Coaching

We support leaders and changemakers in embodying new ways of being so that they can navigate their work/life in more competent, intentional, and creative ways.

Why coaching?

• Are you seeking greater alignment between who you are and what you do?

• Do you feel distracted and unfocused, and lack clarity about your priorities and the choices that come your way?

• Are you seeking to cultivate more mindfulness and intentionality in your life?

• Do you feel stuck or creatively blocked and don’t know why?

• Are you questioning whether you’re on the right path?

• Are you seeing an opportunity emerging that feels out of your comfort zone?

• Do you want more out of life and your work?

Coaching is a partnership between you and your coach to create new possibilities, perspectives and insights, and a path forward in your life. Many coaching approaches solely focus on helping clients accomplish goals and develop new competencies. Integral coaching goes a level deeper to cultivate long-term excellence and the ability to be self-correcting and self-generating. It is integral because it includes everything about you and your world, both what you are aware of and your potential.

As an integral coach, I can support you in embodying new ways of being so that you can navigate and respond to your work/life with more creativity, intentionality, and resilience. We will address your coaching topic systemically to help you more fully tap into the intelligence of your head, heart, and body and shift how you relate to yourself, others, and the world. In the process, I can help you understand your strengths, gain greater clarity around your values and purpose, and address blind spots and self-limiting influences and beliefs.

We will work together through a highly personalized coaching program, unique to you and your needs. The program will include self-reflections, practices, exercises, reading, and other useful resources to embody new ways of being and get you to the outcomes you desire.

I am committed to you staying aligned with your intentions, creating new possibilities in your life, and having the resources and support necessary to keep unfolding long after our engagement is complete.

Testimonials

“Something I needed help with is the “inner critic” – there is a voice inside me that is constantly tearing me down with a vengeance. From the very beginning, even before she was aware of how severe my inner critic is, Sarah-Marie approached me as though the meanness of the inner critic isn’t true. That was a big deal for me.

Sarah-Marie has clearly done the work herself. She consistently had a strategy to deal with specific difficulties I would bring up – from keeping my inner critic at bay or dealing with anxiety and stress. I was very impressed with her very large bag of strategies and how easily she could present a strategy to deal with a particular difficulty I was having. Sarah-Marie is insistent on kindness to the self. Insistent.

For me, [the coaching process] felt like working on building a foundation for practicing kindness to myself, esteem, and self-care. I use the word foundation, because I see that as the basis for being able to achieve other, more concrete goals (maturing as a person, getting a more satisfying job, etc).

Sarah-Marie telling me at the beginning that she saw me as “whole” was pretty huge. Sarah-Marie also taught a practice of self-compassion that felt helpful and healing. Finally, talking out a decision I made years ago that I deeply regret and that is still painful for me helped me see another piece of the situation I didn’t see before, which in turn eased up my anger at myself a bit – which is a big deal.

The work is appropriate for anyone. Sarah-Marie’s approach didn’t preclude certain types of people from participating and benefiting from it. She really drives at the humanity in us all, so any human would benefit from this work.” - Corie, international development, Washington, DC

“This integral coaching experience has been an incredible source of support for me through my time in transitioning into a new career. It's a struggle for everyone and between dealing with the sense of grief and ambiguity, Sarah-Marie has been able to help me have numerous revelations that have helped me learn more about myself and help transform my perspectives with optimism and wisdom that ultimately continue to get me through some hard times. I would recommend coaching with Sarah-Marie whole heartedly for anyone looking for a coaching experience that is intimately personal, rejuvenating, and supportive on their journey in thriving.” - Girolama Bui, Design for Food, IDEO, San Francisco, CA

“In a time when I felt surrounded with tumult and darkness closing in on me from so many places — work, close relationships, the state of the world and the current social and political realities of our times — Sarah-Marie helped me find, protect and nurture my inner light.

Our times together were gifts of pause, reflection and spaciousness. So much of my energy and attention is spent on doing-ness for others, I have often felt extremely depleted. Working with Sarah-Marie I was able to prioritize being-ness, carving out precious space for myself to just be — to breathe, feel, plant wild seeds, let new growth emerge within that quiet and sheltered space. Through our work together I was able to hear a deeper calling and begin to turn toward it.” - Katrina Mitchell, Co-Founder & Design Director, Picture Impact, Minneapolis, MN

“I cannot sing Sarah-Marie’s praises enough. Working with her during this challenging time in my professional journey has been so incredibly rewarding - more than I could have anticipated. I connected with her through the recommendation of a close friend and without the knowledge of what integral coaching was. I was drawn to this new experience not only to further my self growth, a constant intention of mine, but also to learn and incorporate more mindfulness practices into my life. I approached this integral coaching program with an open mind and heart and Sarah-Marie reciprocated the same. She brought a grounded and calming energy and listened without judgment. I recommend Sarah-Marie’s coaching program for anyone looking to take a deeper dive at a holistic view of their life and willing to put in the work.” - Lindsay P., Refugee Officer, Washington DC 

“Working with Sarah-Marie is very rewarding - she has an ability to pull out thoughts and strategies from your own reasoning that you might not have realised yourself. She supported me in sourcing a newfound focus in my day to day work and improving my team interactions.”  - Cameron, CEO of Senior Care Startup, San Francisco, CA 

I’m a Certified Integral Coach® through New Ventures West and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Integral coaching is an ongoing, evolving methodology which draws on integral theory, pragmatism, ontology, linguistics, biology and neuroscience, adult learning theory, and Eastern wisdom.

I’m a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with world-renowned mindfulness teachers Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. The program is certified by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and the Awareness Training Institute. I’m also a Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Professional Level (CMT-P) through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. I integrate mindfulness and compassion-based practices into my coaching practice.