Welcome to the website of David Midgley, Compassion Trainer, Life Coach and Spiritual Counsellor. I have called the website ‘Dharma Coach’ because my approach to life coaching is connected to the Buddhist way of self-realisation, the Dharma – however I am definitely not just a ‘Buddhist Coach’.
I draw on 40 years of experience with a wide variety of approaches to personal growth and self-understanding, including a number of contemporary secular methods as well as several different traditional spiritual paths.
All seem to me to reflect the same set of basic truths about the nature of human life, the challenges we all face and the helpful and unhelpful strategies we adopt to overcome these, and how we can learn to align our lives better with its natural flow, create harmony and beauty in our lives, and make a positive impact on the lives of others.
As well as life coaching, I offer spiritual counselling to anyone who feels they need it, regardless of their particular religious affiliation or lack of it. If you are unsure whether it is life coaching or spiritual counselling that you need, this can be clarified during an initial free, no obligation session by telephone, on Zoom or in person.
In 2020 I trained to teach Thupten Jinpa’s 8 week Compassion Cultivation Training programme – this is a wonderful way to integrate compassion for yourself and others into your life at a deep level. If you feel, as I do, that kindness and compassion are among the most essential aspects of being human, and that the world badly needs more of them, I warmly invite you to join me on this special journey.