Life After Work Coaching
Reconnect with vitality, purpose,
and a deeper sense of aliveness after retirement.
Retirement isn’t just a lifestyle change.
It’s an identity transition.
You’re Not Lost – You’re Transitioning Into a New Life After Work
Life After Work Can Feel More Challenging Than Expected
Retirement is often imagined as freedom — but for many people, it brings an unexpected sense of disorientation. The structure, identity, and meaning that work once provided suddenly begin to shift. You may have more time, yet feel unsure how to use it. More freedom, yet less direction. A life that looks successful from the outside — but feels strangely flat within. This is more common than most people realise. Many experience this phase as a loss of identity after retirement, when it is actually a deeper life transition. What you’re longing for is not simply another project, distraction, or way to stay busy. It’s a renewed sense of vitality, curiosity, and connection to yourself.Reinventing Yourself After Retirement
Reinventing yourself after retirement is not about filling time. It’s about rediscovering who you are becoming in this next chapter of life. The real transformation rarely comes through more productivity or relentless self-improvement. It happens through reflection, curiosity, meaningful experiences, and reconnecting with the parts of yourself that work life may have pushed aside. When we were children, play was serious business. It shaped who we were becoming. After work, play becomes serious again — not as distraction, but as a doorway back to vitality, creativity, confidence, and meaning. In our work together, we explore what I call your Personal Play History: the activities, qualities, and ways of being that once made you feel most alive. They haven’t disappeared. They’ve simply been waiting beneath the noise and responsibility of adult life. The Vibrant Elder is a three-month, one-to-one coaching journey designed to help you reconnect with your energy, reorient your life after work, and step more fully into elderhood with clarity and purpose. This work is reflective, embodied, and deeply personal. It may feel unusual at first.That’s often where something real begins.
The Vibrant Elder: An Elderhood Journey
Ten sessions. This is how we work together.
This isn’t a programme you fit yourself into. It’s a passage that forms around you.
We begin where you are — not where you think you should be. The first sessions are about landing, slowing down, and letting the noise settle. From there, we follow the threads that are alive for you: your energy, your play history, your guiding question, your emerging sense of what this chapter is actually for.
The question “Who am I now?” doesn’t get answered in a worksheet. It gets answered slowly, through experience, reflection, and the gradual return of something you recognise as yourself.
By the end of the journey, that question has quietened — not because it was solved, but because you’ve grown larger than it.
And here’s what most people don’t realise:
When we were children, play was serious business.
It shaped who we were becoming.
After work, play becomes serious again — not a distraction, not a way to pass the time, but the doorway back to vitality, creativity, confidence, and meaning. It is how identity reorganises itself when the old structures fall away. It’s how we reconnect with who we truly are so we can step into elderhood with clarity and purpose.
Those who have lived, loved, struggled, and learned have something the world genuinely needs. But first, they need to come home to themselves.
That’s what this journey is for.
How the journey unfolds
We meet online, one to one, at a pace that supports real integration.
The structure is intentionally simple:
- Sessions 1–5: Weekly
We build momentum, settle the nervous system, and begin reconnecting with energy, mind, heart, and play. - Sessions 6–10: Fortnightly
We slow the pace so life can start to absorb the changes. This is where insight becomes lived experience.
Each session blends conversation, reflective inquiry, and small embodied or real-world experiments.
Nothing is imposed.
Everything is adapted to what is actually emerging in your life.
Have any questions?
Please book a call or reach out to me in the contact form below! 🙂
Before we begin, I invite you to book a “chemistry” call so we can sense whether this journey feels like a genuine fit — human to human, elder to elder in the making.
The Ten Part Journey to Vibrant Elderhood
Life, Laughter and Love after Work
Phase 1 — Landing & Energy
- Landing
We arrive. We slow everything down and create space for you to actually feel yourself again. How to increase your vibrancy. - Restoring Your Energy
We begin to understand what gives you life now — and what has been quietly draining it.
Phase 2 — Mind, Heart & Play
- Your Play History
We trace the patterns of play that shaped you — and still want to live through you now. - A Joyful Mind
We work with attention and mental noise so thinking becomes clearer, lighter, and less consuming. We become more curious. - A Loving Heart
We reconnect you with self-compassion, emotional honesty, and relational presence. Activating a kind heart.
Phase 3 — Identity Shift & Direction
- Elderhood Rising
We explore the grounded confidence that emerges when life experience becomes wisdom. - Your Guiding Question
Instead of forcing purpose, we listen for the question that naturally guides your next chapter.
Phase 4 — Integration & Expression
- Walking Your Pilgrimage
You design a personal exploration — daily experiments, creative actions, or a real journey — shaped around your life. - Coming Home
We integrate everything into daily life so this is no longer a “process”, but how you live. - Your Mark
Not a legacy plan. Not performance. A quiet recognition of the contribution only you can make from who you have become.
Go Deeper
Come to Italy Three days on the land. A lifetime of clarity.
This isn’t a retreat with a programme and a schedule.
We practise, talk informally, laugh, sit on the land, walk — and before us it all unfolds. Something happens when two people meet in person, without a screen between them, in a place that has its own quality of stillness and aliveness. I’ve seen it many times. I can’t fully explain it. I’ve stopped trying.
The retreat takes place in a vibrant natural garden in the Farfa Valley, central Italy — 90 minutes from Rome Fiumicino. I’ll meet you at the train station, and see you off when it’s time to go. The journey begins the moment you arrive.
Some people come here to begin the coaching journey — to land in person before carrying the work home. Some come mid-journey, when something wants to go deeper than a screen allows. Some come at the end, to integrate and set their compass.
The land holds all of it.
