Mel Shearsmith

I’m a Thinking Environment coach for the Quiet Ones, exploring qualities of attention, embodied thinking (felt thinking and thoughtful feeling) and a slower pace when connection is needed. I offer more space, a slower pace - a sacred space for difficult emotions and I am especially passionate about supporting and offering a safe space to navigate and explore feelings of grief, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, despair and fear in response to our climate crisis and societal injustices. All feelings that need a place to belong, to be held respectfully and witnessed are graciously welcomed in this generative practice space and held with muscular hope. I work with The Thinking Environment, this is practice that offers your thinking more grace of space to think, thinking that is embodied, present and moves at your pace. I offer the loyalty of my attention dedicated to nurturing your independent thinking, grounded in deep-care and relational-attunement, where you can feel connected, reconnect and re-balance - to find your ground and where you matter, profoundly. As a neurodiverse SPS (Sensory Perception Sensitivity) introvert I’d especially love to work with you if you identify as an SPS / HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), as an empath, or an introvert, as neurodivergent or struggling to find a quiet place for your voice to be heard. My coaching approach is primarily grounded in the Thinking Environment and is somatically resourced by my history as a movement practitioner, dancer and rebellious creative. My work and ethical landscape is informed by The Work That Reconnects, Theory U, ecopsychology and eco-anxiety, Buddhist psychology and a range of movement modalities that support deep enquiry and an exploration of different ways of being and the process of coming home to ourselves.