Radical Self™
1:1 Psycho-Somatic Coaching programme
The Radical Self™ journey journey will move you:
From the Overwhelmed Changemaker → The Embodied Leader
From disconnection, overwhelm and self-sacrifice → to clarity, connection and regenerative self-leadership.
As a changemaker, working for postive impact for people and planent, You care deeply about the work you do for others.
You’re values-led, committed, and often carrying far more than most people can see.
And yet, somewhere along the way, it may have started to cost you.
Not because you don’t love your work or have a brilliant vision for impact but because you’ve been doing it without enough support for your Self.
Imagine how it could feel to…
love the work you do and feel good within yourself
feel a genuine sense of achievement and connection with your work — without being drained
trust yourself to make instinctual decisions, rather than overthinking or second-guessing
feel calmer, steadier & less reactive, even in complexity
experience more flow, creativity, connection & real joy — returning
lead with confidence, compassion and conviction, without burnout
All of this is 100% possible for you
Radical Self™ is a six-month, holistic mind-body journey for Changemakers to move from confusion, exhaustion and overextension to grounded clarity, confidence and calm.
You’ll learn to lead from your inner compass, from wholeness, not depletion -building resilience, presence & emotional intelligence so your impact for people & planet is sustainable and truly transformative.
Begin your Radical Self™ journey
The Seven Signs of Overwhelm & Disconnection
Breaking the cycle of disconnection
Disconnection is the dis-ease of our time. It sits at the root of much needless suffering and undermines even the most important work. When you lose connection with your Self - burnout, overwhelm and misalignment follow.
You may recognise these signs already — they’re symptoms of a system, and of a way of working, that has forgotten its root connection.
1. You’re feeling overwhelmed with the task in hand and don’t know where to start
2. You’re meeting resistance from yourself and, or others which you can’t shift
3. You’re feeling depleted and exhausted
4. The scale of the problem you’re tackling feels too big
5. You are losing the passion you once had for your work
6. You feel isolated, unsupported or unappreciated
7. Your days feel chaotic and somewhat out of control
Hi, I’m Anna Blackman
I’ve coached numerous entrepreneurs, business owners and changemakers who have witnessed the overwhelm, responsibility and magnitude of their work prevent them from filling their own cup before they serve others, whose repeated priority on service and results, action over being, leads to disconnection. Some procrastinate their dream work, not believing they’re good enough, others pour their energy and love into their work, often meeting great outward success but wellbeing and balance suffer as they push forwards and their work follows suit.
The Radical Self™ programme has been born from two decades deep experience in the social impact sector followed by an intense period of breakdown, awakening and immersion, integration and training in many coaching, psychotherapy and somatic healing practices. I have:
Founded and built an award winning international develoment charity
Spent two decades in the social impact and international development sector as a founde, consultant, MBA graduate and executive director
ICF accredited training in Transformational, Executive and Team Coaching
Foundational training and diplomas in core process psychotherapy and relational mindfulness
Immersed and trained as a yoga teacher (Ashtanga and yin yoga), breathwork, Internal Family Systems, natural movement & lifestyle and a wide range of somatic healing practices
The goal of my work is simple - to provide the space, tools and techniques for ambitious people, who care passionately about society, our planet and the wellbeing of others, to uncover the gold within themselves and to thrive within and without. I am not interested in quick fixes, I care about supporting deep change, which you can sustain with ease.
So what is your Radical Self™?
Through bespoke support, coaching and mind-body practices to meet you exactly where you are, the Radical Self™ Programme invites you to meet and find new ways to welcome in your Radical Self on a daily basis for you and for all those your work impacts.
Think of your Radical Self™ like this:
Your Radical Self believes in change, believes in transformation for yourself and the world we live in. It holds your dreams and the passion for your work.
