In 2020, my life as I knew it fell apart. I had spent over two decades as a leadership facilitator, work I genuinely loved. I worked with social entrepreneurs, travelled the continent, and met extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. But something in me knew the work I was doing wasn't deep enough. Not for me, nor for the world. When collapse came, I understood it not as a breakdown but as Soul's refusal to let me continue living at the wrong depth. I never went back.

What followed was a period of wandering where I learnt to sit in the not-knowing, slowly allowing more and more of what I thought I knew about myself, and this world, to fall away. I spent time alone in nature, following breadcrumbs and signs, tuning into a longing I couldn't put words to, only feel as an ache in my chest. In 2021, still deep in the descent, I found the Purpose Discovery Programme. I threw myself into the work completely - the nature-based practices, the soul encounters - and perhaps for the first time, came to really trust the deep wisdom of my heart. What was slowly revealed were gifts and callings that had been waiting in me all along, beneath everything I thought I was. And at that point everything I had worked for in the first arc of life suddenly made sense as preparation for what truly wanted to come through, in this second arc.

I lead the Purpose Discovery Programme because I believe, with everything in me, that this is what our world most needs right now: people who have done the deep work, who know what is theirs to offer, and who are willing to show up and give it.

If there is a longing in you that stubbornly refuses to go away - follow it. We'd love to welcome you into the cohort.

- Rachael