She Shines: Women's Group for Connection and Reflection

Surfing Not Drowning: Understanding Your Locus of Control

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this and you will find strength." Marcus Aurelius

Life’s challenges can often feel like powerful waves crashing over us, leaving us gasping for air and struggling to stay afloat. But what if we could learn to surf those waves instead of feeling overwhelmed by them? This interactive life coaching session, guided by an ACC accredited coach, will explore the concept of locus of control – the degree to which we believe we have control over the outcomes in our lives.

Through introspective exercises and group discussion, we’ll dive deep into understanding the spheres of control: the things we can influence, the things we cannot, and the crucial distinction between the two. Identify areas where you may have surrendered your power of choice and learn to reclaim your internal locus of control.

Partnering with fellow participants, you’ll gain insights, support, and accountability as you reframe perspectives and strengthen your commitment to change. Closing with empowering affirmations and clear intentions to take you forward, you’ll emerge with a renewed sense of personal agency, ready to ride life’s waves with confidence and resilience.

Join us in this transformative session, and discover the strength that lies within, when you realise your power over your mind, even in the face of external events beyond your control.

As always, we’ll include a creative exercise in the programme. These always surface powerful insights for the rest of the group and provide an opportunity to empower and support other members.

Soothe Your Soul: Stress Busters and Combusters

Have you ever noticed that some activities, people and events leave you feeling drained? While others fill you up with energy?

Tune into this phenomenon (yes, it's a real thing!) and learn how to operate in harmony with yourself, encountering more internal ease and flow, and less resistance.

What we need to harness is your ATTENTION and INTENTION; and you'll find more energy to master your productivity, nurture your relationships and focus your energy forward.

When you're acting in alignment with what's life-giving for you, you'll bust your stress and learn how to more easily fill up.

In this empowering life coaching session, guided by an ACC accredited coach, we'll embark on a journey of self-discovery to uncover your stress busters and combusters. Through a series of reflective exercises and group discussions, you'll delve into the structure of your life to gain clarity on the activities and environments that energise you, and learn strategies to overcome the obstacles that may be sapping your life energy and holding you back.

In collaboration with fellow participants, you’ll draw inspiration from their collective insights and experiences. Cultivating an atmosphere of encouragement and accountability together, you’ll emerge from this transformative session with actionable insights.

As always, we’ll include a creative exercise in the programme. These always surface powerful insights for the rest of the group, providing an opportunity to empower and support other members.

Talking is Thinking: The Art of Journalling and Appreciative Enquiry

As the New Year begins, it’s natural to reflect on your life: How far you’ve come and where you are going.
“The unexamined life is not worth living” said Socrates, and this drive has compelled psychoanalysts and philosophers to contemplate life and its meaning for millennia.

Journalling turns your personal call - to excavate meaning and uncover patterns in your living - into a habitual practice.

A writing practice may reveal to you continuities in your life, allow a place to vent and offload, uncover dissonance between competing values and behaviours, pose and seed thoughtful contemplation and/or help you to direct your intentions for the grand arc of your life with more precision.

In our small group discussion we will share any experience we currently have with this practice, or contemplate finding a new place for written reflection in our life. Perhaps you’ll be inspired with new resolve to journal in support of your personal development and growth in 2026.
Having a framework to ground your journalling practice gives you a solid place to start and seeds something to build and compound on.

Powerful questions can create all kinds of shifts in our perception and the stories we are telling ourselves.

To this end, as always, we’ll include a creative exercise in the programme. These always seem to produce powerful insights for the rest of the group, and provide an opportunity to share support with other members.

The purpose of this group is for professional women who are called to explore their personal development at this time, to come together in the spirit of sisterhood and support, with guidance and facilitation from an ICF accredited Executive Life Coach.

You might like to make a note of any books, podcasts or other resources you have found personally helpful which you would like to share with the group.

She Shines is an in-person women's coaching group in East Nashville with a focus on personal development for women. We will come together monthly to reflect on themes like personal identity, values and strengths, boundaries, personal story, archetypes, limiting patterns and beliefs, conflict and negotiation in personal relationships, negative self talk and authentic connection and belonging.

There will be the space and time to get to know each other and offer mutual support and sharing as we navigate integrating and balancing the feminine and masculine roles we play in our home-lives and work-lives. This is a small group for women to awaken and develop their personal resilience, confidence and self-trust.

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver

The host will share the private East Nashville location with you on confirmation of your place at the event.

The Saboteurs In Your Head: An Introduction to Positive Intelligence

"The greatest battle is the one you fight within yourself." Olympian Jesse Owens

According to the groundbreaking research of Positive Intelligence, the greatest obstacles standing between us and our fullest potential are not external, but the "saboteurs" residing within our own minds. These insidious inner critics undermine our confidence, creativity, and resilience, sabotaging our best efforts to create the life we desire.

In this empowering life coaching session, guided by an ACC accredited coach and PQ Coach™, we'll embark on an exploration of these mental saboteurs and learn how to harness the power of Positive Intelligence.

We all have Saboteurs hard-wired into our thinking, with names like Judge, Controller, Victim, Stickler and Hyper-Rational. Through thought-provoking exercises and open dialogue, you'll shine a light on the ways these inner obstacles manifest in your own life.

Discover the science behind neuroplasticity and learn practical strategies to rewire your brain for greater mental agility and emotional intelligence. Cultivating self-awareness around your unique thought patterns and behavioral tendencies is the first step in the practice of Mental Fitness. "Pretty much all your suffering in life is self-generated by your Saboteurs," as Shirzad Chamine states.

While it's impossible to transfer the full habit changing knowledge of this course in a 2 hour meetup, I'll introduce you to the concepts we practice and outcomes you can expect from Alchemy's 6 week bootcamp.

We'll engage in a collaborative activity to foster and demonstrate the mutual accountability and support you can expect from your 'pod' in the programme, as you reclaim your power to choose empowering, "sage-like" mindsets that serve your highest good.

Emerge from this transformative session with a peek into the toolbox of Positive Intelligence practices to incorporate into your daily life, so you'll be poised to break free from self-limiting narratives and step into your fullest expression.