Your Radical Self is the part of you who:
Is brave, courageous and is prepared to step into the unknown, discomfort and meet resistance
Supports you to break through conditioning, blocks and wounds, and rebuild new healthier identity and self-belief systems
Can hold you to discipline and routine in shifting both mindset and wellbeing patterns
Holds all of you, connecting mind and body and can sense into the deeper frequencies of love, intuition, knowing and insight
Witnesses you in stillness and can connects you with Source – the Sacred - that which is greater than all of us and a bridge to belonging, deep peace and aliveness
Your Radical Self is an innate beautiful part of you.
Your Radical Self has the potential to be your greatest guide, friend and coach for ever!
Stella finally resolved the blocks holding her back
‘Anna is very perceptive and noticed patterns over time that helped me reflect on my personal growth and areas to develop so I could finally grow past what was holding me back.’
X from The International Organization of Migration found tailored advice to move forwards
‘Anna was very attentive to my needs and helped me clarify my goals. As well as listening and guiding, I appreciated that when I requested it, she offered tailored advice and specific suggestions that supported me moving forwards.’
Angharad took back power & ownership over her actions
'I can take control of things now. I'm in charge of me…….. I used to be my own worst enemy but now I have power and ownership over what I'm doing.'
Robin achieved clarity & focus personally & professionally
‘Anna is an exceptional coach who helped me achieve focus personally and professionally. Her insight and guidance have been invaluable. I would recommend this programme to anyone seeking positive change.’
The old way to manage overwhelm
You can’t think your way out of overwhelm.
Most changemakers try — by keeping going - writing longer to-do lists, working harder, making more deadlines or pushing through.
But that only tightens the cycle.
Your nervous system overloads, anxiety increases, clarity disappears, and you lose connection to what matters most.
You ignore the signs. At some point your body will make you stop.
This is the route to giving up on your ambitions and the dream projects you are most passionate about and to potential burn out in established careers.
You, your loved ones and your business suffer.
There is another way, which is both sustainable and deeply transformative, & I am going to share it with you…..
Introducing the Radical Self™ 1:1 Coaching Programme
Radical Self™ is rich, holistic 1:1 self-leadership coaching programme that shows another way — one that honours both the depth of your purpose and reconnects you to your body, mind and essence, giving you vital space to breath, express, enquire, integrate and reset. It is a beautiful journey of self-discovery, growth and transformation expertly designed for you to leave behind overwhelm, self-doubt and fatigue.
Who is it for?
Radical Self is a for entrepreneurs, visionaries and change-makers working for people and planetary health; for leaders who are ready to reconnect with themselves — and lead from that deeper place of alignment, authenticity and wholeness. It’s especially suited for:
Sole traders building purpose-led, values-aligned ventures
Professionals transitioning into purpose-driven work
First-time small business owners
Entrepreneurs or founders wondering how to scale their ideas without burning out
Leaders and managers seeking a complete refresh in how they lead and live
Creators within purpose-driven organisations looking to embody regenerative wisdom
For people and organisations led by positive impact for our planet — this work offers the grounding, clarity and embodiment needed to sustain meaningful change.
This programme which will bring joy, greater efficiency & productivity and enhance a deep sense of purpose.
Your Radical Self™ journey combines:
Highly individual 1:1 coaching sessions — tailored to meet your specific needs, challenges and personal goals.
Online group embodiment sessions — to help you integrate and move through whatever is arising on your coaching journey.
A library of carefully curated, transformative frameworks, readings and resources — to explore and practice in your own time as you uncover your Radical Self.
Optional community sessions — to harness the power of shared stories with others walking a similar path; access use the collective hive mind and to deepen your understanding of the practices, insights and tools you’re integrating.
Together, these elements create a rich, multi-dimensional journey that supports not only your personal transformation, but the collective unfolding of regenerative, embodied leadership for our times.
Begin your Radical Self™ journey
You will be Supported and Guided to:
🌿 Reconnect with Your True Self
The goal of the Radical Self Coaching Programme is simple yet profound: to guide you back to your innate self — mind, body, essence, and intrinsic health — so you can shine light on the personal and professional challenges you are experiencing in your work for positive impact. In turn you will reconnect more fully with others, with the natural world, and with the purpose that drives you.
