Coaching

Evidence Based techniques

for Profound Transformation

where science meets self discovery.

Coaching is a disciplined facilitation - a present focused process designed to support you in accessing your deepest insight & capacity for change.

My role is not to direct or advise, but to create the conditions for you to discover your unique answers.

These writings are points of reflection on evidence based coaching & the human condition, not prescriptions - an invitation to explore ideas.

The Highest Form of Intelligence: Judgment, Projections, Observation, and Discernment
Gillian Barden Gillian Barden

The Highest Form of Intelligence: Judgment, Projections, Observation, and Discernment

The Highest Form of Intelligence “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are all programme with judgement - invisible, automatic, and deeply conditioned.

But every judgment is a confession.

This isn’t theory. It’s somatic truth - felt in the body before the mind can name it.

In this article, I map the shift from reactivity to presence, projection to discernment, and evaluation to observation.

You’ll learn:

  • Why judgment is your nervous system’s survival shortcut

  • How to pause the pattern with somatic awareness

  • A 5 step practice to turn shadow into The Witness

No issue too dark. No dream too big.

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Coaching Tool Kit

Coaching Tool Kit

The coaching tool kit is a flexible, evidence-based set of strategies rooted in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural science. Designed to adapt to each client’s needs, it blends goal setting, cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, resilience-building, and somatic practices. This is transformation as both a science and an art - grounded in research, delivered with empathy, and guided by ethical, trauma-informed practice.

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