Soul Designs Coaching International

Most coaching helps you perform better, faster.

This work helps you stop performing at all.

If your success no longer feels like it belongs to you, or your coaching practice has outgrown who you’ve had to be to build it, Soul Designs brings you back to what’s true, whole, and yours.

Two paths. One return.

Some people arrive here because something in their life has quietly stopped fitting. The career, relationship patterns, the carefully constructed version of themselves. Successful by every visible measure, but somehow not quite theirs.

Not broken. Just misaligned. And ready to come back.

Others arrive because something in their practice has stopped fitting.They became a coach for a reason — a real one. And somewhere between building a business and meeting the industry’s expectations, that reason got harder to feel.

Not failing. Just drifting. ​​​​​​​And ready to return to the ground from which masterful coaching actually emerges.

Which path is meant for you?

Soul Designs Central

Remember who you are.

For the person ready to stop performing a life that no longer feels like their own.  Soul Designed offers personalized 1:1 coaching, online group and self-guided programs. Our signature Soul Designs Journey is a guided return to the Soul Pillars that make your life feel like it belongs to you again.

SourceWorks™Academy

Find your way back home. 

Mastery-aligned coach education and development for experienced coaches who are ready to move beyond "doing" coaching into the embodied being of it. This six-month program is rooted in the Source-Based Coaching™ Model and aligns with the most current ICF Core Competencies, MCC Minimum Skills Requirements, and credential-level distinctions.

 Meet Lerae Gidyk​​​​​​​ 

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Lerae has been coaching since 1999 — before coaching was an industry, before it had a LinkedIn aesthetic, before the frameworks multiplied and the funnels arrived.

She became one of Canada’s first Master Certified Coaches in 2006. Since then, she has logged more than 15,000 coaching hours across 43 countries, helped shape generations of coaches and mentor coaches, and has been appointed by the International Coaching Federation to co-lead the first global Community of Practice for Mentor Coaches.

Her authority in this space has never come from performance. It comes from devotion to the work itself — and from more than 27 years of protecting what can so easily get lost beneath technique, branding, business-building, and industry expectation:

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That a human being is not a problem to solve.

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If you’re working too hard you’re not coaching.

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A coach’s most powerful tool is not a framework, it is their presence.

That belief is what built Soul Designs. And it’s what SourceWorks™ exists to pass on.

Today, Lerae leads this work personally through Soul Designs Coaching International — and she is also training and developing a faculty of practitioners who will carry these approaches forward over time, so the work remains true, embodied, and intact as it grows beyond any one person.

 Meet Lerae Gidyk​​​​​​​ 

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Lerae has been coaching since 1999 — before coaching was an industry, before it had a LinkedIn aesthetic, before the frameworks multiplied and the funnels arrived.

She became one of Canada’s first Master Certified Coaches in 2006. Since then, she has logged more than 15,000 coaching hours across 43 countries, helped shape generations of coaches and mentor coaches, and has been appointed by the International Coaching Federation to co-lead the first global Community of Practice for Mentor Coaches.

Her authority in this space has never come from performance. It comes from devotion to the work itself — and from more than 27 years of protecting what can so easily get lost beneath technique, branding, business-building, and industry expectation:

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That a human being is not a problem to solve.

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If you’re working too hard you’re not coaching.

check

A coach’s most powerful tool is not a framework, it is their presence.

That belief is what built Soul Designs. And it’s what SourceWorks™ exists to pass on.

Today, Lerae leads this work personally through Soul Designs Coaching International — and she is also training and developing a faculty of practitioners who will carry these approaches forward over time, so the work remains true, embodied, and intact as it grows beyond any one person.

Featured Resources

The work starts here.

For Individuals

Soul Designs: Finding Your Way Home

A reflective companion for the person who suspects their life has been shaped more by expectation than by what is true. Through twenty-five short chapters — each with a story, a practice, and a prompt — this book offers a grounded way to begin bringing the work into daily life. For many people, this is where the return begins.
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Get The Guidebook
For Coaches

The Source-Based Coach:  5 Micro-Practices to Stop Working So Hard

A foundational read for experienced coaches who have felt the drift and the all back — the quiet gap between the coaching they do and the coaching they know is possible. This guide names what most coaches feel but rarely say out loud, and points toward a different way forward.
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The Podcast

The Therapist and The Coach

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Honest conversations at the intersection of therapy, coaching, inner work, and human change — where what is often hidden beneath helping gets brought into the light. Hosted by Lerae Gidyk, MCC, with co-host Oren Raz, Childhood Trauma Therapist, this podcast explores the craft and humanity of working with people beyond performance, formulas, and polished answers.
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When you're ready, the conversation is here.

A Chemistry Session is a free 30-minute conversation — no pitch, no pressure, no performance. Just an honest exchange to find out whether working together makes sense. Whether you're here for yourself or here as a coach, this is where we begin.
Not ready for a conversation yet? Begin with the Soul Designs book or the SourceWorks™ Guide.
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