Hello! I’m Rachael
I care about people living and working in a fulfilling, happy and relaxed way
It’s about experiencing high levels of wellness and shining with your authentic qualities. This benefits the individual, the business, and sends positive ripples out into the world.
I help people in business to flourish via coaching and training. I have been running Tall Spaghetti since 2005.
My speciality areas are mindfulness, confidence, well-being, processing emotions, and personal development. I create a safe space for meaningful exploration and positive shift. Content is pragmatic and powerful. I guide you in interactive exercises, conversations and reflections. It’s an enjoyable, and highly valuable process.
I remind people to take care of themselves and to recognise that self-care is the enabler for effectiveness. I help you to feel less stress and more ease; to experience excellent mental and emotional health; to be more self-aware; to feel really comfortable in your own skin; to work in effortless and impactful ways; to be empowered; and to make the best use of your unique strengths.
I work with companies of all sizes. Clients have included Rolls-Royce, Virgin Media, and Health Education England. Get in touch to find out how I can support your business.
My own journey of personal growth
I am fascinated by what supports me in living whole-heartedly, with ease, aliveness, and authenticity. I am proactively engaged in my own ongoing personal journey of discovery and evolution.
Here is a flavour of some experiences and aspects of my life that have played a part in my own journey of inner growth and exploration…
Periods living abroad, independent travel and adventure have catalysed personal flourishing, and helped me tap into my strength and resourcefulness. Diversity of experience opens up my mind and shifts my perspectives. I find it fascinating to see what makes people tick and contributes to happiness, as I encounter people from varied walks of life and cultures.
Personal challenge has been another catalyst for my own growth. It has provided invaluable insights; helped me develop tools for navigating difficulty; and it has enhanced my compassion and empathy.
Mindfulness and meditation play a really enriching part in my life. Through this practice, I have connected more deeply to myself, my experiences, my environment, and to others. I have been able to see my own patterns and habits more clearly, and with compassion. Meeting all flavours of life with presence has been transformative.
In addition to my direct experiences and personal inquiry, I have been an avid learner in the fields of awareness and personal development, drawing on many sources. I have also undertaken formal training as an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner, a Coach, and a Mindfulness Teacher.
Some things I love
As well as my passion for well-being, presence, and personal development, my main love is nature. It is magic. It brings me much peace and rejuvenation. I am dedicated to going for a long walk in the countryside most weeks. Sometimes, I undertake more adventurous, longer-distance hikes in UK and abroad – recently this has included Wainwright’s Coast to Coast (200 miles) and the West Highland Way (100 miles). I also love reading novels, dancing, yoga, true connection with people, friendship, fun, laughter, and spacious rest time to flow with the moment. This all lights me up, relaxes me and helps me to bring the ‘best me’ to my work with clients. I believe that rest, leisure, balance and fun are foundational to living and working well.
Working with me
My life experience feeds into my work, as does the experience I have gained from 19 years of working with clients and helping them to flourish. My style is relaxed, organic, real, and pragmatic. I facilitate positive change and transformation. It is such a pleasure to serve in this way and to support your well-being, vitality, and personal growth.
My larger motivation
I am delighted that in my work, I get to help people to feel relaxed, grounded, vibrant and empowered. It not only helps the individual and the work they do, but it also positively impacts their working relationships, their personal relationships, and their influence on the ethics of their business. The world needs us at our best, setting off positive ripples.
Tall Spaghetti today
Today, I am as passionate as ever about supporting people in their well-being and personal development.
Check out the following workplace training and coaching options – designed to help people to feel grounded, relaxed, confident, resourceful, and at their best!
- Well-being & Resilience Training – An essential toolkit for taking care of yourself, reducing stress and promoting great mental health.
- Confidence Training – Feel more comfortable, confident and empowered as you engage with your work and with your life.
- Mindfulness Training – A clear introduction to mindfulness and meditation with practical take-aways to promote your well-being and effectiveness.
- Processing Emotions Training – Learn how to process difficult emotions in healthy and constructive ways, so you can enjoy more ease, equanimity and clarity.
- 1 to 1 Personal Development Coaching – Free yourself from blocks and find what really serves you. A highly tailored, transformative journey of personal development
What others have to say about Tall Spaghetti’s work…
By using the techniques, wisdom and knowledge I have gained in coaching with Rachael, I feel much more resilient as a leader, including in the midst of significant corporate change.
in midst of significant change
Rachael created a relaxed environment where the team felt safe to be authentic. Great day!
The sessions were spot on. Excellent course, great material, delivered by an exceptional trainer.
Sales Team Manager – spot on – training
Thoughtful and imaginative training. Makes me realize the potential I possess.
anon – thoughtful and imaginative – training
Thoughtful and imaginative training. Makes me realize the potential I possess.
