Authenticity Coaching

Life Coaching with the power of authenticity

Lionheart Coaching helps you reconnect with your true nature and life purpose.

Expressing your true self is worth it.

Lionheart Coaching offers unique coaching services that emphasize self-acceptance and a heart-centred approach to goals, personal narratives, and relationships. We help people rediscover their true nature and life purpose so they can express their authenticity, create meaningful connections, and foster empowered relationships.

Maybe you feel:

  • Uncertain of whom you are after years spent living out others’ expectations
  • Unsure about your life purpose
  • Uncomfortable expressing your true self in your intimate, social, or work relationships
  • Unequipped to resolve conflict in difficult relationships
  • Unsure how to develop meaningful connections with others
  • Held back by past traumas
  • Unable to foresee the next steps in your life or career
  • Undervalued by society

WE CAN HELP

Working with Lionheart can result in:

  • Reaching clarity about your life purpose
  • Healing through focussed self-awareness and authentic self-expression
  • Breaking free from society’s expectations to honour your authentic journey
  • Choosing authentic communication to resolve conflicts and enhance personal and professional relationships
  • Spontaneously manifesting the conditions for transformation and goal realization
  • Experiencing more ease and freedom in daily interactions with others
  • Experiencing more joy through connection
  • Discovering the feeling of belonging and interconnectedness

After a few weeks of counsel, the results surpassed my expectations and renewed my confidence. With kindness, grace, and practical foundations to create a better life, John helped me uncover my true values and contributed greatly to my inner well-being, authenticity, hope, and inspiration. He is not only a wonderful life coach, he is a true healing compass and ally.

Karen Mitter
Nanaimo, BC

The greatest lesson I learned is I have something to offer in any social situation. I have the ability to have a difficult conversation with someone and not feel insignificant afterwards because I stick to my values.

Teryl Jeffrey
Parksville, BC

Why choose authenticity?

Often, our authentic selves are in direct conflict with what becomes expected of us. If we develop the confidence to honour our unique voice and life purpose, we will have the power to create unlimited new narratives and experience the freedom that is our birthright.

Book a free 1-on-1 consultation

We’ll use this time to get to know each other and outline a custom-tailored path forward. Follow-up sessions start at $165/hr.

MEET YOUR COACH

About John

John is a Certified Authentic Leadership Global™ Facilitator and Life Coach. He has Certification in Counselling Skills for Substance Abuse and more than two decades of experience helping people achieve their goals. John’s professional experience includes career counselling, addiction counselling, and community support work. He specializes in advocacy and support for mental health, multicultural, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+, and marginalized communities.

In 2017, John openly shared his experience of childhood abuse, discrimination, and PTSD through a series of storytelling events, and his experience was published in the 2018 anthology “Daring to Share, There to Here” by Diana Reyers.

John is inspired by others' stories and their personal triumphs in reclaiming their authentic identities. Currently, he is working on a publishing project exploring social identity and our conversations about collective trauma.

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Business and Leadership Coaching

Are you looking for solutions to make you a more effective leader while engaging your teams with inclusive communication skills? Authentic Leadership can help you become clear and achieve business goals while facilitating empowered relationships with others during periods of transition.

Benefit from decades of leadership research:

  • Discover the qualities influential leaders have in common.
  • Clarify the values that will help you lead your team toward desired results.
  • Establish healthy boundaries and communication strategies to reduce stress and resolve conflict.
  • Overcome self-defeating habits of perfectionism to achieve peak performance.
  • Develop self-awareness and emotional intelligence to enhance daily interactions and foster genuine connections.
  • Reduce overwhelm and establish clarity and confidence in decision-making.
  • Facilitate empowerment and collaboration through innovative approaches.
  • Incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles and empower your business.