Hero’s Journey Inner Life Coaching, Mentoring & Training.
Restore vitality, resilience & meaning
Welcome
I’m the co founder of Hero’s Journey Inner Life Coaching Method - a practical, effective approach to help those on the heroic inner journey of self realisation, individuation & the wholeness of Self.
I offer 1-1 coaching sessions, mentoring & training, framed within the universally recognisable mono myth of the Hero’s Journey.
At some point along the way we often find that there’s a need for a mentor who can help navigate life’s sea of challenges. This is my offering as a modern day elder.
Alongside my co founder and brother Luke Farren, we’ve distilled our 60 plus combined years of self inquiry & comprehensive training in somatic dialogue, Zen, Jungian Depth Psychology and bodywork to offer the very crux of practices which work - empowering, creating resilience and restoring hope in the ongoing journey towards the wholeness of Self.
Coaching
Solve problems and get clear on life mission, purpose, goals, & vision. Unblock creativity, gain insight, clarity & headspace. Communicate more effectively. Achieve specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals using The Hero’s Journey Method - a simple & highly effective somatic, jungian approach for personal & professional transformation.
Resilience
Overcome overwhelm! Learn somatic resilience techniques in a 1-1 session that work in dealing with trauma, PTSD, difficult feelings, stress, anxiety and emotional disorders. Become more resilient and find resources you can use any time & place.
Shadow Work
The shadow is that which is unconscious or not known to us. Also parts of our psyche which we are in denial of or have been repressed.
Shadow work is a joyful, enriching process, revealing hidden gifts & talents, restoring vitality, clarity in life direction and make us feel more together by improving relationships within the psyche.
By developing a relationship with the unconscious we become more psychologically whole, mature & alive.
Bringing form to archetypal energies allows us to relate with and embody the full potential of Archetypes through the ‘felt sense’ and symbols.
Simple, empowering & effective methods which allow you to self interpret dreams & their meaning, & actioning the messages relayed.
Spiritual Counselling & Mentoring
We all need someone to bounce off. The best definition of sanity I’ve come across is “Speaking words others understand.” I have witnessed thousands of beings awaken to who or what they on our ‘Hero’s Journey Who Am I?’ retreats and the process post awakening can feel a bit ‘woo woo’ because it is. Family, friends and work colleagues can feel like not being on the same page leading us to feel alienated and isolated.
Together we co create a vessel robust enough to allow a safe space where our individual vessel can break down (if necessary) and rebirth itself in a natural alchemy.
I started my own journey in 1992 through necessity in recovery through a twelve step program and am a 10,000 hr+practitioner within a variety of spiritual practices, embodied disciplines & traditions.
A former Zen teacher I hold ‘Enlightenment Intensives’, and other specialist retreats worldwide with my brother and co founder Luke Farren.
I offer hard earned insight into integration of awakening experiences and ways which embody and anchor the process whilst we regroup and make sense of the process.
I also have a perspective from recovery and plant medicine too, having spent 6 months at a plant medicine centre in Peru I now lead groups there each year. I teach methods to ground and expand a container to hold what’s revealed in the process and inner relating methods to integrate and make further sense of what’s experienced.
Awakening can be disorienting and discombobulating though necessary in individuation - our personal ongoing journey to becoming more psychologically whole, mature, & fulfilling our full potential as a human
Rates
1 x1 hour Session £95
5 x1 hour package £450
Intensive 1 Day £275
3 x 1 hour 15 min sessions for Guilt / Shame / Karma / Low Esteem / Unlocking & Clearing Blockages.
Corporate Hero’s Journey Packages
Resilience & relating days & ongoing courses tailored to fit, all held within the easily relatable mono myth of The Hero’s Journey.
For many each day is a personal battle of self worth and motivation, it’s akin to Frodo bearing the load of the ring.
Methodology to overcome overwhelm, inner relate with our opposing polarities within, self motivate and improve communication.
Testimonials
I stumbled across Matt when browsing the internet hoping to find a ‘something’ that seemed fitting in my desire for updating who I am. Being a therapist, I’d done much work on processing my sticky stuff but felt a calling to discover my spirituality and authentic self more deeply. During the first session, Mat clearly explained the dyad process before we practiced this intentional collaborative form of enquiry. While Matt tenderly coached me when needed, I felt seen, heard, and understood in a way that awakened me to dormant parts of myself and empowered me to trust that I was born with all I need to live peacefully and in wholeness. I felt a sense of ‘stepping into myself’ that afterwards left me feeling energised and harmonious. A truly meaningful experience aiding fundamental change to my inner dialogue and how I perceive the world: accelerating my path to enlightenment.
Michelle
The shadow retreat helped reveal the parts of me I disown without even realising it, and how important those parts are for my well-being. It was a great accompaniment to the Hero’s Journey retreat experience with lots of practical exercises I have incorporated into my practices. As ever, Luke and Mat were really helpful and knowledgeable.
Russell M
I have done two retreats with Matt and Luke so far, and each of them helped me understand something profound and new about myself. Reconnect with my core, my nature, my soul. I see the shifts in my perspective that keeps coming long after the retreats. I go about my life, and suddenly something clicks, and I see the bigger picture more clearly. Three days in a retreat seems to me like three years of therapy. I am definitely going to continue exploring.
Mia K
“When I opened my eyes and saw the real world, I began to laugh and I haven’t stopped since. “ Kierkegaard
The Hero’s Journey ‘Who Am I?’ Self Inquiry Intensive 3 Day Retreat Has One Purpose - To Directly Experience The Truth Of Your Being.
Upon awakening we know ourselves to be the source of fundamental adequacy, wisdom & freedom we have always longed for.
The revolutionary Hero’s Journey Self-Inquiry Technique is one of mankind's most powerful psycho-technologies, informed by practices reaching back over 2500 years.
I recommend all clients to participate on one of these retreats as knowing who we are offers the foundation stone all other inner work can be aligned to.
“Know Thyself’’ — Inscription at the Delphi
