Meditation Coaching with Ollie

“In 30 minutes, Ollie helped me gain more insight into my meditation practice than I would’ve achieved in months on my own. His caring, inquisitive, open-ended questions have already led to fundamental shifts in my approach to meditation and my understanding of my own emotional landscape. I can’t recommend him highly enough.“

– Jeremy, 35, United States

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Coaching to Unify the Mind

My Approach

I am drawn to and love to teach an open-hearted, kind-hearted, whole-hearted form of meditation practice. In my experience this is the most effective way to approach unification of mind.

I want to help you reach your potential in a way that’s sustainable, enjoyable, kind, effective, and integrates with your whole life, even outside your meditation practice.

My approach is primarily a combination of two systems:

1. The Mind Illuminated

The Mind Illuminated is simply the best system for cultivating concentration; I’ve written about it more here.

It is clear, precise, and with well-defined goals, which makes it ideal for effective coaching sessions. It allows you to quickly gain skill in unifying the mind. This – aside from being extremely pleasant and beneficial itself – will make progress faster, easier, and more fun for any other contemplative practice you’re interested in.

I especially love to teach loving-kindness meditation, as a path to samadhi (concentration) and jhana (fun concentration states).

2. Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic method that allows you to understand and heal internal conflicts by dialoguing with the “parts” of your mind. I’ve written an introduction to it here.

IFS is an astonishingly effective and compassionate way to understand and heal many obstacles that arise in meditation. It can transform your experience of meditation from one of confusion, frustration, internal conflict, and feelings of inadequacy, to self-love, peace, and clarity.

It is also an amazingly effective form of therapy that can unravel the emotional knots, inner conflicts, tensions, and self-limiting beliefs which often surface in meditation, but which impact every area of your life.

Please book an intro call with me via the button below!

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Or contact me directly at dharmarational@gmail.com

You can also try my meditations on Insight Timer

Donations

I teach on a donation basis. Suggested donation rates are below, but if you are able to donate only a very small amount (or nothing at all) that’s no problem.

Supporter’s rate: £50/hour ($55/hour)
Standard rate: £40/hour ($45/hour)
Concession rate: £30/hour ($35/hour)

PayPal takes a percentage of all donations, so bank transfer is preferable – just email to get my details. If that doesn’t work, my PayPal link is here.

What previous students have said

“We did a self-organised meditation retreat with 3 people, with the aim to make progress in our Samatha meditation practice. The daily calls with Ollie were a highlight of the retreat; we all felt that we learned much more and made much faster progress due to his guidance. I can highly recommend Ollie as a meditation coach and retreat facilitator. He is highly knowledgeable, explains well, and is incredibly friendly.”
– Jan

“Via Ollie’s expertise and remarkably detailed questions my practice and motivation around meditation and secular spirituality accelerated. Diligent and deliberate practice + Ollie’s tutoring will lead to significant progress in the tradition of The Mind Illuminated! I experienced an effect after session 1.”
– Sebastian

“Ollie is a very resourceful and kind teacher – for any question or story, he usually has a solid technique or two to suggest, and/or a bunch of insightful questions to ask back, all with genuine warmth.”
– Friederike

“Ollie is honestly a fantastic person and teacher. He has a warm, empathetic style, coupled with a much-needed dose of humour and light-heartedness. I can personally say that he has provided some invaluable guidance and support through some very difficult times, and has always shown up with curiosity and willingness to engage. Cannot recommend highly enough!“
– Alan

“Ollie is a beautiful human. He is sensitive, caring and intelligent. He has supported me immensely, and time and time again when we meet, I’m grateful for his beautiful open and accepting presence. If you wish to work with Ollie, you have my word of his genuineness.”
– Dan

“Ollie is amazingly insightful, and answers every question with real in-depth understanding. His manner is humorous and open. He can gently guide understanding when I get the wrong end of the stick or need clarification, and his warm, gentle presence is a real testament to the values and methods he teaches. Anyone would be lucky to have him as their teacher.”

“Ollie is a phenomenal teacher with a beautiful manner – he radiates enthusiasm, kindness and patience! I especially feel that the way he responds to questions or difficulties is hugely helpful and filled with compassion! He explains things in a way that is simple yet engaging.”

“A lovely gentle, kind manner. His enthusiasm and expertise really brought the material to life – using concrete examples to help explain quite difficult theory made it all crystal clear. Accepting and encouraging responses without judgement.”

“Ollie was such a kind, compassionate, witty and clever teacher. I have done a lot of guided meditations and visualisations, but Ollie is honestly the best one I have found.”

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