About Me

First and most importantly, thank you for being here. Thank you for spending your precious time with me. I appreciate you stopping by. And — I want you to like me.

I love people. A lot. I love communication and connection, especially when it’s honest, deep, intimate and playful. Risks. Rawness. Relationships. Revolutions. All those words start with the letter R. They’re also what I’m into. And, yes, I think I’m funny.

My personality is extroverted, positive and enthusiastic.  I’m a yes to life. I have a deep soul call to be of service. I care about humanity, our world and about finding ways to cultivate change and support others in aligning their greatest gifts and longings with their impact in their life, work, communities and spheres of influence.

My soul seeks communion and transformation and is cleanly anchored in a mission to alleviate suffering. Mine. Yours. I feel a moral obligation to use my privilege in service of a more healthy and just world. We’re in such strange times. It seems so much is simultaneously crumbling while new worlds of potential are emerging. In the same moment as I feel resilient and wise, I am also naive and only beginning to wake up. My earnest hope is that I do right by this sweet and sick world, bring what I’ve got and remain soft, open and curious.

My name, Chela, is Sanskrit for disciple. It’s Spanish for Beer. The contrast is fitting.

Work + Philosophy

I thrive working with people who are passionate about and determined to have a conscious and positive impact in this world. Leaders. Makers. Lovers. Seekers. Shit Disturbers.

I see my gifts, skills and resources can have the greatest impact when working with people of influence who want to effect change in the places that impact the most vulnerable and suffering.

I help people develop and transform themselves. I’m particularly skilled at being able to give language to what’s occurring, to illuminate that which was out of view and work dynamically with people to expand awareness as well as how to practically apply what’s been uncovered.

Waking up to who we are and expanding our perspectives and capacities helps to liberate us from the constraints we experience as well as shepherds us toward who we really are and what we’re most called to do.

Beyond ourselves — in our work and communities — our own personal development is imperative to be effective at causing change where it’s needed, leading worthy missions in the world and really showing up powerfully and honestly, with skill and with grace.

I believe that we should all be free to pursue a living that is sustainable to us and sustainable to the planet and our communities.

I have this vision of what could be possible if all of us did work that we love that truly contributes to others, while being remunerated with dignified abundance. We currently have entrenched systems that act to thwart such a vision, that exploit and marginalize so many humans. I’m interested in what it takes to revolutionize and evolve these systems and our ways of relating to them and to each other.

I’m particularly interested in what it means to have a calling, to express our purpose in the world and to find the intersection between what each of us most longs for and what the world needs from us.

About Integral Coaching®

Integral Coaching® is a coaching methodology developed by Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine, founders of Integral Coaching Canada and based off of contemporary philosopher Ken Wilber’s, Integral Theory. This methodology is complex, inclusive and effective.

I knew I wanted to apply Integral Theory to coaching methodology before I even knew Integral Coaching® existed. From my first time walking into the classroom, I had the sense of ‘being home’. My participation and leadership with Integral Coaching Canada is tight knit. I am now a Senior Faculty member and lead teacher of the Integral Coaching® Certification Program and spent three incredible years on the core leadership team and as President of ICC.

I get to have a direct, meaningful and lasting impact on the development of others. I’m most interested in working with leaders and people committed to influencing cultural and systemic change. As I support these leaders, I am able to have a wider and deeper impact. As my clients and students are able to take more perspectives, create solutions to complex problems, bring more wisdom and deep care to others and be more effective in their mission, the greater rippling effect this work gets to have.

I offer both one on one Integral Coaching® programs as well as customized team and group programs.

I love this work. Let this work love you.