What, and who, is your life here about?
We live our lives in our bodies, and we long to discover our souls.
Unless we are learning to die to our old selves, and to be compassionate, and committed to curiosity and learning - that ‘soul’ lies undiscovered, in wait. This ‘deeper self’, or purpose, our calling that lies beneath the surface, waits to be woken up.
Either we stay asleep, allowing the tides of mediocrity to wash over us, and continue to suppress our despair; or, we learn to awaken, and take a stand for what really matters for us all, now.
What is the conversation the world is waiting for you to have with it?
There is a choice to make.
Learn to live in your body with more ease and aliveness. I’ll help you take grounded actions under pressure, lead yourself and others with compassion, dignify challenging feelings, and move towards what matters with clarity, aliveness and authenticity.
Duncan Alldridge trained as a somatic coach at Strozzi Institute in 2017. Before coaching he worked for over 20 years in education as a drama specialist and manager. He taught in both state and private sectors and to a wide range of students. Transitioning from education in 2011, he’s taken team building expertise and leadership coaching to organisations, produced fringe and community theatre, led retreats for men, performed in and directed theatre, and worked as an improvisation teacher. He’s led innovative research and performance projects exploring the crisis of mental health, masculinity and male suicide. He currently works as a coach and mentor alongside his creative and artistic commitments and passions. He’s been committed to a men’s group for 16 years.
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What is a somatic approach to coaching?
We carry our history in our bodies. This history has shaped us.
Somatic coaching is a transformational and therapeutic process of learning and healing. The journey will help you develop a more conscious awareness of your historical, conditioned tendencies, and to grow awareness of how these patterns may still be running your life. A somatic approach encourages you to access the inherent wisdom in your body, and gives you a pragmatic and sensory framework through which you’ll learn to observe and deepen awareness. This in turn opens us to be able to move in new creative directions and with behaviours that were not available to us before.
Either we are skilful authors of our new self, or we live the unconscious reactions of our old.
You are not a problem to be fixed.
Our habitual behaviours can easily run our lives. I’ll support you, skilfully and compassionately, to dignify challenging emotions, settle circling anxieties, and begin to cultivate compassion towards yourself. You will begin to lead your life with more commitment and courage. I’ll help you focus you on what you care about and why, and help you to live in a more skilful and resilient ‘shape’ of yourself.
50 min sessions are £85. A 6-session arc is £495. This includes either in-person (Twickenham UK) or online sessions and voice-note check-ins.
“I’m not just surviving fatherhood, I’m thriving. I’m showing up fully for my daughter in ways I never thought possible. I’m more present, more patient, and more confident in my ability to handle whatever comes our way. Duncan helped me see that asking for help wasn’t a sign of weakness, it was the strongest thing I could do for my family.”
The Cave of Dreams
Beginning August 2026
A research project exploring the ancestural myths and stories that humans have told beneath the stars since our ancestors first inscribed on the walls of caves 50,000 years ago.
If you’re a committed artist of any discipline who cares deeply about the future of our world, are curious about how we have lost our way, and acknowledge that at our backs are universal wisdoms held in these stories, I’d love to hear from you.
ARTWORK - PORTRAITS - LIFE - COMMISSIONS
You’ll sit, and allow yourself to be sketched and seen, and, as if magically, your essence, y0ur smile, your soul, is transmuted into the practice of brush and charcoal on paper..
I’ll work with you uniquely: sometimes coaching, sometimes directing, allowing you to express yourself as you settle or explore, getting you gently grounded - and we’ll find a place where you’re comfortable with me, and with yourself - and I’ll sketch you.
Working with me is more than just a sitting. You’ll leave our session inspired, and with a new confidence and groundedness in yourself.
Working in Duncan’s room is like swimming in warm water. He gives you tremendous space for exploration while at the same time holding you and the room with an effortless care. He judges perfectly how and when to introduce a little turbulence and excitement or to provoke a dive of exploration into some hidden depth, before facilitating a safe return to the calm surface just before your breath runs out.
Roland Reynolds, Writer & Director
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