Deep Work Purpose Programme

Therapeutic Coaching to Stop Getting In Your Own Way, Find Congruence
& a New Sense of Direction

A Deep Work Journey to
Heal, Reconnect & Find Your Direction

For some people it's a new direction they're after. For others, it's coming home to themselves again.
Usually it's a bit of both.

A DEEP WORK THERAPEUTIC COACHING PROGRAMME

Stop Getting in Your Own Way. Live More Congruently. Find Confidence & a Renewed
Sense of Direction

From self-awareness, to self-support, to self-direction.

A deep dive into who you are and how you might be getting in your own way, teaching you the tools you need along the way to heal unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. A thorough programme for when you're struggling with your sense of self or direction, and you're looking for support that provides a more substantial journey than the odd session.

It's healing work. It's shadow work. A supportive, compassionate space for you to finally unpack what's really going on, and start healing the wounds that are holding you back. And as things settle, it becomes a collaborative space for creative thinking too - about what arises when you’re not making fear-based decisions, and what’s next for you.

Why inner peace comes first
It's hard to find flow and purpose from a nervous system that's on high alert. When you're at odds with yourself, every decision feels loaded. So we start with congruence - getting what's going on inside you and how you're living back on speaking terms - and let a sense of direction grow from there.

One Programme, Four Ways to Join:
From the Premium Intensive Deep Dive to a Focused Version That Fits Around a Full Life

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Your nervous system needs regulation to find purpose and direction. When that doesn’t happen the cost goes far beyond just job satisfaction.

It eventually lead to:

  • Unhelpful patterns of feeling and behaving that you get stuck in

  • Diminished personal confidence

  • Decreasing satisfaction despite achievements

  • Chaotic mind that masks as fits of inspiration (or escape plans) but doesn’t evolve into tangible results

  • Mental & emotional exhaustion that vacation time doesn't sustainably fix (burnout)

  • Lack of motivation for opportunities that should excite you

  • Growing fear that you're on the wrong path

  • Personal or professional relationship strain as stress spills over

Because lacking connection to yourself isn't just unfulfilling - it's neurologically exhausting.

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Why I Created This Programme

In 2011, I co-founded Social Bite, which became a national charity & social enterprise. From the outside, it looked like I was living the dream - bringing George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio to Scotland, helping to house, employ and feed the homeless community, and receiving public recognition, including the ITV Pride of Britain Award and Honorary Doctorate Degrees.

But beneath the success lay an uncomfortable truth: I'd given up my own well-being and sense of self in exchange for hustling for validation. I experienced burnout after burnout, feeling increasingly disconnected from myself and any joy that had initially driven me to make a difference.

So I began learning about the neurobiology of purpose and how we set and achieve goals, and then I tried everything I could get my hands on to recover: different schools of therapy; coaching; retreats; guided breathwork; Ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon; Huachuma ceremonies in the Andes; sweat lodges - you name it. I trained in Coaching & Mentoring and my journey continues now as I’m qualifying to be a psychotherapist.

Now, with over 2500 hours of supporting people through their pivotal moments of life, I’ve learned that we all experience the same kind of blocks to purpose or “our best selves”. The blocks are internal. This forced me to dive deeper into how we become trapped, and how we heal. My practice involves shadow and uses tools such as breathwork, the Enneagram and the neurobiology of setting and achieving goals to inform the journey. I started noticing the transformation me and my clients really needed happening in front of my eyes. Nowadays I work with clients on a much deeper level than just business coaching, but career transitions are often a result of what we do together.

I created this programme for people who want to dive into exploring their challenges while healing and rediscovering themselves - to nurture more congruence, and a meaningful direction. I help you to feel you don’t have to wear a mask anymore, or pretend to be something you’re not - and to integrate the parts of you that need time & attention. This programme combines everything I wish I'd had during my own period of soul searching, recovery and navigating professional crossroads.

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Your Guide:
Alice Thompson-Boyd, Purpose Coach & Enneagram Facilitator. Social Entrepreneur - Co-founder of Social Bite, Pride of Britain Award recipient, Host of the ‘How to Be…’ Podcast

A Programme That Responds to You

This programme is run intuitively. The first few sessions are essential: they help us create a shared understanding of how the land lies for you – where you are now, what matters most to you, and seems to be getting in the way. From there, we stay responsive to whatever we discover together about what you need.

That might mean we follow the programme exactly as it's laid out. Or I might send over some of the programme workbook as a resource for you to complete in your own time – which frees up our session time to focus on whatever is the most impactful work for you. That could be anything from healing shadow work, to self-regulation to creative, strategic thinking about how to bring your new direction to life.

When We Reach the End

Eight months is a natural arc, but it doesn't have to be a hard stop. If you feel you're on the cusp of something, we can continue or extend the programme. Or if you feel you’re arrived where you needed to, but you’re benefiting from having this space and don't want to sever ties, you can switch to therapeutic coaching sessions with me which are cheaper and come without the content, more focused on holding space for you.

Equally, one of my favourite parts of this work is watching clients reach the end feeling more aligned, and ready to take their next step on their own, in which case I’ll be cheering you on from the sidelines.

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Programme Breakdown

There are 4 ways to go through this programme. Every option follows the same 8-month journey. On the Deep Work options our sessions are longer and go deeper including intensive workshops. On the Focused option we cover the essentials in less time, with the workbooks there if you’d like to go further in your own time.

