Welcome Purpose Driven Founder!
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You're a visionary entrepreneur with a deep commitment to making a meaningful difference - whether that's building sustainable solutions, creating technology that serves humanity, or developing business models that prioritise both people and planet. You have the courage to pursue your mission and the determination to bring your ideas to life.
But while you may be passionate about the purpose behind your venture, you are feeling the tension between staying true to your values and navigating the practical realities of building a financially viable organisation. Balancing impact with viability is demanding, and while you remain dedicated to your vision, you're searching for approaches that allow you to create meaningful change without sacrificing your original purpose or burning you out before your vision is accomplished.
The world needs purpose-driven founders like you to innovate bold new solutions to global problems and to bring those new ideas into the mainstream. The Embodied ChangeMaker programme helps you integrate your values with sustainable business practices, working with your intuitive wisdom rather than against it so you can have the impact you've dreamed of.
Your mission to create impact should not require you to compromise your core values or your health!
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Building a venture that aims to solve meaningful social or environmental problems?
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Struggling to balance profit requirements with your impact mission and core values?
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Managing teams that blend paid staff with volunteers and passionate activists who share your vision?
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Finding it difficult to maintain your own wellbeing while carrying the responsibility of your mission?​​
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Ready to develop business models that honour both your purpose and sustainable growth without burning out?
THE EMBODIED CHANGEMAKER PROGRAMME
As a Purpose Driven Founder, you pour your heart and soul into bringing your vision to life. But this journey, while meaningful, can leave you feeling drained and sometimes wondering if you're walking the path alone. You deserve to be supported in a way that truly sees both your struggle and your potential, with practical, heart-centred approaches that are as deeply rooted in real-world wisdom as they are in social values.
Certified High Performance Coaching is the highest rated coaching process in the industry consistently rated 9.7 out of 10 across more than 100,000 third party evaluated sessions. High Performance means succeeding beyond standard norms consistently over the long term. Certified High Performance Coaching is a programme designed to embed the “HP6”- the six habits that matter most in achieving longterm, sustainable, positive life changes, as identified in a 3 year research study of high performers worldwide conducted by the High Performance Institute.
CLARITY
Make decisions that feel deeply right and align with your vision
Make decisions that feel deeply right and aligned with your vision
ENERGY
Work with your natural rhythms to sustain peak performance
COURAGE
Move forward from genuine strength, not forced willpower
PRODUCTIVITY
Achieve more while feeling energised and focused
INFLUENCE
Inspire change naturally through authentic presence
NECESSITY
Find the emotional drive that brings meaning to your work and purpose to your life
High Performance is balanced with my over 15 years of expertise working with the nervous system to regulate past traumas in individuals, teams and communities. To be Embodied is to be deeply connected to yourself so you can recognise symptoms of overwhelm - both yours and others - early enough to course correct and find more empowering ways forward.
"My sessions with Darren were nothing short of extraordinary. I often reflect on our conversations and find myself regularly sharing quotes that have been useful in many situations and environments.
Darren’s gentle approach makes you feel at ease from the start. He is incredibly knowledgable and has a talent for asking the exact right question at the exact right time.
Darren has guided me through some very difficult phases, both professionally and personally and because of our sessions, I genuinely feel that I am a significantly more thoughtful, confident and purposeful leader.
In short - I could not recommend Darren more."
HOLLY PENALVER, FOUNDER OF INDIGO VOLUNTEERS
WHAT DO I GET?
Through an integrated approach spanning therapy, coaching, and mentorship,
I'll guide you to become the absolute best version of yourself over 12 High Performance sessions totalling 20 hours of coaching over a time period that suits you. Together, we'll heal past wounds, rediscover your authentic power, and cultivate the self-leadership essential for making positive change in your life, your community and the world around you.
1 x 3 Hour
Goal Setting Session
1 x 2 Hour
Committment Session
An audio recording of the session for you to download and keep
10 x 90 Min
Certified High Performance Coaching Sessions
Incorporating Brainspotting if required
Full session notes provided within 24 hours of each session
Deeper dive worksheets for each High Performance Session
So you can continue working between sessions
WhatsApp and email support between
sessions
PROGRAMME OUTLINE
SESSION #1
GOAL SETTING
In this first session we’ll be setting the scene by
identifying goals for the road ahead,
discovering your level of focus, agency and
current habits that might be holding
you back.
We will define Success on your terms and
design a pathway to achieving it.
SESSION #2
CLARITY
In this session you’ll be identifying where you
are right now, getting clear about the values,
principles and practices that support your
journey to leadership.
