Coaching – Integral & Authentic

What you practice, you become.

In a world where you are told you can be anything you want to be, it’s a revolutionary act to be who you are born to be by healing your past, changing your current reality and living more authentically in your present with integrity.

I am a PCC Certified Integral Coach® (UCT GSB) and a disruptor; the latter a consequence of my life’s choices and chances, the former a consequence of two years and hundreds of hours of case studies, self-development, coaching sessions, lectures, reading, research and showing up over and over again for both the Coaching for Development and, immediately thereafter, the longer and more intensive Professional Coaching Certificates at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. This Professional Coaching Course is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Level 2 Accredited Coach Training Programme. It is an advanced transformative journey combining a rigorous study programme with practical application and is designed to maximise coaching learning and development, using proven methodology.

Are you ready to change your perspective?
Are you ready to shift the way you view yourself, your environment and your community?
Are you ready to break free of your comfort zone and discover what’s on the other side?

My methods are client-centred, holistic and non-prescriptive. The fulcrum of my work here is active listening, which ensures you feel supported in your full expression, without restrictions. I don’t look at patching you together so that you can re-enter a dysfunctional job, family, friendship or other environment. Instead we co-create a new way of being that consciously connects you to that which you want to live into the world. My focus is on you, the individual, and how you can change your narrative in order to live your best life with meaning and purpose. I offer my clients an expansive and safe space for self expression and new direction. I don’t resort to formulas, tricks or showmanship but instead continue to do my own emotional and spiritual labour so I can bring a purity of purpose and my own innate gifts to those ready to do this work.

There is coaching, and then there is Penelope van Maasdyk. Between applying a standard set of coaching rules and considering the uniqueness of a situation, there is a wide margin between the simple delivery of a message and the creativity that awakens consciousness by feeding the soul. Penelope focuses her vast culture, lived experiences, and her analytical listening on the in-depth transformation and growth of her coachees. I feel incredibly privileged to have had the chance to be coached by Penelope. I have learned a huge amount about myself during the process, and built an inner strength I did not know I had. Thanks to Penelope I also feel immense gratitude for my life so far and excited about what the future has in stall for me.
Sasha MacSween

Based on my own unique path, purpose and skillset, the fulcrum of my work includes wellness therapies and conscious coaching to do with recovery, recalibration, integration and rehabilitation on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. Studying at the UCT Graduate School of Business has offered me an integration of all my beginnings on my journey of over two decades on the path of discovery and transformation. The embodiment of the true self often lies hidden beneath a lifetime of injury, trauma, addiction, illness, and subsequent compensation. Through burnout, breakdowns, depression, abuse and cPTSD, I have learnt that life isn’t about never getting lost but about recalibrating and starting again and again … from zero, right here, where I am.

Because of my varied and vast skills, studies, knowledge and life experience, the areas I am qualified to work with you include:

Trauma / cPTSD — rape, grief, addiction, suicide, eating disorders
ADHD — adults and teens
Nutrition and activities — focus on dietary and lifestyle choices
Spirituality — consciously connecting individuals
Relationships — integration and areas of disconnect
Adrenal burnout and anxiety — layers of being and levels of consciousness

Lifestyle Coaching can include building capabilities to:

Live with meaning
Fit a job or find a new career
Upscale or downscale
Start a family or repurpose an empty nest
Get you off the couch or off the mountain
Get you into your head or into your body
Find a partner, fix a relationship or leave a marriage

A space where wisdom, knowledge & intuition merge:
I have been seeing Penelope for over a year, starting with Cranio Sacral treatments for pain, then also seeing her for Life Coaching sessions. In both cases I felt held in compassion, and in a space where deep wisdom, knowledge & intuition merged. Penelope is super authentic – she doesn’t mince words but in that she is loving and cares for her clients after the session and in my case has since become a deep friendship. She has an incredible library of knowledge in her head which she readily shares with enthusiasm. I have experienced some major shifts in my life with Penelope’s guidance. I definitely recommend her healing, compassionate, wise input for anyone wishing to feel better in mind body & spirit.
Angie Lockets

You simply can’t become who you need to be by remaining who you are. With my bespoke coaching programs, I partner with you in the exploration of your current narrative and a co-creation of a new narrative. In the process we find a route to your innate purpose and inherent intelligence so you are better able to understand that which is blocking your way and better equipped to decide what to do with it. Your growth process is not about adding anything but rather about shedding the accumulated layers of who you believe yourself to be. This is a requirement to discover and become who you are so you can courageously re-enter the world, your community and your immediate family with renewed vitality, confidence and calm.

The first step into the unknown home to self is to book a 20-minute chemistry call to find out if we are the right match for this 4-6 months-long integration process together.

Penelope helped me through a tumultuous time in my life when I was stuck in a space that was surrounded by a lot of toxicity. Her coaching and craniosacral therapy helped guide me through this, releasing judgement and being open to listen and make the changes to come to a better place. She has an amazing healing gift, is really empathetic and has a lot of wisdom to share. I felt the craniosacral therapy sessions really cause a vibrational shift and offer a guide into myself to live better and make authentic and healthy choices that aligned with me. Thank you Penelope!
André Holland

The Chinese symbols for listening are👂🏼 and ♥️. Through opening my heart in deep listening, I help you find the questions for the answers you already hold inside.

What do you need in order to lead your life with sovereignty?
How do you find meaning in life beyond economic contribution?
What would you do for your life rather than for your living?
When do you feel most aligned and alive?
What does it mean to live unapologetically?
How do you show up as fiercely authentic?

Each unique client-guided treatment experience is a holistic investigation into ways you can better resource your system and a curious inquiry that allows you to develop a deeper understanding and calibration of your own particular harmony. Sometimes it takes crisis and sometimes curiosity; always it takes change.