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recovery · framework · practice

Articles, class notes, and essays from the London Recovery Coaching practice — grounded in Ubuntu, the LERO framework, and 12+ years of lived experience in recovery.

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Ma · The relationship space
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Live · 14 May 2026 LERO

Professional boundaries and safety in recovery coaching

The Ma Space, the coaching container, safeguarding protocols, and the South Africa case study on violent threats and crisis escalation.

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Systems · Technology · Safety
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Live · 15 May 2026 Framework

Systems, technology, and safeguarding in the LERO practice

The Four Continuums in depth, AI and VR in recovery, the evolution of LEROs across the organisational matrix, and real-world crisis management.

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Kintsugi · Adversity into Capital
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CoP · 12 May 2026 LERO

Professionalising lived experience — the U-ACT LEROS framework

Redefining addiction at its root, the anatomy of ritual and anticipation, the five core modules, and the Kintsugi system of transforming adversity into recovery capital.

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Peptides · Plant Medicine · The Bridge
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CoP · 19 May 2026 Framework

The illusion of the cure — peptides, plant medicine, and the coach as the bridge

Ozempic removes cravings but leaves the wound untouched. Ibogaine confronts the psyche but offers no grounding. The reintegration gap, intergenerational trauma, and the dual-activation model.

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Recovery · LERO

The Ma Space — where recovery actually happens

The Japanese concept of negative space applied to the coach-client relationship, and why the container matters more than the conversation.

14 May 2026 7 min
Framework

The Four Continuums — a real-time dashboard for recovery

Measuring vitality, relationship to stimuli, treatment goal, and systemic dynamic simultaneously — and why a single recovery scale isn't enough.

15 May 2026 6 min
Framework

The Collins Window — where professional LEROs must sit

Navigating the space between academic credibility and bureaucratic box-ticking without losing the magic of lived experience.

15 May 2026 5 min
Mauni

Why I built a brand around silence and structure

The Mauni identity, what the name means, and why bold geometric colour-blocking became the right visual language for this work.

7 Apr 2026 4 min
Recovery · LERO

The Kintsugi system — adversity into recovery capital

How the U-ACT LEROS framework transforms personal chaos into professional practice: addiction redefined, the ritual of anticipation, and the gambling case study.

12 May 2026 9 min
Framework

The illusion of the cure — the architecture of recovery

Bridging modern pharmacology, ancient plant medicine, and systemic trauma. The dual-activation model, the reintegration gap, and the coach as the bridge.

19 May 2026 10 min
Mauni

The Unmasking — Session 01 with Manto

Internalised oppression, the performative vs authentic self, and why a recovered human being is the only answer to systemic failure. Live session + cinematic overview.

12 May 2026 12 min
Upcoming classes
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Engineering the coaching conversation — the six-stage engine

Checking in, contracting, the container, agenda, action, accountability

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Scope of practice — what a LERO coach is and is not

Comparing roles: counsellor, LERO coach, and 12-step sponsor

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Recovery capital — building community as the ecology of change

Ubuntu in practice: community, purpose, and shared accountability

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