If the word leadership grosses you out, read this first.


Up until recently, I thought the whole idea of a “leadership” training sounded gross.

I pictured middle management reading What Color Is Your Parachute, or worse, a ketamine-fueled implementation of holacracy.

And when I thought of spiritual leadership...yikes. Too many times I've seen groups circle in healing loops, fantasy, surrender, and dependence that severs people from their power to create something real.

(This last bit is what really gets me...because we are here to create!)

So many of us have been failed by both leadership worlds — the bro-based and the woo. So yeah, pretty normal to be turned off by the whole "leadership" thing.

But a few years ago, I got an inner knowing that it was time to reset my relationship with leadership.

Here's what I've come to believe: true leadership is the merging of soul-level vision and human-level skillfullness.

Without grounded inner authority and a felt sense of agency, we end up forever healing, visualizing, and reacting instead of making something real.

Without a soul-level sense of wholeness and connection, we end up either self-sabotaging or creating someone else’s dreams instead of our own.

When we feel coherence within our soul and a steady grounding in this reality, our ability ability to lead and create through these metamorphic times becomes activated.

That's what I want to share with you.

>>>Join me for Spiritual Leadership at the Threshold — a 3-hour workshop.

This is for two kinds of people:

If you already lead in some way: You're good, but things are getting so wild at the "what-is-reality-anymore" level that you know you need new skills to show up for your communities. This is for you.

If you don't identify with "leadership" at all: Maybe you've been burned by toxic leadership in the past, or you just have zero interest in dealing with other humans unless you absolutely have to (no judgment 😂). But you also know you have a role to play right now, and you need grounded skills to show up for yourself. Don't let the word scare you. This is especially for you.

In three hours, you'll explore how to:

  • Stay rooted and present when the world gets loud and confusing
  • Make decisions from clarity and agency — not reaction, fear, or confusion
  • Have real conversations even when people seem to be living in a different reality
  • Hold real complexity without collapsing into rigid certainty or overwhelmed despair
  • Show up so fully and authentically as yourself that the people around you remember who they are
  • Metabolize grief — and begin to genuinely enjoy our collective metamorphosis

The sensitive ones. The deep-feelers. The ones who've had to find truth in their own bodies because external authority kept failing them. These are exactly the people most needed right now.

Early bird pricing is open through April 8.

>>>Join us for Spiritual Leadership at the Threshold

Many blessings on your path,

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And if you're already drawn to the yearlong Wild Alchemy Practitioner Program, joining this workshop first comes with a tuition discount that more than covers the $37.

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