About Me

Shelley Brock - ACC Professional Coach, MA Architecture

I became a coach because I love being present with people as they find clarity and take steps to move toward their full potential.

I work with leaders, individuals and groups who want to move from feeling deficient and stuck to finding ease, clarity, presence and confidence in their work and life.

My role as a coach is to partner with you by listening and attuning carefully to your present situations and experiences.

I work with you gently, asking informed questions to assist you to expand your self-trust and self-awareness so you can find more clarity and calm in any given situation.

You will then gain the confidence to move forward effectively in order to achieve all that is most important for you.

I find it very rewarding to help hold a safe and focused space so my clients can touch into deeper self-knowledge.

I was inspired to begin training as a professional coach while working with a coach who supported me to trust my own capacities more fully. She helped me find ways to transition from my work as an architect toward providing direct assistance to others to also recognize their potential.

My coaching practice draws on my 25 years of experience as a licensed architect and design advisor to non-profit affordable housing developers in California, as well as 15 years as a meditation instructor and lay-ordained Soto Zen Buddhist practitioner.

Since 2017, I have focused on somatics, developmental psychology and inner Inquiry work with the Diamond Approach school.

I am currently based in Brittany, France after living 22 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. In my free time I’m renovating an 18th century stone house, which is my delight.

“Working with Shelley inspired me to reconnect with my true values. Her observations and direct questions helped me to see that I was capable of relying on my own resources and capabilities, that there was a lot already here waiting for me to notice it under the surface of my crazy, busy life. I’ve learned new habits that really serve me.” Anne S., Director of Fundraising

Qualifications and Affiliations

ACC Accredited Coach with the International Coaching Federation

Member ICF, International Coaching Federation

Accredited Coaching Program Certificate - Erickson, ASCTP

New Ventures West - Certificate - Foundational Coaching Program

Lay-ordained Soto Zen Buddhist practitioner

Former Licensed California Architect

Master’s of Architecture, Columbia University

Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College