Self Development Courses and Spiritual Programmes
The Soul-Driven Goals Workshop
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Power of Pause Audio Lectures
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Astra’s love of learning has been a natural foundation for their teaching, both during their 10-year career as a university lecturer and as a corporate and community facilitator.
Their teaching style is highly interactive, with plenty of exercises and prompts to encourage and engage participants whether online or in person. Astra has been praised for their refreshing, unique perspective, weaving together spirituality and self-development with a strong sense of humour and compassion for those in their programmes.
Just like their writing, Astra’s courses are characterised by lucidity, thoughtful storytelling, and deeply personal stories, gently supporting you to learn the spiritual and emotional skills you need to connect to your soul, your emotional resilience, and your faith.
Upcoming Courses
Everyday Faith
Everyday Faith is Astra’s latest course development, based on the work produced during Spiritual Summer Camp. Over 28 days, participants will learn Astra’s innovative and inclusive methods for 4 fundamental spiritual practices: journalling, meditation, movement and manifestation.
Everyday Faith is ideal if you’ve struggled to be consistent in spiritual practice, find it hard to focus or find time for these techniques, or want to refresh your daily rituals with trauma-informed, neurodivergent-friendly spiritual techniques.
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Current Courses
The Soul-Driven Goals Workshop
In the Soul-Driven Goals Workshop, you will learn Astra’s innovative method for setting and achieving goals that works far better than rigid processes like SMART goals.
The workshop is ideal for people working with deeply personal or spiritual intentions, who are neurodivergent and creative, or anyone who has found that traditional-style goal-setting methods are too restrictive and frustrating for them.
The workshop package consists of a 2 hour pre-recorded video workshop taught by Astra split in 20 bitesized chapters, a 30-page workbook, and a one-month action plan to follow after watching the workshop. This course teaches you a brand new way to set goals and fulfil your deepest ambitions, helping you learn exactly why SMART goals never work, how to craft the right goal for you, and the best ways to achieve your goals with enjoyable, sustainable strategies.
“I learned a lot about SMART goals … but the way you just spoke about making goals more inspiring was brilliant. It really spoke to me and I’m excited to move through the process you outlined.” - Tessa
“I had been struggling with one particular issue [losing weight] and I wanted to see if taking a different approach could help …After the workshop I managed to distill my many different resolutions down into just a few fun sentences … and in the last two weeks, I have lost 2kg!” - Ingrid
Power of Pause Audio Lectures
In the Power of Pause Audio Lectures, Astra takes you on a journey to discover how to find more calm and contentment in your day through practising mindful pausing.
The audio lectures are ideal if you find yourself snapping at your family, getting overwhelmed at work, or unable to regulate your emotions on a day to day basis. By learning quick pausing practices you can bring more mindfulness into your day without having to spend hours meditating.
The lecture package consists of 14 bitesized audio lectures accompanied by structured daily emails with journal prompts. Together, this mini-course teaches you how to find calm in everyday situations, examining the most common problems behind a frantic schedule to rapid stress-management techniques you can use over and over again.
"Each and every session with Astra I have come away with learnings that I have been able to implement and that have made me feel even more psychologically resourced." - Paula
"Astra squirrels down to the root cause of resistance and pulls me up from drowning in the detail … and it's all communicated with such clarity and simplicity." - Joanna
Professional Purpose Audio Lectures
Following the publication of Finding Your Professional Purpose, Bookboon commissioned Astra to produce a series of connected expert audio talks to further support readers who were seeking a change in career. These include Developing the Right Mindset for Your New Career and How to Create a Career that Helps Others.
Power Skills for the Workplace
Astra was approached to develop and write Power Skills for international e-learning provider Virtual College.
Power Skills is a package of 10 multimedia modules to improve soft skills in the workplace, and includes training on delivering criticism, learning to say no, collaborating effectively, and public speaking.
Past Courses
Spiritual Summer Camp
Spiritual Summer Camp was a live, intensive online programme of four sessions in August 2025. Each session taught participants a non-denominational spiritual practice: journaling, meditation, movement and manifestation.
“You had some very new insights into practices; for people that have done lots of other self-development work, there's so much repetition and yours felt very individual and personal, and honest. The practices that you were teaching fitted with where I'm at in my stage of life ... [they] helped me find my way home.” - Jo
Soul Messages
Soul Messages ran for nine months and was a daily spiritual reminder service sent via text message. Participants received daily inspirational and reflective messages as well as access to a community forum.
“When you're going through your everyday life, it's easy to forget about your spiritual experiences. The messages were a lovely reminder - thought-provoking, useful and inspirational, and particularly helpful for those just starting their spiritual journey.” - Jason
Cacao Love Club
Cacao Love Club was a live, intensive six week online programme in which women and nonbinary people could develop deeper relationship skills through connecting with the plant medicine of cacao, discussion, personal reflection and somatic healing practices.
"Astra's programme changed my idea of what a relationship should be. Before I would hang onto one person and start thinking ‘this could be the one’ straight away. Now I'm more relaxed; I want to explore, see who’s out there, and I'm more open to what might happen." - Gillian
My Body, My Home
My Body, My Home was a live online course of 8 sessions focusing on a different bodily intelligence, from macrobiotic to cosmic to more-than-human. Each session included teaching, discussion and somatic healing practices.
Root & Branch
Root & Branch was a 12 week personal development course combining audio meditations with artistic prompts and journal exercises which encouraged deeper nature connection and learning from tree beings.
Letters from My Home & Heart
Letters from My Home & Heart was a subscription service where readers received personal development exercises by post. It included letters, collage materials, and kinaesthetic reflective tools.