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

Entrepreneurial visibility has a flavour all of its own

Visibility challenges are not all created equal.

Here’s one big difference; what it takes to speak up and feel confident talking about things you don’t have a personal investment in, versus speaking up about your own work (programs, services, products that you’ve created and nurtured into being).

If you’re an entrepreneur you’ll know what I mean. There’s a level of courage and vulnerability that’s needed to put your work into the world, to declare it worthy of consideration – not because someone gave you a seal of approval but because you know it to be so. There’s a level of confidence that’s needed to continue to tell more and more people about your work and not feel like you’re harassing them, or ‘being a bother’, or being scammy.

Entrepreneurial visibility requires a type of courage that – as women – we’re not conditioned to feel comfortable with.

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The Visibility Compendium, June 2019

We covered a range of topics in June; visibility upper limits, visibility lessons for business, Below is where you can scroll through everything we shared and catch up on all the goodness. So grab a cup of tea and let’s get into it!

FROM THE BLOG

Are you fully expressed?
[Topics: visibility blocks | upper limits]
‘…if you’d asked me before doing the ‘I am fully expressed’ work whether there was much room for movement in this area, I would have said no. I felt good about my self expression.

And the shift that’s occurred has been in the form of a refinement, or redirection, rather than a radical 180 degree turn around. What it has done – and this has made all the difference in the world – has been to bring my method of self expression more fully into alignment with my visibility desires.’

Read the rest here.

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If you’re a coach or mentor interested in women’s empowerment, this is for you

‘If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you’ve come because your liberation is bound up in mine, then let us work together.’ Lilla Watson and Aboriginal Activists Group, Queensland

What do you think of that idea?

Personally I’d like to see it used as the guiding principle for anyone who feels called to coach, mentor, and/or support, motivate, empower, inspire, or facilitate healing for other people.

It takes you immediately from an hierarchical basis for your relationship, where one person is superior to the other in some way, to recognising that human evolution and liberation is bound together in a web of complex interrelations. Or an a more pragmatic level, it reminds you that when you teach, you learn and when you learn, you teach.

The other quote I’d love everyone to post in plain sight so they might be reminded … [Read More...]

I didn’t know I could say no! Stand your ground. Get the birth you want

This post is dedicated to all women who need support saying ‘no’ as you prepare for the birth of your child. It’s for all the women who are hearing their soul whisper, ‘You deserve more and better’.

“I didn’t know I could say no,” she exclaimed, turning her surprised face towards me. I can see the cogs literally whirring as she applies this new knowledge to her situation, as the possibility for a different way forward opens up.

I smile encouragingly, my own cogs working overtime as my mind is flooded with all that I desperately want her to know to ensure her birth goes as she dreams of… Where to even start?

I want her to know that her right to say no is enshrined in human rights law.

I want her to know that these human rights apply equally to her in pregnancy and birth just as they … [Read More...]

Lessons in irreplaceability by Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Gabrielle Chanel

Were you either picked on as a child or did you see other people get picked on for being different from the crowd? I clearly remember a game called ‘The odd one out’ where everyone would stand around in a circle and you’d wait for the instigator of the game to come up with a reason to reject you for being different.

Awful.

And, of course, it sent a clear message; ‘Do everything you can to fit in.’

Which is fine for some careers. But when you start your own business or you’re a creative, fitting in is a death nail in the coffin of your career. It’s vitally important that you stand out. That you’re memorable in some way.

You don’t have to be wildly different like Lady Gaga, but you do need to reach for those … [Read More...]