Explore subtle, transformative practices that cultivate your capacity for presence—deepening your relationship with yourself, with others, and with life as a whole.
Learn to engage from the depths of presence and stillness, cultivating the conditions for a generative field of conversation, a space where new ways of relating and being together can emerge.
Apprentice in the Way of Dynamic Presencing as a living pathway for cultivating mastery in conversation, guided by the deeper wisdom of presence, stillness, and emergence.
Develop a refined presence that restores you and those with whom you are in conversation to the living depths of life, the essence of who we are, and our deeper capacity for generative becoming.
Explore subtle, transformative coaching methods and develop skillful ways to become a self-sustaining source of presence, enriching both your work with clients and your life as a whole
Learn how to coach from the Five Level-Depths of Presence, creating essential conditions for a profoundly generative field of conversation that nurtures a transformative way of coaching and being together
Apprentice in the Five Field-Stages of Presencing, embracing a process-method and pathway to develop a refined, advanced form of presencing-based coaching for your clients
Cultivate a new approach to drawing from presence and engaging in presencing that vertically shifts the nature and process of coaching, creating transformative shifts with your clients
The Way of Dynamic Presencing works directly with your inner presencing nature as an embodied compass for navigating conversation and life as they emerge.
Deepen your capacity for presencing as a way of being grounded in presence, sourced in stillness, and responsive to what is emerging.
Develop the living knowledge, wisdom, and capacities of Presencing Mastery, grounded in current and emerging research and cultivated through direct experience and practice at the emerging edge of transformative relating.
Apprentice with the depths of presence and stillness, cultivating your capacity to inhabit the presencing field and increasingly let stillness-sourced presence become the ground from which you engage in conversation and life.
What distinguishes the Way is an in-depth apprenticeship with Presence and Stillness. We learn to enfold into Presence, deepen into the Source Depths of Stillness, and awaken to the generativity that can arise from within those depths. Through this journey, our fundamental sense of self begins to shift from the Everyday Self, to coming home to ourselves as Presence, to discovering our deeper Presencing Nature grounded in Stillness and participating generatively in what is emerging. This fundamentally changes how we live, relate, and coach.
The Way draws upon more than twenty-five years of research, practice, and inquiry into presencing. At its heart is an exploration of Presence, Stillness, and Presencing as a way of becoming more fully human, and of bringing these capacities into conversation, coaching, relationships, and the wider contexts of our lives and work.
The Way of Dynamic Presencing begins with a simple premise: the depth from which we meet life shapes what becomes possible within it.
We begin by learning to inhabit presence from the depths of our being. Here, presence reveals itself as a deeper ground of who we are, opening us to the Stillness from which deeper wisdom and generativity can arise.
As we deepen into Stillness, we awaken to our Presencing Nature and to a generative participation in the unfolding of life.
The Way is an apprenticeship in this movement from presence into presencing, from discovering the fullness of the deeper ground of who we are to bringing that wisdom alive in how we meet ourselves, one another, and the world.
With practice, the Way becomes increasingly embodied within us, finding expression through our own unique way of being, relating, conversing, creating, and participating in life as it arises.
The Way of Dynamic Presencing begins with a simple premise: the depth from which we meet life shapes what becomes possible within it.
We begin by learning to inhabit presence from the depths of our being. Here, presence reveals itself as a deeper ground of who we are, a living source of being, stillness, and emerging wisdom.
At these depths, presence simply is. I am. We are. As we deepen into its stillness, we awaken to our presencing nature and to a more generative participation in the unfolding of life.
The Way is an apprenticeship in this movement from presence into presencing, from discovering the fullness of the deeper ground of who we are to bringing that wisdom alive in how we meet ourselves, one another, and the world.
Over time, the Way becomes increasingly embodied within us, finding expression through our own way of being, relating, conversing, creating, and participating in life.
