MENTORING

Are you looking for support as you navigate life, work and soul in these times of uncertainty and possibility?  Do you know what that might look like? Feel like?

I mentor business and grassroots leaders, movement-makers and healers, creators and entrepreneurs.  With 25+ years at the messy, generative intersection of personal transformation and, and systemic change, I bring eldership, professionalism and an ongoing openness to the unknown. 

Do you want your leadership, artistry, or activism to feel more alive, more easeful, more loving and more disruptive to the status quo?

Clients have described our work together as “profoundly nourishing,” “life-changing,” “disruptive in the best way,” and “a space where the unsaid can finally breathe.”

“Toni has been accompanying me through a major professional transition. The process she brings open a treasure trove of insights I would not have arrived at alone. The spirit of curiosity and genuine openness with which she inquires creates the conditions for powerful learning and unlearning.”

“… she has the skill to zoom in & out, from the personal to planetary & again out to the political. Toni is a true interweaver with a real gift at understanding the wider picture, how our personal wellbeing is deeply entwined with social change, nothing is ever approached in isolation.”

WHO & HOW

  • I work with people across multiple sectors and I work internationally.

    People come to me seeking a depth of presence that enables them to meet their own inquiries and edges, and to open to more resislience, creativity and capacity. Many sense that old maps of inner and outer change are failing and are seeking alternative ways to naviagte these times.

    Are you…

    • in a successful career that no longer feels aligned?

    • wanting to understand what’s blocking your flow?

    • longing to be less alone at the fertile margins of culture change?

    • wanting to strengthen your own muscles of presence, creativity and systemic awareness?

    • at a crossroads and wanting an ally to come in close, listen deep and offer fresh perspectives?

    • part of a project that needs both practical design support + relational intergrity?

    • ready to unlearn old patterns (often rooted in the wider systems of harm woven through modernity) to align even more with your values?

    • not quite sure what you need but you know there’s something there trying to emerge…?

    Recognise yourself here? Let’s explore together in a FREE 20 min call. Or read on to learn more about how I work, themes I bring expertise around and what others have said…

    Clients have included: organisational change consultants - the director of leading resilience training organisation - a renewable energy entrepreneur - csr coaches - an indigenous rights advocate - architects - an ecocide law advocate - a climate change researcher - lecturers - ecopsychologists - grassroots movements builders - a decolonial arts organisation founder - nature connection facilitators.

  • My practice is not “coaching” in the corporate sense, but mentorship. Grounded in embodied presence it often bridges the professional and personal and moves seamlessly between the work of inner and outer change.

    My appraoch is rooted in embodied presence, deep ecology, systemic power analysis and creativity. It draws on action inquiry, many ways of knowing, and decades working across movements, radical (adult) education, and soul-based practic. I work responsively, honouring the context and thresholds each client faces.

    Themes I often work with include:

    • bridging radical and mainstream change practice

    • climate and ecological grief

    • becoming re-connected as part of nature

    • race. whiteness and coloniality

    • the intersection of ‘mental health’ issues, collective trauma and the polycrisis

    • High Sensory Processing (HSP) as blessing and burden

    • transitions and thesholds including menopause

    • exploring power

    • embodiment and human centricity

    • creativity

    I support you to be comfortable in discomfort, while also helping you sensitise to more beauty, connection, and joy. We will meet in the very human, everyday challenges of living in these times, and in the creative cauldron of your practice. This work goes to the places most turn away from: the uncertainty, ambiguity, and heartbreak where transformation lives.

    This work is not for everyone, it can take you places that are hard to stay present with or crack open the ideas and identities you’ve got used to - but it’s the kind of work I’ve most valued and so it’s a pleasure to meet new clients ready to work at depth and with consistency.

PRACTICALS

  • Sessions are one hour. Most take place on Zoom; in-person sessions are sometimes possible on the Dartington Estate, Devon

  • I use an automated booking system, though always available on email too. Once we begin I send further information

  • Longer or group sessions, travel and other variations are possible by arrangement

  • Regular, ongoing work is where transformation deepens, though shorter arcs are possible. Regularity and rhythm is up to you.

Fee

My fees are an experiment in reciprocty, relationship and repair, a sliding scale that invites you to reflect on value, resources, and the kind of economy we want to grow. (See the Relational Economy section below for more, including how you can enable others to access this work.)

Individual rates: sliding scale from £130 to £60 per hour

If you’re self-funding, choose an amount that balances your current income with the value this work holds for you.

Organisational/institutional rate: sliding scale from £150 to £350 per hour

For those supported by workplace/leadership of CPD budgets, public or philthantropic funds, or higher income/asset wealth.

If you are ready to invest in a mentoring relationship that will challenge, nourish, and sustain you, get in touch. Book a FREE 20 min intro chat.

RELATIONAL ECONOMY

  • Money can be one of the trickiest, and most revealing places we meet each other. It carries stories of worth, scarcity, prvilege and care. It’s woven through with systems of inequity, and is also simply a tool to allow generosity to flow! As a place of experimentation, it’s a way to practice our values in action.

    For decades I’ve been exploring this through sliding scales, ‘Dana’, barter, gift economies and different shapes of redistribution. My mentoring fees are part of that ongoing inquiry: designed to make this work available acorss a range of contexts, while also honouring the years of study and inquiry, plus the presence and emotional labour it takes to sustain this practice.

    You may come from a sector where £350 an hour (my organisational fee) seems modest, especially compared with executice coaches charging £1,000+. Or you may be used to community rates of £50 or less. Both reflect how the economic system allocates value, rather than what actually holds value.

    My clients, regardless of sector, aren’t looking for geenric coaching, they want the rogour of systemic thining and naunce I offer, a trustworhty depth of sensory attunement, and the courage to go to places most professional development avoids. How do you price that?! This is where I’ve got to so far…

    Sliding Scales

    Whether you’re self-funding or suported by an organistion, I trust you to choose your place on the scale. Let the decision be an inquiry into how you balance value, resources, and frequency. If you’d like to think it through together, I’m happy to help.

    Barter

    Now and then I recieve payment in kind: a skill, object, or service I genuinely need. Think cooking for events, social media support, a handmade meditation stool! If you have something to offfer, ask!

    Reciprocity Fund

    If you’re resourced and want to support others, you can contribute to the Reciprocity Fund. This pot enables those with limited financial means (but abundant gifts and potential) to access mentoring at no or low cost. No forms, no gatekeeping, just relationship and trust.

    If you’d like to contribute to the Reciprocal Fund click here.

    If you’d like to apply for funding, get in touch.

If you sense yourself at a threshold…

If the next phase of your organisation or your personal contribution to life calls for a different kind of support…

If you value mentorship that can meet both your vision and vulnerability; your entanglements and your entrepreneurial spirit… 

If you simply want a solid companion alongside your journey…

GET IN TOUCH

TESTIMONIALS

Toni knows instinctively when to push, when to push hard, and when to hug. It is inspiring and reassuring... I can bring all of myself and know that you will listen deeply.
I trust Toni and I hugely look forward to our bi-weekly Skypes. I feel we enter into a space of intent and care very quickly and don’t need to faff with needless preamble. Toni also supports me to better support myself...this is a very sustainable means of mentoring.
It has given me more compassion for myself, more insight into my deep needs and desires and more skills in integrating this inner world with every day life.
Toni is hugely intelligent and compassionate, she speaks and guides with wisdom. She is equipping me with new personal resources that I can use to navigate the uncertainty life but also to take into the work I do.