FORGE Coaching helps men and women rebuild confidence, resilience and direction through structure, discipline, and purpose.
Created by James Hamell — Resilience Coach & Author
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.
A structured, evidence-based approach to rebuilding confidence, resilience, and direction.
Build structure and stability
Step out of waiting and into action
Build capacity for discomfort
Reconnect to meaning and values
Take consistent action
Choose the path that fits your needs — from clinical training to personal transformation.
Training mental health professionals using resilience, behaviour change and structure-building tools.
Learn MorePractical resilience tools for recovery, confidence and stability.
Learn MoreLimited availability, high-support program for rebuilding identity and direction.
Learn MoreJames 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.
Practical guides for rebuilding your life with structure, hope, and resilience.
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.
Practical Tools for Building Mental Strength
A practical guide filled with exercises, strategies, and tools for building resilience, managing stress, and creating lasting change.
You don't need to be ready. You just need to begin.