Olen is an Associate Professor in Leadership & Coaching in the Department of Management at Université Laval (Canada). Across more than two decades, his scholarship and practice have explored the nature of presencing and its transformative possibilities for leadership, coaching, conversation, and human development. His work spans 15 edited, authored, and forthcoming books and more than 65 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters published internationally.
He has taught and coached several thousand emerging leaders and established professionals in universities across Canada, the United States, Austria, Sweden, South Africa, and South Korea. He approaches teaching and coaching as spaces for transformation in how we understand ourselves, relate with others, and participate in the worlds we inhabit. His teaching has been recognized with five faculty-level awards for excellence.
Central to Olen’s work has been a decades-long inquiry into the nature of presencing, developed through research, teaching, coaching, and sustained practice with others. This work has given rise to the Way of Dynamic Presencing, a living apprenticeship for cultivating deeper ways of being, relating, conversing, and participating from the depths of presence, stillness and the generative sourcing of presencing.
Through the Way, practitioners apprentice with the depths of presence and stillness, cultivating presencing ways of being, knowing, sensing, relating, and responding. Gradually, these capacities become embodied as a generative way of being and participating in life, transforming how we meet ourselves, one another, and what is emerging.
Describing the full breadth of Olen’s coaching process is complex, but one thing is clear: he possesses a remarkable gift for helping me reclaim a relationship with my deeper self. Through his discernment, I developed a more aware and present way of navigating the many challenges at work. Whenever I find myself slipping back into old, unproductive habits of inattention and overwhelm, I can now quickly identify these indicators and pivot back to myself in the moment.
Overall, the coaching work we’ve done provided a grounded spaciousness that helped me self-manage my previous high-stress lifestyle. My current well-being owes a great deal to Olen, and I am deeply grateful for the positive impact he has had on my life as my coach.
My coaching sessions with Olen were deeply grounding. offering a sanctuary where I could re-root and let go of overthinking. His presence and coaching provided a space where I could navigate the week’s various terrains without judgment and greater awareness.
Olen’s ability to cut through the mental noise and bring clarity was invaluable; his coaching helped me reconnect with my intuitive sense, fostering a deep- seated confidence in my own inner knowing. At a crucial juncture in my life. Olen’s insights proved indispensable. He helped me reorient toward a significant and transformative shift that he had previously guided me through years ago.
The clarity and perspective his coaching brought made a real difference, helping release the earlier assumptions and fears that had been hindering my progress, fostering a secure sense of being and that brought ease back to my decision-making and daily life.
As his love, I know I’m not neutral here. Still, what I’ve experienced in being coached by him is something I can’t explain away. There’s a place he accesses that actually shifts the ground of the conversation. It changes what becomes possible in a way that’s hard to anticipate until you’re in it. It gave me a real sense of why people are drawn to this work.
He’s deeply attuned to both the person and what’s unfolding in the moment. The way he works feels natural and precise at the same time, and often what emerges is unexpected but exactly what’s needed. What stays with me most is the quality of his presence. It comes from a deeply aware centre that feels like home. Over time, that’s brought a kind of transformation in my life that feels grounding, clarifying, and quietly empowering.
Olen’s approach has changed how I think about coaching. Receiving coaching from Olen has woken up a motivation for overcoming my life challenges with a newfound enthusiasm and insight that I didn’t know I had in me. His approach helped discover a path of sustainable growth that awoke a different way of being with myself that relaxed my always on drive but unexpectedly in ways made me more generative.
Olen’s genuine commitment to supporting my inner path of development and his intuitive sense of rightness and goodness made our coaching sessions invaluable. If you need a coach who can help you wake up to your deeper potential and support you in effectively navigating and transforming personal and professional obstacles., then look no further.
Olen’s ability to attune, presence and with depth, curiosity and even awe, explore this space in a co-creative manner is completely different from any other coaching style that exists in the marketplace that I’ve encountered.
