Steven Lane is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his experience and professionalism.
He began his professional life as the director of a successful business consultancy, driven by ambition and the pursuit of achievement. But everything changed when he experienced a spontaneous spiritual awakening that led him to leave it all behind and spend seven years as a Buddhist monk. During this time, his focus shifted from external success to inner transformation, and he discovered the profound healing that can occur simply through presence and connection.
He returned to the world with a renewed sense of purpose, pursuing training in hypnotherapy, homeopathy, NLP, and a variety of psychological disciplines. Coaching entered his life through a Master NLP Coach training and later deepened through ICF and EMCC programs, eventually leading him to Transformational Coaching. Inspired by the work of Leon VanderPol and the 3 Principles of Sydney Banks, he found a unique path that merged his spiritual depth with a powerful, forward focused approach to personal growth.
He now supports clients in accessing their innate wisdom and unlocking deep, lasting transformation. His sessions are unstructured, intuitive, and COcreative, guided by presence, trust, and what emerges in the moment. With a blend of spiritual insight and psychological tools, his coaching helps people dissolve limiting beliefs, find clarity of purpose, and connect to a deeper identity rooted not in doing, but in being. Here is what he said…
Meet Life Coach Steven Lane:
Name: Steven Lane
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind, The Heart
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to achieve genuine inner transformation and full self actualization, connecting with aspects of themselves they do not even know exist.
How they can help: By using various tools, techniques and methods such as NLP, ACT, and belief repatterning, just to name a few.
First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?
We’re doing wonderfully well.
We don’t tend to focus much on the past.
The pandemic brought challenges, changes, and some new beginnings.
In the meantime, life goes on, and we meet whatever emerges with presence.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
The pandemic led me to move fully online, which unexpectedly opened my practice to a global audience.
Personally, I went through significant illness that has had lasting effects on my health.
Many clients experienced emotional and psychological turbulence, illness, isolation, fear, and uncertainty.
The pandemic also revealed how polarizing opinions could strain relationships.
In many ways, the world hasn’t quite returned to what it was before.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
Three key lessons stand out:
1. How to stay calm while dealing with prolonged fatigue and breathlessness.
2. The how to of online marketing.
3. How limited government and medical responses are to complex situations that require holistic and higher thinking.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
Becoming a coach was, in many ways, the culmination of my life journey.
In my twenties, I was director of a successful business consultancy.
Then, quite spontaneously, I had a profound spiritual awakening that changed the course of my life.
This awakening led me to spend seven years as a Buddhist monk.
During that time, my motivations shifted from ambition to service.
I began to realize that simply by sharing space with others, healing could happen: physically and emotionally.
Returning to lay life, I trained in hypnotherapy, homeopathy, NLP, and various psychological modalities, eventually establishing a private practice alongside an NGO consultancy.
My introduction to coaching came through a Master NLP Coach training, which, though now less in vogue, was a powerful starting point.
I later undertook several ICF and EMCC accredited coaching programs and found myself deeply drawn to the optimism and forward focus of coaching compared to therapy.
Later, through Transformational Coaching, especially training with Leon VanderPol (author of A Shift in Being), I found my spiritual and coaching interests merging.
His 9 Core Practices of Transformational Coaching offered a powerful container for the depth work I was drawn to.
I also studied the 3 Principles work of Sydney Banks, which resonated deeply with my understanding of innate wisdom.
Now, with a strong foundation in psychological and spiritual work, my coaching helps people achieve deep personal transformation: psychological and spiritual.
I support clients in connecting to a part of themselves that is far beyond the thinking mind: an inner presence that is always whole and wise.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
My early life was marked by health challenges, family issues, self doubt, and a constant drive to be better, achieve more, and prove myself.
Ironically, I came to see that the striving was part of the problem.
Even as a teenager, I searched for deeper meaning through philosophy and spiritual practice.
Though some of that early seeking involved spiritual bypassing, over time I learned to integrate spiritual insights into everyday life, which led to living an inspired, meaningful life, yet one that has a certain lightness of being.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
Each session begins fresh.
I have no fixed agenda.
While I may draw on various tools, the core of my work lies in attuning to what is emerging for the client at a deep level.
I aim to create a space free of personal agendas, one in which the client’s conscious intentions and deeper intuitive knowing can lead the way.
Coaching, for me, is a COcreative process guided by a mutual trust in inner wisdom.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
I offer Transformational Life Coaching that works at a profound level, often over a longer term engagement.
My clients often begin with specific goals, but the process naturally evolves toward self actualization and beyond.
My coaching supports genuine inner transformation and helps clients connect with aspects of themselves they may never have known.
This especially includes connecting to a deeper wisdom that will then serve clients for life.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
- Resolution of subconscious blocks and limiting beliefs.
- Awareness and transformation of dysfunctional patterns and dynamics.
- Greater inner peace and presence.
- Enhanced authenticity and clarity of purpose.
- Access to innate wisdom and personal potential.
- Improved relationships, emotional well being, and often financial success.
- Deep self actualization.
- (For those open to transpersonal work) A shift in identity from ego to presence, from doing to being.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
While I have a wide array of tools, ranging from traditional coaching models to psychological and therapeutic techniques, the most powerful tool is the relational space we (CO)create.
This includes deep trust, mutual intention, and intuitive tuning into what’s arising.
Within that space, transformation happens.
I also draw on methods such as NLP, ACT, and belief repatterning as needed.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
You are not who you think you are.
You are not your thoughts, your past, or your perceived limitations.
Within you lies a powerful inner wisdom capable of transforming your entire experience of life.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
That life is not what it seems.
Nothing is fixed.
Everything is in constant flow and emergence.
We are not our thoughts or our ego based identity.
Within each of us is a formless intelligence untouched by the past.
We can learn to attune to this deeper wisdom and live from a radically different space.
Your final thoughts?
Coaching is a powerful pathway to transformation.
While conventional coaching supports goal achievement within a competency based relationship, transformational coaching goes deeper.
It helps clients awaken to their inherent potential and shift their identity at the core.
That transformation then ripples out into all areas of life.
There’s been talk about AI doing coaching.
Perhaps for basic accountability coaching, that’s possible.
But transformational coaching relies on human presence, intuition, and deep attunement, qualities that AI, at least for now, cannot replicate.
Where Can You Find Steven Lane?
If you liked this interview and if you would love to achieve genuine inner transformation and full self actualization, if you want to connect with aspects of yourself that you might not have known even existed, contact Coach Steven and see how he can help you achieve that.
Feel free to explore his website and learn more about his services.
If you’d like to peak a glimpse into his coaching, follow his Facebook account.
We strongly suggest to go here and download his FREE meditation and FREE book.
And if you’d like to connect more personally with him, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending him a direct message on his WhatsApp or on his Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with him.