You don’t have to do it alone.

Leadership is a complex challenge in the best of times.

We are not in the best of times.

Campfire Sessions can support you in navigating complexity with greater ease, bringing deeper presence to your work, and moving through challenges with integrity.

What is a Campfire Session?

‘Coaching’ has never felt like the right word to reflect what happens in one-on-one sessions. When we sit at a campfire, real or virtual. . .

  • We say true things and sit with them

  • We honor what wants to emerge from the space between words

  • We release any set agenda and allow ourselves to deepen to a place where clarity and direction emerge with ease

Over the course of a Campfire Session, we may explore breath, guided visualization, gentle movement, and other non-linear approaches.

There’s nothing to prove around the campfire. It’s a quiet, spacious container for presence.

What You Bring

A question, a tension, a spark
Something alive and, perhaps, not yet spoken
Curiosity without urgency

What I Bring
Deep listening
Gentle reflection & resonance
Pattern recognition and thread weaving

You Emerge With
Greater clarity
New language and frames for your experience
A felt shift in your nervous system

We might be a good fit if. . .

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I’m not for everyone and am fairly selective in the people that I choose to work with one-on-one.

Over the years, I’ve worked with folks at all levels of their careers, from new graduates just starting out to multi-national CEOs. I’ve found that the best results emerge in working with with people who I’ve come to think of as ‘mature leaders.’

‘Mature leadership’ has less to do with age or experience and more to do with the capacity to engage with challenge, opportunity, and possibility from a place of curiosity, creativity and wonder.

From my experience, mature leaders tend to:

  • Integrate insights with ease, taking concrete steps towards change based on new information.

  • Take ownership and responsibility of their decisions.

  • Have previously worked with a coach and/or engaged in leadership development programs.

  • Have a desire to deepen their leadership capacity and feel like there’s ‘something missing’ from their toolbox or that there’s more available than traditional coaching has provided.

  • Lead with curiosity and be willing to explore breathwork and other non-linear practices as pathways to insight, transformation, and guidance.

If this resonates with you, I’d love to connect! The first step is to schedule a preliminary call using the form at the bottom of the page.

Kirk H., Architect and Entrepreneur

Working with Michael is like walking down a new path with a old friend. Each step forward is a genuine question to which you both discover the answer. Each step is one at a time, based on what you learned by taking the previous step, together because, and this is his deeply rooted ethic, he knows you will only take a true second step once you both discover what lies at the first, right then in that moment.

Adriel H., Founder & CEO

Michael is an alchemist, from helping transform your life narrative into a business mission statement to turning a personal challenge into a platform for growth.

FAQs

  • At base level, my approach centers the needs, experience, and inherent wisdom of each client. While each engagement is different and never follows a set course, generally we’ll work at the intersection of head, heart, body, and spirit.

    In any given session, we may work to reveal hidden parts of a leadership challenge, work with the breath to cultivate greater presence and connection, or explore creative exercises to find the deeper emotions and motivations lurking beneath a thorny issue.

    My approach explicitly integrates somatic exploration, and energetic practices, and earth-based perspectives as pathways to insight. If you’re only comfortable in your head, we may not be a good fit.

    The best way to get a sense of my approach, learn more, and see if we’re a good fit is to book a discovery call!

  • I completed my International Coach Federation certification training, which includes 165 hrs of practice, in 2013. In addition to ICF training, I am a certified Breathwork Facilitator, Reiki Master Teacher, Social Presencing Theater Practitioner, and have completed training in Trauma Informed Heartmath Practices and Somatic Embodiment.

  • I don’t offer refunds once we have agreed to work together. This is one of the reasons that a discovery call is so important.

    A certain degree of resistance and feeling like it’s ‘not working’ is a normal and expected part of any process. Once we have committed to our work together, part of the agreement is that, together, we move through the process.

  • Engagements start with a minimum commitment of 3 months with sessions approximately every other week. You should expect to spend approximately an hour between sessions in reflection or completing ‘assignments’ to deepen the experience.

  • I offer Campfire Sessions as a multi-session journey on a sliding scale from $1,950 to $3,500 for the three month engagement.

    The investment reflects both our time and the energetic spaciousness required for deep transformation. We’ll discuss exact pricing transparently during your discovery call.

    Before clicking away, I’ll invite you to take a moment to breathe with those numbers. How did your nervous system respond? If you made it this far on the page, something in you is resonating. . .let’s explore than in a discovery call. Working with the energy around the exchange for our sessions is often a part of the work itself.

Book a discovery call.

These calls are an opportunity for explore how I might be able to support you, your work, and your journey. By the end of the call, we’ll know whether or not we’re a good fit to work together. If we’re not a fit, I’m committed to helping you find the right resources and support for you.