Uninvaded time is what people need first in order to think for themselves. They need a turn of their own. They need permission to keep going, attention of the highest order, understanding and encouragement to be as intelligent as they truly are.
Nancy Kline
1:1 chaoSurfing
Coaching for ADHD Chaos, Difficult Life Transitions & Unconventional Humans
Your brain probably isn’t suffering from a lack of information.
You may already know an unreasonable amount about ADHD, nervous systems, psychology, productivity, trauma, habits, dopamine, morning routines and seventeen different ways you should be organizing your life.
And yet…
You still get overwhelmed.
Things pile up. Priorities blur. Projects multiply faster than you can finish them. Routines work beautifully until they suddenly don’t. You know what you want to do — but somehow the bridge between knowing and doing keeps disappearing.
And when life throws enough change, stress or uncertainty into the mix, the whole carefully constructed system can come crashing down.
Welcome to the Chaos.
My work isn’t about turning you into a perfectly optimized productivity machine.
It’s about helping you become better at navigating the brain, body and life you actually have.
Learn to surf your chaos
ChaoSurfing is an intensive 1:1 coaching process for neurodivergent and unconventional humans who want more clarity, stability and agency without squeezing themselves into somebody else’s operating system.
Over five months, we work together to understand what is actually happening beneath the chaos.
We map your patterns.
We identify where things repeatedly break down.
We find the structures that support you instead of suffocating you.
We strengthen your ability to regain your bearings when things go sideways.
And we turn insight into experiments you can actually test in your everyday life.
The goal isn’t a perfectly controlled existence.
The goal is to develop a personal navigation system that still works when the weather changes.
What we might navigate together
Every journey is different, but common territories include:
Overwhelm & prioritisation
Finding signal in the noise when everything feels equally urgent.
Getting started — and getting finished
Understanding the invisible friction between intention and action and developing ways to move through it.
Structure that doesn’t become a cage
Building routines, environments and external supports around the way you actually function.
Nervous system regulation
Learning to notice your state, recognize overload earlier and develop practical ways of returning to greater steadiness.
Life after a crash
Regaining your bearings after burnout, disruption, loss of structure or a major life transition.
Turning ideas into reality
Giving your creativity enough structure that projects can move from glorious possibility into actual existence.
Self-understanding without self-pathologising
Learning your patterns, capacities, limits and needs — and working with them more skillfully.
The Intensive Journey
Five months of structured support — with room for real life.
Transformation rarely happens neatly inside a 90-minute conversation.
The interesting part begins when you leave the session and attempt to do something differently on a random Wednesday afternoon.
That is why this journey combines deep coaching sessions with shorter integration check-ins, self-directed practices and ongoing support between sessions.
We begin by mapping the territory.
2 × 120-minute Deep Dives
Before trying to change anything, we take time to understand what is actually going on.
We explore your current life situation, recurring challenges, existing resources and support systems, and the areas where you most want things to change.
Together we establish clear goals and create an initial map for the months ahead.
Then we work the terrain.
10 × 90-minute 1:1 Coaching Sessions
This is where we go deeper.
Depending on what emerges, our sessions may involve untangling a specific problem, examining patterns, developing new perspectives, working with nervous-system states, making decisions, designing practical experiments or figuring out why the brilliant plan from two weeks ago has spectacularly failed to survive contact with reality.
The process adapts as you do.
Because integration happens between sessions.
10 × Integration Check-ins — up to 30 minutes
Shorter conversations between the main sessions give us a chance to recalibrate.
What happened? What worked? Where did you get stuck? What changed?
What does the map look like now?
Rather than waiting several weeks to discover that an experiment isn’t working, we can adjust course while you’re still sailing.
And sometimes you need a compass on Tuesday.
Messenger support throughout the five months
Questions and insights rarely arrive according to our coaching calendar.
Throughout the journey, you can use our agreed text messenger for brief questions, reflections and integration support.
I generally respond on working days within 23 hours.
