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 Coherence in Challenging Times

Restoring Our Natural Orientations and Capacities

We support leaders, individuals, and communities who want to meet today’s systemic uncertainty with
grounded clarity and meaningful response.


Meeting life as it is — with clarity, presence, and coherence.

Four Natural Orientations

Truth.
Connection.
Freedom.
Adventure.

These four Orientations shaped human life for hundreds of thousands of years. They helped us survive, adapt, and thrive in relationship with reality.

Today, we use them to guide presence — both received and expressed — into what is emerging in each moment.

In a world that pushes urgency and reactivity, these Orientations help calm the noise and engage your entire being.


They ground you in clarity, resonance, authorship, and aligned action — even when conditions are stressful.

The Living Compass, shown here, is one of several models we use to rebuild coherence from the inside out.

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Fostering Coherence in Life

Coherence comes alive in reflection and practice.

Through coaching and facilitation, we translate research into lived experience — supporting individuals, leaders, and teams to cultivate alignment, embody clarity, and act from grounded presence in the midst of complexity.

Coaching 

One-on-one and small-group sessions designed to help clients sense patterns, navigate change, and embody in their lives and work. 

Facilitation 

Collaborative processes for teams and organizations to align awareness, dialogue, and collective intelligence in complex environments.

Mediation

Guided dialogue to restore trust, understanding, and shared direction across systems and relationships.

The Present Experience of Life

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It all boils down to the simple and natural experience of presence.

 

The breath slows, thoughts soften, and we begin to sense and feel more clearly what is happening — here, now, in the reality of life.


A natural way of being… that modern society has conditioned us to override.

From that place, our capacity to respond — rather than react — evolves into greater understanding.


We begin to see the systems we inhabit more clearly, including the hidden causal relationships we’re often blind to because of the stories and assumptions we carry.

In more nuanced terms, we explore presence as both received and expressed — moving from Being to Understanding.

 

And when we are present within the Four Orientations, we become:

  • More grounded in what’s real

  • More attuned to ourselves and others

  • More capable of making sense of complexity

  • More clear and coherent in how we respond

 

From here, presence begins to shape more than just our own experience. We contribute to growing patterns of coherence —
and rediscover how to see, sense, and respond beyond the stories that no longer hold.

Pathways to Explore

We seek to further human and systemic coherence.

Experiences that help individuals and groups explore awareness and change through reflection and practice.

Studying the dynamics of coherence and incoherence across human, social, and ecological systems.

Applying awareness and coherence to the challenges of life — aligning vision, communication and action.

An exploration of life and the role we play in it, for ourselves, others and the natural systems we inhabit.

Our Vision

We believe humanity is at a turning point - old ways of living and leading no longer fit the world we're in.

The Coherence Project exists to remind us that how we see the world shapes how we act in it.

 

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Research & Writing

We share reflections and research on how awareness, compassion, and presence can reshape life and leadership. 

Our two publications, in•coherence and Off the Map - explore these themes through writing, dialogue, and lived experience.

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Our bi-weekly publication on matters of life, leadership, and a conscious and meaningful existence.

Image by Dan Freeman

Our regular notes and reflections on life, it's challenges and blessings, and the practice of presence and coherence.

Reach Out to Us

Feel free to reach out to us for any inquiries or to learn more about our research, programs or publications.

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