ABOUT
My work meets at the intersection of relationships; to the self, the other and to the earth. I focus on helping you cultivate a deeper relationship with life and mystery.
Hi, I’m Alana. I’m a Creative Coach, Women's Mentor, Multi-Disciplinary Artist and Nature-Connection Facilitator based in Devon UK.
I coach people through self-healing practices, creativity, embodiment and nature-connection to help them reclaim their lifeforce and imagination. I also mentor women through the various thresholds of life through deep nature connection and self-designed ceremony.
Central to my work is my own creative and artistic practices. I’ve been performing, creating and traversing the realms of creative expansion for over 15 years and holding transformational group work for nearly a decade.
My own journey of awakening started with loss and the subsequent winding path of grief and finding belonging through my relationship with creativity and nature.
Through my experiences of descent I’ve learned that staying awake to the beauty of life is a process of remembering. A journey of coming inwards and outwards again. Of learning to be in relationship with it all. This is at the core of my work. To help you awaken to your belonging and remember your beauty.
My Approach
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Self
Self-inquiry, somatics, embodiment, meditation, parts work, creativity, ritual, journaling, soulcraft
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Collective
Grief tending, relational skills, contact improvisation, peer-led learning, seasonal ritual, community building, singing, group-enquiry, performance.
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Ecological
Nature immersion, council, ceremony, ecosystem restoration, animism, meaning-making
My practice moves fluidly across disciplines, responding intuitively and integrating emotional, psychological, embodied, and spiritual modalities as needed.
I’m also deeply influenced by the work of Animas Valley and Bill Plotkin and regularly draw on the work of the Wild Mind Map and the practices of Soulcraft.
Background & Experience
MOE Certified Coach
Trauma-Informed Practitioner & Facilitator: with extensive facilitation experience (100s of hours of leading group work).
Nature Connection & Nature-Based Cultural Healing: 2 years of learning and apprenticeship in 8 Shields and the Art of Mentoring
Nature-based Soulwork & Depth Psychology: Two Nature Quests and various programmes over five years, plus 4+ years of eco-centric mentoring with Rebecca Card.
Relational skills and development: 3+ years of relational life therapy with Elle Rosenthal including relational mastery training.
Embodiment & Performance: 5 years of formal training in physical theatre, circus, and dance: BA (Hons) Physical Theatre | East 15 Acting School (2010–2013) & Apprenticeship of Circus | École de Cirque de Bordeaux (2013–2015)
Practical Animism with Daniel Foor and Grief Apprenticeship with Azul Valerie Thome
Currently learning: Somatics through Holistic Studies of Human Anatomy with The School of Experiential Learning & As Things Fall Apart 18 month Fellowship with Starter Culture exploring inner-led change and composting modernity.
Introduction to Ecosystem Restoration with ERC.
With gratitude to my teachers and mentors Rebecca Card, Elle Rosenthal and Rosalyn Maynard
My Story
“Liberate yourself from the tragedy that we are separate” - Joanna Macy
This quote has been my north star and at the core of my own journey of awakening and remembering for a long time. Throughout my life I have been driven by a deep love of the natural world and moved by the intense grief at the extractive, destructive ways capitalism destroys nature and communities. I have been devoted to building and dreaming a better world through different forms of activism and organising. Alongside steady outward action I’ve also been committed to the journey of inner-led change.
Inner-led change means to acknowledge the ways in which we perpetuate the very systems of harm we are trying to change and to expand our consciousness beyond the power-over paradigm. This is not said in blame or shame, but to see how the inner and outer are connected. How the rhythm of inward reflection and outward action go hand in hand as we imagine and work towards equitable and just futures.
It is this connection between the inner and outer which I keep coming back to and has led me to offer this work in the world. Work which is aimed at helping you become more intimate with yourself, your interpersonal relationships and the ecological places you call home, as a pathway towards liberation from this story of separation.
The difference between mentoring & coaching
While both my coaching and mentoring are rooted in creativity, relationship, embodiment, and deep listening, they serve different moments and needs in a person’s life.
Creative Coaching is a forward-moving, growth-focused space where we clarify desires, notice creative patterns, and build practices that help your creativity thrive. As your coach, I walk alongside you with curiosity and care helping you clarify your desires, notice patterns that block your creative flow, and build the conditions for your creativity to thrive.
Mentoring is a slower, nature-based and ceremonial process that supports life transitions such as endings, beginnings, and significant rites of passage. As your mentor, I offer a ceremonial and nature-based container to help you meet change with presence, compassion, and wholeness. Together we slow down helping you honour what is ending, integrate what has been, and step into what is emerging. In mentoring I bring my knowledge of threshold crossing, ceremony, nature connection and other elements into the process to support you.
Either way I am walking alongside you in your journey and serving your own tender unfolding.
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