The next group will be a Practitioners Circle starting September 2026
Riding the ups and downs of life as a wellbeing professional can be a lonely business, with the pressures of holding boundaries, finding the right clients to work with, while staying in integrity and earning a living, it can be surprisingly tough.
Being in a trusted group of professional colleagues for mentoring is a wonderful way to support yourself in your practice and develop more confidence, grounding and inspiration to offer the best possible service to your clients.
This professional group mentoring is suitable for coaches, therapists, bodyworkers, yoga teachers and other wellbeing practitioners, it is a closed, small group meeting regularly over five months.
You can get support for your work with clients and groups, and deepen your understanding and confidence in working with the seasons and phases for menstruation and menopause.
The group is a dynamic, co-created space where you can be witnessed in your challenges, celebrate yourself and welcome your emergent growth process. You can bring client cases, ask for feedback, lean into the group wisdom for support, and develop deeper awareness and care for your cyclical nature. Creating a ‘safe-enough space is paramount, where we can bring the messy challenges we face, and by tracking our responses somatically, face the difficulties with curiosity and kindness, and move towards a more expansive and sustainable way of working
What we cover
The mentoring group is driven by your needs and emergent process, however these are the topics that tend to arise regularly:
Introducing your mentor
All my vulnerability and patterns show up in running my business and they can be even more tender than those in my personal life! I cannot do my work alone, so I have many circles of support in place for my professional life. This includes Listening Partnerships, a listening circle, paid supervision as well as my ongoing CPD which you can read about here. I also regard my personal therapy, yoga and mindfulness practice as professional self-care. If you choose to join the professional mentoring group you will be held by many arms!
After more than thirty years in complementary therapy, I have also had many difficult experiences of supervision and professional support over the years, and have learned a great deal from not being met. As a result I create confidential, ‘safe-enough’, responsive spaces where through compassionately embracing the messiness of our seasons and phases as we grow, we can use our skills and gifts to best serve our communities in a sustainable way.
I am a mentor, author, speaker, facilitator, artist and podcaster. My first book Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause, is part of the ‘menopause cannon’ according to the New York Times. I mentor people in perimenopause and beyond, and professionals 1-2-1 and in groups, I’m a nature-based Yoga Nidra meditation guide, host Life – An Inside Job podcast, have been a therapist for more than 30 years and create multi-level art textile projects. When I’m not doing these things you’ll find me playing in my compost heaps. My second book, The Perimenopause Journal, was published September 2024.
