About me

As a group facilitator, coach and teacher, I am passionate about personal growth and about what we are truly capable of.

So I am all about helping people find out what really lights them up, and helping them get new perspectives on their lives, work, relationships, lifestyles, ambitions, intentions, goals, and what they most want. I ask questions that opens up whole new lines of enquiry, enabling them to see the truth in a situation, and develop new possibilities. I teach people empowering concepts and tools with which to understand themselves better and to make the changes they need. This work helps them gain the insight that empowers them to make great changes in their life, that inspires them to achieve what they really want.

While I work internationally, I live in England in rural Wiltshire, a county of wide open rolling green hills, an area famous for the ancient Celtic stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury, white horses carved in the chalk and huge elaborate crop circles in the summer corn - like this photo.

I’m married to Akasha Lonsdale who is a psychotherapist (MNRHP), an Interfaith Minister and an author. I have two grown-up children.

I have a second home in another rural idyll in South West France. Here's part of the view!

I do yoga and meditation, I run workshops and I read and write. And tend the garden.

The formal bit

I am an accredited member of the Association for Coaching as a coach (see www.associationforcoaching.com) and the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (UKAHPP - see www.ahpp.org) as a group facilitator, and I receive on-going professional supervision. I am an NLP Master Practitioner and am certified in Advanced Neurological Repatterning™ and Advanced Hypnosis. I am a certified Laughter Yoga Teacher. I have trained extensively in Gestalt and other Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies and NLP and I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Metanoia Institute fopr the excellent training in Gestalt Therapy that I received there.

I have also studied siddha yoga with Swami Chidvilasanada.

I have a previous background in education to a senior level, holding a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education and a BA (2:1) from Oxford University.

I am the Managing Director of our company, The Empowering Partnership Ltd, and I am also General Secretary and a director of UKAHPP.

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Note: Coaching and Facilitation services provided by me are not psychotherapy or counselling and are not intended as a substitution for those services. If that is the help you need, I am able to refer you to well-qualified practitioners in those fields.