What Integral Coaching is
Integral Coaching is coaching for the whole person — not just your goals, but how you see the world, your habits of mind, and your body’s wisdom too. It’s based on Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, which he describes simply as “comprehensive, balanced, inclusive, essential for completeness.”
In practice, that means we won’t just talk about what you want to change, we’ll build custom practices that help you become someone for whom that change is natural.
About me as an integral coach
I’m a Certified Integral Master Coach through Integral Coaching Canada. My own path has been shaped by 23+ years of training with my teachers Qapel and Sensei at Planet Dharma and the Clear Sky Community — meditation, retreats, and deep study that I bring directly into our work together.
I’m in awe of how my Maori ancestors risked the unknown and navigated the night skies to discover Aoteaora, New Zealand. I think of our coaching journey the same way — a kind of wayfinding, hearing the call to new possibility and moving through fear toward it. It can be disorienting. It can also be amazing.
Integrating our many selves is a universal and timeless journey calling us forward. This is the way of Integral Coaching, founded on Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and grounded in the body.
As a certified Integral Master Coach, I’m here to walk with you and guide you to your own wisdom. It’s a journey we take alone, together.
A bit about me:
20 plus years working with conscious businesses including Clear Sky Retreat Centre, Retreat Guru and The Synthesis Institute.
Five years coaching, lived and worked across New Zealand, Paraguay, Japan, India, and Canada.
Intentional Challenges are a framework I use in integral coaching
One tool I use in our work together is the intentional challenge — deliberately trying something you’re not naturally good at, as a way of choosing growth. Two of mine:
Winter cold dips. Cold water teaches me to respond instead of react — I wait for my breath to settle before I get out.
Boxing. Agility, focus, speed — and the reminder to always cover yourself while moving forward.
We might build challenges like these into your own practice, depending on what serves you.
Winter cold dips
What am I learning?
For me, cold dips help me overcome preference mind and I feel amazing after. I wait until the breath settles before I come out, what a great training to respond and not react.
Boxing
What am I learning?
Wow, so much! Agility, focus and speed. Move in, punch from the hips and always cover yourself. Invite friends to share challenges, they might grow and/or discover hidden talents, too.