What, and who, is your life here about?
We live our lives in our bodies, and we long to discover our souls.
Unless we are learning to die to our old selves, and to be compassionate, and committed to curiosity and learning - that ‘soul’ lies undiscovered, in wait.
Either we fall asleep, allowing the tides of mediocrity to wash over us, and continue to suppress our despair; or, we take a stand against injustice, ignorance and abuse of power, and creatively live out the lives we were born for.
There is a choice to make.
Learn to live in your body with more ease and aliveness. I’ll help you take grounded actions under pressure, lead yourself and others with compassion, dignify challenging feelings, and move towards what matters with clarity, aliveness and authenticity.
I’m a certified somatic coach, experienced teacher, artist and musician. I have a background in education, performance and theatre. I work with people who care deeply about what they do and why they are doing it.
WHAT IS A SOMATIC APPROACH TO COACHING?
We carry our history in our bodies. This history has shaped us.
Somatic coaching is a transformational and therapeutic process of learning and healing. A process will help you develop a more conscious awareness of your historical, conditioned tendencies, and to grow awareness of how these patterns may still be running your life. A somatic approach encourages you to access the inherent wisdom in your body, and gives you a pragmatic and sensory framework through which you’ll learn to observe and deepen awareness. This in turn opens us to be able to move in new creative directions and with behaviours that were not available to us before.
Either we are skilful authors of our new self, or we live the unconscious reactions of our old.
People are not problems to be fixed.
I’ll support you, skilfully and compassionately, to dignify challenging emotions, settle circling anxieties, and begin to cultivate compassion towards the habitual behaviours that get in your way. You will begin to lead your life with more commitment and courage. I’ll help you focus you on what you care about and why, and help you to live in a more skilful and resilient ‘shape’ of you.
50 min sessions are £85. A 6-session arc is £475 This includes either in-person (Twickenham UK) or online calls and voice-note check-ins.
The Cave of Dreams
Beginning August 2026
A research project exploring the ancestural myths and stories that humans have told beneath the stars since our ancestors first inscribed on the walls of caves 50,000 years ago.
If you’re a committed performer, musician, artist, writer etc who cares deeply about the future of our world, are curious about how we have lost our way, and yet at our backs are the universal wisdom held in these stories, I’d love to hear from you.
ARTWORKS AND COMMISSIONS
A 6-week course inviting you on a uniquely creative blend of coaching, teaching and self-reflection.
Work 1:1 with me to embody the message or content you want to deliver, and gain the freedom, skills and confidence to communicate with presence, authenticity and clarity.
LEADING WITH AWARENESS
Learning happens in our bodies
Bespoke individual and team programmes to cultivate exemplary leadership and to increase coordination, communication and flexibility in the workplace.
Work with me and learn to embody new actions and behaviours that will help you and your team become a powerful force for productivity, learning and change.
LIVING WITH PRESENCE
Helping you practice your vision for life
A 1:1 coaching journey to build presence, deepen awareness and learn to take new and meaningful action in the world.
Learn to use the wisdom in your body to make sustainable new actions in line with what you care about, and help you move through professional or personal change.
CAN YOU HELP ME CREATE IMPACT?
What you say, matters. That’s why you do what you do. When you are speaking to people, you leave an essence of yourself in the room. But you don’t leave behind the flashy presentation skills you’ve learned, your vulnerability and passion for what you take a stand for is how you’ll be remembered. I’ll help you to cultivate presence, impact with what matters and connect meaningfully with your audience.
Working in Duncan’s room is like swimming in warm water. He gives you tremendous space for exploration while at the same time holding you and the room with an effortless care. He judges perfectly how and when to introduce a little turbulence and excitement or to provoke a dive of exploration into some hidden depth, before facilitating a safe return to the calm surface just before your breath runs out.
Roland Reynolds, Writer & Director
Let's talk about how we might work together. A no obligation intro call is an easy conversation where we explore whether there’s the chemistry for a positive, working relationship. It’s a 30 minute complimentary call.
