Presence. Lived depth. Reconnection.
Counselling and facilitation for individuals, leaders, therapists and organisations navigating ecological change through dialogue, embodied awareness, and contact with the natural world.
Update
I am currently in a phase of integration and therefore not taking on longer individual processes or larger facilitation engagements.
You are welcome to book a short online meeting (20 minutes) for clarification. I will respond according to capacity.
About Martin
Real change rarely begins with insight. It begins in the body — in that quality of presence that makes contact possible.
Through fifteen years of practice — individual support, leadership development, organisational consulting and civil society — and thirty years of meditation, I have come to know the pre-conceptual dimension of consciousness directly: the somatic layers that are present before thought and feeling take form. This is not a theoretical position. It is something I live.
My work has been shaped by periods of deep difficulty — genuine descent, loss of direction and the slow rebuilding of ground. I have been in the places that are hard to put into words. That gives access to something other than technique: a lived understanding of what it means to find one's way back to oneself.
I hold an MSc in Organisational and Leadership Psychology, and am deeply informed by nature-based perspectives on human development — including my own research on ecocentric leadership and many years of engagement in Norwegian environmental and civil society work.
I work from a small forest setting on Nesodden south of Oslo — a place where nature is not backdrop, but active participant in the process.
Self Contact and Sensing Leadership
Most psychological work and leadership development takes place on the plane of thought. We talk about what is happening. We analyse, understand, make plans.
But real change — the kind that holds — happens somewhere else. In the body and through relation. In direct contact with what is actually present, beneath the words and concepts.
Self-contact is not self-absorption, just something larger that includes more. It is the ability to know oneself from within — to have access to one's own reactions, impulses and needs in real time. It is the foundation for genuine relationship, for presence, and for leadership that does not deplete itself.
Sensing leadership is about the same thing — but in an organisational context. It is the ability to perceive what actually lives in a system: what needs space, what is stuck, what is in movement.
Not only through analysis, but through direct contact — with the people, with the place, with what has not been said.
This is not soft. It is precise. And it is rare.
Individual accompaniment
For individuals, I offer accompaniment through threshold experiences — those moments when the ordinary no longer holds, and something new has not yet taken form.
Perhaps you have done significant work on yourself — therapy, meditation, inner inquiry — and still stand at something that remains unresolved. The ordinary conversations do not go deep enough. The body knows more than words can reach.
I work experientially, with space for the pre-narrative — where the felt sense receives recognition before explanation or interpretation. The pace follows what is actually present, not an agenda from outside.
This is not ordinary psychological support. It is accompaniment for those ready for something deeper.
Deep Time Walk 2025 with 80 participants as part of the International Society for Ecological Economics Conference
Video: Alvaro Alvarez
Video: Alvaro Alvarez
Leadership and organisational development
Leaders today navigate systems of increasing complexity, pace and demand. It is no longer enough to think one's way to good decisions. Something more is required: the ability to be genuinely present — regulated, open, sensing — in the face of what cannot be planned.
I support leaders and leadership groups in developing this:
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The capacity to hold complexity without collapsing it into premature certainty
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The ability to remain present and regulated under sustained pressure
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To sense what a system needs — not only what it produces
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To lead from depth rather than performance
The work takes place at the level where leadership actually operates: in the body, in the relationship, in the quality of presence a leader brings into a room, a decision, a crisis.
For organisations seeking a deeper orientation — toward regenerative practice, ecological grounding and what is living in the system — I also offer processes that touch the organisation's fundamental relationship to the human and more-than-human systems it is part of.
The Place
The work takes place primarily from a small forest setting on Nesodden south of Oslo. Nature is not scenery here — it is an active part of the process. For organisations and leadership groups seeking deeper contact with the living world, there is its own logic in beginning that work in a genuinely ecological setting.
Online work is available where appropriate.
Contact
If you would like to explore working together, please use the form below and briefly describe what you are seeking support with and what you hope for from a conversation.
I usually respond within 48 hours.