Dialogues that Guide You to Clarity, so You can Align Your Life.

Useful Frames Helps You

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Gain clarity on who you are
and how you are showing
up in the world.

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Increase your agency
by rediscovering your source
of inner wisdom.

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Reliably generate insights
that align your life.

The Answers You Seek Are Within You. Useful Frames Helps You Rediscover Them.

Some of the Reasons People Seek Philosophical Guidance

  • Identity confusion and life direction—not knowing who they really are anymore, feeling like an imposter in their own life, questioning what they thought they wanted, or not living up to being the kind of person they want to be

  • Work that feels disconnected from their soul—successful by external measures but lacking meaning and fulfillment, burned out but unable to stop pushing, afraid to pursue what they really want to do, or wanting something more from life

  • Repeating patterns they can't break—self-sabotage right before breakthroughs, staying in relationships that don't serve them, or falling into the same conflicts or unhelpful patterns over and over.

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The Useful Frames Approach

Through the living mirror of present-moment dialogues, we help you see your patterns with clarity—not to analyze or solve—but to uncover
what your soul is trying to tell you.

Rather than treating you as a problem to be fixed, we guide you in discovering the deep intelligence lying within your struggles, helping you reconnect with your deepest self and align your life with what you value most.

If self-help hasn’t helped, coaching is too goal-oriented, and therapy treats you like a problem to be solved, philosophical guidance may be a better alternative. Here, instead of trying to fix your self, you can discover your self, and in the process find lasting clarity,
insight, and alignment.

How it Works

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1

We explore together
to see if we are
a good fit.

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2

We guide dialogues
that help you see your self with clarity.

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3

You generate insights
that bring alignment
to your life.

What Our Clients Say

"In my sessions with Alistair, I feel both accepted as I am and encouraged to become the most fully realized version of myself that he's mirroring back to me. I’m able to show up more fully for myself and loved ones now. He tailors his approach to my unique quirks so the insights that emerge are self-discovered. You are in skilled hands if you work with him.” - HW

Alistair is an incredible guide and travel companion in exploring the maze of the mind, holding conversational space with care, playful wonder, and presence. His reverence for the power and sacredness of dialogue to transform spirit is contagious! He gracefully pulls on the meaningful threads and orients to the intelligence of the moment with open questions, reflections and challenging provocations. Every discussion has inspired insight, revealed unseen perspectives and opened new paths of becoming. I am truly grateful for it. - QW

“Engaging in practice with Alistair has been instrumental in shaping how I engage with the world. He has a gift for steering you towards the sacredness of regular life. His provocations are playful, well-intentioned, and transformative.” - MA

A Proven Guide for Your Journey

Alistair has walked the path you're considering. During his fourteen years as a successful trial attorney fighting for civil and human rights, and building several businesses, life delivered a series of profound challenges that forced him to confront fundamental questions about meaning, authentic living, healthy relationships, and alignment in life. Through navigating loss, health crises, professional success and failures, and his own patterns of disconnection in his relationships, he discovered the transformative power of the practices that now guide his work.

As an APPA-certified philosophical guide, Alistair brings together legal training in truth-seeking, entrepreneurial experience, and deep practical experience and professional expertise in contemplative and relational practices. But his real qualification is this: he lives what he teaches. Every practice he guides you through, he does himself.

Alistair doesn't theorize about transformation, he lives it. He doesn't just study ancient wisdom—he practices it daily through meditation, contemplation, dialogue, and the always ongoing work of aligning his own life with his deepest values.

When you work with Alistair, you're not getting academic theory, psychological analysis, or surface-level coaching. You're getting a guide who understands both the courage required for real change and the practical steps that make it sustainable. Someone who's learned that true clarity comes not from having all the answers, but from knowing how to ask the questions that matter, and then living into them.

Your journey toward alignment deserves a guide who has traveled the road himself and can help you navigate it with care, compassion, and practical skills.

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Pricing

For Individuals

1

Discovery Call

Free (30 mins)

2

Single Session

$225 (1 hr)

3

Package

12 sessions - Journey to Sacred Seeing

Find Clarity with Useful Frames.