Discover Your Path to Growth
Transformative Coaching for Every Journey
Understand the meaning of your dilemma and unlock your potential with personalised coaching. Our coaches will help you identify your values, empowering you to achieve greater self-understanding, enrich your connections with others and carve a fulfilling path in the wider world. Coaching with Chora will enable you to make informed, meaningful decisions to enable you to thrive in the areas that matter most to you.
The Essence of Chora Coaching
Chora coaches all have different styles of coaching, and different interests. What connects us is our shared interest in, and commitment to working with existential issues. We come together regularly to take inspiration from and learn from each other.
We offer coaching to a diverse range of people, including individuals, groups, leaders, and executives.
The name of the group stems from “Khôra”, a Greek philosophical term described by Plato as a receptacle, a space, or an interval. Key existential authors addressing “Khôra” include Heidegger, who refers to a “clearing” in which being happens or takes place.
Chora coaches aim to offer a clear, safe space to address issues that are of concern to you or areas you wish to develop.
Individual Coaching
Chora offers personalised coaching to help you explore your concerns and achieve your personal and professional goals. Each coach handles various dilemmas in sessions ranging from 1-4 hours. Arrange sessions directly with the coach through their profile contact. Fees and delivery (in-person or online) are negotiated individually.
Group Coaching
Training and Workshops
Some members of the Chora team offer workshops and training programmes as a complement to coaching. These range from half-day or one-day workshops on a variety of themes to full training programmes in Existential Coaching, Leadership and Conflict Resolution. We can also offer individual and group supervision for coaches incorporating existential thinking in their work. Books and articles by Chora members are also available.
Our Shared Philosophy
At Chora Coaching, we embrace an existential and phenomenological approach to our coaching practice. This means we focus on understanding our clients’ unique perspectives and experiences. By exploring your own world-view, values and beliefs, we aim to help you navigate life’s complexities with greater clarity and authentic purpose. Tailoring our approach to each individual’s needs is essential to fostering deeper insights and more meaningful growth.
Our History
Founded by Monica Hanaway in early 2024, Chora Coaching began as a collective of coaches who trained in Existential Coaching at Jesus College, Oxford University. Our group has since grown, united by a shared commitment to existential principles and a passion for helping others. We continue to draw inspiration from each other, constantly evolving and refining our practices to better serve our clients.
Our Approach
Our coaching philosophy is grounded in existential and phenomenological principles. We believe that every individual has a unique way of experiencing the world, and our role is to help them uncover and understand these experiences. By focusing on what is meaningful to our clients, we guide them towards greater self-awareness and authentic living.
Meet Our Coaches
Our team of dedicated coaches brings a wealth of experience and unique coaching styles to help you achieve your goals. Each coach offers a distinct approach, ensuring that you find the perfect fit for your personal and professional development.
Sean Bennett
Coach
A creative, impact-driven coach for people in search of a greater sense of meaning in life.
Susan Blum
Coach, Mediator and Organisational Consultant
I am a dedicated Coach, Mediator and Change Consultant with 25 years’ international experience across the private and public sectors.
Mark Burgess
Coach
Mark focuses on transformative experiences and self-discovery, helping people live with authenticity and purpose.
Mark Butler
Coach and Mediator
Leads the Life and Mind Development for Oxford University’s Biology Department. He coaches those transitioning to leadership roles.
Monica Hanaway
Coach, Mediator, and Trainer
Explore, understand, and address the meaning of existential dilemmas which may be preventing you from moving forward.
Joanne Henton
Coach
Oxford Graduate (1992), CMC Accredited Mediator, Existentially informed Coach and a Certified SHEN Therapist, who brings an existential flavour to all her work.
Nigel Smaller
Coach
Offers a calm, friendly presence with invitational challenges to raise awareness and stimulate change.
Andra Vlaicu
Coach
Relentlessly pursues growth, embraces challenges to uplift others using her unique, collaborative approach to foster inclusion, teamwork, and breakthrough.
Marina Wheeler
Coach
Barrister and Kings Counsel, offers mediation and coaching services focused on conflict, with expertise in employment, public, and human rights law.
Mark White
Coach
Looking with you at where you find yourself, your struggles and together how life could be different
Ready to increase self-understanding, and effect change in your life?
Contact our team of skilled coaches today to start your journey towards increased understanding and meaning – with a view to furthering your personal and professional growth. Whether you’re looking to enhance your leadership skills, develop mindfulness, find meaning, attain a better understanding of existential dilemmas and how to work with them, or identify and achieve your life goals, Chora’s Coaches are ready to support you.
“Thus, human existence – at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted – is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfil or another human being to encounter lovingly.”
