncertainty as possibility and exploring what that feels like in the body

• Orienting you to the self-trust practices and evidence-gathering in the workbook

Workbook 3: Self-trust

• Reflective prompts on the parts of you that are hesitating and what they are asking for

• Frameworks for understanding how we can see risk as opportunity

• An evidence log: a place to notice and record the moments you took a step and “you didn’t die”

• Introspection guides to deepen your relationship with the hesitating parts and to hear what they need

• Somatic practices to support felt safety as you begin moving toward uncertainty

• A template to track the shifts in your self-trust over time

Coaching call 6

• Reviewing what emerged from the workbook: what shifted, what stayed difficult, and we ‘troubleshoot’ together

• Cultivating agency, empowerment, and a growing capacity to see risk as opportunity

• Reviewing the evidence you have gathered of your own courage and capability

• Identifying the next steps that feel both honest and sustainable

A B O U T

You are here because you believe in relationships. You want to make the world a better place, and you think often about what you can give — to your loved ones, to the communities you serve, to the people around you.

And here is what often happens to people like us:

Because we derive so much joy, value, and meaning from giving, we pour and pour without stopping to ask what we are receiving. We forget that every relationship is bidirectional. And then one day, we burn out or start to feel resentful. And we lose the very thing that made the work meaningful.

To sustain the vision, and to THRIVE in the vision, so that you can keep doing what you love for the long haul, we need to understand relationships differently.

We need to see relationships not just as a gift that we pour into the world, but also as a RESOURCE that holds us, supports us, and sustains us.

In Chapter 4, we bring relationships into view through concentric circles. We begin with the ones closest to you (your partner, your family, your dear friends etc.).

What are you pouring into these relationships?
How do these relationships support the work you are doing?
How might they be hindering it?
What attachment patterns have you developed over time, and how do those patterns shape the way you give and receive?

This is where we begin to cultivate healthier, more secure ways of being in relationship: first with yourself, then with your close loved ones.

From there, we extend outward to the communities you are part of and that you serve.

What are you offering them?
And what are you receiving in return?

Here’s where we really pause, because I can already hear some common responses like “we are giving without expecting anything in return”, and that getting something out of it is awkward and selfish. The truth is even in service-oriented relationships, there is something coming back to you. We need to be honest about this, because this is also what makes your giving sustainable.

When we can see and harness the reciprocity in our relationships, they stop being a drain on our vision and start becoming one of its greatest supports.

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Coaching call 7

• Exploring your web of close relationships and how they intersect with your world-building work

• An introduction to attachment styles and how they shape the way you give and receive

• Beginning to examine your relationships through the lens of reciprocity

• Orienting you to the relational work and inquiry in the workbook

Workbook 4: Relationships

• Reflective prompts on your close relationships: how they support or hinder your path, and how to nurture them toward something more mutual

• Theory on attachment styles and adaptive relational strategies

• An exploration of your relationships with the communities you serve: what you are giving and what you are receiving

• Prompts on reciprocity: honest inquiry into both directions of the significant relationships in your life

• An introspection guide on how what you are creating is also a gift to yourself

• An integration exercise: revisiting your original vision and noting what has shifted across four months

• A template to track the evolution of your vision and your relationships over time

Coaching call 8 + Closing

Our final call is where we tie everything together. After moving through vision, presence, self-trust, and your web of relationships, we return to where we began, and

you see your original vision with new eyes.

We name what has shifted.
We identify what makes your work sustainable.
We look at what you need going forward to thrive.

And we close our journey with a clear sense of how your world-building work is, at its heart, a GIFT — to others, and to yourself.