A Presence-Centered Approach to Coaching
Presence is your inner resource for navigating complexity—
whether you’re leading a team, growing a business, creating something new, or exploring life’s deeper questions.
Coaching offers a supportive, non-judgmental space to include your whole experience—thinking, feeling, and sensing—and to access qualities like calm, clarity, courage, compassion, and creativity.
Through this work, you’ll meet challenges with grounded wisdom and discover a natural confidence in being your authentic self—connecting with others through leadership, work, and life.
What Becomes Possible
When we learn to meet life from Presence, new possibilities open:
Live with a deeper sense of integrity, creativity, and authenticity.
Cultivate emotional and relational intelligence.
Meet difficult thoughts, emotions, and sensations with curiosity and care.
Find clarity for navigating stuck places, tough decisions, and complex challenges.
Calm your nervous system and create conditions for restoration and resilience.
You don’t need any prior experience with coaching or meditation to experience these benefits—just curiosity and a willingness to explore.
Clients describe this work as grounded, clarifying, and quietly transformative.
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Joe’s coaching has supported me in a way I have seldom experienced. I can bring whatever is current into the conversation, and he meets it with such grounded presence that the shame or consternation I felt before talking with him dissolves. I left each session with renewed clarity and a sense of release from the weight I carried in.
— Nikky O., Coach -
My sessions with Joe proved extraordinarily useful. I entered our relationship with a tangle of unnamed problems and emerged with a clear sense of what problems I wanted to solve, some tools to help tackle the problems, and, most importantly, a new way of thinking about how I showed up in the world.
— Bryan Y., Team Leader
Aletheia
Welcoming What’s Here
This Presence-centered approach is grounded in Aletheia Integral Unfoldment—a gentle, developmental path that welcomes what’s here and invites transformation through awareness and embodiment.
Most approaches to personal growth assume something is wrong that needs fixing. Aletheia asks a different question: What if nothing is missing?
Our work creates the conditions for you to uncover Presence—your natural resourcefulness, creativity, and wisdom.
The secret of this work is simple and powerful: letting go of the need to change. When we welcome what’s here, space opens for something new to emerge. Growth and transformation begin to feel almost effortless—a natural unfolding rooted in self-compassion.
What a Session Feels Like
We start with what's here now—a challenge you're facing, a feeling you can't shake, a pattern that keeps repeating. Rather than rushing to analyze or solve, we slow down and welcome it with genuine curiosity and care.
We might explore parts of you that need to be heard, sense constrictions or energy in the body, or uncover qualities of Presence. You'll learn to deeply embody and live from these qualities.
Over time, you’ll find yourself relating to challenges with more openness and ease—feeling at home in yourself, and better able to navigate life’s complexities with authenticity and wisdom.
Joyful Practice
Your inner fire for practice often accelerates transformation. You’re always practicing something—so together we’ll explore the container you’re playing in. When practice feels meaningful and joyful, something wonderful begins to unfold.
Here are a few ways that coaching with me goes beyond what you may be used to:
A reflection tool to kick off our work.
A co-designed goal that we take seriously and hold lightly—a useful beacon as you unfold.
Encouragement and structure for inquiring into a burning question that’s important in your life.
Meditation and somatic practices that support your goal.
Recommendations for relevant reading, videos, and learning opportunities.
Session notes that can be a springboard for journaling, integration, and further insights.
Email support.
Attuned to Your Purpose
Starting with What Matters
Maybe you know what matters most to you—or maybe you're still discovering it. We'll explore what lights you up, what would make life more wonderful, and where your gifts meet the world's needs. Rather than searching for purpose "out there," we'll sense what's calling to you—and what might be in the way. This work helps you move forward with clarity and confidence.
We’ll begin with a complimentary session to see whether we’re a good fit. From there, we’ll design a developmental goal that serves as a beacon—something to take seriously and hold lightly as you unfold. Our work will be tailored to what matters most to you.
Working Together
If we decide to enter into this extraordinary space together, the coaching relationship begins with a three-month commitment to explore a burning question or developmental focus that can bring meaningful change to your life. We'll typically meet every other week, creating a rhythm that allows time for integration while maintaining momentum.
Ready to Begin?
Contact me to explore how coaching can support what’s unfolding for you.