Group Sessions & Retreats
Group Session & Retreats On The Central Coast
Connect & Inspire
As a facilitator with over 11 years of experience in people leadership. I collaborate with other local Central Coast businesses to bring you:
- Women's Circles
- Nourishing Retreats
- Group Coaching
- Workplace Wellness Sessions
These take place on an ad-hoc basis, and you can always find out more about when I run them and where via my Instagram or Linked In profiles.
Sessions can be booked choosing from my predetermined and pre-prepared topics or sessions can be tailor made and curated based on your needs and desired outcomes as a group.
Be it private women's circles or retreats for girls’ weekends away, hens or birthday parties, unique mother-daughter experiences. Or, if hosting a workplace wellness session for your team, a retreat or any kind of group coaching session is your intention, I would love to facilitate this for you. Running sessions is where I find myself in my element. I deliver engaging, inspiring, relatable, fun and inclusive sessions designed with the intention of fostering connections and sharing the teachings of the practise of mindfulness.
Please contact me for more info and pricing.
How Do Women's Circles Work?
Women's circles are nothing new - women have been gathering in circles for millennia. My intention is to hold a space for you in circle that is safe, inclusive and inviting. A space to come together as sisters to support and lift each other – AKA we'll have a good chinwag and a lot of laughs while discussing 'secret women's business.
But, I run a modern-day women's circle on the central Coast, which means no crystals or incense but may or may not include some cheese and wine! Your circle will always involve sharing and culminate with handy tips and tools for you to takeaway.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
- How to achieve balance in life: Whether it's work and family, career and self-care or running a business and life.
- Vision, values and intention setting.
- Setting boundaries to protect your energy - overcome decision fatigue, to-do list overwhelms and procrastination
- Defining your own version of success metrics by compassionately gaining perspective and quitting comparison
- Finding your voice
When women gather ♀
We raise each other up.
We share space to laugh, cry, be seen and heard.
We feel empowered.
We inspire. We get inspired.
We learn that we are not alone.
We champion each other.
We are liberated.
We celebrate the divine feminine.
We collaborate.
We focus on a heart centred approach.
We generate ideas.
We stop comparing.
We hold each other.
We learn.
We tune into our intuition.
We are together in circle and together we rise.
It's a special and sacred space.
What Happens at a Slow Coaching Co. Retreat?
As a mindfulness life coach, my focus is on helping you connect back to your true self and step away from being stressed, busy and burnt out. My main intention with the retreats here on the Central Coast is that I hold and create a truly welcoming and safe space for you. A space where you feel comfortable to share and engage, to be your true, honest self, free from the conditioning expectations that you can feel weighed down by. I aim to create a space for you to transform, shift and get curious as you learn and connect with others.
I carefully select like-minded soul teachers and lightworkers to collaborate with, where our outcome is to complement each other's experience, skills and superpowers to deliver you unforgettable retreat experiences. The majority of the retreats I facilitate are local and can be attended right here on the Central Coast.
My vision is to share the wellness practices that have enriched my life so that you can easily care for and prioritise your mental wellbeing. I view retreats as an act of self-love and care, I have always experienced a transformation of some sort and made divine connections as I've journeyed on various retreats throughout my lifetime. My wish is that I can impart and share with you a similar experience.
Retreat themes vary from how to reach your highest potential, to protecting your energy by setting boundaries, to simpler ideas like "nurture", "awaken" or "flow", to cleansing breathwork and
mindfulness. Ultimately, there are no boundaries when it comes to what theme a retreat with Slow Coaching Co. might take on. Often themes will arise from attendees desires and needs.
Experience Retreats
When you attend a central coast retreat with me, here are just some of the experiences you can expect:
- Light movement or yoga
- Mindfulness theming and take-home tools
- Meditation and/or breathwork
- Contemplation time for writing or thinking
- Curious questioning and inner work
- Connection, sharing, getting vulnerable
- Transformation
- Supplementary wellness practises and or tools such as oils, sound healing, crystals, card pulling.
- Practical easy-to-implement take home tools and tips to continue on your journey of self-care and transformation
- Tunes
- Love, joy and support
- Judgement free zone
- Quirkiness and eccentricity
- Shedding the things that hold you back
- Honest conversation
- A safe space
- Nothing close to perfection but rather a real and relatable experience
Tailor Made Group Coaching Sessions
As a mindfulness life coach on the Central Coast, my vision is to make investing in mental well-being as commonplace as how we invest in our physical health and appearance. By sharing my life-enriching wellness practices with others, I hope to make it easy for leaders, businesses and organisation and teams to adopt a different and kinder way of thinking and operating. Working as a coach and people leader throughout my career, I have experienced first-hand the stress of managing teams when they do not feel valued, seen and when work-life balance is not prioritised.
Hours lost trying to come up with ways to engage, help and inspire my teams impacted my ability to lead and focus on the indicators that were being measured. By inviting in an expert such as myself, a mindfulness coach, it makes prioritising the wellbeing of your team easy. Offering group coaching or a workplace wellness session to your group or team shows that you support them in feeling more comfortable to be able to address any stresses felt either at work or personally in a more open and productive way.
Group coaching can include:
- workplace wellness sessions
- team building exercises
- yoga and mindfulness for groups
- tailor made sessions based on your needs.
Workplace Wellness for teams on the Central Coast
- Does the sound of a more productive and happier team sound appealing?
- Would your team benefit from having more balance in their day?
