Welcome to Hey Merci Co

Hey Merci Co is a community living vision in progress for Eleanor Crawford, creator, life coach, philanthropist and lover of life. 

The vision is to create a safe, affordable and community-based living project on the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula/ Kaurna country. The seed for this vision came about in 2023 when Elle built Merci, her Mercedes Sprinter. Merci was explicitly built as a coaching space and campervan so Elle could take her life coaching business on the road. But something bigger revealed itself during the build and Merci became the inspiration for the Hey Merci Co Living project.

Why Hey Merci Co?
What’s in a name?

Hey Merci Co Creates Community

Community First!

Community is our future, our salve for the shitshow that is life these days.

We are stronger together, the sum of our parts is way greater than our whole and we all have gifts to share, even if they’re not very obvious to us.

On our way to achieving the Hey Merci Co Community Living project, we are intent on building connection, community and getting our creative on through these community initiatives.

Coaching is still at the heart of Hey Merci Co.

Through community based and private life coaching.

In Elle’s experience, bottling up or repressing your emotions, belittling yourself, comparison-ism, people pleasing and doormat behaviour is having a heartbreaking impact on us all, men and women alike.
Our self-worth is bottoming out, our sense of self and our awareness of our potential are in a dire state, and we are fast descending into robots who feel nothing yet everything at the same time.
We’ve become a hot mess of a race and are losing our human-ness. 😢

There is a way to come back to life, to wake up and start living the way you desire.

Life Coaching is a great way to bring a greater awareness to why you do, feel and think the way you do. It provides you with a safe space to unload your crap, the stuff that you keep in secret that gnaws at you and shames you, and to reveal the real you, slowly and safely. 

Elle’s approach to coaching has changed over time as she realised that it’s not a one size fits all kinda deal. Everyone learns differently which impacts their coachability. 

So she decided to do it a different way. 

Elle employs a scientifically backed ‘Side by Side’ coaching approach because it activates the Effort Driven Reward Cycle. In simple terms, this cycle means that the brain is stimulated in different areas and ways when you are performing a physical activity by the side of a mental/emotional activity.

It promotes longstanding and sustainable positive changes.

Elle only takes on a handful of private clients which is why she has offers Hey Merci Co Roams, her community coaching program.

Check out how you can work with Elle 💜

Community Coaching Program

Private Coaching with Elle

What inspired Elle to create Hey Merci Co?

During 2023, Elle built out a campervan and called it Merci. Merci representing gratitude and thankful-ness and of course, she’s a Mercedes.

Elle’s plan had been to build Merci as a coaching pod first, living pod second and then travel around coaching women. But in the end, building the van inspired Elle to create her bigger vision, Hey Merci Co Living, a real life community built around tiny homes, a workshop, social hub and food forest.

How to get involved?

Come to a Hey Merci Co Activity.

Follow us on socials.

Offer to help. (see next section)

And watch this space.

Most of all, be kind and honest with yourself and others.

Can’t wait to share our journey with you.

Elle & Merci 💜

PS. Did I mention that my travelling companion is the cutest black labradoodle called Lexy? You’ll be seeing plenty of her too.