His Dynamic Presencing Coaching work is going to be an invaluable resource to future coaches. clients and students who are in search of a powerful presencing-based mastery approach that delivers on a whole other level.
Working with Olen has profoundly transformed my understanding of presence and performance. Through his intuitive, source-driven guidance, I have reawakened a deep, dynamic awareness within myself that transcends mere thought and taps into a more foundationalway of being.
This coaching journey has illuminated a path where presence/presencing is not only a state but a powerful, generative force in my personal and professional life, allowing me to engage more fully and authentically in every moment.
The presencing-based coaching sessions with Olen led me to become acutely aware of the importance of one’s state of being and the inner dimensions of experience. These concepts, often elusive or overlooked in personal exploration were brought into focus through Olen’s discernment. His coaching sessions foster a heightened awareness and level of consciousness that is empowering. being both deeply impactful and transformative on so many aspects relating to being.
As a whole, Olen’s coaching is unique in uncovering insight that brought me closer to my essence. Invaluable for leaders who value a process that reveals insight into our deeper nature as a ground from which to lead more effectively from and as well-resourced and grounded presence.
Working with Olen has been a great gift, I hope you treat yourself and all those around you to his coaching. He’s a magician who helped me stay conscious and sane through some very big and unexpected life shifts. I am continuously delighted by his ability to explore deep altered states of expanded consciousness and love in a grounded way, all the while scaffolding the coaching as a transformative path into this territory.
His seamless balancing of validation and challenge feels so natural. Olen’s presence and coaching approach make the entire process really beautiful and effective. Relaxation into the space of transformation through a presenced way of being, together.
Being coached by Olen was for me personally a revelation with what is possible in coaching. His mastery of presencing creates a transformative space where insights flow effortlessly. Olen doesn’t just coach; he navigates from a generative place that is unique. His guidance and strength of presence helped me through some rough patches during a tough several year period with work mates.
During this period he helped off a safe harbour where I could stay true and close to my quiet knowing voice amidst all this. He doesn’t impose solutions or advice but rather listens from a depth that has empowered me to face and finally self-manage my deeper fears and limitations at work and to rise over them with humility and grace. Olen is a masterful coach with a rare wisdom, empathy and gift of seeing through to the heart of what’s really going on.
My experience of coaching with Olen was profound and transformative. His unique approach to presencing disrupted my habitual thought and sense-making patterns and invited me to slow down, be less short-term driven by excitement towards a more rooted experience in the present moment. This shift expanded my understanding of growth, integrating other dimensions of who I am that fostered a more wholesome balance of doing and being.
Olen has a remarkable ability to bridge deep soulful wisdom with practical cutting edge knowledge, avoiding esoteric or overly technical language, instead creating tangible experiences from the depths he is coaching from. Through this, I’ve been on a trajectory of sustained personal and professional growth, steering clear of cycles of hyper activation and burnout. His coaching has empowered me to embrace a life course that is at once empowered and grounded from deeper sources of practical wisdom.
Olen’s 5 Depths of Presence coaching method unveils deep insights into our human potential. His transformative approach explores the “life worlds” of Being Real, Being Witness, Being Essence, Being Source, and Being Presence, offering invaluable inner guidance for cultivating clarity, wisdom, and a profound sense of aliveness.
Olen embodies the qualities of a deeply skilled, present, intelligent, and heartfelt coach and teacher. In journeying through each depth of presence in our coaching, this created conditions to navigate the fullness of my existence with greater truth and purpose.
My coaching experience with Olen has been profoundly transformative and has significantly reshaped both my professional life and personal growth. From the very beginning, Olen’s coaching helped unveil new layers of understanding and self-awareness that I had not previously accessed.
Through our sessions, Olen introduced me to a range of practices that played a crucial role in fortifying my confidence in high stakes meetings with clients, enabling me to approach these challenges with a renewed sense of balance, purpose and authentic presence. Our coaching sessions effectively recalibrated my approach to work, aligning me with my core motivation and presence in the present moment. This work has been invaluable, something that has shaped how I show up with my clients and myself each day. I am deeply grateful for Olen’s coaching journeys, which made a lasting impact in my work and life.
