Work with me
There is one way to begin.
From there, the work finds its shape.
The work begins as a season — a defined arc of one-to-one conversations. Some seasons are complete in themselves. Some become an ongoing practice. And for those who have already worked with me, a single conversation remains available when life asks for one.
01 — Where the work begins
A Season
Sustained one-to-one work over a defined arc — typically three or six months. For a specific transition, or for a moment in a life that has been asking for closer attention than it has been given. A season is long enough for the pattern to surface and be met, and bounded enough to have a clear shape. It is not open-ended.
This is how the work begins. The specific length is decided in the first conversation, not on this page. I will not guess at it before meeting you, and I will not sell you more of it than the work wants.
“The pathway to true happiness and freedom has been a long and difficult one for me. It was hard for me to have joy in my life and see myself authentically as someone living with complex PTSD. Artur was able to see ME through the masks I have been wearing for over 40 years. He believed in me, even when I didn’t believe in myself. I am forever grateful for his coaching and friendship.
Dr. Deborah Chong — United States Medical Doctor
02 — What the work may become
An Ongoing Practice
For some, a season is complete in itself. For others, the work wants to continue — not as a project with an end date, but as a steady, unhurried place in the life. An ongoing practice is the shape this continuation takes: indefinite, rhythmic, not outcome-bound. The frame is not “problem then solution.” It is the presence of someone who will keep meeting you as you keep arriving.
This shape usually grows out of a season. Sometimes another season is enough; sometimes the work becomes ongoing.
03 — For those who have already worked with me
A Return Conversation
Once we have worked together, the door does not close. A return conversation is a single meeting — sometimes two — for a recalibration, a threshold, or a decision whose shape you cannot quite see because you are standing inside it. You arrive with the thing. We sit with it together until what is actually happening can be seen.
This shape is not a public entry into the work. It is reserved for people I already know. If we have not yet met, a season is where we begin.
You leave this work less governed by identity,
harder to seduce with self-improvement
as a substitute for truth.
That is what I will hold you toward, whichever shape the work takes. The outward form of your life may change or stay the same. What changes, when something real changes, is the distance between you and what you actually know.
04 — How it begins
The entrance is the same. We meet first, for an unhurried half-hour, and the purpose of that half-hour is only to find out whether this is right for you. I am not optimizing it for anything else. No form to fill before we speak, no intake questionnaire, no framework I am trying to sell you into. We talk about what is actually present for you now, and about what has brought you to a page like this.
At the end of that half-hour, one of a few things will be true. It will be obvious that we should work together, and we will set the season. It will be obvious that we should not. Or the answer will not yet be obvious, and a good decision will be a little closer than when we sat down. Any of those is a useful outcome.
I work by video from Lisbon, with occasional intensives in person.
The one-to-one work described here is distinct from the nondual inquiry offered elsewhere on this site. The frame is more structured, and the work moves through a defined arc.
05 — Practical notes
- Practice
- Small. I work with a small number of people at a time.
- Fee
- Discussed in the first conversation.
- Confidentiality
- Complete. Nothing said in a session is repeated, written about, or referred to outside it, including with your permission.
- Endings
- A season ends when its arc ends. An ongoing practice ends when the work is done or when either of us sees that it is no longer needed.
If something here has asked you to pause,
write to me.