Leonie Staas
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02 — 1:1 Mentorship

1:1 Mentorship — Finding Your Way in Difficult Times

Something in you already knows the way forward. The 1:1 work I offer is not about giving you answers — it is about helping you hear your own. Through an embodied, practical approach that weaves together inner practices with honest conversation, I support people who are trying to live more meaningfully in a time that makes that genuinely hard.

I came to this work not only as a climate professional or an activist, but as a young woman who spent years quietly asking the same questions that many of my peers are struggling with.

How do I stay sane — and find happiness — when the world feels like it is falling apart? How do I live a life that feels meaningful without either averting my eyes, or burning out trying to save everything? How do I untangle myself from a system whose values I no longer share, without losing everything I have built? How do I meet this exhaustion and this fear without being swallowed by them?

I did not find easy answers. But I did find a path — through practice, through community, through a radical shift in how I understood my own place in the world. And I would be deeply honoured to walk alongside others who are asking similar questions.

Perhaps you feel a persistent sense of loneliness that you cannot quite fix — surrounded by people, and yet somehow unseen in what actually matters to you. Perhaps you feel that something in the way you are living is misaligned, but you cannot see clearly how to change it without dismantling everything. Perhaps you are exhausted by trying to care about the state of the world while also just getting through the week. Perhaps you are grieving something you cannot name. Perhaps you simply feel, somewhere in your body, that there is a different way to live — and you want help finding it.

This work is for you.

My approach

I take a deeply practical and embodied approach to mentorship, rooted in a conviction I hold firmly: you already know what the next right step is. The wisdom is there. What gets in the way is the noise — the fear, the conditioning, the stories we have inherited about who we should be and what we should want.

My role is not to tell you what to do. It is to offer you the questions, the practices, and the spaciousness to hear yourself more clearly — and then to help you take what you hear into actual, concrete, liveable action.

This is not therapy, and it is not coaching in the corporate sense. It is something closer to a thinking partnership rooted in the body, oriented toward meaning, and held with genuine care for both you and the wider world you are part of.

Sessions are held online, typically 60–90 minutes, and can be booked as a one-off conversation or as an ongoing series. I ask everyone to begin with a free 20-minute call so that we can sense whether working together feels right.

Practices I draw on

Depending on what you bring and what serves you, our work together may draw on:

  • Meditation — body awareness and loving-kindness: learning to inhabit the present moment and cultivate a relationship to yourself and others that is grounded in warmth rather than judgment or fear.
  • Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra: slow, held postures and deep relaxation practices that work directly with the nervous system — because real change happens in the body first, and lasting insight needs somewhere to land.
  • Dream Work and lucid dreaming: learning to pay attention to what arises in the deeper layers of consciousness, and to use the dream space as a source of guidance, creativity, and self-understanding that our waking minds often overlook.
  • Reflective inquiry and journaling: structured questions and writing practices designed to surface what you already know but haven't yet been able to articulate — or act on.
  • Nature-based practices: reconnecting to the natural world as a source of regulation, perspective, and belonging.
"The deeper reasons for our predicament are mind-made, and so our solutions must be too. There's a world out there — in here — that's striving and deserving of our awe. Our job now is to rediscover it."

Pricing — A Note on Dana

All of my offerings are priced on the basis of dana — a principle rooted in ancient wisdom traditions that is, at its heart, beautifully simple: you give what you can, from the heart, in proportion to what the work has meant to you and what your life genuinely allows.

Dana is not a sliding scale with hidden minimums, and it is not a polite way of asking you to name a number under pressure. It is a genuine invitation to participate in a different kind of exchange — one based on trust, reciprocity, and the recognition that meaningful work should be accessible to everyone.

It works in both directions. If you have resources and can give generously, your contribution makes it possible for someone else to participate who could not otherwise do so. If you are going through a difficult season financially, you are genuinely welcome to give less — or nothing at all. Neither is more or less valued.

I offer my work this way because I believe that what we are trying to do together — find better ways of living, thinking, and relating in a time of profound change — is too important to be gated by money. And because I have found, in my own life, that moving away from purely transactional exchange and toward genuine reciprocity is itself part of the shift we are trying to make.

If you are unsure what to give, let yourself be guided by two simple questions: What can I honestly afford? And: What does this feel worth to me? Both answers matter equally.