This isn’t unlimited coaching-by-message or crisis support. It’s a lightweight line of contact that helps keep the process alive between our conversations.
Build your own navigational toolkit
Alongside our individual work, you receive access to my 8-module self-study course on nervous-system navigation and regulation.
It gives you practices and conceptual maps you can explore between sessions and return to throughout the journey.
Rather than trying to cover everything during our calls, we can use our time together for the thing that matters most:
you, your patterns, and what is actually happening in your life.
Bring the treasure home
At the end of our five months, we take 2–3 hours for a final integration session.
We look back at where you started, what shifted, what you learned about yourself, what remains unfinished and which practices and structures are worth carrying forward.
Because the purpose of the journey isn’t to become dependent on your coach.
It’s to leave with greater capacity to navigate without one.
How I work
I don’t believe one method fits every nervous system.
My approach draws from transformational coaching, Socratic inquiry, cognitive behavioural coaching, narrative coaching, positive psychology, nervous-system mentoring and neurodivergence-sensitive coaching, with particular experience working with ADHD and AuDHD patterns.
Where useful and appropriate, I also draw on selected practices from Possibility Management and my broader work with embodiment, play and transformational practice.
Some clients want practical structure.
Some need to understand why every structure they create eventually collapses.
Some arrive at a threshold where the old map of their life simply doesn’t fit anymore.
Usually, we end up working with several layers at once.
The question guiding the process remains remarkably simple:
What would help you navigate this better?
Your Journey
5 months of individual support
2 × 120-minute Deep-Dive Sessions
10 × 90-minute Individual Coaching Sessions
10 × Integration Check-ins of up to 30 minutes
5 months of text-messenger support
8-module Nervous-System Navigation Course
1 × 2–3 hour Final Integration Session
Investment: €2,500
Payment arrangements are agreed before we begin.
Is this the right journey for you?
This work may be a good fit if you’re ready to actively participate in your own process.
You don’t need to arrive organized.
You don’t need to know exactly what the problem is.
And you certainly don’t need to have your shit together before asking for support.
But you do need some curiosity about yourself and a willingness to experiment.
I’ll bring maps, questions, practices, perspective and a steady hand on the compass.
You remain the captain.
Ready to find your bearings?
Book a free introductory conversation and let’s explore whether working together makes sense.
Who will be navigating with you?
I’m Mariana Pinzón — transformational coach, psychonaut, chaos surfer and lifelong student of how humans make sense of themselves and their worlds.
My work sits somewhere between the deeply practical and delightfully unconventional.
I have spent years exploring how our nervous systems, beliefs, identities, environments and relationships shape what we are able to do — and what happens when the maps we’ve been using no longer match the territory we’re living in.
That curiosity has taken me through academia, coaching, positive psychology, nervous-system work, existential approaches, neurodivergence, embodiment, psychonautics and some considerably stranger territories.
Today I bring those different maps together to help people understand their own patterns, regain their bearings and experiment their way towards lives that work better for who they actually are.
The shiny documents of authority
As a Discordian Pope, I’m technically my own authority — and I tend to place considerably more trust in direct experience than in impressive pieces of paper.
Fortunately for those who find impressive pieces of paper reassuring, I have some of those too.
I trained and certified as a Transformational Coach with Animas Centre for Coaching.
Before becoming a coach, I spent around a decade at Heidelberg University, studying Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Political Science and graduating with a Magistra Artium degree Summa cum Laude.
My further training and studies include Positive Psychology through UC Berkeley/edX, and Expand the Box with Possibility Management, alongside years of independent study and practical exploration of nervous-system regulation, embodiment, psychonautics and transformational practice.
In other words:
I take methodology seriously.
I just don’t believe humans become more human by being squeezed into a methodology.
We can work in English, German or Spanish.
Sessions are available online or in person in/around Berlin.
Single ChaoSurfing Sessions
Sometimes you don’t need a five-month voyage.
