The School of Visibility | Empowering women to be seen and heard

What story will you tell?

What story will you tell?

Here's how #amplifyawoman works; on the first Frid

Here's how #amplifyawoman works; on the first Friday of the month I invite you to tag us in one of your posts. We then share your post on our IG stories to help spread the word about your business, project, piece of writing, art work, or social enterprise.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We highlight different groups of women each month. This month it’s WELLBEING PROFESSIONALS. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you're building a health and wellbeing business or work in the industry, tag us in a post you’d like amplified. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And if you know of a woman whose work would benefit from amplification let us know in the comments below.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
#togetherwerise

What does it mean to embrace feminine practices an

What does it mean to embrace feminine practices and values in your business?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It means: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- understanding the power of surrender and allowing and looking for opportunities to sit in that space⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- consciously bringing pleasure into your working day⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- listening to your intuition as much as you listen to your logical mind⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- approaching your working week as a rhythm rather than a routine you impose on yourself⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- planning and implementing your work in a cyclical rather than linear fashion. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Adopting even one of these practices will radically change the way you show up in your business and in life. They'll eliminate overwhelm and anxiety and they'll bring flow into your work. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It's time for the feminine to be more visible. For her wisdom and values to be respected and practiced. Will you join us?

The healing power of being seen and heard. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This is such an underestimated power in the world. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When I see certain groups in society bucking up at the moment, I know that a big part of their trigger is they feel unheard and unseen.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Instead of going round and round in nonsensical conversations, the quicker path is to recognise that there's a wound that needs healing; the wound of being ignored or dismissed. And the remedy is for all to feel seen and heard.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What if we lived in a world where two things happened:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1. There was space for everyone's voices, and MOST IMPORTANTLY⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
2. Everyone was taught how to use their voice well - with consciousness, taking personal responsibility, understanding that with the invitation to speak comes the responsibility to use your voice, not just for your benefit but for the benefit of all. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What would that world look like?

I'm always thinking about power from two different

I'm always thinking about power from two different perspectives.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The first is structural power. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The power that institutions are built on. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The type of power that sees white men occupying more than their rightful share of CEO roles, board positions, places in parliaments etc. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We still have a lot of work to do in breaking down structural power and as Beyonce says, it's not something that's given to you freely. You have to agitate for it, be vocal about the inequities in the world, and often you have to step forward and take it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Then there's personal power. This one is more interesting to me in a lot of ways. I like it because it sits within the control of the individual. It speaks to your response to the circumstances in which you find yourself. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You can have all the structural power in the world and still be a powerless individual. Just as you can have very little structural power and be an incredibly powerful individual. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Individual power isn't about taking, it's about claiming. It's about embodying what's already there; an energy that's accessible to all. One that people can try to take from you but which ultimately you choose to access within yourself. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Such is the gift of being a human being. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When all seems dark and when other people seem like they're never going to hand over the mic or share the space or acknowledge your presence, remember this; you are not as powerless as you might have been led to believe. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There is a path. It's a more challenging path than the one laid out for those pursuing structural power. But it's a much more fulfilling one and ultimately - when enough individuals come to embody their own power - it'll completely transform the look and feel of structural power forever.

Do you re-share and/or republish content? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I used to have a lot of stories about this practice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ “That’s cheating” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ “I don't want to bore people” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ “I would bother my audience if I re-shared content they had already consumed” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ "I need to create some new and shiny every single week" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Underneath it all, the driving story was this; 'You have to work hard to succeed'. And beyond that was the story; 'People won't like you if things come too easily to you.' ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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These stories create significant blocks to becoming more visible in the world. They slow down your visibility efforts because you're on a constant treadmill of creating new and different and new and different. So there's never anytime to create a system that's scalable. Which means you never really have the chance to reach the people you're here to reach. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The first step in freeing yourself from this continual content production loop is to clear the inner stories driving your behaviour. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Visibility Challenge is a great place to start with that. It's a short course that investigates, and clears out, the 4 most significant limiting beliefs that are stopping you from being seen and heard by more people. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Pick it up today so you can step off the treadmill once and for all.

So many stories. Absent from mainstream narrative

So many stories. Absent from mainstream narrative that excludes so many more than it invites to its table.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But not just stories. Actual people. People missing. From history yes. And from actual buildings too. Boardrooms and parliaments, television screens, award ceremonies, art gallery walls, public spaces and places.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And then there’s another layer. People are missing from life itself.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Girls are missing. Girls that were born and killed because they were girls.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Indigenous people are missing from old people’s homes. They’re dying before they have a chance to complain about the terrible food and the lack of visitors.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Children are missing from schools and black lives have been taken from the streets in a country where guns are celebrated as a right. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Absence. So much absence.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The more I ponder the question, the more I see the invisible everywhere. Like ghosts hovering in the corners. They’re waiting. Waiting for a sliver of light to highlight their existence.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How to see what’s invisible?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Read the rest on our blog.

Challenge accepted @cassiemendozajones 😘❤️

Challenge accepted @cassiemendozajones 😘❤️

And a little reflection arising because we’re running a block clearing class on the sisterhood wound next week with our SOV member students so this is top of mind...

I’ve been thinking about how these initiatives can become a double edged sword. It’s a celebration of womanhood (yay!) AND I’m very conscious that it can trigger issues of belonging. So if you’re reading this and you identify as a woman (or non-binary or genderqueer) please consider yourself nominated. You’re my crew and I appreciate you deeply.

And a shout out to some special sisters who keep this smile on my face as I grow the School of Visibility @amandajanedaley, @megjberryman, @mitlesouthey, and @traceykaycoe and my amazing SOV students (you know who you are 😘).

You’re all incredible women and I’m honoured by your presence in my life. #womensupportingwomen #instanbulconventionsaveslives (edited to add this after discovering the origins of this movement and standing in solidarity with the women of Turkey and all victims of gendered violence).

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