Emergence coaching is a practice for the threshold moments of life—the in-between spaces where what used to fit no longer does, and what’s next hasn’t yet arrived. Unlike coaching models that start with goals or predefined outcomes, emergence coaching begins with presence. It trusts the natural process of becoming: that clarity and direction don’t come from forcing or fixing, but from creating the conditions for what wants to emerge to reveal itself.
Many coaching modalities bring powerful gifts. Executive coaching sharpens leadership and performance. Life coaching helps people articulate goals and move toward them. Somatic coaching deepens body awareness and regulation. Transformational and ontological coaching support profound shifts in identity and ways of being. All of these approaches are valuable—and yet, I found myself drawn to the fertile space they often left out: the liminal, the not-yet-known. Emergence coaching is distinct because it centers that space itself, allowing the new to arise in its own timing and form.
My discovery of this practice wasn’t something I set out to invent. It unfolded through my own lived experience of transition—times when the old structures of my life were dissolving, but the next chapter wasn’t yet clear. Again and again, I learned that trying to push forward only created resistance. The real breakthroughs came when I stayed present, listened deeply, and allowed something larger than my plans to take shape.
This way of working was later shaped and refined by my training and learning journeys. From Co-Active and ORSC coaching I gained powerful tools for presence, partnership, and systems awareness. From Theory U I learned to trust the future that wants to emerge, not just the patterns of the past. From authentic relating and circling I experienced the art of deep attunement and co-creation. And all of this was happening alongside my career as an engineering leader in fast-moving tech startups, where agile methodologies taught me how iteration, feedback, and responsiveness allow complex systems to adapt and thrive.
Emergence coaching is the integration of these influences, but more than that—it is the practice I have lived and re-lived in my own becoming. It’s an approach that honors both structure and mystery, both discipline and surrender. And it is the way I now walk with others through their own thresholds, trusting that what is waiting to be born will arrive, in its own time, if we create the space for it.
