Our team.

Dr Josh Phillips (PhD, MPhil, BA)
Founder, Programme Director

Josh is a Certified Transformational Coach, also trained in Authentic Relating, Circling, Wheel of Consent, and Embodied Intimacy Training. He has been dancing the 5Rhythms since 2021. Twice a startup founder and with a PhD in Entrepreneurship, Josh also has 15+ years of experience as a coach, consultant and researcher, currently working as a Careers Consultant with the University of London. He is passionate about embodiment, having gone through entrepreneurial burnout and emerged the other side with a new found commitment to work-life balance, somatic wellbeing, movement, and nervous system regulation. Based in London, he brings a calm, thoughtful and holistic approach to building and serving authentic communities.

Experiences, qualifications and trainings include:

  • Certified Transformational Coach (Animas, ICF, 2020-2021)

  • Professional Careers Consultant (University of London, 2022-present)

  • Employment Specialist (Twining Enterprise, 2021-2022)

  • Business Mentor on London Metropolitan University’s Launchpad Accelerator Programme (2020)

  • 2 x Startup Co-Founder (2010-2014, 2017-2019)

  • Previous roles at LEK Consulting (2007-2008) and PlusValue Consulting (2016-2017)

  • PhD in Economic Geography, Queen Mary University London (2010-2014)

  • MPhil and BA in Geography, Cambridge University (2004-2009)

  • 5Rhythms Dancer (2021-present, 350+ hours classes, 39 days workshops)

  • Somatic Coaching (Marysia Pstrokonska, 2021-present)

  • Authentic Relating Training (ART) International (Level 2, 2020-2022)

  • Circling (Fundamentals with Circling Europe, 2020)

  • Move With The Seasons (Ben Medder, 2021-present)

  • Embodied Intimacy Training (Module 1, 2023)

  • Yoga (Beginner Course with Yogalogy)

  • Wheel Of Consent (Workshop with Togetherness)

Shannon Cunningham
Lead Facilitator

Shannon Cunningham is from Sydney, Australia and has been living in London for over 2 decades. He is a personal trainer, lifestyle coach and speaker.

Shannon is passionate about health optimisation, nutrition, peak performance, mindset training, wealth creation and travelling the world.

He believes that 3 things will change your life: the people you meet, the courses you take and the books that you read. Shannon has been on a personal development journey for 10 years and has been training in Authentic Relating for 2 years (ART Level 1-4).

Shannon loves to practise and facilitate Authentic Relating, as he feels most alive in spaces where people can fully be – all of who they really are. He finds AR work deeply meaningful, healing and it has been transformative in his own life.

Over this decade of self-improvement, Shannon has learned many ideas, tools and skills that he loves sharing with others, so that they can grow and prosper in all areas of their own lives.

Shannon values kindness, authenticity, vulnerability, integrity, fun and deep connections with others.

His motto is: ‘Life is what you dare to make it’.