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SESSION #3
ENERGY
You'll be discovering how to generate the power needed to keep moving and achieve your goals, without burning out.
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SESSION #4
COURAGE
In this session we'll be looking at roadblocks and learning ways to overcome resistance
to change.
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SESSION #5
PRODUCTIVITY
You’ll be exploring ways to get things done
more consistently and identifying the habits that stop you being as productive as you could be.
SESSION #6
INFLUENCE
In this session we’ll look at how to increase your
influence in your relationships and how to bring others with you as a leader.
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SESSION #7
PSYCHOLOGY MASTERY
In this session we’ll be developing a leadership
mindset by increasing your level of awareness
so you can live into your strengths, rather than
your limitations.
SESSION #8
PHYSIOLOGY MASTERY
In this session we’ll revisit Energy, but from a perspective of developing more stamina and
resilience to serve at a higher level.
SESSION #9
PRODUCTIVITY MASTERY
This session is all about getting even more
effective in your productivity and seeing big goals through to a successful conclusion.
SESSION #10
PERSUASION MASTERY
In this session you’ll focus on becoming more influential in sharing your message and learn a formula for maximum persuasion.
SESSION #11
PURPOSE
As the culmination of exploring the HP6 you will focus on “raising necessity” by identifying the underlying motivating factors that get you out of bed every day as an Embodied ChangeMaker.
SESSION #12
COMMITMENT
In our final session we’ll review the journey so
far and explore ways to help you stay on the
path once the programme is over.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
£4500
Paid in 2 or 3 instalments or in a lump sum for a £100 discount
If for any reason you are not finding the sessions beneficial you can cancel at any time and get a full refund of any sessions not yet taken.​
Add 6 Hours of Deep Dive sessions to address any resistance that might come up during the programme. This is an intensive process that can uncover deeper blocks that we can't address in the High Performance sessions, so it can be useful to have extra time to focus specifically on those issues and clear them outside the structured programme.
+ £500
Darren is an amazing and skilled practitioner who guided me on a journey of self-discovery and healing. It was totally unexpected and I have learnt a great deal from working with him. I've left our process with greater clarity, purpose and confidence.
AMANDA MITCHELL,
CHOIR LEADER
Working with Darren has enabled us to clarify our vision and take bold steps towards our goals. While sensitively guiding us towards clearer thinking, his positive energy and can-do attitude ensure a thoroughly worthwhile and enjoyable experience. I would not hesitate to recommend him.
KIRSTY WITHER, ARTIST AND GALLERY OWNER
Darren changed my life. I was in a state of transition personally and professionally, and there was a
pandemic going on! Not only did he help me work out what career move to make next, but by session 4, I was already being paid to do work I love!
ADAM BATES, FOUNDER PEOPLE AND PLANET CONVERSATIONS
ABOUT ME
If you're looking for someone who truly understands the ChangeMaker's journey you've come to the right place.
My path to becoming a High Performance Coach and Mentor for ChangeMakers has been anything but conventional. As a former opera singer who performed on international stages from the Royal Opera House to Teatro Communale di Bologna, I learned early on about the profound connection between body wisdom and peak performance. This understanding has shaped everything I do.
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Since 2014, I've been privileged to guide fellow ChangeMakers through their own transformational journeys, combining my expertise as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Certified High Performance Coach, and trauma specialist. But perhaps more importantly, I walk this path alongside you. Every year since 2014, I've recommitted to my own High Performance journey, experiencing fresh insights and deeper transformations each time I take this programme. This isn't just work for me - it's a way of being that continues to evolve and enrich my life.
Through The Human Hive, which I co-founded in 2015, I've worked with ChangeMakers worldwide, supporting them to create regenerative projects while maintaining their wellbeing. As someone who has designed and delivered transformative programmes from corporate boardrooms to refugee camps, I understand the unique challenges of leading change while staying true to yourself.
HOW WE'LL WORK TOGETHER
My approach is grounded in the belief that your body holds the wisdom you need to lead with impact while staying deeply well. Together, we'll create a safe, nurturing space where you can explore this wisdom, supported by my unique blend of therapeutic expertise, coaching mastery, and lived experience as a multi-passionate ChangeMaker.
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I believe that the best guides are those who never stop growing themselves.
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When you work with me, you're not just getting a coach - you're gaining a committed ally who understands the complexity of your journey and holds space for your full potential to emerge. Together, we'll discover how your body's wisdom can guide you to lead with greater impact, authenticity, and joy.
