Deep Adaptation

Making sense in challenging times

Hello my name is Matthew and I’m a Deep Adaptation Coach.

I accompany people who are deeply distressed about what is happening on Earth, who are seeking to make better sense of it all and who may be struggling to know how to act for the best.

When the world is irrational and the future appears to be somewhere we no longer want to arrive, a deeper kind of support is needed to make sense of things. 

I have been coaching and facilitating for over ten years, I love it more than anything else and I never cease to be amazed at the wisdom that shows up when we go looking for it.

But in 2018 I had a ‘meltdown’, as the scope, scale and momentum of the planetary crisis took up residence in my soul and unravelled me. I was overwhelmed with grief, anxiety and despair which I now realise I had been living with for years, whilst carrying on in ‘business as usual’. 

Over several years and through hundreds of hours of conversation I have developed compassionate and effective skills, tools, frames and processes which help people transmute aspects of their reality-distress into wise and enlivening action for the best. 

I also collaborate with coaches, therapists, activists, facilitators and educators who are seeking to deepen and enrich their skills and practice with regard to the growing epidemic of distress and anxiety as a result of the planetary scale crisis we now find ourselves in.

My Services

  • COACHING

    One-to-one coaching for anyone distressed by the state of the world (online or in-person)

  • TRAINING

    Supervision, training and support to fellow coaches, therapists, activists and educators. 

  • GROUP FACILITATION

    Facilitated group sharing, listening and sensemaking online.

  • MEDITATION

    Online group meditation for nervous-system regulation and deeper resourcing.

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Introduction to Deep Adaptation Coaching

Free discovery session

Finding the right support is a big-deal. I offer a free, no obligation discovery call so you get a sense of me and of how coaching might serve you…

“I just had a one-off coaching conversation with Matthew and I am just elated. The word ‘conversation’ does not do justice to what happened during those 90 minutes”

Fernando García Ferreiro. Director of Health & Wellbeing, European Commission (retired)

  • Working with Matthew has allowed me the space and freedom to go deeper than I ever would have expected. I would highly recommend him to anyone who wants an intuitive rather than goal-oriented coach. I was afraid of taking the lid off a pent-up backlog of grief and fear, but that turned out not to be such a problem - the fact of just sharing and mutual understanding, of listening and being heard, lifted a lot of the burden and the loneliness.

    N.Z. 2023

  • Reflecting on the ongoing benefit of working with Matthew, one year on, I feel that it has given me more confidence - in speaking out, writing and choosing what matters. Working with Matthew has given me more confidence as a human, a woman and an activist.

    L.E. 2022

  • His questions always take me to where I need to go and his sensitivity and awareness of the slightest possible discomfort I may experience make the space he holds feel particularly safe.

    A.Y. 2023

  • I am so grateful for the transformations, across all areas of my life…I have developed a more complete sense of self, of my gifts and of the work that is mine to do..I am a better ‘me’ because of Matthew, his skill, his intuition, his presence, his heart.

    J.G. 2024

  • Mathew has been a treasure to my development. I would highly recommend Mathew to anyone who is looking for any form of personal or business help, support, guidance, motivation, clarity or help being with emotions or any repetitive thought or behavioural patterns. He is certainly a real treasure and highly skilled and experienced in what he does. 5 star

    P.B. 2023

  • Matthew has encouraged me to listen to and trust my own wisdom, and create a vision for the way I’d like to live my life. He has an almost preternatural gift for pinpointing and framing the issues and feelings that bring me the most pain and the greatest hope, and then supporting me to understand how I might accept these feelings, find some peace and continue to act towards The Vision.

    L.D. 2017

  • I thought I knew myself on a deep and intuitive level, but Matthew took me beyond those concepts to a place I am grateful to now inhabit. The process was moving, uplifting and, ultimately, life changing My journey with Matthew began during a dark phase in my life without which I'd still be struggling to see the light. His deeply intuitive and powerful visualisation techniques during my journey has helped me become stronger, taught me self love and how to nurture myself and seen me through a life changing transformation for which I will be eternally grateful. Matthew is truly gifted at what he does!

    R.C. 2016

  • That's what I would expect from life coaching, its a challenging process. It helped me to realise what are the important things in my life and enjoy life more fully. It's incredible how quick the change was. Matthew knows how to listen and he got skill of asking the right questions! Amazing , never experienced anything like it!

    K.C. 2016

  • My life coaching journey with Matthew has totally enhanced my life.

    A.D. 2024