The Light
of You
Reflecting
A practice dedicated to building perseverance and resiliency to help you stay the course and keep pushing forward.
Our Mission
Orange Moon Coaching provides the tools necessary for self-reflection, self-discovery, and self-identification through individual and group training sessions.
We believe that you are not meant to fit into someone else’s path. Instead, we help you uncover and define your own. Working with our lead coach and founder, Stephane Duret, you’ll have the support and clarity to chart your career trajectory in your own unique way.
Our Services
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One-on-One
Coaching
Whether through performance or motivational life coaching, Stephane loves to acknowledge and accept where his clients are with appreciation and curiosity. Then, using exercises and activities he’s developed as a working actor and as a performing arts educator in disability classrooms, Stephane likes to focus on the human experience, to regulate the physiological body, then use the client’s intrinsic intuition to either deliver a powerful presentation or figure out the next move in their life’s journey.
Weekly Coachings
Monthly Coachings
Pep Talks
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Inclusivity
Group Training
Sessions
Whether a small group of teaching artists looking for inclusive practices in their arts classrooms or C-suite executives of a corporation looking to improve workplace culture and conflict resolution, Stephane runs his workshops keeping the human at the forefront of the mind. He uses sensory regulating activities to model empathy and group exercises that boost communication and adopt creative problem-solving into a practice.
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Keynote address
Stephane is a Black LGBTQIA+ man born of Haitian-American parents (first generation on his father’s side, second generation on his mother’s). As a motivational coach, Educator, Founder and Executive Director of a NYC non-profit organization (that offers arts programming for the disabled community), and a trained Broadway performer who is married to a man and the adoptive father of a sweet baby girl, Stephane can speak from many marginalized perspectives and finds joy in doing it with entertaining optimism.
Anything from inclusive practices with neuro-distinct children, in school and at home, to surviving homophobia and building businesses and a home as a marginalized individual are just a few of the topics that he can address at your next convention, conference, or special event.
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A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER
WHAT IS AN ORANGE MOON?
Hello, I’m Stephane Duret, and I am an Orange Moon.
In Erykah Badu’s song “Orange Moon,” she sings of a force so bright that it is isolated, waiting to find another force—an equally brilliant moon—to reflect its light. For years, I identified with the sun in this scenario: passionate, fierce, and often misunderstood. I was both elusive and enigmatic, feeling isolated and alone. I spent so much time trying to fit into boxes that never felt like mine, wondering why I didn’t quite belong and seeking guidance that didn’t resonate. I began to realize I didn’t need to fit into someone else’s path—I was learning to define my own. It was the beginning of my coaching journey, and from that moment, I knew I wanted to help others do the same: forge their own path, in their own unique way.
As a musical theatre performer, I’ve experienced the highs and lows that come with the pursuit of your dreams. From performing leading roles on Broadway to working in small storefront theaters in Chicago, I’ve been exalted and torn down, sometimes for the same body of work. The ride has been full of triumphs and setbacks, but the most important lesson I’ve learned is resilience. Booking gigs in succession only to face years without a single “yes” taught me how to show up again and again after every no.
As the founder and executive director of Kaiser’s Room, a NYC non-profit offering arts programming for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities, I’ve experienced the full range of challenges—from creating truly inclusive programming to navigating imposter syndrome and learning when to protect myself from being taken advantage of. Through it all, I developed the skill of perseverance, and I learned how to inspire others to stay the course and keep pushing forward.
I believe we all have fundamental sensory needs, and these can only be met when we have regulated nervous systems. This is the baseline. From there, we need creativity and support to continue thriving along our own individual paths. The truth is, our paths are unique—and they deserve to be embraced as such.
You are the sun, and with me as your Orange Moon, there will be plenty of light to guide you along the way.
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