Mentoring

Mentoring, as I offer it, is part practical guidance, part deep companionship, part soul-tending, part ancestral repair.

It is an old-world form of accompaniment that sits outside the modern self-improvement models. Instead it is rooted in kinship, story, land, and the steadying presence of another person who is willing to hold the thread with you.

This kind of companionship is something most of us ache for without always knowing how to name the longing.

I listen with reverence and curiosity for what is calling to be tended. I invite love into the tight places, courage into the hidden places, and remembrance into the places that have gone quiet.

I hold your wholeness when you cannot find it, and help you retrace the forgotten path back to your own heart.

At its heart, this is a remembering that you are needed, utterly and uniquely, by this world.

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How we work is crafted between us.

Sessions unfold online or in person at the House at the Edge of the Woods, with the option of walking into the 11 acres of woodland I steward. For those drawn to deeper immersion, I offer multi‑day periods of wondering, ceremony, enquiry, and land‑based practice, held in the kitchen and forest that shape my own life.

When we work together, I walk beside you.

  • "Emma accompanied me into deeper listening, unearthing layers of knowing that connected me more fully to myself and to life. With her steady presence I found more courage to meet grief, change, and truth honestly. I am not living in the same way as before I met Emma. Something in me has shifted towards more awe, more vitality, and a clearer sense of what truly matters."

    — Rana Core

  • “I came to Emma depressed and overwhelmed. I needed soul-level containment and witnessing. Someone willing to reach into the darkness with me. Emma offered a depth of wisdom and compassion that was unhurried, and a quality of presence that held complexity without rushing toward resolution. Together we untangled and pulled on threads that guided me to a field of knowing within and around me. Her presence felt like a golden hand reaching out from within the mystery, inviting me to join the dance of becoming. My life as a re-membering witch and community member has come alive with beauty, my relationship with the more-than-human has rooted deeper — I now sing my unique song proudly."

    - Robin Bancroft-Wilson

Mentoring with me is a companionship for the moments when life feels tender, tangled, or on the cusp of becoming something new.

People come to this work when they are overwhelmed or unravelling, navigating transitions, meeting blocks they can no longer ignore, or sensing a deeper life calling from beneath the surface. Together we make a space where you can grow new roots, listen for what is whispering, and lean into meaning, belonging, gratitude, and love.

This is the slow art of remembering. A turning of the ear toward the ancient wisdom still heard in the forest of the body, in the stories we carry, and in the land itself. Our time together invites you to reconnect: to your intuition, your lineage, the living world, and the deep-time mysteries that shape a life of meaning.

My mentoring is shaped by more than three decades of study and lived practice: Nonviolent Communication, grief work, endings of all kinds, systemic constellations, psychotherapeutic counselling, Transformational Coaching, self‑compassion practices, and long apprenticeship to teachers such as Stephen Jenkinson, Dr Martin Shaw, Sobonfu Somé, Marshall Rosenberg, Sarah Peyton, Robert Gonzales, Brené Brown, Sharon Blackie, Chameli Devi, and others whose work has formed the ground I stand on.

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The Exchange: Mentoring & Guidance

The mentoring work I offer is a slow, relational practice. It isn't advice-giving or coaching towards outcomes. It's a form of deep accompaniment: tending thresholds, integration, and the long work of becoming rooted in one's life again. This work asks for presence, preparation, and sustained attention. To keep it viable, and to honour the depth of holding involved, I work with a model of financial reciprocity, offered on a sliding scale.

For Mentoring & Guidance
The suggested exchange ranges from £80 to £150 per session. Sessions usually take 1 hour, either online or in-person, but I also offer half or full-day wonderings. The cost for these longer sessions is worked out in conversation together, taking into account my availability and both our resources.

I ask that you choose a rate within this range that reflects your current financial capacity, while recognising the depth and continuity of the work.

A Note on Accessibility
I keep a portion of my time available for those whose hearts are full but whose pockets are currently empty. If you are in a time of genuine hardship, please do not let cost be the reason you don’t reach out. We will find a way that honours us both.

You can read more about my Financial Policy here.

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