Move Inside Complexity with a Felt
Sense of Coherence
Wayfinding with Elsa Henderson, Ph.D.
Amid the chaos and uncertainty of the modern world, a clear, coherent path is possible.
Wayfinding is a practice of discerning a path forward when there is no map. It helps us tune into what’s actually happening, perceive more of what’s hidden in plain sight and move with what is arising. It restores the continuity beneath the noise, brings deeper meaning to motion and allows us to move through our lives with ease, even in uncertainty.
Rather than trying to make things happen through force, wayfinding invites us to draw from the deep reservoir of our own felt experience, to listen for coherence in the field, and to meet the moment and adapt more readily when the way ahead cannot yet be seen.
Coaching & Programs:
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Wayfinding for Modern Life
For everyday humans who are facing unknowns, transitions, and complexity in their own lives, this is a space for you to learn the practice of wayfinding. To pause, reconnect with your own sense of direction and integrate relevant insights and threads of meaning. Cultivate the capacities, sensibilities, and tools for meeting uncertainty and moving forward with clarity and vitality.
FOR EVERYONE
The 1:1 Wayfinding Intensive
Work 1:1 with Elsa to shape your life and enact your path in a way that honours who you are and brings you into closer connection with a deeper current of meaning. Transmute tension, recognise possibilities, and hone your ability to respond to a variety of situations from a stance of discernment, choice and alignment.
FOR THERAPISTS, FACILITATORS & GUIDES
Pattern Literacy Group Supervision
For therapists, facilitators, and guides seeking to refine their perception of systems, processes, and subtle fields. Deepen your capacity to recognise patterns, tend to change and steward learning and growth.
FOR LEADERS
Strategy for Visionaries
For founders and innovators working at the edge of change. Develop adaptive, values-aligned strategies that are dynamic and in conversation with your context rather than rigid and transposed onto it. Move and adapt with uncertainty rather than feeling thrown off course.
Wayfinding Helps You:
See more of the variables in play.
Learn how to read the whole field — simultaneously tracking what’s happening inside yourself, arising through your relationships and what’s shifting in your environment, along with the invisible variables like emotional undercurrents, unspoken power dynamics, cultural patterns, and emerging possibilities.
Free yourself from cycles of harm & repetition.
Seeking the gaps and cracks in habitual ways of engaging to help you break out of areas where you are stuck (at conscious and unconscious levels) and make room for new patterns to emerge.
Get more effective results.
Act from the intersection of inner knowing and outer reality. Learn to adapt according to the inputs you’re receiving moment by moment. Cultivate your discernment so you can act from a place of integrity and attunement to the ripple effects of your actions.
Align with the moment.
Orient from what’s real right now, rather than relying solely on old patterns or imposed models. Translate the ineffable into the actionable, turning what is ephemeral, philosophical, or intuitive into clear, usable, and impactful action.
What Is Wayfinding?
We engage in wayfinding every day—it's how we make our way from one place to another, one idea to the next. It is an ongoing process of weaving the fabric of our lives, drawing upon threads of the past, cues from the present, and signals from possible futures.
Wayfinding is a practice that has been engaged by indigenous peoples around the world for millennia. As a process it holds the potential to bring you into closer contact with the path that is being made as you walk it.
My approach to wayfinding weaves together insights from process-oriented psychology, leadership development, complexity science, phenomenology, and my research to help you navigate unpredictable terrain with greater clarity and purpose.
About Elsa
My work lives at the intersection of systems thinking, embodied intelligence, and lived experience.
I spend most of my time at the edges, seeking to bridge worlds and bring more of what is invisible or tacit into view.
My practice bridges philosophy and praxis—helping individuals and organizations orient themselves to more of what is present, and find the intersection between what is emergent and unexpected and what is intentional and planned.