Anon – thoughtful and imaginative – training
I feel the coaching has liberated me. It has benefitted my effectiveness as a manager beyond anything I’d have thought I was capable of.
Supplier Manager, Legal Firm – liberated – coaching
Invaluable, practical tips that will make a big impact. Thank you.
Michelle Stocks, Jupiter – invaluable – pd training
I can’t find the words to get across what an amazing impact the coaching has had on me. It has facilitated some of the greatest steps in terms of personal development in my entire career. I can’t thank you enough.
Rachael Garside has been the most inspirational trainer I have come across in 15 years of training days.
Anon – inspirational – pd training
Comments such as ‘life-changing training’ and ‘enlightening’ continue to be written on feedback sheets.
Training Manager – life-changing – training
Open, discursive style really helped to absorb the themes and topics discussed.
Thanks to your session I now have a better outlook on myself, life and being confident.
Anon – better outlook – pd training
I thought the course last week was brilliant and I have really felt a difference in my outlook since.
Anon – was brilliant – training
I had overwhelming confidence in Rachael’s coaching ability. Rachael is a highly adaptive and intelligent leadership coach.
Head of HSE – overwhelming confidence – coaching
I like how passionate you were about the subject. It really came across during the session.
anon – I like how passionate – pd training
Rachael’s ability to extract thought-provoking feedback from the team is invaluable
extract thought-provoking feedback
The relaxed approach to the training allowed for organic and real exchange of valuable, high-quality discussion.
After several of these well-being training days in our team, we are having great, rich dicussion. Really practical and applicable for use. Great informal structure.
It is great to get the positive feedback from both my peers and leaders that illustrate the benefit this experience had for me.
Quality Manager – illustrate the benefit – coaching
A really insightful session helping you to realise the importance of looking after yourself, with practical activities shared to help you to understand what things you can do to make a difference to your own wellbeing.
Many thanks for yesterday’s mindfulness introduction. It was spot on in terms of content, pace & focus. I tried the meditation last night and I slept like a log.
Usually in training, my mind seems to wander, but for the whole you session you had all of my attention and everyone else’s too.
Anon – had all of my attention – training
I have developed a great toolkit which has become an increasingly natural way of being rather than series of tools I have to consciously draw upon. My ways of thinking have transformed over the period I have been working with Rachael.
Thanks for all the work you did with me. I am living it more and more and it’s fantastic.
Supply Chain Exec – living it more – coaching
You were the biggest single influence in my personal development, which I will be eternally grateful for.
Enthusiastic trainer, passionate and knowledgeable. Delivered tools and techniques which can be easily used.”
passionate and knowledgeable
I don’t feel that I could have been more satisfied. I have noticed a very significant impact on my personal effectiveness.
anon -more satisfied coaching
Rachael creates a very open, friendly and honest space in which to learn and discuss.
extremely skilled, extremely wise
After one session I felt the best I have in a good many years, I have renewed energy & feel increasingly positive & productive
Engineering Team Leader – after one session – coaching
Rachael’s contagious spirit made me feel upbeat and optimistic about making changes.
Alex Loach, Serif – contagious – coaching
Rachael has a completely natural and powerful style. Hardly a day goes by where I am not putting into practice what I’ve learnt.
anon – natural and powerful – coaching
Rachael helped guide me to finding solutions to challenges I was facing & reacquainted me with with some fundamental life skills which I’d lost contact with during the cut and thrust of daily life.
reacquainted me with life skills
I feel like I’m in a video game and I’ve gone up a level, that I didn’t know was there before!
A breath of fresh air to be encouraged to explore our own knowledge, experience and skills.
Project Manager – breath of fresh air – training
Very interactive. Excellent training. Great delivery. Thanks Rachael.
Anon – interactive – training
The impact of the coaching has been immediate and significant. Thank you.
Director of Services, Civil Aerospace – immediate – coaching
I will most certainly be trying new things and not holding myself back as much.
Anon – trying new things – training
This session has been instrumental in highlighting the fact that we own the ability to shape our lives. Fabulous course.
Project Manager, Education – instrumental – pd training
Well-constructed, informative and thought-provoking training.
My engagement with Rachael could not have been more personally and professionally beneficial.
My engagement with -Executive, Rolls-Royce – coaching
On leaving the session I was always filled with a can-do feeling and many ideas to move forward with.
Retail Manager – on leaving the session – coaching
I just wanted to say that your coaching work with me (over a decade ago now!) has stayed with me and benefited me significantly over that time.
We are now seeing real bottom line benefits to the profit of the business and customer satisfaction.
Quality Executive, Rolls-Royce – bottom line benefits – coaching
Simple, easy to use tools. Well-invested time.
At no time did I feel that I was simply going through a standard approach. It was clear throughout that she was adapting to the inputs received from me.
anon -adapting to inputs – coaching
Great facilitation, engagement, insights. Fostered teamwork and collaboration.
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