Mindful Mentoring

What is Mindful Mentoring?

Mindful Mentoring is a space where you can reconnect with your authentic self. Through meditation practice and reflective dialogue, Mark helps you lift the burden of obligation that smothers curiosity, joy, and freedom. Each session supports you to reclaim a sense of personal power and creativity, to take the lead role in your own life.

This isn't therapy or clinical treatment. It's a contemplative partnership for people who feel heavy, stuck, or disconnected from what truly matters and are ready to feel lighter, clearer, and more alive.

Who This Is For

This work is for people who feel:

• Stuck at a crossroads, unsure which direction to take

• Burnt out and disconnected from what truly matters

• Heavy with obligation, living according to others' expectations rather than your own truth

• Paralyzed by uncertainty, keen to make a change but unsure of how

• Smothered by "shoulds", disconnected from curiosity, joy, and freedom

• Disengaged or frustrated with your current situation

• Seeking authentic spirituality without religious dogma, drawn to meaning, purpose, and connection to something greater, but maybe outside traditional frameworks

At its deepest level, this is about realising your authentic self, the "I am" beneath all the roles and expectations. You don't need to have answers or know exactly what you want. You just need to be ready to cultivate stillness, open your awareness to possibility, and explore what calls to you. Whether that's creative expression, spiritual depth, or simply a more authentic way of being.

How It Works

Each session combines three elements:

1. Mindfulness & Meditation Skills
Mark teaches practical meditation and mindfulness techniques to help you settle, focus, and access your own clarity. These aren't abstract concepts, they're tools you can use daily.

2. Reflective Space
Mark creates room for deep, unhurried conversation. He helps you listen to yourself, often for the first time in a while. What emerges in this space is yours; he's there to hold it with you.

3. Reconnection with Joy and Possibility
Together, you'll explore what genuinely brings you alive, not what you think you should want, but what calls to you with curiosity and delight. You'll expand your awareness to see new and exciting possibilities.

What You'll Gain

Through Mindful Mentoring, you'll experience tangible shifts:

Mental clarity and calm
Learn meditation and mindfulness skills to quiet your mind, regulate your nervous system, and access your own inner wisdom when you need it most.

A lighter way of being
Release the burden of obligation and "shoulds" that weigh you down. Feel genuinely lighter, freer, and more at ease in your own life.

Connection to joy and curiosity
Reconnect with what brings you alive. Whether that's creative pursuits, meaningful work, or simply being present to life's possibilities.

Confidence to take action
Move from analysis paralysis to clarity. Develop the courage to follow what's true for you, even when the path isn't certain.

Deeper self-knowledge
Understand what actually matters to you versus what you think you should want. Expand your sense of identity and new paths forward.

Felt sense of being seen and heard
Experience the relief of being truly understood in conversations that go deeper than surface-level problem solving.

About Mark

Mark spent 15 years as a wellbeing coordinator in schools, supporting young people through challenging transitions and mental health struggles. He's held space for hundreds of deep conversations about meaning, purpose, and finding one's way.

He's a registered meditation teacher, and brings a contemplative, non-dogmatic approach informed by his background in theology, counselling studies, and lived experience. He's walked away from paths that didn't fit, and understands what it takes to follow what's truly alive in you.

4-Session Mindful Mentoring Pack

Format:
Four 75-minute one-to-one sessions over 4 weeks, via Zoom (or in-person if local to Surf Coast Vic.)

What happens each week:

Week 1: Foundation
Opening meditation to ground and settle. Mark introduces core mindfulness practices and you explore what's present for you right now, what feels heavy, what you're longing for.

Week 2: Clarity
Deepening meditation practice. Together you identify what's weighing you down and what genuinely brings you alive. This is where you start listening to yourself again.

Week 3: Courage
Building on your practice, you explore what calls to yo; creative expression, new direction, authentic spirituality. Mark supports you in moving from paralysis to possibility.

Week 4: Integration
Creating sustainable practices and clear next steps. You leave with meditation skills, renewed clarity, and the courage to follow what's true for you.

What you take away:

• Daily meditation practice you can maintain

• Practical tools for nervous system regulation

• Clarity about what actually matters to you

• Renewed connection to joy and curiosity

• Confidence to take meaningful action

Investment

4-Session Pack: $595 (4 weekly sessions, 75 minutes each)

Founding Client Offer

Mark is currently offering the 4-Session Program to his first 5 clients for $200 (regular price $595).

This founding rate is for people willing to:

• Commit to all 4 weekly sessions

• Provide honest feedback on the program

• Share a testimonial if you find the work valuable

This is a month-long journey to reconnect with yourself, develop a meditation practice, and reclaim your sense of direction and creative courage.

To claim a founding client session, contact Mark at: mark@markphilpott.com

Getting Started

(Regular Sessions)

If the founding client spots are filled, or if you'd prefer to book at the standard rate, reach out and you can schedule a brief conversation to see if Mindful Mentoring feels like the right fit.

Contact: mark@markphilpott.com
Or book a discovery chat using the link below.

"The work is not to become someone else. It's to remember who you already are."