Coaching, Spiritual Counselling & Mentoring

I have been working with people 1-2-1 in various modalities including Spiritual Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring for 20 years. I love working with people in this way with the opportunity to shape the work to whatever is needed to help you learn, grow, heal and flourish.

Photo by Ursula Grunfeld

Photo by Ursula Grunfeld

My background includes executive coaching and spiritual counselling, but also embodiment (working with the body), creative approaches from theatre and the arts, constellations work, appreciative and solutions-focused methods, meditation and the martial arts, as well as more traditional cognitive and philosophical perspectives. I think this breadth of exploration, along with my depth of practice as a facilitator makes me a genuinely uncommon practitioner to work with.

“Francis is a wonderful coach - empathetic, intuitive and an amazing listener. He was able to help me ask the right questions about work / life / purpose and start to take concrete steps in the right direction. He has a reassuring manner and style and a diverse set of tools to suit the situation. He found the right materials and resources to help move me along in my process - things that suited my nature and character - literature, art, even cartoons! Highly recommended!” - Iké Gbadegesin Adeyemi

If you’d like to work with me as a coach, spiritual counsellor, or mentor (for other helping professionals) then please…

I have limited availability but I’d love to hear from you and I do have some spaces at the moment.


Coaching with me can help you:

  • Cultivate your own wisdom

  • Focus and make progress in creating work you love

  • Develop a particular way of being

  • Navigate a significant life transition

  • Move beyond something that is blocking your capacity to thrive

  • Have a sounding board for making sense of life and expanding your awareness and thinking

  • Explore new ways of seeing the world

  • Find greater ‘grace under fire’ and build resilience

 

Spiritual Counselling with me can help you:

  • Find or strengthen your sense of purpose in the world

  • Cultivate your sense of spiritual connection

  • Weave meaningful rituals into your day-to-day life

  • Have a nurturing healing space to process difficult experiences

  • Find meaning in the mess and chaos of life

  • Build greater presence, non-attachment and faith

  • Shape and embed practices like mindfulness and gratitude for your spiritual wellbeing


There is a degree of crossover in these two disciplines and if you work with me it is not really about one or the other, but they do come from different traditions and enable me to bring a breadth of perspective to our work. I can ‘meet you’ wherever you are in your life so we can work creatively together to find greater joy, grace, wisdom and vitality.




Mentoring with me can help you:

  • Develop your skill, sophistication, depth and range as a helping professional or change-maker (facilitator, coach, consultant etc.)

  • Reflect on your practice and craft a bespoke programme of development to evolve your practice

  • Deepen your personal capacity and quality of presence in your work helping others

  • Learn how to safely and skillfully integrate embodied and spiritual perspectives into a more conventional body of coaching, facilitation, or consulting work

  • Gracefully navigate an evolution, transition, or change in your professional life




More on my qualifications and experience:

  • Over 20 years working with people 1-2-1 in a healing and coaching context

  • Over 15 years in organisational and leadership coaching ranging from graduates to global executives

  • Training and mentoring other facilitators and coaches Internationally

  • Diploma in Executive Coaching and International Coach Federation (ICF) Accredited

  • Trained and ordained Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Counsellor

  • Certified Embodied Change Facilitator and Coach

  • Shi Kon Basic Certificate in Tai Chi Coaching (Advanced training in progress)

  • Foundation Certificate in Appreciative Inquiry

  • Foundation in Systemic Constellations in Coaching

  • Trained in using a number of psychological profiling tools including: PMAI archetype profiling and personal branding diagnostic; and PSI Global Emotional Intelligence Profile

  • Trained in Hawai’ian Temple-Style Massage

  • 4 years study in Shamanic Healing Practice

  • 3rd Dan black belt martial artist

  • BA (Hons) Degree from one of the UK’s top drama schools’

  • Deep practice in various other developmental modalities, including Alexander Technique, 5 Rhythms Dance, Chi Gung and standing meditation, Spiral Dynamics, Dialogue and aspects of Integral Theory

  • Published in professional publications and resources as well as having written a number of books on personal and spiritual development