Sometimes we know something needs to change. We just don’t know where to begin. Open Ground is a space to stop, understand what’s happening, and create meaningful change.
Coaching, programmes and retreats for real life.
Through coaching, online programmes and retreats, Open Ground brings together professional coaching, personal development, reflection and practical tools to help you understand yourself more deeply, and make different choices from there.
When something needs to change, personally or professionally.
One-to-one and transformational coaching for people navigating decisions, transitions, challenges or simply the sense that the way things are working now is no longer enough.
A thoughtful, practical space to step back, gain clarity and decide what comes next.
Know yourself. Date differently.
Dating can bring up far more than the question of whether we meet the right person. Rejection. Attraction. Old relationships. Self-worth. Boundaries. The people we choose, and the things we sometimes overlook when we really want something to work.
Love, Examined is about becoming more conscious of those patterns. Not changing yourself to become more desirable. Understanding yourself well enough to choose differently.
Online programme · In-person retreat
Put yourself back into your own life.
Perhaps you’re always busy. Eating on the go. Promising yourself you’ll exercise when things calm down. Looking after everybody else. Feeling uncomfortable in your body. Starting again on Monday. And wondering why you can’t seem to get yourself back on track.
Life, Rebalanced starts somewhere different. Instead of asking what’s wrong with your willpower, we look at what’s happening in your life: stress, habits, food, movement, rest, boundaries, self-talk, your relationship with your body, and the patterns that quietly keep pushing your own needs to the bottom of the list.
This isn’t another quick fix. It’s about creating changes that can still be part of your life six months from now.
Perhaps you need the space to understand what has been happening.
At Open Ground, we get curious about the pattern rather than judging the person.
Because when you understand what is driving something, you have somewhere much more useful to begin.
I created Open Ground because meaningful change rarely comes from simply telling ourselves to try harder.
Whether I’m working with someone around a major life decision, relationships, stress, confidence or their relationship with their body, I’m interested in what sits underneath the visible problem.
My work brings together professional coaching with more than a decade of experience across personal development, emotional wellbeing, breathwork and yoga-based approaches.
Open Ground is a place to explore all of that, and turn insight into practical, sustainable change.
Sheelagh O’NeillFounder, Open Ground
Meet SheelaghSometimes change needs more than a conversation. Open Ground programmes and retreats create the time and structure to explore an area of your life more deeply, with guided exercises, coaching, reflection and practical tools you can continue to use long after the experience ends.
Understand the patterns you bring to dating, reconnect with your own worth and make relationship choices from a more conscious place.
Retreat early-bird: €100 off any room when you book by 15 November 2026.
Step out of the cycle of overwhelm, putting yourself last and repeatedly starting again. Build a different relationship with food, movement, your body and the way you care for yourself.
You just need somewhere to begin.