When strategy is not enough.
Some moments cannot be solved with a plan.
A transition you did not choose. A values conflict with no clean answer. A reinvention that requires something real to end first.
Most support helps you move past these moments quickly. This work helps you understand them fully, so you can decide what comes next.
Not a title. A position.
What tells you that you are at a threshold is what you are carrying, not your job title.
AI is disrupting your role faster than your identity can keep pace.
You've been made redundant. The job ended. The question of who you are without it did not.
You know the next role is not the answer. The question underneath is who you are becoming, and how to move from doing to being.
A restructure, sale or promotion shifted who you are before you caught up.
You built the thing. Now you are standing in what comes after.
The grief that finds its way into every decision.
A values conflict with no clean answer and no one safe to think it through with.
The reinvention already underway that deserves to be led consciously.
The story that wants telling and keeps arriving in the wrong shape.
These are not performance problems. They are turning points that need a different kind of support.
Start with a Sitting.
Not sure which? You don't need to be. Start with one Sitting. What it becomes, we find together.
I listen the way I do. I've spent years turning that same listening on myself. On the insecurity underneath the confidence. On imposter syndrome, and the masking that makes the outside look sure of itself when the inside wasn't. Now I hold it for other people.
A Sitting
90 minutes · 1:1, or a small team of up to fourOne question, explored through the four movements of SOIL. A single, unhurried conversation about what you have brought. You leave able to see the pattern more clearly.
A written reflection follows within 48 hours.
You already know the answer. What you don't have is somewhere to stand while you act on it.
“Ada asks questions and provides insights that help reorganize old patterns. I feel somehow in our session I became more myself, with more clarity for moving forward.”
Jon Morris, Founder, The Windmill Factory. Show Director for Nine Inch Nails, Metric and Cirque du Soleil.Read Jon's full words
“I've worked with a lot of brilliant people, but Ada Parris is doing something rare. In our THRESHOLD session, she didn't hand me a strategy. She helped me see that the work I've always done, theatre, community, design, which I thought was many different skills or selves was actually one focused action all along. She has this gift for asking questions that reorganize everything. "What kind of ancestor do you want to be?" is now a focus of my life and practice. What a great way to live?!”
“Ada has real precision and real warmth. She listens to your nervous system, not just your words, and she reflects you back to yourself with a clarity that feels like permission. It's wonderful to see your life through the elements; Fire, Air, Ether, Water... we are not disconnected from nature but part of it and it's powerful to bring this into your life. Seek Ada and her threshold work. You will be changed.”
The Practice
Four Sittings a year · no fixed termWe return to the same four movements as your situation changes. The Sittings can be close together or spread out, at a pace that suits you. The Practice can pause or end when it is no longer needed.
Threshold Coaching™
Three to nine months · remote or in person · selectiveA focused, high-trust engagement for the in-between stage of a significant transition. Two sessions a month, shaped around the change you are moving through.
You arrive with one question. You leave having found the one that actually matters.
One path. Four movements.
All three options use the same four-part process.
We slow down until what is really happening becomes clear. We begin by paying attention, not rushing to analyse.
We trace the pattern to where it actually began. Not where it's easiest to blame.
We name the insight that changes how you see the situation. This is the turning point, and why the work lasts beyond the session.
We consider what continues after you. Who inherits the effects of your choices, and how you pass them on thoughtfully.
I knew it. I just hadn't been able to say it.
“Ada has a remarkable ability to be simultaneously supportive and challenging, strategic and systems-focused, emotionally intelligent and practical, all underpinned by a commitment to equity, humanity, making a difference and creating legacy.”
Simon Blake, CEO, StonewallStart with a few questions.
Ten minutes. No right answers. I read every word before we speak.
Investment is shaped around what you're standing at and confirmed on our call. Instalments are available.
A small number of held places, across all three doors, exist at a reduced rate. If the work is right and price is the only thing in the way, say so.
Not ready yet?
Leave your email and I'll send you the piece that started this page, and what's next in the practice.
This listening is also built into thequestion.earth, a free tool for exploring the question you have not been able to say out loud. It draws on perspectives often left out of mainstream thinking: Indigenous knowledge systems, Global Majority perspectives, ecological intelligence and queer epistemologies.
If the tool surfaces something and you want to sit with what came up, that is what a Sitting is for. Bring it to me and we will give it the time it deserves.
For the first time, I felt calm and grounded about AI. Not frightened. Able to approach it with a new perspective of possibility rather than fear.MBA student, London Interdisciplinary School
A self-study workbook for moving through the four movements alone is in development. Join the list above to hear when it's ready.
What type of ancestor do you want to be?