Investment: €2,000 (Accommodation and meals arranged separately according to your preference. The online coaching journey is €4,000 — or €1,200 for early participants in exchange for a reflective case study.)
Location & accommodation
You can stay in simple accommodation in the village, or — if you’re feeling adventurous — on the land with us, closer to nature and the daily rhythms of the place. Both work. Both are part of the experience.
If Something Here Is Speaking to You
You don’t need to have it all figured out before we talk.
If you’ve read this far and something has stirred — a recognition, a question, a quiet pull toward something you can’t quite name yet — that’s enough.
Reach out. Tell me where you are. We’ll have a real conversation, see if this feels like a genuine fit, and go from there.
No pressure. No pitch. Just two people talking.
Book a complimentary 15-minute call — human to human, elder to elder in the making.
Or simply reach out in the contact box below.
Private Retreats 1-2-1 & Small Groups
Rejuvenate and Inspire at Our Permaculture Project in Italy
This is perfect for someone looking to take time out of your busy life to reconnect to who you are, what you really want for life and how you’d like to make it happen.
Do you want to immerse yourself in a very different way of living to open to what is possible?
When we step into something very different we have a new lens on the life we are living.
CAREER COACHING FOR JUGGLERS
Get better at Your Craft and Grow Professionally – so you can get better gigs, have a clearer artistic identity, go touring, develop a pro mindset while living the life!
Seeking a clearer training method or a boost in creativity? Want to better juggle life’s demands and make the most of your time?
This coaching is designed to help you:
- Refine your training: Develop a strategic approach to elevate your skills.
- Boost creativity: Unlock new ideas and routines.
- Secure better gigs: Focus on opportunities that excite you.
- Enhance your business: Improve messaging, marketing, and audience engagement.
The Playful Path – Rewrite Your Rulebook For Life
Reach to me to host this to your audience for free.
Ideal for groups and memberships that value playful creative approaches to growth and leadership.
In this workshop, I will introduce you to The three aspects of the Playful Path and you will be guided through the three aspects of the playful path, alternating between theory, and interactive exercises, games and meditations.
Workshop B
Find the Courage to Lose Yourself (and then Find Yourself again) Through Solo Travel at 40+
This free 60 min workshop is coming soon.
In this workshop, I’ll show you how to use solo travel as a tool to find clarity, purpose, and a renewed sense of self. Solo travel can illuminate your path forward and introduce you to parts of yourself you’ve never met before, opening paths to new opportunities and ways of being. In this workshop, I will share my story and introduce you to some interactive exercises to try travel on for size.
Interested in having me host a workshop for your audience?
Courageous Playful You – Online Course (English)
3-10-17-24 April 2025
If you feel weighed down by routine, disconnected from your creativity, or longing for a deeper sense of purpose, this program will help you break free. Through play, meditation, movement, and deep reflection, you’ll reignite your passion, embrace fun as a daily practice, and cultivate a more vibrant, authentic life. Join us to unlock your inner courage, reconnect with yourself and others, and step into a life filled with joy and playful exploration!
The Journey: 12 Weeks to Discover Yourself Through Solo Travel and Create a Bold New Life Plan.
This is ideal for when you need to answer a big life question, process a loss, or prepare for a major life change.
The most direct way to come back to your playfulness, different options to choose from!
The Art of Living Playfully
Gaia Terra Weekend in an eco Village, Udine, Italy
May 16-18, 2025
This is perfect for you if you want to connect with nature and your playful self in a nurturing eco-community. Escape the work grind and rediscover playfulness with this workshop! Engage in fun activities, games, and practices that relieve stress, nurture your body and mind, and help you connect authentically with others in a community setting.
Pirates of Play: Break Free and Have Fun on a 6-Day Adventure in Penzance
June 2-7 2025 (In English) | June 9-14 2025 (In Italian)
Cornwall, UK £495/595 per participant, max 10 participants
This is perfect for you if you are a little tired, and unmotivated by your day to day and want to spice up your sense of adventure and excitement.
I’ve dreamt up something exciting—a 6-day pirate-themed retreat in the beautiful coastal town of Penzance, Cornwall (where I grew up!). Imagine a week filled with adventure, transformation, and a whole lot of fun—costumes absolutely encouraged (essential)! 
We’ll blend movement, storytelling, mindfulness, and theatrical adventure with wholesome activities like treasure hunts, sea shanties, and coastal walks. This is your chance to escape the mundane, reconnect with your playful spirit, and rediscover what it means to live with joy and purpose.
The retreat is designed for adventurous souls ready to embrace playfulness, connection, and creativity as their compass. With a max of 10 participants, it’s an intimate, immersive experience where the real treasure is the one within you.
Ready to join the crew?
Let me know if you’d like to hear more and I’ll send you the plan! 
Giocosamente Playfulness Festival
July 15-20 2025
Who is this perfect for?
Join a vibrant community of play enthusiasts for workshops, activities, and pure play in an eco-retreat centre in the Italian mountains.
The Playfulness Retreat
August 26-31 2025
Who is this perfect for?
A multi-day retreat to immerse yourself in playfulness, with group yoga, embodied play, and journaling.
Creative Retreat for Juggling Artists
September 22-27 2025 in Tuscany | 12 spots
Who is this perfect for?
An immersive retreat designed for juggling artists to explore creativity, develop new skills, find inspiration & business coaching in a beautiful setting.
Do you have any questions?
Please reach out to me in the contact form! 🙂
I’m excited to walk this playful path with you, creating a life full of joy, growth, and meaningful connections—now and beyond! 🌟✨
THANK YOU!
I’m excited to walk this playful path with you, creating a life full of joy, growth, and meaningful connections—now and beyond! 🌟✨
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Reach out to me in the CONTACT FORM below. 👇