Coherence Mentorship
You are the most vital and influential force in your classroom, business, team or other relational engagement.
Before technique, methodology or identity, the quality of your inner state shapes the field around you, much like the visible life of a plant reflects the invisible condition of its roots. How are you tending to the instrument of your own body-being? How are you cultivating awareness, attuning to the unified field within your center and steadying yourself within the relational environments in which you move?
Rooted in inner cultivation as the center of leadership, this 9-month mentorship experience will also explore the practical and relational art of facilitation: how to create and tend space, track group dynamics, experiment with voice and communication and learn to respond to what is genuinely emerging in the field rather than relying solely on a predetermined agenda.
Together, we will deepen our capacity to create coherent conditions where learning, connection and transformation can naturally unfold.
Core Structures
4 immersion retreats, 9 zoom circles
Our structure will weave content, somatic experience and relational exploration to aid whole-body learning. Experimentation, not knowing and being surprised are integral to the process. Some of the other supportive structures include:
* Ongoing guidance with Therese
* Large group experiences & smaller cohort connections
* Online platform with audios, videos, hand-outs, community space
* Your gifts and life-experience make this work come alive. Your participation in-person, in your cohort and with your home practices is the juice!
In Person*
October 16, 6pm to 8:30pm
October 17, 9am to 5:30pm
October 18, 9am to 1pm
Zoom Intensive
Oct 29, Nov 12, Dec 3, 6:30pm to 8pm
FLOW
Session #2
Session #1
In Person*
Jan 8, 6pm to 8:30pm
Jan 9, 9am to 5:30pm
Jan 10, 9am to 1pm
Zoom Intensive
Jan 21, Feb 4, Feb 18, 6:30pm to 8pm
Session #3
INVESTMENT
Pay in Cost- $3,333- For those who are able to pay for the value of the program
Pay it Forward- $3,333 PLUS- For those who want to contribute an additional amount to support the participation of others. Select Pay it Forward at check out, and submit your additional contribution amount by clicking here.
Pay with Support: If you are interested in attending, but need support financially, please click here to fill out this form and tell us more.
Lodging is not included. Out-of-town participants are asked to arrange their own accommodations. Limited community hosting may be available upon request. Email to inquire.
Session #4
In Person*
Jun 12, 9am to 5:30
Jun 13, 9am to noon
*In person sessions will take place in Freeport, Maine. Exact location will be emailed with registration
In Person*
April 2, 6pm to 8:30pm
April 3, 9am to 5:30pm
April 4, 9am to 1pm
Zoom Intensive
April 15, April 29, May 13, 6:30pm to 8pm
Core AREAS OF EXPLORATION
I. THE SELF: YOUR PRIMARY INSTRUMENT
Your state shapes the field
What is resonance, entrainment and relational fields
Leadership as a state of being vs. a role to perform
Cultivation practices and healing circles to generate nervous system regulation and energetic coherence. Tending your taproot, learning to engage from that source
Holding yourself, not managing others (and other things you are not doing)
Grounding in dynamic steadiness vs. rigidity
The visible work grows from your invisible roots
II. CULTIVATING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL AWARENESS
Listening beneath the surface
Multi-sensory perception: Tracking self, other and group simultaneously
Listening beneath words & attuning to subtle shifts and patterns
Stabilizing without controlling: Creating structures that allow emergence
Staying present in the face of contraction or reactivity
The more present we become, the more we can perceive.
III. EXPRESSION: YOUR UNIQUE WAY IN THE WORLD
Bringing your inner state into lived expression
Communication as transmission: using tone, rhythm, pacing and silence as tools
Cultivating a willingness to wait, to be comfortable with silence, to not know
A co-laboratory of learning: using the group as reflection and resource
Discerning the difference between intervening and allowing
Move beyond imitation to your authentic voice and style
Transmission occurs when the teaching is alive within you.
IV. THE FIELD: CREATING CONDITIONS FOR COHERENCE
Connection and belonging are foundational to learning
Opening & closing the space
Space matters: setting, environment, configuration and flow all shape the field
Co-creating group agreements to guide and stabilize the field
Discerning varying personality needs and traits
Managing expectation
This is the invisible architecture that makes transformation possible
V. CRAFT: THE ART OF FACILITATION
Remember, your state of being precedes your doing
Experiential exercises to explore your art of facilitation
Using the group itself as a place for practice and feedback
Experimenting with structure and flow
Practicing the subtle art of tending a field while participating within it
Using your real-life situations as group learning tools
Your presence is your first teaching
Testimonials
“I apply the teachings in every breath, every beat. Honoring cycles, seasons, changing moods with more attention and awareness. My teachings feel more on purpose, my every step feels like a blessing for the Earth body. I have gained confidence to be, and more acceptance in knowing I will die. I cracked through layers of doubt to step into belief. I have tasted and continue to welcome in true abundance as my birthright. The lessons and teachings are woven into my speech, my heartbeats, and breath... I imagine the lessons will continue to grow in and of me. ”
— Genell“With abundant loving presence, sophisticated insight and masterful skills, Therese led our mentoring group into deep and reflective states. She supported us with practical, body-based, tools to attune more and more deeply to an expanded state of awareness and the result was transformative. The safety and openness she cultivated within the group provided a freedom for us to know ourselves, each other, and our place in this world more fully. It was a playground for the soul. Therese is an alchemist; one who transforms things for the better, and I am a better therapist, group facilitator, and human being because of her leadership. “
— Heather