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HUMANITY

uncover the treasures within to take the leap toward the life you envision

OUR SHARED experience

I don’t know you yet, and I don’t know your history, your longings or what you are capable of. What I do know, from sitting with many people at turning points, is that there is usually far more inside someone than the life they are living allows them to show.

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Perhaps you have built a career that looks right on paper and still feels wrong on a Sunday evening. Perhaps you hold back because you fear rejection or criticism, or you have started to wonder whether a big change in your work or your life is worth the risk. And yet some part of you keeps asking for more room, more honesty and a life that fits who you are becoming.

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I know that place well. Every major change in my own life came with a deep longing for someone outside me to give me the answers I could not yet find within myself. Boundaries, self-care and the search for purpose all helped, but on their own they never showed me the patterns that kept me small, and that is the work I now do with my clients.

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Drawing on nearly ten years of practice in Nonviolent Communication and more than 300 hours of coaching, I work with solopreneurs, founders, leaders and creatives who look successful from the outside yet feel stuck or disconnected inside. My coaching helps them turn that quiet discomfort into meaningful, measurable change.

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Together, we dismantle perfectionism, over-responsibility and the internalised patterns that keep them small, so they can reclaim time, voice and direction.

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What clients tell me

Clients often tell me they have reclaimed 15 to 20 hours a week that used to disappear into overthinking, procrastination and indecision, and that they now give that time to focused work, their families and rest. Several have raised their rates or visibility by 60 to 80%, launched businesses they once feared, and found their way back to creative flow and calm.

 

One client reported a 69% reduction in procrastination, 83% in worry and 71% in indecision, which gave them back almost two full working days a week. Another launched a company after 18 months of paralysis, invested their family savings with confidence and told me the coaching was worth €50,000 to them.

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How we work

Our work brings together emotional intelligence, systemic awareness and conscious action. I help you see the invisible patterns in how you communicate, decide and relate, and once they become visible you can choose differently and lead, love and live from integrity and ease. By the end of our work, clients are acting differently in the world: they raise their rates, launch new offers, protect their time and show up with grounded confidence, designing their lives instead of surviving them.

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This work is for you if you want to:

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  • Navigate a career, relationship or life transition with clarity

  • Reclaim the time and energy you lose to overthinking, people-pleasing and emotional fatigue

  • Value your work, raise your rates and lead with calm authority

  • Let go of perfectionism, comparison and the need to hold it all together

  • Set boundaries that protect your energy and support your growth

  • Reconnect with your creativity, intuition and sense of purpose

  • Build relationships grounded in empathy, respect and honest communication

  • Recognise the family and systemic patterns that keep you small

  • Define success on your own terms

“I help people see the patterns they cannot see alone, so they can choose differently.”

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Meet me!

I’m Milena, a transformational coach and facilitator based in Lisbon. Before coaching, I spent more than 25 years as an art director in Brazil’s leading publishing houses, including Editora Abril, Folha de S.Paulo and Editora Trip, leading teams of designers, photographers and illustrators. That is where I learnt that good work comes from people who feel trusted, heard and free to make mistakes.

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​Today I hold the ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential and EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation, and I have been practising Nonviolent Communication for nearly ten years. I work with individuals at turning points in their careers and lives, and with groups and organisations that want to communicate, decide and lead with more trust.
 

For teams and organisations

I also design and facilitate workshops and group processes on communication, feedback, collaboration and leadership, in person in Lisbon and online, in English and Portuguese. My approach draws on Nonviolent Communication, the Person-Centred Approach and my years of leading creative teams, and it focuses on what helps people work well together: trust, clear agreements and honest, constructive feedback.

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Since 2019 I have facilitated women’s circles on finances, parenting and Nonviolent Communication, and as co-founder of Colmeia, a multicultural ecovillage project in Portugal, I facilitate collective decision-making and shared governance. I have also co-facilitated a workshop at the GEN Gathering and designed training materials for business leaders at Natura through Accenture.

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If you are looking for a facilitator for your team, I would be glad to talk.

Our shared experience

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“I have to say a huge thank you to Milena! The shift in my partner is so real and so huge. You are such an incredible coach. Thank you for this beautiful journey; he's truly a different person and it shows in how much he's reflecting. He's told me so many times how much your sessions have helped him and how good you are at what you do. Thank you for this beautiful effect you’ve had in changing the trajectory of our family.” - Danni Huang, Poet, Actress, and Entrepreneur, California, USA

“WITH NEARLY A DECADE OF EXPERIENCE IN NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION, I INTEGRATE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH WITH EMPATHY, PRESENCE, AND A SYSTEMIC LENS. THIS BLEND CREATES A SAFE SPACE FOR CLIENTS TO UNCOVER AND EMBRACE THEIR HIDDEN TREASURES.”

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Book an Appointment

If this resonates with you, I invite you to fill in the form below to request a free 20-minute Connect Call. It’s a moment for us to meet, sense into each other, and see whether a coaching journey together feels like the right next step.

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