Ideas for an unpredictable world: self-mastery, inner alchemy and the art of Riding the Dragon.

Dominique Stelling speaks about what it means to lead yourself when life refuses to follow the plan. Drawing from lived experience, modern psychology, contemplative wisdom and her work with clients around the world, she brings audiences a grounded philosophy of resilience, adaptability, agency and inner authority.

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Talk One

Riding the Dragon: Self-Mastery in an Unpredictable World

How to lead yourself when life refuses to follow the plan: staying connected to yourself through fear, change and uncertainty.

Talk Two

The Inner Alchemy of Adversity: Turning Obstacles into Wisdom, Strength and Direction

How inner patterns shape lived experience, and how the identities built around old protection can be recognised and changed.

Talk Three

The Pure State: Returning to Yourself Beneath the Noise

The inner ground beneath conditioning and constant self-management, and how to return to it.

Talk Four

From Reactivity to Agency

Self-leadership under pressure: moving from managing life to meeting it with conscious choice.

Talk Five

Lessons from the Land of Happiness: What Bhutan Taught Me About Steadiness, Reverence and Enoughness

Living wisdom from Bhutan, translated for contemporary audiences.

Engagements London · 2026• Keynotes, workshops & transformational events• Audiences worldwide · in person & online

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Whether a twenty-minute keynote or a three-day workshop, the talk is shaped to your room. Audiences leave with something they can use, and a felt shift, not just notes. Reliable, prepared, and fully present to the occasion you have built.

Formats range from keynotes to intimate leadership rooms and retreats, in person or online.

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Dominique Stelling is a self-mastery guide, speaker and teacher of inner alchemy based in Zürich, and the creator of Riding the Dragon and The Pure State Framework™. Drawing from lived experience, modern psychology and contemplative wisdom, she speaks on resilience, adaptability, agency and inner authority, and works with clients worldwide.

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