My sessions with Olen have been a space of deep nourishment on the level of essence. From our first session I felt that Olen was able to get a sense of my uniqueness in relation to organisation I was part of and supported me to see more clearly the impact I’m already making. At the same time, the space we’ve been creating has also been a great place to confront some of my perceived limitations. There has been an opportunity to get into some of the more challenging and sticky aspects of my relationship to purpose, livelihood, boundaries, desires.
I have felt a strong sense of Olen’s commitment to presence and to the unfolding of the meeting between us as a guide in the sessions. He quickly got a sense of my resources, how I orient and what is most vital to me and this has created a strong sense of trust in the relationship from the beginning. Olen has a strong sense of and support of the feminine aspects of my leadership which at this time has met me in a significant place and greatly encouraged me to be even bolder in my embodiment and mission.
Working with Olen in ten transformative sessions a few years ago inspired a renewed appreciation for his approach to coaching, guiding me to a place of deeper essence and soul. Each session, grounded in Olen’s powerful work of Dynamic Presencing, was a multi-layered journey that brought valuable discoveries and insights. Olen brings a rare depth, clarity, and perspective that catalyzes insight, helping me reconnect with a deeper source of flow in my relationships, work, and inner life.
Through Olen’s embodiment of presencing, he created a uniquely engaging space where we could explore deeper layers of sovereignty, vulnerability, and authentic presence. Our work together helped illuminate my path by deepening my experience of self-alignment, slowing down the process into a depth that fostered an environment where I could uncover core dimensions of myself. This work introduced me to a powerful form of coaching and work that continues to support my journey toward self-sovereignty. I’m profoundly grateful for Olen’s way of engaging that inspired taking a stand from my essence to further empower a way of living from that place.
Receiving coaching from Olen during a major transition in my life was profoundly transformative. His calm, attuned presence helped me connect with and uncover several deeper dynamics that were playing a role in this transition. With a depth and precision of discernment, he guided me to reconnect with these deeper core elements of my being—parts of myself that I had unknowingly set aside. Olen introduced me to the process of letting go, letting be, and letting come, and his guidance in navigating this presencing process was pivotal. As I relaxed into my ground of presence in our sessions, the path I truly longed for gradually became clear.
Experiencing Olen’s coaching was liberating—so much so that at one point, I found myself laughing out loud at the realization of what had been so deeply buried yet so undeniably true about the life I wanted to step into. Throughout our work together, Olen stood beside me with unwavering presence—offering not just deep understanding and insight, but a rare and compassionate attunement to my life that was waiting for me to step into.
I had the good fortune of experiencing Olen’s coaching firsthand in his MBA classes. His way of supporting everyone’s growth at a deeper essential level helped me appreciate what is possible with coaching. That initial experience left a lasting impression and became a point of reference to return to in my subsequent trainings with coaching and human systems intervention practices.
As I look ahead to his new coaching program, I can’t help but feel a mix of excitement, even a bit of envy for the coaches who will be participating, as well as impatience to experience this transformational journey myself. The level of deep commitment, heart and presenced attention he gives are evident in every aspect of his coaching and teaching. It’s been a thrilling adventure to be on learning journeys with him in his classes and his coaching and I’m amped to finally see this program come into fruition.
Olen is an Associate Professor in Leadership & Coaching in the Department of Management at Université Laval (Canada). Across more than two decades, his scholarship and practice have explored the nature of presencing and its transformative possibilities for leadership, coaching, conversation, and human development. His work spans 15 edited, authored, and forthcoming books and more than 65 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters published internationally.
He has taught and coached several thousand emerging leaders and established professionals in universities across Canada, the United States, Austria, Sweden, South Africa, and South Korea. He approaches teaching and coaching as spaces for transformation in how we understand ourselves, relate with others, and participate in the worlds we inhabit. His teaching has been recognized with five faculty-level awards for excellence.
