Woman Alive! Get your life back.

Welcome to Woman Alive! Get your life back... and finish the year STRONG.

This series of workshops is designed to help you regain your "lightness of being". Have you noticed, you have gradually slipped into exhaustion, no longer feeling excited by your life, or your careers, or relationships? Joy is in short supply, and it HURTS when you think of the loss of laughter and fun. You don't like feeling like this - you know yourself as a woman who is a conscientious worker, loving partner and mother and you give your time unstintingly to your loved ones.

You are known for being capable, getting things done, being the reliable one. But, although you do this with a full heart, you have begun to notice you have gradually slipped down the priority list. You're putting other people first and worse still, you're feeling overwhelmed, trapped and frustrated.

Understandably, you wonder if joy and laughter are lost forever.

But I want to reassure you: there IS hope and you CAN get your life back again.

Woman Alive! Get Your Life Back integrates art therapy practices with women-centred coaching to help women like you reconnect with your inner knowing and deepest desires. These workshops reignite the energy and focus that will help to open you up to your full self-expression - without risking the loss of everything that is important to you.

Woman Alive! Get Your Life Back is an eight-part program that will help you develop self-confidence, and re-awaken joy, energy and purpose in your life.

No artistic ability is required! In fact, sometimes it is better to come with a "beginner's mind"!

Please note: the content of this event has been designed for women over 35. It won't be relevant for men. If you have any queries, please get in touch at [email protected]

Program Details:

Week 1. Introductions. Shared agreements. Masculine and Feminine commonly-held assumptions. The 8 areas of self-realisation. Life journey. What's your current trajectory?

Week 2. Where are you right now, in terms of your emotional, physical, mental and spiritual fields? What's well integrated, what's missing, not working? Identify your deep desires/longings in the 8 areas of self-realisation.

Week 3. What's REALLY holding you back? Investigating the Old story, unhelpful habits and behaviours. Creating the New story.

Week 4. Moving from Limiting Belief to True Identity. Going deeper into the New Story; how to implement and embody it. Useful practices (power statements, gratitude, prayers).

Week 5. What is power? How to activate the three areas of power in your Life. How to connect with self, others, and the world in a consistent and sustaining way.

Week 6. Identifying your essence qualities and genius. Expressing your True Self.

Week 7. Key practices to stay in power and manifest your new reality. Visual journalling - how to use intuition and art as powerful yet subtle aids to regulate your emotions.

Week 8. Integrating - Harvest, Compost and Appreciate. Celebrate your progress. Turn REACTIVITY into CREATIVITY. Moving forwards, what support do you need to stay in your power? Where can you get that support?

In each session, we use mindfulness meditation and creative arts activities, reflection and group discussion. The aim is to help you to re-connect with your inner wisdom, and with compassion, to lighten up around your troubles. And even to take a different perspective, to see how adversity has shaped your growth as a being.

You will learn simple techniques to apply outside the course, in your daily life. These will help with emotional regulation, back-sliding, self-sabotage and conflict resolution. You will get better at listening to your intuition, setting boundaries and asking for what you want. And you will notice there is more fun in your life!

This group provides safety and support while you grow in awareness and capacity. The experiences and contribution of each group member are essential to the growth of each individual - we grow together, and stand strong together. As each woman reconnects with her own innate fountain of joy and humour, so the whole world starts looking brighter.

Materials:

All materials will be provided, unless otherwise notified at an earlier workshop.

Food and Refreshments:

Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided at the workshop. Please eat your evening meal before you arrive.

About your tutor:

Iris Whitelock is a qualified transpersonal art therapist working one-on-one with Australian and overseas clients. She is a trained woman's coach and facilitator, delivering a unique combination of life purpose coaching and art activities, running workshops in person and online. After many years in performing arts and as a business coach, and then several years as a stay-at-home mum, she retrained as an art therapist in her late 50's and then set up her own practice, Art of Life Coaching. Since then she has developed a signature 5-Step approach to help women over 35 reconnect more playfully with who they really are. They are able to release the masking and behaviours that have kept them on the hamster-wheel, so that they can find joy and agency in a new and fulfilling future.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Atwell House, 586 Canning Highway, Alfred Cove, Australia