This is the foundation of deep, relational, and regenerative leadership: purpose and service that flow from who you are, not just what you do.
Your journey will offer you a deeply supported space to explore your struggles, repetitive patterning, and dis-ease as you navigate how best to bring and uplevel your skills to contribute to the world and the communities you care about.
Through a rare, confidential and non-judgemental Coaching space space, you’ll be invited to give voice to what truly matters — and to what feels stuck or unseen. Through reflection, insight, and embodied integration, you’ll uncover what you need to bring your work and service more fully alive; to restore vitality, clarity, and balance; and to weave the importance of your impact with a greater sense of health, abundance, and meaningful connection.
💫 Do the Inner Work That Matters
Lasting change begins within.
By tending to yourself — your body, emotions, stories and patterns — you cultivate the strength and clarity to show up again and again in service of others.
This is not self-indulgence; it’s the root of sustainability.
When you do the work beneath the surface — exploring your blocks, resistance, over-striving or need to prove — you begin to release what no longer serves you, creating space for energy, creativity and joy.
Inner work magnifies the sustainability of outer impact.
As you build resilience, awareness and compassion, you begin to lead with greater authenticity and integrity — in ways that regenerate rather than drain.
🌱 Connect Inner Work and Outer Impact
It’s never either/or. It’s always both.
By aligning your leadership with your values, you deepen trust, consistency and collaboration — creating a ripple effect that extends far beyond yourself.
This is where regenerative leadership begins: when your inner world and outer work move in harmony, magnifying each other’s impact.
You can’t change the world from burnout — but you can transform it through embodiment.
🌸 Step into Alignment
When you meet yourself fully, new paths open.
You uncover renewed energy, confidence and purpose.
Your work flows with greater ease.
Your impact becomes more human, more creative, more joyful.
From that place of alignment, your leadership becomes powerful.
The Psycho-Somatic Approach
At the heart of Radical Self™ is my psycho-somatic approach — working with the intimate connection between the psyche (mind, emotions, stories) and the soma (the body and its felt experience).
We live much of our lives in our heads — analysing, planning, fixing — yet true transformation happens when we come back into relationship with the wisdom of the body.
The body holds the stories the mind forgets. It carries tension, trauma, shame, guilt, fear — the unspoken and the unseen — until we learn how to listen.
My approach as a 1:1 Coach is to create a relational space where you can share, create and talk from a deeper resource and connection within. Through gentle awareness, breath, movement, and somatic inquiry incorporated alongside coaching frameworks, reflection and deep questioning we begin to notice what’s been held.
We make space to release what’s stuck — the pain, resistance, or emotion that keeps us looping in old patterns. As we soften into the body’s intelligence, we open a clearer channel to our innate wisdom, intuition and knowing — the deeper truth that guides us towards alignment, joy and vitality.
From this place, leadership becomes embodied, compassionate, and resilient. We can meet the inevitable challenges and stretch of change-making work with steadiness and grace.
Pillar 1
Self-Understanding
In six months you will develop:
Through coaching, frameworks and self-study modules you will embark on a journey of self-enquiry. You will uncover what your deepest priorities are, understand the limiting blocks in your way and find actionable ways to shift them. You will discover new ways to relate to yourself and your challenges and work with intuitive decision-making. You will step into the freedom of greater self-expression and witness how your enhanced health also leads to greater impact for others in your work and at home.
Pillar 2
Well-Being Practices that work for you
You will enhance you wellbeing - emotionally, physically and spiritually. You will discover practices to sink into your body’s knowing, to develop self-trust and to envision where you want to go. You will find new practices that work for you, for your routine, responsibilities and your passions.
You will discover frameworks and exercises to integrate your learning, develop your mind-body connection and connect this power and joy into your daily routine in a way that truly works for you.
Pillar 3
Purpose, Progress & Accountability
In 1:1 Coaching , you will be guided to develop a holistic road map for yourself with clear goals, milestones and actions You will get clear on your purpose and your next steps and be supported to meet resistance and discomfort.
