Welcome to
Pocket Project Coaching
Your Partner in Creating a More Caring and Just World with Trauma-Informed Coaching Coaching designed for nonprofits, NGOs, public-sector systems, humanitarian networks, and social-impact leaders committed to collective wellbeing and regenerative transformation
Supporting Leaders and Teams Working Toward a More Just and Caring World
We offer coaching for nonprofits, NGOs, public-sector institutions, humanitarian networks, and mission-driven teams committed to collective wellbeing and regenerative transformation. Our approach restores coherence across complex systems by aligning leaders’ inner ecosystems with the resilience, clarity, and ethical foundations needed to advance their organization’s social impact.
The Leader as a Living Field
Here, leadership within public-service and social-impact settings is cultivation, not control. Whether working in the public sector, NGOs, nonprofits, or community-based initiatives, grounded leadership helps whole systems remember how to regulate, adapt, and thrive.
Presence Before Performance:
Coherence is the basis
of results.
Presence is the capacity to meet each moment fully and sense what is unfolding inside and around us without judgment. It enables leaders to respond rather than react, creating a steady field where clarity and creativity can emerge. For leaders in public and community-centered systems, this inner steadiness is vital for navigating complexity and sustaining
mission-driven work.
Embodiment Before Analysis:
Integration through body,
emotion, relation.
Embodiment moves leadership from concept to lived experience, inviting awareness of how stress, inspiration, and fear manifest physically. By grounding insight in the body, leaders cultivate authenticity, empathy, and sustainable action. This embodied clarity helps service-oriented leaders transform insight into values-aligned, purposeful action.
Systemic Awareness:
Every conversation threads personal, team, and a global perspective.
Systemic awareness helps leaders perceive the subtle patterns linking individual behavior to cultural and structural dynamics. It reveals how organizational challenges often echo broader social or ecological forces, guiding leaders toward interventions that heal both system and self. This perspective is crucial for NGOs, nonprofits, and public-sector teams working within interconnected social and ecological systems.
The Three Pillars of Coherence
A trauma-informed pathway supporting public-sector, NGO, nonprofit, and social-impact organizations in aligning inner, relational, and systemic change.
Embodied Presence & Inner Ecology
Presence is the soil of
resilience.
- Nervous System Literacy
- Grounded Leadership
- Collective Calm
How does my internal ecology shape our system?
Sample practice: Begin each meeting with a two-minute grounding pause to regulate the collective nervous system.
Systems Weaving & Adaptive Intelligence
Learn from living
systems.
- Pattern mapping
- Resource flows
- Creative response
Where are we resisting cycles of growth, decay, regeneration
Sample practice: Where are we resisting cycles of growth, decay, regeneration Introduce reflective debriefs after key transitions to integrate learning and celebrate adaptive moments.
Regenerative Relationships & Reciprocity
Trust is the currency of regeneration.
- Psychological safety
- Repair processes
- Shared power
What rituals could regenerate trust here?
Sample practice: Create transparent feedback loops by inviting rotating voices to co-facilitate discussions and share power.
Coaching Pathways
Scale coherence from the individual to the ecosystem.
Foundations
of Presence
Architects
of Change
The Coherent Ecosystem
(6–12 months)
What Distinguishes This Approach
Whether your public-sector agency, NGO, nonprofit, or mission-driven network is navigating change, facing uncertainty, or preparing for a next stage of growth, our coaches walk alongside you facing uncertainty, or preparing for the next stage of growth, our coaches walk alongside you, helping turn challenges into catalysts for transformation.
Trauma‑Informed,
Not Just Trauma‑Aware
We go beyond simply recognizing trauma symptoms. Our coaching approach actively works with the nervous system to process activation, restore regulation, and build a physiological foundation for grounded, resilient leadership.
Ecological
Alignment
We apply the intelligence of living systems to organizational design, viewing your organization as an interconnected ecosystem. This practice ensures that growth is not extractive, but mutually beneficial for the organization and the larger world.
Systemic
Coherence
Our work traces challenges through the entire organizational architecture, from the individual leader’s inner state to the team’s dynamics and the overall culture. We do not isolate problems; we treat the whole system to create alignment at every level.
Regenerative
Impact
The goal is to cultivate organizations that are inherently life-affirming, not just sustainable, by creating positive value at every touchpoint. This ensures that every leadership choice contributes to healing and vitality for people, purpose, and the planet.
This approach is especially supportive for organizations whose work contributes to collective
wellbeing; humanitarian, social-service, environmental, philanthropic, and community-based institutions.
Meet Our Coaches
Karen Simms
Karen Simms
Robin Alfred
Robin Alfred
Robin Alfred, BA (Oxon), PGCE, M.Phil (Cantab) is an organisational consultan…
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project.She holds…
Maria Leister
Maria Leister
Maria Leister is a certified professional coach and trained mediator…
Jens Riese
Jens Riese
Begin with Presence
We invite leaders and teams from nonprofits, NGOs, public agencies, humanitarian networks, and other mission-driven environments to begin with a complimentary assessment call to explore how our coaching can best support your organization. This session can be a brief conversation to understand your needs or a more focused review of your current challenges—whichever approach feels most useful to you.
Following the call, we will share information about our coaching team, available packages, and next steps.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What do you mean by “trauma-informed” in a workplace context?
It means understanding how stress and past experiences shape behavior, communication, and decision-making. It also includes designing leadership, structures, and relationships that foster safety, regulation, and trust rather than
reactivity or burnout.
2. How is this different from executive coaching?
Unlike traditional executive coaching, which focuses on performance and strategy, trauma-informed coaching begins with nervous-system regulation and relational coherence. Trauma informed coaching focuses on creating the conditions for
authentic, sustainable leadership growth.
3. What happens in a trial session?
You’ll meet with one of our coaches for a guided conversation exploring your current challenges, organizational dynamics, and leadership needs. You’ll experience our approach and leave with one or two practical insights to apply immediately.
4. Can we combine packages or start small?
5. How do you measure success?
We look for increased coherence; calmer communication, clearer decision-making, healthier relationships, and a more adaptive, resilient culture. These qualitative shifts often translate into improved engagement, innovation, and long-term impact.
6. Is this coaching intended for corporate or private-sector companies?
Our primary focus is on supporting public-sector organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and other mission-driven teams. While we occasionally collaborate with values aligned private organizations, our coaching is intentionally designed for systems working toward community wellbeing and social impact.