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

I can’t say that! It’s too controversial

One of the most common things women say about why they’re not speaking up on a topic they’re passionate about is; it’s too controversial. ‘People will be upset, challenged, they won’t understand me’ are some of the ways it’s expressed. So for the next couple of months, we’re running a mini series, where we’ll be diving deep into the topic of controversial visibility.

To begin, it’s important to remember this about controversial topics; everything that’s really important in the world is controversial in some way.

Think about a few controversial moments in history:

The Suffragettes were ridiculed for being so ‘brazen’ as to presume women would have something valuable to contribute to the political arena.
The second wave of feminists were considered to be destroying families and stealing men’s jobs for promoting a woman’s right to work.
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for speaking up against racial injustice.
Oprah’s comment about

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The Visibility Compendium, April 2019

Recently we’ve been exploring ways to make content more accessible to you. I’m very conscious that there’s soooo much content out there and want to find ways to make all the visibility related materials easily accessible. The Visibility Compendium is what we’ve come up with. It’s a monthly summary of what we’ve been publishing around women and visibility and/or that we’ve seen published by others.

Scroll down to view articles, videos, and posts we recommend checking out.

ARTICLES TO READ

We need women’s voices to restore the balance
[Topics: leadership | divine feminine | feminism | visibility]
‘The world is badly out of balance. It’s been tipped so far in favour of masculine values and ways of being (values that can be embodied and pursued by women and men) that the planet is on the brink of collapse, people are suffering epidemic levels of illness, there’s an ever growing divide

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Why ‘How frequently should I post?’ is the wrong question

At the School of Visibility we’re not about vacuous visibility – pursuing fame for the sake of it or mindlessly pursuing vanity metrics. We’re focused on visibility because we believe that every person is here to share something important with the world. To gift the world in some way.

To be in a position where you can bestow that gift, you have to be willing to be seen, or heard. To affect others in some way.

This form of visibility is very different to the hustle for the sake of hustling form of visibility. That’s a form of visibility that’s about pushing yourself on other people and competing to put out more content than anyone else. It’s an approach that’s informed by lack and when you adopt this approach to visibility, what you put out there – no matter how much you put out there – is never enough.

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Why we judge women differently when they sell things

I just read an article by Australian feminist Jane Caro about how tired she is of being asked to be a free mentor over and over and over again, and it epitomises for me something I’ve been thinking about all week as I’ve been launching A Visible Woman.

It’s a low level of anxiety I feel about charging for anything I offer, including A Visible Woman. There’s a deeply ingrained expectation within me that I should give things to people for free – bonuses, additional content, something/anything – not because I think the program is too expensive. It’s not. (If anything it needs to be reviewed in light of the depth and significance of the transformation women experience. And to honour what it takes to really hold people deeply in a space of transformation for months at a time.)

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What would your business look like if…

What would your business look like if it fully embraced the values and energy of the feminine? That’s the topic du jour in this audio recording.

Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll find;

The invitation is to drop stereotypical, very limited understandings of gender (based on societal roles we’ve been playing for centuries), and come into a new way of thinking and being in the world. The businesses that understand this and that harness the power of the authentic masculine and feminine will be the ones that shine in the 21st century.

To get there you have to first understand that we come from a space of judging the feminine.

The consequence of being in the perverted masculine model we’ve been operating under has been an obsession with the mind, with push, and force and making it happen and success at all costs. There’s been a dehumanising of those of … [Read More...]