Through self-reflection exercises you will find mechanisms for sustainable self-accountability. If desired, you will harness the incredible support and power of communitity and onnect with others on a similar journey.
‘Coaching with Anna has been a transformational experience which has had a profound impact on my life. With Anna’s guidance and support I was able to take a step back from the overwhelm and self-doubt and really look at what was working in my life and what wasn’t in a way I had never done before - with love and compassion. Anna helped me see through all the noise and really home in on what I’m working towards.
I managed to achieve more than I could have imagined and feel confident continuing this work on my own. I feel like I have this internal road map of where I’m going and I trust myself to know what’s right. Anna has helped me develop my very own toolkit to navigate my internal and external world with compassion. She held a beautiful non-judgmental space for me each session and she’s helped me believe in myself again. I find it hard to put into words what Anna’s coaching has done for me and I can’t thank her enough.’ Sophie
Sophie overcame overwhelm and self-doubt and developed an internal road map with love and compassion
Plus…you will be deeply, personally supported every step of the way through:
1:1 Psycho-Somatic Coaching
High-level personal 1:1 coaching sessions
8 x 1:1 1 hour transformational coaching (ICF accredited) (in-person or online)
Full Confidentiality
Powerful questioning and mirroring
Compassionate space-holding
Personal goal setting
Stepped milestones and action
Accountability
Reflection exercises and shared documents
Sustainability mechanisms
Mind-body Integration Tools
A suite of mind-body practices to test and practice
Weekly drop-in online group embodiment classes
Breathwork and down-regulation
Meditation and visualisation
Yoga
Yoga Nidra
Nature Connection practices
Natural Movement
Natural lifestyle Coaching
Somatic practices
Recorded sessions to go back to in your own time
Resources and Frameworks
To study in your own time
Video tutorials on self-development practices
Video tutorials on nurturing your ‘Radical Self’
Practical Guides on mind-body integration
Scientific theory and explanation
Reading lists
Group community
Harnessing the power of connection and community
Monthly Q&A and circle sessions
Access to Radical Self community chat
Radical Self gives you everything to uplevel your self and your work - to thrive, not just survive, even if..
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Yes, life is busy and we have many pressures to balance – financial, responsibilities and dependents, work and home. Yet often if we dig a bit deeper into 'not having time' we may find some resistance, resistance it would be hugely beneficial to breakthrough.
In reality our concept of time and how much we have is a matter of our perspective. Our perspective not only affects how much time we believe we have but we can also shift our understanding to see we have control over both our perspective of time and how we choose to fill it. Now, that is liberating!
The crazy thing is the more we slow down, the more we de-clutter our time with things that don’t serve us and the more our time expands. Slow down to go fast! If we increasingly release the pressure of time, we become more efficient in the time we decide to work and have the capacity to find true flow.
Radical Self itself doesn’t require a big commitment of hours (see FAQs at botto)m but it will alter your perspective on time and pressure and move you to a place a smarter working and efficiency!
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How we spend our money is our choice. It is in our control.
It may be you think this money is better used for others you love.
It may be you are struggling on spending money on a ‘self-development’ programme – for yourself. If so, I encourage you to ask yourself a few questions?
Do I feel a sense of guilt about spending this money on myself? If so why? What does this tell you about how you value yourself?
When I come away with sustainable habits which makes my work more impactful what effect can this have on my business and earning potential? What do I want that to be? How would that feel?
When I come away with sustainable tools to feel more fulfilled, purposeful and well, what impact can that have on my loved ones, on my friends and family? How could it ripple out?
Radical Self is in fact in an investment in yourself, your work and those who around you.
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Radical Self is not aiming to replace any of your existing movement practices and exercise – the ones that you love and you know that work for you.
The movement and wellbeing practices in Radical Self all come from an embodied perspective; they are practices that help us sink in to the wisdom of the body and out of the mind, and they are practices that help us unite the mind with the body and the breath and for you do delve into deeper layers of yourself. During these practices it is likely insights arising from your 1:1 coaching will also arise and integrate more fully.
