ABOUT ME

SEJIN GUNARIDIS

PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL FACILITATOR.

AND SELF-LEADERSHIP MENTOR.

Hey, and welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I’m genuinely delighted you’ve found your way here, whether through a friend, a podcast rabbit hole, a late-night scroll or one of life’s wonderfully strange detours.

This page is simply an invitation to get to know me, what shaped this work and why I care so deeply about helping people become more fully themselves.

So basically…this is our first date.

GROUNDED IN EXPERIENCE.

BUILT FOR REAL LIFE.

I’ve worked across health, wellness and human development since 2014, and as a full-time coach and facilitator since 2022.

Across individual mentorship, retreats, workshops and group programs, I have supported more than 260 people through processes of personal change, self-discovery and embodied expression.

I am also:

  • one of the founding qualified facilitators of Unconditional Self-Therapy

  • the founder and lead facilitator of two sold-out STORYTELLERS cohorts, and two COMING HOME. rites of passage retreats

  • trained across wellness coaching, trauma-informed counselling, meditation, yoga, movement and relational group work

  • host of The Barefoot Hustler Podcast, exploring personal transformation, self-expression and the art of living truthfully

  • co-founder of ContactHaus, a Melbourne-based contact improvisation community that has hosted local events and international retreats

My approach is structured, but deeply human.

In my early twenties, I was doing everything that was supposed to create a successful life.

I completed a Commerce degree, studied Law, worked in accounting and financial services, built a career as a personal trainer and kept myself relentlessly busy.

From the outside, I looked driven and accomplished.

Internally, I felt tired, disconnected and unsure whether the life I was building was actually mine.

Sound familiar…?

Eventually, after years of unhappiness disguised as ambition,
I managed to rip myself away from the ‘expected path’ and took a leap of faith.

I left everything, built up a van, and spent seven months travelling the east coast of Australia.

It was the first major act of agency in my adult life.

Uncertain, unsure (aka shitting my pants) but following a faint whisper of aliveness…everything began to shift.

Without my usual roles, routines and external markers of success, I began asking different questions:

What matters to me?
What do I genuinely want?
What kind of life am I willing to take responsibility for creating?

That chapter taught me the importance of defining your own values and building your life around them.

But over time, I realised that clarity alone was not enough.

You can know what you want and still abandon it when fear, conditioning, attachment or the need for approval takes over.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN…

FROM SELF-AWARENESS TO SELF-LEADERSHIP

That realisation led me deeper.

I studied somatics, embodiment, improvisation, meditation, yoga, circling, wellness coaching and trauma-informed counselling with teachers, mentors and programs from around the world.

I became one of the founding qualified facilitators of Unconditional Self-Therapy, a modality that profoundly shaped how I understand protective patterns, emotional responses and the different parts of our internal world.

Through this work, I came to understand:

Insight does not automatically create change.

Change requires the capacity to recognise what is happening inside you, remain present with it and make a different choice when it matters.

This is the foundation of my work today.

I help people develop the psychological and embodied skills to understand their patterns without shaming themselves, access their inner wisdom and turn what they know into boundaries, conversations, habits and choices they can actually live.

6 steps to self-leadership

OUTSIDE OF WORK

You’ll find me:

  • In deep conversations about life…preferably over bowls of tea.

  • Jamming on a guitar around a fire.

  • Losing myself in a book that stretches my mind & soul.

  • Exploring a new movement practise, the more odd…the better (contact improv is life)

  • Questioning everything….including the questioning itself.

  • Digital nomading somewhere with good food & coconuts

the ‘pieces of paper’

  • Monash University Bachelors Degree in Commerce (Finance)

  • Certificate 3 & 4 in Fitness

  • Level 1, 2 & 3 Wellness Coach at Wellness Coaching Australia

  • Integrative Psychology & Medicine - Trauma Informed Counselling

  • 4 x Vedic meditation courses with Mahasoma Meditation

  • Level 2 Bon Mustang Tibetan Buddhism Meditation course

  • Level 1 RYT-200 Yoga Teacher

  • Rites of Passage Facilitator Training with the Rites of Passage Institute of Australia

  • Authorised Civil Marriage Celebrant

  • Host of The Barefoot Hustler Podcast

  • Founder of COMING HOME. THE RETREAT

  • Community Leader and Manager of the Social Innovation Network 2020

  • Volunteer and area representative for the Wilderness Society Environmental Organisation 2019

WAYS TO WORK WITH ME

1:1 MENTORSHIP

A personalised 12-week mentorship to understand your patterns, strengthen your inner authority and turn self-awareness into aligned daily choices.

Lead your inner world.

STORYTELLERS

A 12-week embodied group experience to practise honest expression, courageous communication and remaining fully yourself in relationship with others.

Express who you are.