My Coaching Philosophy: How I help you achieve courageous, lasting change

The way I work is grounded in a clear philosophy: to support you in becoming braver, more confident, and fulfilled, by guiding sustainable, transformational change from the inside out.

If you’re ready to speak up more, stop doubting yourself, and take your career or life to the next level, this is the empowering foundation you’ll be standing on.

What Guides My Coaching?

I combine the best of positive psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness evolution to help you shift your inner world, and as a result, your outer world.

My approach draws from:

  • Cognitive behavioural sciences
  •  Self-actualising psychologies
  • Social neuroscience and neuroplasticity

… and methodologies like Meta Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Neuro-Semantics.

These are tried and tested, scientifically informed systems for personal and professional development, and I continue to deepen my training, supervision, and professional development regularly to ensure you get the highest standard of coaching.

Thought Leaders who inspire my work

I’m continually inspired by thought leaders who explore how humans grow, lead, and evolve. These include:

Thus I offer interventions at all levels of change, by offering Behavioural, Developmental and mostly Transformational Coaching.

  • Brené Brown – on courage and vulnerability
  • Paul Myburgh – on indigenous wisdom
  • David Rock – on brain-based coaching
  • Dr Bruce Lipton – on the biology of belief
  • Heidi Grant Halvorson – on motivation and mindsets
  • Jeff Brown – on authentic emotional healing
  • Rudolph Steiner – on spiritual science

Their ideas (and many others) shape my own evolving coaching process.

What this means for you

With this foundation, our coaching journey together is:

  • Positive –  We focus on solutions, strengths, and possibilities
  • Generative –  We create new strategies for thinking, acting, and being
  • Results-based –  You’ll move forward with clarity, direction, and measurable progress.

As your Courage Coach, I believe:

  • You are the expert in your life
  • I bring the expertise to help you access your potential
  • We co-create the process together, at your pace, on your terms.

What it’s like to work with me

You’ll be asked questions you’ve never been asked before.
You’ll discover insights about yourself that change the way you think and show up.
You’ll find and create your own answers, so that you truly own your growth.

I’m not here to tell you what to do. I’m here to be your thinking partner, mirror, and navigator, reflecting your blind spots, challenging your patterns, and celebrating your progress.

Why my coaching works: Sustainable Change

My goal is to coach myself out of a job.

You’ll develop the tools and self-awareness to coach yourself and make courageous decisions even after our work together ends. This is about empowering you, not creating dependence.

Using a structured and experiential process, you’ll gain:

  • A clear map of the coaching journey
  • Defined benchmarks to track progress
  • Measurable outcomes to celebrate your results
  • The ability to reflect, realign, and keep growing

Inside-Out Approach: you already have what you need

You don’t need to “fix” yourself. You need to access the strengths already inside you.

Through our work together, you’ll:

  • Discover the resources you already have
  • Learn how to use them wisely
  • Build emotional resilience and social intelligence
  • Gain practical tools to handle difficult conversations, challenges, and career pivots

When you begin from where you are (with what’s in your reach) you’ll unlock your potential to lead a more courageous, confident, and meaningful life.

Here’s to your Transformation

This is your journey. And I’ll walk beside you, reflecting your power back to you, guiding your growth, and reminding you that you’ve got what it takes.

Here’s to your bold and beautiful evolution,
Telana