Rebuild Your Strength.
Reclaim Your Identity.

FORGE Coaching helps men and women rebuild confidence, resilience and direction through structure, discipline, and purpose.

Created by James Hamell — Resilience Coach & Author

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About FORGE Coaching

FORGE Coaching is built from lived experience and evidence-based principles.

James rebuilt his life after a severe mental health breakdown — and now teaches others the same tools that helped him reclaim his strength, purpose, and identity.

This isn't motivational fluff. It's honest, grounded work rooted in structure, resilience, and hope.

The FORGE Method

A structured, evidence-based approach to rebuilding confidence, resilience, and direction.

Foundation

Build structure and stability

Ownership

Step out of waiting and into action

Resilience

Build capacity for discomfort

Growth

Reconnect to meaning and values

Execution

Take consistent action

What We Offer

Choose the path that fits your needs — from clinical training to personal transformation.

Workshops for Clinicians

Training mental health professionals using resilience, behaviour change and structure-building tools.

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Workshops for Service Users

Practical resilience tools for recovery, confidence and stability.

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1:1 Resilience Coaching

Limited availability, high-support program for rebuilding identity and direction.

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Self-Guided Video Course

Affordable, accessible option based on the FORGE Method.

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James Hamell – Resilience Coach and Founder of FORGE Coaching.

About James Hamell

James is a resilience coach, author of Hope Through Discipline and The Resilience Field Manual.

His coaching approach blends structure, discipline, psychology, and compassion — informed by his own journey from breakdown to leadership.

James teaches the tools that helped him rebuild his life, with honesty, warmth, and a deep understanding of what it takes to come back.

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Books by James Hamell

Practical guides for rebuilding your life with structure, hope, and resilience.

Hope Through Discipline

Hope Through Discipline

My Journey Back from Mental Illness

A raw, honest account of James's journey from breakdown to recovery — showing how structure, discipline, and small daily actions can rebuild a life.

The Resilience Field Manual

The Resilience Field Manual

Practical Tools for Building Mental Strength

A practical guide filled with exercises, strategies, and tools for building resilience, managing stress, and creating lasting change.

Your Comeback Starts Here.

You don't need to be ready. You just need to begin.