Radically honest mentoring

Everything begins with people

Leave the familiar context behind and reconnect with your vitality.

For the person behind the title

When you are only functioning, it may be time to find your way back to yourself.

This work is for people who are stuck in “warrior mode,” facing a major transition, or sensing that the path they have followed no longer fits.

I do not bring abstract advice. I bring my own story, my crises and my experience as an entrepreneur. You choose the direction. I hold the space in which clarity can emerge.

A protected space for reorientation

Transition / Reorientation

When it feels as though you are only functioning.

Exhaustion, constant pressure, loss of creativity or a crisis of meaning are often the first signs. Your body has already started warning you, but the pressure has become normal.

I work with executives, artists and people who make things happen. Your role is not the centre of the work. You are.

Together, we create space for a personal realignment — clear, honest and without ready-made answers.

A confidential conversation

Where change happens

Blacksheep Coaching

Outdoors, in the workshop and in unfamiliar spaces.

My formats combine mindfulness-based coaching with situations in which the familiar context loses its grip. Whether in the desert, on a bicycle, in the workshop or in a quiet retreat, the purpose remains the same: to hear again what you already know about your next step.

Blacksheep Coaching in the desert

My passion project

Sometimes change needs a different horizon.

Real change rarely happens at a desk alone. Unfamiliar situations make visible what everyday life allows us to avoid.

Nature and challenge are not scenery. They become a mirror, a space for experience and a source of new perspective.

From the expedition truck to a bicycle journey, every format is created individually and one-to-one.

Ready for the desert?

Image: 2024 — Our desert camp near M’hamid, Morocco

Cycling over a mountain pass in the Himalayas

Experience instead of theory

Limits become visible when avoidance is no longer possible.

You cannot talk your way around a mountain pass in the Himalayas. Every breath is real, and so is every doubt.

Such experiences change us because they are lived physically and emotionally. Back in everyday life, the memory remains: more may be possible than your mind previously allowed.

An adventure — back to yourself?

Image: 2017 — Rohtang Pass, Himalayas

Hands-on coaching in the workshop

Head, heart and hands

Into the workshop.

Change does not always require a distant horizon. My workshop in the South of France can also become a place for a new beginning.

Restore your grandfather’s Vespa, build a bicycle or create something from reclaimed wood. What you make with your hands can continue to accompany you in everyday life.

Get your hands dirty again

Image: 2022 — Restoring a Rowona racing bicycle

Restored 1963 Vespa VBB

What remains

More than a scooter.

This 1963 Vespa VBB was fully restored through an intensive process. Today, every ride reminds its owner of a personal journey of development.

Sometimes an object helps keep an insight alive in everyday life.

Let’s vroom together

Image: 2020 — The Vespa in the former workshop in North Rhine-Westphalia

Philip Collette on Mount Nyamuragira during an eruption

A defining experience

Growth does not happen inside the comfort zone.

In this image, that is not a metaphor. In December 1982, I am sitting on Mount Nyamuragira in what was then eastern Zaire — surrounded by heat, pressure and fire.

Extreme experiences are not an end in themselves. What matters is what you bring back from them into your life.

Image: December 1982 — On Mount Nyamuragira in what was then eastern Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Functioning is not the same as being well

Retreats

Space for stillness, clarity and renewed vitality.

Terrace at the retreat location in the Var

Maison au bord du ciel

Our space for people.

Across five hectares of nature in the Var, we are creating a place for people who want to pause and shape change actively.

Yoga, walks, forest bathing and quiet moments create less noise outside and more space inside. No dependency, no ready-made answers and no performance.

  • Support without dependency
  • Professionalism and empathy
  • Individual formats
  • Integration into everyday life
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Image: 2025 — Terrace overlooking Corsica, Ampus in the Var

Stop avoiding yourself.

The first step does not have to be large. But it has to be yours. Get in touch