ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Meet Ben

Hi and welcome! I’m Ben, the mind, body and soul behind COHERA. Read on to learn more about the fascinations and curiosity surrounding astrology, psychology and pattern recognition in people that guided me in creating COHERA.

Ben with Holly on the beach
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Why I created COHERA

COHERA’s philosophy grew from a lifelong fascination with the hidden patterns that shape people: the qualities that remain constant, the contradictions that make us complex and the moments in which being understood changes everything. This fascination brought me to human psychology and astrology, both of which I have studied extensively. Still to this day, seeing the archetypal patterns indicated by a person’s astrological birth chart match their personality and lived experience blows my mind every time. Astrology’s uncanny accuracy continually deepens my fascination with its mysteries and with human consciousness more broadly. Combined with my innate passion for self-awareness, studying my own birth chart remains an abundant source of insight into the endless questions: “Who am I?”, “Why am I like this?” and “What am I here for?”. Among the many benefits this tool for self-awareness can provide, the most uplifting and empowering has been the peace of feeling permission to be myself—with confidence and conviction. I came to recognise that experience as self-coherence. So I designed COHERA as a workable, understandable framework, utilising the most individual-focused parts of astrology alongside consideration of each person’s psychology, to help everyone work towards self-coherence and contribute to ushering in a new era for human consciousness.

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My background

My route to this work brings together a Level 4 Diploma in Counselling and Psychology, postgraduate study in psychology and eight years working closely with people in television casting—listening, recognising individuality and helping people communicate who they are on-screen and in chats with TV producers.

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My approach

Warm, curious and collaborative. I will never position myself as the authority on your identity. My role is to bring structure, symbolic insight and careful pattern recognition to the conversation; your lived experience determines what is meaningful.

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Curiosity, always

I see curiosity as the opposite of assumption. Every person is more nuanced than any single label or interpretation, so I continue studying, questioning and refining how psychology, astrology and lived experience can inform one another. COHERA is therefore not a script applied to you, but a framework brought to life through an open, honest conversation about what is genuinely true for you.

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The intention

I created the framework I wished more people had: one that does not flatten a person into a label, but gives every natural part of them a place within a coherent whole. It is my mission to provide as many people as possible with the ability to integrate their authentic self as much as possible and achieve the highest levels of self-coherence, as with this I believe we are all capable of anything.

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