Cultivating Well - 1:1 Leadership Coaching for Women
The Invitation
A place to pause, reflect and reset.
A place where your fears and dreams are safely shared and nurtured.
A place to become comfortable with not knowing.
A place where you will be supported.
A place where your true nature can emerge.
A place to turn a little more lovingly toward yourself.
A place where possibility is infinite.
Purpose
Slowing down to reconnect with yourself beyond the noise of the external world, opening to new possibilities and creating a changed reality.
The Experience
Cultivating Well – Leadership Coaching is a six-session coaching program (plus an initial discovery session) for senior women focused on:
- Guiding you beyond the noise to hear your own wisdom through accessing the vast well of resources within you
- Providing a held space so that you can find your centre and bring attention to your own well-being; and
- Cultivating the conditions, practices and habits to lead well!
The coaching is delivered via zoom over a six-month period.
This learning experience begins with an initial three-hour discovery session where you set your compass for our journey together by getting clearer on what you want to change and bringing that into the coaching arena.
This may include a focus on accessing your inner wellspring, enhancing your wellbeing or leading well. We explore what is enhancing and detracting from the reality that you want to create and establish personal learning and self-care practices.
These sessions are experiential and will include journalling, breath and body awareness exercises that will enable you to slow down and come into a more conscious relationship with yourself. I am interested in what nourishes you and gets you into your own rhythm; it is different for each of us. We find tools and practices that work for you.
A further six customised 90-minute sessions (at three-weekly intervals) provide the momentum to help you get the most out of your learning. Between each session you will experiment with your personal learning practice and a specific intervention designed to challenge the status quo and move you towards your desired reality.
We use MIRO as our shared online learning space and you will use a journal to capture your reflections and learning experience. Email support is available between sessions.
The sessions draw on a vast array of modalities, processes and experiences informed by my personal and professional experience and continuing development. These include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Inner Relationship Focussing, Barrett Values, Yoga Nidra (meditation), Art Therapy, GLWS – Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey, The Leadership Circle, and experience as a Leadership Coach.
“Nicola is a fabulous coach and facilitator. Her style of active listening and insightful prompts helped me to deeply think through a range of professional and personal challenges that were reducing my day to day wellbeing and leadership effectiveness. The most powerful part of her work is her ability to help me find simple changes that I can commit to and that have made a real difference to the way I lead my life and team. I’d recommend working with her on your own journey of self-discovery.” Participant
Learning Outcomes
- Established and strengthened reflective practice
- Improved wellbeing
- Making better decisions for yourself and others
- Clearer access to your internal knowing
- Clearer direction in your life and leadership
It can be difficult and overwhelming to get started with making changes on your own. This is where engaging a leadership coach can be truly game-changing. With me as your leadership coach you can expect to be met where you’re at, to be witnessed and validated, respectfully challenged and supported to realise your desired change.
Interested in finding out more? Please book a complimentary 30-minute discovery conversation.
Who is this program for?
This is a one-to-one leadership coaching experience for senior women. Participants might self-nominate or be recommended for this experience as part of broader leadership development, wellbeing, or talent management initiatives.
This coaching experience will best suit participants who at a personal level:
- Know they would benefit from a safe and held space away from the busyness of everyday to pause, reflect and reset
- Feel ready to (re) connect with what matters and make conscious changes
- Want to increase their leadership effectiveness through cultivating sustainable personal practices; and
- Recognise that the best way to navigate complexity and uncertainty is to bring attention to self-leadership.
Why Senior Women?
“Once you have women liberated, it’s amazing how many other problems get resolved – poverty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.” – Desmond Tutu
This program is designed for senior women. Newly released evidence from an Australian Wellbeing Study through Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey (GLWS) shows that the overall wellbeing of women in senior roles is low and that this gap is increasing.* Women are the primary nurturers in our society, raising children, forging careers and managing many relationships and connections. This program is about nurturing the nurturers, women who are juggling multiple commitments and competing demands, often at the expense of themselves. In addition to navigating my career and personal evolution, I have the privilege of being a mother to three young woman, an aunty and friend to many, a sister, a wife, a daughter. Now in my fifties, I have navigated work and family through its many phases and continue to do so. I have been fortunate enough to have had the support of many therapists, healers and coaches. It is my turn to offer this to other women and to make a contribution to improving wellbeing for women in senior leadership roles.
* Source Audrey McGibbon LinkedIn May 2023
The Leadership Coach
Hello, my name is Nicola Vague. I am a leadership coach, meditation teacher and art therapist. As a leader of leaders, my personal mission is heralding new ways of being and leading to transform outdated systems and ways of operating, creating a future where people and communities can flourish.
Eighteen years ago, in my mid-thirties, I experienced what I now understand to be an existential crisis. I was constantly stressed, short fused and unable to connect with the joy that was all around me. I was surviving but not flourishing; I knew that something needed to change. I made a promise to myself to stop focusing on the ‘shoulds’, to quieten the mental chatter and to follow my heart (I didn’t even know what that meant at the time). This commitment to move a little more towards myself was a turning point.
So began twenty years of personal exploration, evolution and development as a leadership coach, alongside extensive corporate experience in organisational development and change. What I now know, which serves as the foundation of my leadership work, is that to improve the quality of our decisions and actions and our wellbeing, we must carve out space and cultivate the conditions that enable us to come into a more conscious relationship with ourselves. I don’t teach something that I have just read about; I teach what I have come to make sense of through my own evolution. This gives the learning I offer to leaders both depth and simplicity.
In 2014, I founded Evolving Leaders with the purpose of evolving the consciousness of leaders to make the world a better place. My current programs include Leading Change, a 9-month leadership development program, and this new program for Women – Cultivating Well.
Interested in finding out more? Please book a complimentary 30-minute discovery conversation.