Coming home to Self
Expanding your relationship with the highest, most embodied version of YOU
Self Leadership
We carry many parts within us—each holding different perspectives and memories. Some of these parts know each other well, while others live in isolation, unheard or unseen. Fear, Shame, Perfectionism, Inner Critic… these are not flaws, they are our humanity.
Your capital “S” Self is your inner divine essence. The YOU beyond your name, beyond your roles, beyond any one story. Self is calm, clear, creative and compassionate. Self is the steady presence that connects you to source energy and inner wisdom.
Following the lineage of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the heart of liberatory coaching is inviting Self to lead. Parts grab our attention; Self needs to be invited. From your grounded centre, you can meet your parts—not to fix them, but to listen, love, and understand their good intentions. This is not about managing or optimizing your inner world. It’s about opening a portal to deeper belonging within yourself and with the wider field of life. As you learn to be with your parts from Self, you create healing pathways towards liberation and return to the truth that you are already whole, already enough.
Divine Audience
The people I most want to support are those who are consciously walking the path toward our collective liberation. These are folks who sense that another way is not only possible but necessary—people who are actively unlearning, reimagining, and co-creating in the cracks of dominant systems. What connects us is not a single role or identity, but our shared purpose to cultivate liberation not just as a destination, but as a daily relational practice.
Whether you are an institutional leader trying to shift culture from within, an entrepreneur building with integrity, an organizer weaving movements, a student questioning inherited narratives, a caregiver holding sacred relational labour, a teacher tending emergent wisdom, or a creative channeling truths —I offer a grounded mirror and a steady hand for the journey.
Intro Chat
I offer a free 45 min intro chat. This is a no-pressure opportunity for us to meet and see if we'd like to move forward. If what you need isn't what I can offer, there are many other beautiful coaches I can connect you with.
I am here to support you to:
Get clear on your needs and values
Notice and name limiting and undermining energy and voices
Bring curiosity and compassion to your parts (Internal Family Systems)
Explore past and present patterns in service of future Self
Get unstuck from where you are and reclaim your agency
Create practices that support your journey towards aliveness, creativity, and power
As coach I will:
Accept wholeheartedly where you are at and create a coaching container of trust and non-judgement.
Lean into abundance and trust that you will bring the answers to your issues and as coach I do not have to fix anyone or anything. Instead of giving you advice, I will help guide you to find your answers. You know what’s most important.
Ask thought-provoking questions to make meaning, deepen awareness, inspire hope, and open up the field of choice.
Co-create action steps after each session, make requests, and hold you accountable to your commitments to Self.
As coach partner* you will:
Develop your goals for coaching and define what success looks like.
Recognize me as a coach and not a consultant (to give advice and strategize) or therapist. While coaching has therapeutic benefits and connects to past experiences, it is forward focused.
Be at choice and have full agency to set the boundaries; going as deep as you want to go.
Be willing to be transformed in service of your goals.
Co-create action steps after each session and respond to requests.
(*Rather than using the term client, liberatory coaches opt for the term "coach partner" to emphasize the reciprocity of the coaching relationship and address the power dynamics that come from the white supremacist cultural positioning of the coach as an expert.)
Liberatory Coaching Certification
My professional coaching certification is from Coaching for Healing Justice and Liberation. This program is for BIPOC social justice movement leaders committed to learning coaching skills for individual and collective liberation. It is the only offering of its kind rooted in ancestral wisdom, radical love, and the audacious belief that another world is not only possible but already being born. The program helped me deepen the coaching skills that I have been practicing in my leadership roles for the past 15 years, and supported me to do so much inner healing work which has enabled me to coach at a much deeper level.
Written by the creators of Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation, Love Letter to the Movement asks how we can move through social justice movements as whole people. Sarah and Damon weave together personal stories with coaching skills to support individuals and communities to connect to what really matters for collective liberation. Love Letter brings in political analysis, centers Spirit, and offers practical examples and exercises to help deepen individual practice. This book is an important resource for those looking for liberatory tools to support social justice movements.
The final step in our coaching certification wasn’t a paper—it was a visioning project. Instead of submitting a written reflection, we were invited to co-create a visual one. Each of us was paired with a visual artist, and through a series of intimate conversations, we explored three questions: What have you learned about yourself on this journey? Nine months later, what has shifted in how you see yourself? And what are you celebrating about where you are now?
I was partnered with Adriana Contreras, whose artwork became a mirror and a portal. She created a piece that depicts me meeting my highest Self, seated atop a watermelon—its vibrant body opening into a cosmic gateway of liberation. A pomegranate rests nearby, a symbol of the wisdom gained through this journey. The backdrop reveals the cross-section of a pomegranate—its intricate, womb-like geometry embodying the divine feminine wisdom that cradles, nourishes, and holds it all.
“Navida brings her clear full presence to coaching in a way that coach partners can dive deeply into their parts and feel held even in silence. Through her coaching stance, Navida offers coach partners a way back to themselves when they are grappling with big life questions and a gentle reminders of their power and the systems that impact us. Navida's coaching style is like a balm for these chaotic times and the best kind of walk in the woods.”
Alison Lin
“I looked forward to sessions with Navida like a big warm hug. I would come into the sessions with various levels of frenetic energy and she offered grounding techniques that started each session off so well. Navida is extremely good at both helping to identify pain points, and also allowing flexibility to focus on what serves in that moment. Her approach is very steady and paced. I am all the better for having worked with Navida, and I feel so much gratitude for her generous gifts.”
Amy
“Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are actually yours. They are specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else. The part of you that loves you more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself. You are not going in the right direction unless there is something pricking you in the side, telling you, “Look here! This way!” That part of you loves you so much that it doesn’t want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up, it will make you suffer greatly if you don’t listen. What else can it do? That is its purpose.”