A Deeper Dive into Inner Work

A deeply restorative and transformational five night retreat for coaches who are ready to go deeper.

Learn to dance with the depths of your psyche, and bring more freedom, flow and aliveness to your work and life.

Bold words. But we mean it. Because we’re living it, every day. The tools, techniques and approaches we will explore together are the exact ones that bring us clarity, comfort, insight and breakthroughs in our own lives. We love this work because we live this work.

We believe that the most powerful things a coach can offer don't come from another qualification. They come from who you are when you're in the room. From being willing to stay present to your own messy humanity in front of someone else doing the same. There is nothing more honest, tender or powerful than that.

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Join us in the peaceful and spacious South of France countryside to learn approaches that will change how you relate to yourself...for good.

Think of a coach you admire

What is it about them that you appreciate?

Perhaps it's the depth of their presence, so you feel seen, comfortable, at ease.

Perhaps there's something about the way they meet whatever emerges; a calm responsiveness, a spaciousness, a capacity to stay present even when things get messy or complex.

Perhaps there's a sparkle in their eye. They seem to have found a way of meeting life that leaves room for joy, curiosity and possibility. Somehow, being around them helps you access more of that in yourself.

(What probably doesn't come to mind first is the number of qualifications they have.)

Put simply, you might say: This coach knows how to be human.

That quality of 'being human' isn't a luck of the draw character trait. It comes from doing the work.

Why this work, now?

We live and work in a world that is feeling increasingly complex, uncertain and demanding.

As coaches, our empathic responsiveness makes us perfect candidates for picking up on and absorbing energies from the field. And our clients are bringing those energies into the coaching room, too: their ambiguity, stuckness, overwhelm, not-knowing.

Increasingly, part of the skillset of the coach will be to map and manage those energies. To be able to ask – and answer – how much of this mine?

We can’t work with what we don’t notice. Yet it is only through having a deep relationship with our-selves that we're able not only to notice, but to map: this is mine. This is the client’s. This is in the system.

As they say, we can't always meet another person's depths if we are unwilling or unable to meet our own. We can’t support them in mapping theirs, if ours remain unexplored.

This is what we'll be exploring on retreat. This subtle and important work. A foundational, human-first approach, offering you a way to underpin your compassionate, open-hearted responsiveness without burning out. (No matter what the world might throw at us.)

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A taste of what to expect:

Archetypes

Learn about the potency of these 'primordial images', choosing which energies will shape and influence your moods and choices.

Active Imagination

Learn techniques for communing more deeply with your unconscious. Creative, playful and always surprising.

Somatics

Movement and breath work supports you in connecting with your body and listening to its messages; the bedrock of inner work.

Dream Work

Your unconscious loves to express itself through dreams. Learn how to translate night missives into waking insights.

Rest & Resourcing

Expect a spacious agenda that allows you time to digest and integrate the learnings around what matters to you.

Self-Care & Agency

Listen to what you need and practice acting on that information. Opting in and opting out as needed.

Teresa Wilson

Teresa is an experienced coach and facilitator who specialises in Compassionate Shadow work, because this combination transformed her own experience - from being hard on herself, to accepting herself with care. She has run several introductory retreats for coach professional development and is thrilled to now offer this deeper dive for coach development.

Emma Pugh

Emma is an experienced team coach, movement teacher and personal trainer. At Steady & Strong, she helps people build strength, balance and bone health, so they can move through life and ageing with confidence. It's work rooted in the belief that our relationship with our body is part of our relationship with our whole self. She's delighted to bring this same spirit of steadiness and self-compassion to the Deep Dive retreat.