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.
The Ma Space, the coaching container, safeguarding protocols, and the South Africa case study on violent threats and crisis escalation.
The Four Continuums in depth, AI and VR in recovery, the evolution of LEROs across the organisational matrix, and real-world crisis management.
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.
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.
The Japanese concept of negative space applied to the coach-client relationship, and why the container matters more than the conversation.
Measuring vitality, relationship to stimuli, treatment goal, and systemic dynamic simultaneously — and why a single recovery scale isn't enough.
Navigating the space between academic credibility and bureaucratic box-ticking without losing the magic of lived experience.
The Mauni identity, what the name means, and why bold geometric colour-blocking became the right visual language for this work.
How the U-ACT LEROS framework transforms personal chaos into professional practice: addiction redefined, the ritual of anticipation, and the gambling case study.
Bridging modern pharmacology, ancient plant medicine, and systemic trauma. The dual-activation model, the reintegration gap, and the coach as the bridge.
Internalised oppression, the performative vs authentic self, and why a recovered human being is the only answer to systemic failure. Live session + cinematic overview.
Checking in, contracting, the container, agenda, action, accountability
Comparing roles: counsellor, LERO coach, and 12-step sponsor
Ubuntu in practice: community, purpose, and shared accountability