Welcome to withSandie, bear with me as this new website is being developed!
Meanwhile, if you are looking for a creative connection - you are in the right place! You’ll find workshops, creative retreats inspired by nature, and online classes in the making.
Or perhaps you are stuck and ready to make change. As a qualified coach with a focus on wellbeing, I can help you to find clarity and to move forward with confidence. Please explore this website for more information.
I'm Sandie
Hello, I'm Sandie. After twenty years as a mental health nurse, I saw how stress and unhelpful thinking patterns can stop us from living the life we want. So I retrained and as a qualified coach using different approaches, I offer walk and talk, 1-1 sessions and online.
There is much research and evidence to support creativity and nature as being beneficial to our wellbeing. While Qi Gong provides gentle energy healing, nature-inspired creativity offers a chance to slow down and have fun! Real change happens when we care for the whole person and slow down.
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Workshops & Events
Throughout the year, I run creative workshops, taster sessions and retreats inspired by nature, from garden mornings closer to home to a residential retreat by the sea. Each one is a chance to slow down, try something new and reconnect, with no artistic experience needed, just an open mind. Places are often limited, so it's always worth seeing what's coming up next.
Coaching & Wellbeing
Feeling stuck, overwhelmed or blocked? I offer 1-1 coaching and wellbeing sessions, in person, online or as a walk and talk, drawing on NLP, mBraining, Core Transformation and holistic practices like Access Bars and Qi Gong. As a former mental health nurse, I understand how much stress and unhelpful thinking can hold us back, and I love helping people find relief, clarity and the confidence to move forward
A powerful approach that helps you shift unhelpful thinking patterns and build more empowering, confident ways of responding to life.
NLP
A gentle method that connects the head, heart and gut, helping you make clearer decisions and feel more balanced.
mBraining
Core Transformation
A deeply calming process that helps dissolve emotional blocks and creates lasting change from the inside out.
A gentle, relaxing hands-on technique that works with energy points on the head to calm the nervous system and ease mental clutter, stress and overwhelm.
Access Bars
An ancient Chinese practice of gentle, flowing movements, focused attention and calm breathwork, often described as a moving meditation. It eases tension, lifts mental clarity and supports the body's natural energy and vitality.
QiGong
Some Kind Words..
‘Just to connect with you again before I start the morning Qi Gong practice that you got us into. Your retreat was not only inspiring creatively, but I had not expected to feel so ‘in flow’ with our group. Once we started, such gentle beauty and integrity poured into our days and the synchronicities were so life affirming - letting me know that what we were doing was the right place / right time and allowing an occasional sense of having ‘all the time in the world. Thank you, Sandie’
- Previous creative retreat attendee
Thank you once again for the journal making workshop yesterday. I came straight home and rooted out some old magazines and got to cutting out again. You were an inspiration offering so many tips and ideas for creating our very personal books. The time flew by and it was such an immersive process that all thought of everyday life vanished as we chatted and got creating. I came to the workshop having no clue where to begin and now feel that the possibilities are endless. I would love to come work with you on another project in the future. Do send me over your newsletter so I can see what else you are offering.
- S
(In response to photos sent of a Commissioned personalised book):
Hi Sandie
That is actually amazing I’m so happy with it… Can’t wait to see it in the flesh, I’ll show all my friends!! Thanks so much.
- Gayle