Private coaching
A one-to-one space for what you want to create.
Private coaching gives you room to focus on what is happening in your life, decide what you want, and receive training and feedback tailored to you.
Explore working together
Individual attention
Work with what is happening in your life.
A course gives you a sequence of teachings and practices to work through. Private coaching begins with you—what you want to create, what you are navigating, and where individual attention may help.
Together, we look closely at what is happening, identify what would help, and develop practices for the situations you want to approach differently. As you use them in your life, we learn from what happens and adjust the training.
What we can work with
Bring what is asking for your attention.
You may be facing a decision, preparing for a difficult conversation, reacting in ways you want to understand, or trying to follow through on something important to you.
You may also be doing well—and want support creating something new, stepping into a larger responsibility, or approaching part of your life differently.
We begin there. Together, we decide what would be useful to see, practice, and train.
The process
We work from your life—not a fixed curriculum.
01
Begin with what you want
We clarify what you want to change, experience, or create—and where that matters in your life.
02
See what is happening
We look at what is shaping the way you think, feel, and act when the relevant situations arise.
03
Train what would help
We choose practices that help you access the thoughts and emotional states that support what you want.
04
Use it and learn
You bring the training into your life. We look at what happened, learn from it, and decide what to practice next.
The coaching container
Time to practice between sessions.
Coaching usually begins with a three-month engagement. Sessions are generally held every other week, leaving time to practice, apply what we are working with, and learn from what happens between sessions.
You will receive practices tailored to our work together, along with brief email or voice-message support for questions that arise as you use them.
After the initial engagement, we can decide whether continuing together would be useful.
Working with Mike
Attention, honesty, and training tailored to you.
I create space for you to slow down, notice what is happening, and say what may be difficult to put into words.
I may ask questions you have not considered, offer another way of seeing the situation, or help you turn what you discover into something you can practice.
The work can be quiet and spacious. It can also be direct. We use what serves the work in front of us.
For nearly 30 years, I have trained in Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and Qigong. I also bring experience from psychology, technology management, consulting, and nearly two decades of teaching at my martial and healing arts studio.
Courses and coaching
Different ways to work with the same underlying principles.
The Inner Foundation Method and The Relational Key offer structured training you can work through at your own pace.
Private coaching gives you individual attention, practices, and feedback based on what you bring to each session.
The courses do not require coaching, and private coaching does not require taking a course. If you are doing both, we can work with questions and situations that arise as you use the course practices in your life.
In their own words
What clients say about Mike
“Mike is also an awesome listener, and does a really great job of creating a safe and engaging space where you can share freely and feel heard. My time with him has been very well spent.”
Chris P.
“Mike’s genuine empathy and coaching skills helped me to open up and gain clarity about what it is I truly wanted in a career. As a result of working together, I made the decision to step away from a 20+ year career that was not fulfilling for me, and to pursue a career that I had been thinking about for many years.”
Julia W.
“Mike has a knack for bringing out what's already in you, and reflecting that back by skillful means, and in doing helped me to see my true potential.”
Ian P.
The next step
Tell me what brings you to coaching.
If you are interested in working together, begin by sharing what you want to work on and what you hope coaching could help you change or create.
I review each response personally. If it seems like we may work well together, I’ll reach out with a link to schedule a free consultation.
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