- Do you care about the mental well-being of your team?
As a life coach, teacher of yoga and wellness expert, my aim is to work in partnership with you to cultivate a workplace and environment that enables your team to feel valued and for your team to thrive in.
With over 11 years of experience as a people leader, I led multiple successful and profitable retail sales teams as well as multi-team regions with over 100 team members. I always considered it my responsibility as a leader to create a safe and nurturing environment for my teams and my team leaders. I strived to create an environment where my teams felt valued and were able to show up as the best versions of themselves each and every day. The wellbeing of my people was always a priority; as goes the old adage of ‘happy staff = happy customers’. A philosophy followed by many a respectable and successful business leader.
I believe that a team member is more comfortable, open and happier when they are encouraged to prioritise their personal lives, their family, their mental wellbeing and have balance in life. When teams feel obliged to put the profits of the organisation at the centre of their universe, this can lead to team members feeling like a number rather than human, leading to a decrease in performance and productivity. This results in team members not giving their best.
As a proficient and accomplished facilitator, my leadership philosophies, experience and results complement my coaching and wellness teachings to deliver workplace wellness sessions that will provide your teams with engaging and relevant content. Not only will these sessions enable them to be more productive in the workplace, they will also have a positive impact on their lives in general.
Why is Workplace Wellness Necessary?
Did you know that we spend a third of our lives working or at our place of work?
That’s a lot of time…
Especially if you feel overwhelmed by the stresses of your gig and navigating how to deal with your team. Even if you love your team…let’s agree that people are complex. It’s proven that environments, where the mental wellbeing of team members is valued, leads to better productivity, improved results and overall success.
Around 92% of workers compensation claims involving a mental health condition are linked to work-related stress or mental stress.The lasting mental wellbeing impacts of the global pandemic – including isolation, loneliness and anxiety. The blurred lines and cross over of work life and home life due to working from home and hybrid work models. Job insecurity and staff shortages in certain sectors and for small businesses are associated with stress, financial strain, poorer health and increased rates of depression and anxiety.
When staff have poor emotional wellbeing, they are also more likely to develop symptoms of psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety.
- While physical distancing and working from home helped to prevent the spread of coronavirus, it also created other problems–including isolation, loneliness and anxiety.
- As many as a quarter of those who quarantined have experienced trauma-related mental health problems, with evidence that these symptoms could last for a number of years.
- High job insecurity is associated with stress, financial strain, poorer health and increased rates of depression and anxiety.
- Due to females greater representation in the industries directly affected by COVID-19, and increased caring responsibilities during the pandemic; females have been impacted more severely.
- Around 92% of workers’ compensation claims involving a mental health condition are linked to work-related stress or mental stress.
- When staff have poor emotional wellbeing, they are also more likely to develop symptoms of psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Benefits of Prioritising your Team's Mental Health
There has never been a more critical time to be prioritising the mental wellbeing of your team. Consider for a moment if your business or organisation has experienced any of the following:
- Absenteeism
- Poor performance
- Disengagement or low morale
- Struggles in achieving a sense of work-life balance
- Staff conflict or bullying
- Burnout and an increase in stress leave
Extensive research and studies have been done into the benefits of leading teams where a high level of trust exists. When the personal needs of the team members are valued, fostering these types of environments leads to improved results and overall success. Team members who feel valued knowing their wellbeing is a priority for employees naturally perform better. By investing in the Workplace Wellness Programme and prioritising the mental wellbeing of your team, some of the benefits your business and organisation can experience include:
- A more resilient team with improved ability to cope with stress.
- Improved team morale and respect amongst team members.
- Stronger self-awareness and recognition of the impacts of individuals actions on others.
- Improved productivity and engagement.
Your Team Will Love It
With the focus being on bringing balance through inviting mindfulness into your teams’ day, some benefits of practising mindfulness include but are not limited to:
- Reduced stress, anxiety and other emotions which are destructive and unproductive.
- Increased sense of wellbeing and energy by a reduction in lethargy.
- Sharpened memory from increased focused thinking.
- Strengthened emotional and social intelligence, developing empathy and compassion.
- Improved health and boosted immunity.
- Growth in confidence and emotional resilience.
The practice of incorporating mindfulness and balance into your team’s day-to-day operation is delivered via a 7-week programme as below. The programme focuses on work-shopping relevant and specific topics with the team. The workshop topics can be tailored to suit the needs of your business, examples include but are not limited to the following:
What Does the Workplace Wellness Programme Involve?
7 weeks – 7 inspiring, thought provoking sessions
- Present moment awareness techniques
- Emotional space clearing – cultivating compassion for each other’s feelings
- Fostering an attitude of gratitude
- Building your morning ritual
- Light yoga, incorporating a relevant philosophy teaching
- Intention and goal setting
- Purpose and passion visualisation
Session lengths are usually 20 – 30 minutes, depending on the group size, individual business or organisation’s needs. Longer sessions can be booked by adding an extra topic to be workshopped.
Workplace Wellness sessions are usually conducted on-site at your place of work, I come to you. I am a Central Coast based (Wamberal) servicing Sydney to Newcastle and surrounding areas. For distances farther than 140km (one way) from me, additional travel costs will be incurred. However, sessions can also be conducted online and virtually. The time of the day that the session is conducted is for you to choose what will work best for your team.
Sessions can be booked as one-off. However, we recommend the 7-week package. Please note the 7-week package does not need to be booked as consecutive weeks.
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