I work with men and women who have the time, the money and the health to do something different with the next thirty years — and haven’t. Twelve weeks, a small group, one morning a week. The work is finding what you can’t see. That’s what’s stopping you.
There’s a folder of saved articles. A course you bought and didn’t start. A conversation you’ve rehearsed in the car and haven’t had. Someone you meant to call. Five years ago it was roughly the same list, with different items on it.
You could live another thirty years exactly like this, and it would look fine from the outside the whole time. That’s the part nobody warns you about. It isn’t that something goes wrong — it’s that nothing does.
You’re not unhappy. That’s part of what makes this hard to name. The career worked, the family worked, the plan you built at thirty did what you asked of it. But you’ve been quietly restless for a while now, and the restlessness doesn’t have an obvious object.
You’ve probably already tried the external fixes — a renovation, a trip, a title change, a new hobby taken up seriously for four months. They helped for a while. They didn’t touch it.
If your obstacle is genuinely circumstantial — you need money, you need a job, you need to leave a marriage — this isn’t the right work for you yet. If you’ve been telling yourself the obstacle is circumstantial and you’re no longer sure that’s true, it probably is.
The Authored Life is a small group programme. Six to eight people, twelve weeks, ninety minutes together each week, online. Between sessions there’s reading and practice, and I’m available to you individually.
It’s coaching, in the sense that it’s structured, time-bound, and aimed at getting you somewhere. It isn’t therapy, and it isn’t a course you watch alone. The group is the point — a room of people at the same threshold, meeting weekly for three months, changes what’s possible in a way that no amount of reading does.
I run these a few times a year, by invitation.
You’ll be able to name what’s actually been stopping you. Specifically, in your own words — not as a general theory about yourself, but as the particular thing that shows up on a Tuesday when you decide not to make the call.
You’ll have moved on something real. Not a plan to move. Moved.
And you’ll have the others in the group, who watched you do it, and who know exactly where you were standing when you started.
I always meant to make my own work as an artist. I thought what stood in the way was time and circumstance. Those changed. I still didn’t create. What was stopping me was internal, and I couldn’t see that. So I went looking, and found a way through. The Authored Life is what I built from that.
I have a Master’s in Adult Education from the University of British Columbia, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and coaching certification through the Co-Active Training Institute, accredited by the International Coaching Federation. I’ve spent more than two decades working with adults inside a university, and thirty years in meditation practice, which is where most of what I know about staying present with difficulty and change actually comes from.
The credential I trust most is this: I’ve stood where you’re standing.
If any of this landed, get in touch. Tell me a little about what’s going on and I’ll reply personally.