contemplative mentoring

“May you be blessed with good friends. May you learn to be a good friend to yourself. May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness. May this change you...”

John O’Donahue

Contemplative mentoring applies a holistic method, prioritizing the mind, body, heart and spirit connection.

It facilitates restoration of presence within the body, calms and concentrates the mind, opens the heart and fosters a connection to the innate facet of our being that embodies love, truth, serenity, and wisdom.

This contemplative approach helps you to cope with stress, anxiety, and discontent, and encourages the organic emergence of a profound awareness within you, a loving intelligence beyond thought alone. By tapping into your body and loving intelligence, you can cultivate greater resilience and inner peace, and experience a deeper sense of fulfillment beyond having your preferences met or your circumstances just right. With increased awareness and resilience, you can relate with more vulnerability, authenticity and attunement to the needs of yourself and those around you.

This is a psycho-spiritual process, which facilitates a heart-centered and embodied journey from within. I will approach you with love, curiosity and encouragement. Using deep listening and powerful questions, we’ll explore your internal landscape, welcoming and befriending all of who you are.

With my guidance, you will practice connecting with the core essence of your being, which provides a rich experience of unconditional love, harmony, joy, and wisdom. With this connection, you will develop the ability to surrender and trust in life, releasing the need for control and embracing compassion and acceptance towards yourself, others, and the world around you.

Transformation goes beyond just changing your surface-level behaviors. We will dig deep, weaving a causal aspect into this process, which identifies and addresses the underlying causes of your challenges, rather than simply treating the symptoms. It highlights that when your nervous system is activated, you often choose thoughts or stories which lead to emotions, which in turn influence your behavior, ultimately determining the outcomes in your life. This method recognizes that we sometimes unconsciously choose and believe negative thoughts that influence our lives in ways we don't want.

Using inquiry-based conversation, growth mindset techniques, contemplative, and embodiment practices, we will work together to identify and question your limiting beliefs. You'll learn to soften and inhabit your body with awareness. In this trauma aware container, you’ll be safely encouraged to feel any discomfort you’ve been unwilling to feel, regulate your nervous system, identify and question habitual thoughts, and somatically process your emotions.

On this journey, you will cultivate a heightened level of self-awareness and embodiment, which will enable you to consciously choose empowering beliefs and behaviors that are aligned with your own unique desires and values. By breaking free from the introjected limitations of familial and cultural conditioning, you will awaken a deep sense self-belief, and empowerment within yourself.

This newfound awareness will support you in accessing your most potent and authentic self, allowing you to feel a deep visceral sense of love and belonging within yourself. From this place, you will create a life that aligns with your deepest core values, experience greater joy and fulfillment, and have a more meaningful impact on the intricate web of life to which you belong.