Optional for the Deep Work path: Track Your Purpose - an additional session that helps us articulate your purpose drivers, based on your most significant life experiences. It can slot in whenever feels right for you, though it often fits naturally around Month 3. If you’d like to dive deeper, adding it extends your programme to 9 months, at the same monthly price.

  • An honest look at where you are now across your whole life, from work and relationships to health, purpose, and fun & playfulness. This becomes our shared starting point, and helps us see what matters most to you right now.

  • Get to know the four parts of your brain that decide whether you go for it, and why change can feel so hard. Understanding how your brain sets and pursues goals takes the shame out of feeling stuck, and shows you how to work with yourself rather than against yourself.

  • An in-depth Enneagram workshop to explore your type, your patterns and what your body noticed along the way, followed by a one-to-one session to make sense of it all. Your Enneagram score card helps you keep exploring whatever you’re still sitting with.

    The workshop is 5 hours - on the Focused option, it's the only long time commitment and you’ll join a handful of others also learning about the Enneagram. It may come earlier or later in the programme depending on when I’m running an Enneagram workshop. It doesn’t matter when it comes - what matters is that it lands.

  • Getting to know your triggers, and the wiser part of you that isn’t run by them. We look at what happens in your brain and body when you’re triggered, and how to meet those moments with more choice and compassion. This will either help to inform the Enneagram work for you, if you haven’t had the workshop yet, or the Enneagram can help inform this work if you have already participated in the workshop. It’s chicken & egg - these pieces of the jigsaw help to inform each other.

  • Meeting the parts of you that get triggered, with curiosity instead of a fight. Drawing on Internal Family Systems, we map the story that keeps playing on repeat, and start to understand what those parts of you are trying to protect.

  • Time to let it all settle. We consolidate what you’ve discovered so far, with space for deeper parts work and practical tools for loosening unhelpful beliefs, and you leave with the words you most need to hear.

  • Finding where the juice is worth the squeeze, and where it isn’t. We explore what genuinely brings you meaning, and what you’re realistically willing to move towards, so your next steps are guided by what matters to you rather than what you think you should want.

  • Your map forward: specific, rehearsed and small enough to start. We imagine the life you want, choose the stop-off points that would move you closest to it, and break them into tiny steps, finishing with a final review later that month to bring everything together.

Alice only wants to work with people who she can genuinely help and support on their journey. If you aren’t satisfied with the programme, Alice offers a 100% money-back guarantee.

Ready to find more peace & a direction that feels like yours?

Transform personal insights and lightbulb moments into lasting change with the Deep Work Purpose Programme.

  • Get personalised guidance on your healing and self-discovery journey from someone with vast experience and expertise

  • Discover deep personal insights and new perspectives that unlock new ways of thinking and meeting yourself (and others)

  • A team player with your best interests at heart (not the organisation you work for!)

  • Find your conviction and learn how much power you actually have when you relax into yourself instead of trying to control all outcomes

  • Receive structured frameworks for implementing change, backed by a strategic approach using the latest research in neuroscience and cognitive behavioural change processes

  • Stay accountable to your most meaningful priorities to create the life you’re always saying you want

→ Fill out the form below and book a free, no-obligation Chemistry Check to explore if this is right for you.

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Choose How You Join

Every option is one-to-one with me, and built on the same programme with the same care. What changes is how much time we spend together each month.

I offer more than one price point on purpose. I want this work to reach the people who need it not only the people who can most easily afford it - so choose the option that fits your life right now.

Deep Work: Premium - £850 per month

The full Deep Work experience, with me alongside you between sessions when you need it.

  • 8-month programme with 3–5 hours a month of my undivided attention, including intensive workshop sessions

  • Reflection emails (from you and me) to solidify the work after our sessions, plus an optional 30-minute catch up call each month

  • The option of in-person sessions at our home in East Lothian, or video call

Deep Work: Professional - £650 per month

The full Deep Work programme, at a more accessible price point.

  • The same 8-month programme and 3–5 hours of session time a month, including the intensive workshops

  • Our work is held within our sessions, rather than ongoing contact in between

  • Online video call, with flexible scheduling to meet your availability

Deep Work: Charity Rate - £450 per month

The full Deep Work programme for people working in the charity sector.

  • The same 8-month programme and session time

  • Our work is held within our sessions, rather than ongoing contact in between

  • Online, on video call

  • Available to employees of registered charities

Focused - £145 per month

For when you want to take a deeper look at what's going on, but life doesn't have room for intensive sessions right now.

  • 8-month programme: a 75-minute session plus a 30-minute catch-up each month

  • One 5-hour Enneagram workshop, joined by a handful of others on their own journey

  • Interactive monthly workbooks to use at your own pace

  • Online, on video call

All options come with a 100% money-back guarantee - if you're not satisfied by the work, I'm more than happy to give you your money back.

Looking For a Retreat-Style Group Programme Experience?

Every so often I run the Deep Work programme as a small group - when I have 6 people who are the right fit - with the full-length Deep Work workshops and session times, for £145 a month. Think of it as a retreat-style experience that fits into your real life.

If you'd like to hear when the next one opens, just select "Group waitlist" in the subject line of the form below and I'll let you know.

Chemistry is everything.

Apply using the form below to register your interest and I’ll be in touch. If you’re keen to get the ball rolling, you can jump the queue by booking a free chemistry-check call with me after you fill out the form, to see if it’s the right fit.