Healing | The School of Visibility

It’s time for compassionate leadership

One of the things we spend a good amount of time working on with our students here at the School of Visibility, is embodying a new form of leadership.

One that’s compassionate, collaborative, self aware, intuitive, inclusive, and that leans into the energy and values of the feminine.

This isn’t something that happens overnight.

It’s a process.

First it involves stripping back old ideas and beliefs. Beliefs that we’ve all internalised about masculine ways of doing and being. Ways that have been revered in so many parts of the world and which are actually deeply unhealthy. Out of balance. Destructive to our relationship with ourselves, our bodies, our communities, and to the planet.

After stripping back old notions of what leadership is supposed to look like, we’re able to open more fully into a leadership style that’s more balanced, humane, aligned and integrated. It’s a style of leadership that … [Read More...]

Eliminate confusion and centre yourself before speaking up

If you’ve ever felt scattered, unfocused, confused about what to focus on, anxious or unsettled in your being, read on.

Last week we published an article that outlined the various techniques you might use to prepare yourself for an interview.

In that article I spoke about nadi shodhana – alternate nostril breathing.

I use this yogic technique all the time.

I use it when I’m feeling unfocused and uncertain about what I should prioritise in my work day.
I use it before being interviewed.
When I’m nervous about speaking up about a controversial topics – whether online or in person.
When I worked for other people I used to go into the toilet cubicle and take a few rounds of nadi shodhana before important meetings.
I use it when I’m feeling tired and have a webinar or workshop to run and need to refresh myself.

It’s a great technique … [Read More...]

The spirit of the land is speaking

You may have heard me speak about the impetus for starting the School of Visibility before. I was sitting in a conference in Portland, Oregon and opened intuitively to guidance from the universe about the deeper calling of my life from that time forward. Sitting quietly, the words came very clearly into my head; ‘Make the invisible visible’.

At the time that felt like a broad sort of instruction and I knew it could and probably would mean multiple things; raising the visibility of women, supporting the release of visibility fears, and most of all, making visible the spiritual truths and powers that will underpin the way we live in the new world we’re creating.

Until now, the timing hasn’t been right to speak about spiritual truths and powers that might be cultivated. Certain things needed to happen energetically first. But this recent fire season in Australia has altered a … [Read More...]

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...]