Central to Olen’s work has been a decades-long inquiry into the nature of presencing, developed through research, teaching, coaching, and sustained practice with others. This work has given rise to the Way of Dynamic Presencing, a living apprenticeship for cultivating deeper ways of being, relating, conversing, and participating from the depths of presence and the generative movement of presencing.
Through the Way, practitioners deepen into presencing ways of being, knowing, sensing, relating, and responding. Over time, these capacities become increasingly embodied within their own lives and work, deepening how they coach, lead, teach, facilitate, create, and enter into conversation with others.
Transform your Relationship with Presence, Stillness and Presencing
Through the apprenticeship, you enter more deeply into the living depths of Presence and Stillness and the generativity of Presencing. As you deepen into Stillness and awaken to your Presencing Nature, your fundamental sense of self gradually shifts, shaping how you live, relate, and enter into conversation with others.
Cultivate the Depth, Quality and Generativity of Your Presence
Engage with practices that immerse you in the Five Level-Depths of Presence, deepening your capacity to live and work from Presence. As these level-depths are embodied and integrated, Presence becomes increasingly sourced in Stillness, transforming your relationship with yourself, others, and the wider fields of conversation you inhabit.
Following Your Own Path through the Way
The Way of Dynamic Presencing unfolds within a small cohort that serves as a living community of practice. Through shared inquiry, guided practice, coaching, and conversation, you deepen your apprenticeship while discovering how the Way finds expression through you. Gradually the work becomes increasingly embodied as your own transformed way of being, relating, creating, and participating with experience directly
Bi-Weekly Online Training Sessions
Participate in three hour immersive training sessions online every two weeks (30 hours total). Each session integrates direct transmission, experiental learning and guided practice in the Way of Dynamic Presencing Approach.
Peer Coaching
Level 1 · Foundations
Engage in bi-weekly partnered sessions (10 hours total) to apprentice in dyads with the Five Level-Depths of Presence. This foundational stage cultivates your capacity for listening, responding, and attuning from dimensional presence in shared experience.
Level 2 · Deepening
Deepen your applied apprenticeship through coaching and conversation (10 hours total), bringing the Five Level-Depths of Presence into relational practice while deepening into Stillness and your Presencing Nature. This phase supports the integration of presencing as a lived orientation, allowing greater fluidity, depth, and generativity to shape how you engage with others.
Level 3 · Mastery
Continue refining and embodying the Way through advanced practice with the Five Fields of Presencing Conversation, opening new capacities for subtlety, generativity, and increasingly masterful participation in conversation.
Individual Practice & Integration
Between sessions, engage in solo practices and reflective journaling to deepen your overall apprenticeship. The training culminates in an optional final Capstone Project, with the possibility of publication in the International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching.
Your Way of Dynamic Presencing journey includes the option of a culminating Capstone Project, inviting you to deepen, integrate, and give expression to your transformational learning while contributing to the unfolding of this emerging field.
The Capstone offers a space to explore how the Way is becoming your way, bringing your developing voice, interests, and lived experience into a project that matters to you. This may take the form of an applied coaching, leadership, educational, or conversational initiative, a research-based inquiry, a creative project, or a written reflection that brings your presencing journey into deeper expression and practice.
Select projects may be considered for submission to the International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching, offering a wider platform to share your work with.
Each live session offers a carefully curated presencing process, guided through direct transmission that is responsive to what-is, to the people present, and what is alive and emerging within the shared field.
Together, we enter into the depths of Presence and Stillness, creating the conditions for presence held, stillness-guided inquiry, practice, coaching, and conversation.
Grounded in Presence, sourced in Stillness, and guided by the unfolding movement of Presencing, each session becomes a living space for apprenticing in the Way, exploring what emerges within ourselves, between one another, and through the field we share.
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