“The World is Made of Atoms, Created by Stories & Defined by Action”
Generative Change at the Confluence of Nature, Psyche & Culture
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Generative Coaching
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Events
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Consultancy & Facilitation
For over twenty-eight years I've lived and worked alongside individuals, organisations and communities, supporting them as they meet and navigate moments of significant change and transition.
The initial task is to help my clients discern the nature of life’s archetypal thresholds. which often arrive cloaked in the anxiety and overwhelm of uncertainty. Yet, if we gather our courage and stand our ground, we find these thresholds also contain life’s larger invitations - to learn, grow and create beyond the initial confusion, inconvenience, and discomfort. If we embracing this call to live from a deeper, more authentic place, we embark on a journey, one that leads to a life increasingly grounded in meaning, purpose, and fulfilment.
We harness the emergent insight and wisdom, discern what’s important, and what’s perhaps outgrown, then set about stewarding the good stuff in service to their personal, professional, and social intentions and outcomes - with some focus and dicipline their relationships, businesses, vocations, and the communities they touch begin to transform.
Since 1997, my private practice continues to be the primary container for this work—integrating executive and personal development coaching, somatic psychotherapy, and depth psychology, whilst also teaching, consulting and facilitating culture-change initiatives with values-driven organisations and communities.
Each year I guide The WildMind Deep Nature Immersion - bringing all my skills and experience together, I facilitate this intimate transformational wilderness retreat where participants learn to attune to the elemental wisdom of the natural world. This event complements the rites of passage and peer mentoring project I founded - The Helios Fellowship - a vehicle to support men and adolescent boys on their journey to embody an authentic, generative presence in their communities and the world - an initiative I've invested in since 2007.
The understanding that human consciousness is a living system that thrives on relationship and renewal—an emergent expression of nature's inherent intelligence—informs everything I do. My professional studies are adjacent to extensive travel and vocational studies across diverse disciplines, modalities and wisdom traditions, allowing me to meet each client and community group with the tools, insights, and stories suited to their specific needs, and tailored in service to the healing, growth, and development they seek.
Whether arriving ready to explore the next steps, or having been unexpectedly thrust into the unknown, I meet my clients where they are. Working in the present, honouring the past, and cultivating the courage, clarity, and creativity to move forward. We learn to awaken and embody their authentic vision and the inner resources necessary to realise it. Carrying the skills of transformation - each in their own way, my clients are empowered far into the future,
As a coach he is invaluable to me, by creating a space where alternative options arise and the energy of stuck patterns can be shifted. It's subtle, it feels like just chatting it over with your mate, but the impact is profound.
I had a series of generative coaching sessions with him, which were transformative. Unlike other therapists I've worked with, he went above and beyond to get to know my journey, including sending emails between sessions to provoke reflection and preparation. This helped keep me on track, especially as I published my first book, deepening the experience for me.
It led to me evaluating what was good for me in my life, whereas before I had always put other people first, I set boundaries with those close to me and beat the many things I clung to escape being fully present to myself.
The Deep Nature Immersion was a powerful and meaningful experience. A gifted facilitator, Paul is in touch with the mysteries of existence but also grounded, able to effectively blend spirituality with a no-bullshit attitude.
Paul’s knowledge and insight into the archetypal and mythic energies shaping modern men coupled with his eloquence, and his skill as a teacher and guide, built many layers of awareness and insight and taught me skills I still draw upon today.
I felt a sense of profound, deep calm, and full presence, but didn’t feel I was in a trance state. Since then, I feel myself almost molecularly re-arranged. My thought patterns and processes are different and more spacious. I feel at ease and contented, expansive, more sustained.
After our work together, I found myself motivated to carry my projects forward with a deep sense of trust in myself and the creative nature of the unfolding process.
There is something of Paul’s presence in these moments that makes that precarious terrain feel safe, that speaks to the spirit of compassion, wisdom, humour and love, and which emboldens the desire of my soul to take a stand and awaken to the immensity of life.
It helped me to reassess my career, think hard about what I wanted to do and, ultimately, has led me to become a Coach myself.
Paul’s incredibly patient and accurate input however broke through these decade-old layers and somehow revealed me to myself.
I wish to be able to achieve the same effect on my clients as your workshop / you had on me. I feel truly inspired and reassured. And that’s precious as it keeps me focused on my path.
I count Paul among the few people in my life who have touched me at such a deep level and am hugely grateful for the work we have done together. Life changing.
Paul used a range of tools and techniques to bring new perspectives to the process. I also appreciated the opportunity to work outside and indoors and found it personalised to what I needed on the day/the stage I was at/what was emerging.
I was encouraged to explore my outcomes in a gentle, structured way, always at my own pace.
Paul taught me how to love the parts of myself that I had hated so passionately. He held me mentally, emotionally and spiritually on my journey as I healed each wound one by one.
Paul is very quick to the point and is not afraid to challenge me and open my eyes to a different perspective.
Paul listened to me, I mean REALLY listened. I think it was the first time I had ever experienced that in my life and something shifted. I glimpsed potential for a different life.
The Wild River Chronicles
When you seek to negotiate change within the context of a traditional culture, you're asking people to change their identity to some degree...any conversation that wanders into that territory is likely going to be challenging.
“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” William Carlos Williams.
As a result, my work has opened new dimensions of possibility. I now have the tried and tested skills and insight that enable me to form new, unusual and therefore powerful alliances, beyond any I previously imagined, which leaves me with a sense of optimism and adventure toward the future.