The drop-in sessions work with a suite of modalities – you are likely to find ones which really resonate with you and ones that don’t so much. You will be able to delve deeper into the ones that work for you through the programme resources and in the community online chats and sessions and leave the others.
Whilst beneficial to all, the drop-in session are also completely optional. You can join live, watch the recording in your own time or not all.
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We bring our selves to our work and the fuller we feel able to bring our full selves to work the better! We can not in truth separate our home life from our work life, if we are stressed at home it will impact work and vice versa. We are connected beings!
Radical Life is deep work that will reframe your foundation at work to one of greater strength, conviction and clarity from where you will make your decisions. As a coach I will support you to discover what it is you need and want to do.
The 1:1 coaching in Radical Self provides you with a confidential space to bring anything up you want to address.
If you want to bring a specific work challenge to a session or a challenge to every session I will guide you to find the answers, utilising my insight from two decades of work in the social impact space to inform powerful questioning, never neglecting any deeper systemic issues that may also be arising.
You are in the driving seat - you choose what aspects of your life you want to focus on and develop and where to bring action.
No matter where you are at now, Radical Self will bring you a stronger foundation and life-changing, sustainable tools, practices and insights. In six months you will achieve deeper self-understanding, wellbeing and clarity. This will underpin positive, impactful decision-making in your work for people and planetary health and positively impact every area of your life.
Sam found anchoring, confidence, clarity and self-awareness in her new eco-therapy business.
‘I can't recommend Radical Self coaching with Anna enough. My coaching has been a key part of my development in my new business; it has anchored me during a challenging and exciting time, enabling me to move towards my goals with confidence, clarity and self-awareness.’ Sam
Now it is YOUR time! Sieze it!
Frequently asked questions….
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The components or Radical Self are set out below. The programme components are carefully designed to weave together to create a full holistic mind-body programme of discovery, integration and action. The more time you give, the more you will benefit.
Over six months the time commitment is as follows:
8 x 1 hour, 1:1 Transformational Coaching (essential)
4 x 1 hour exercises and reviews for 1:1 Transformation Coaching (essential)
18 x 1 hour drop-in group embodiment classes (recommended / optional)
6 x 1 hour community drop-in calls (optional)
18 (approx) hours self-study of resources, videos, further reading (recommended)
Total Essential hours: 12 hours
Total Essential, recommended and optional: 54 hours (9 hours per month)
Please note the Radical Self programme, by its nature will seep naturally into your day-to-day life and steps and actions arising from the coaching and self-learning programmes are not included in the above.
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I understand we are all different and that individuals may struggle with meditation or other mind-body techniques offered in the embodiment classes. To reassure you:
The embodiment classes are recommended but optional.
Nothing during a class is compulsary. Options can always be given.
Recordings are available if you want to do in your own time and at your own pace.
Not everything will be for everyone. However I am certain some practices will resonate!
Meditation or sitting still can be particularly challenging for people who are driven and have high problem-solving and intellectual capacity. It may be that you find mindfulness more helpful than meditation or getting fully present in nature will be more accessible.
You will find you path and remember you may suprise yourself!
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The community drop-in sessions are entirely optional. You may want to join only when you have a specific question or you may want to connect with others on the programme at every possible opportunity. It is completely up to you.
The group emboidment sessions are recommended but also optional. Of course you may not be able to make every one live. Recordings are available for you to catch-up or do in your own time / at your own pace.
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Payment options are as follows:
100 % upfront (10% discount applied).
2 instalments - the first upfront, the second after three months
A monthly payment plan (additional fees may apply)
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Absolutely. I am also happy to communicate with line managers and CEOs about the Radical Self programme and its value on your behalf, where helpful.
I can invoice directly to companies once everything is agreed.
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I do not currently offer concessions for the Radical Self programme. However if you are very keen but simply can not afford it please book in for a call with me and we can discuss options which may exist.