Sometimes there is simply a knot to untangle, a decision to make, a threshold to cross — or something strange and interesting about yourself that you want to explore.
A Single chaoSurfing Session gives us 90 minutes to dive into whatever is alive for you right now.
You bring the territory.
You are the Captain. You decide where we are going.
I bring my own style of transformational coaching, grounded in my training with Animas and playfully expanded with selected tools from Possibility Management, embodiment and Chaos Magick.
We might work with a concrete challenge in your everyday life, untangle overwhelm, explore a decision, shift perspective on a recurring pattern or find your bearings in the middle of change.
Or we can sail considerably further out.
Identity. Meaning. Beliefs. Relationships. Desire. Purpose. Consciousness. The stories you live inside. The strange existential question that has been chewing on your ankle for the last three months.
We can explore whatever layer of your system wants attention.
My role isn’t to tell you where your ship should go.
It’s to help you see the waters more clearly, discover possibilities you couldn’t see from inside the problem, and support you in moving towards the destination you choose.
90-minute chaoSurfing Session
€155 – 230 sliding scale incl. VAT / MwSt
Social discounts may be available on request where finances would otherwise prevent you from accessing a session.
Bring me your chaos. Let’s see what we can do with it.
Testimonials
Mariana’s depth of knowledge takes my breath away; she has such a beautiful heart while being profoundly strong. She is patient and heartfelt and she cares deeply for others. She brings tears to my eyes as she is such a special human being and I feel incredibly honoured to know her. Her power and life experiences are her greatest gifts; she is deeply grounded and she is able to touch others’ lives in a meaningful and thoughtful way.
Kana Knox, CEO of Unfurlingheart
I wasn’t sure what exactly to expect from going into the transformational journey with Mariana at first, all I knew was that I had a need for transformation and felt I could trust her from previous encounters.
Thanks to her guidance and ability to ask the right questions she allowed me to shine light on aspects of myself I had been hiding even from myself in my shadows. She created a safe space to go deeper, so I felt encouraged to open up about vulnerable topics that have kept me stuck in a spiral of negative thinking.
She has a creative way of dissecting parts of myself. With her creative, playful magical practise I realised, step by step, where my potential for positive growth lies.
Each session is full of self discoveries and new insights to explore, which she is able to stir up in the magic cauldron of the subconsciousness with her patient energy and powerful clarity.
I feel empowered in my creativity, curiosity and self awareness in the ways I speak to myself thanks to Mariana´s guidance on this transformational journey.
Suzanne W.
I had the lucky opportunity to meet Mariana during a 6 session coaching period. Initially I was not sure how much personal work could be done in what seemed to be a short lapse of time. The results exceeded my expectations immensely. Mariana´s capacity to engage in active listening and her outstanding ease to mirror what she listens to in a deeply reflective way allowed me to find much clarity in life problems that I have been facing and working on for years.
During her sessions she uses a different range of tools to engage in a joint exploration of the self, including meditation, cacao, dance, visualization and other kinds of different rituals. I felt since the first moment that she cared, that she was listening to me and never that she was judging me or telling me what to do. It was never an instruction, always a guided process of self reflection. It was incredible to notice how the answers were coming from myself under her guidance and loving company. I found with her a safe space to share my innermost pains and shames, the shadows of my childhood. Together we visited them and brought them into new lights towards a new relationship to them.
Today I can say that her tools and the work we did together had a very positive impact in my life. It was so relieving to be able to cry and honestly and openly talk about my inner world with someone with so much capacity and integrity like Mariana. I’m extremely grateful to her for her beautiful work and the incredible impact it has had in me. I feel much more sure about myself, about my path and life´s decision. I was able to contact my inner child and bring love to his fears and needs, therefore changing completely the impact these were having on my daily life. I found much space within myself to honestly explore my needs and desires and act in consequence to them. I feel freer than I did and I feel powerful, ready to engage with the next steps of my life´s path towards achieving my dreams and goals.
Arturo R.