Mentoring
I am so excited that you are interested in 1:1 mentoring with me!
Mentoring is for people who are ready to have ongoing support as they move through the waxing and waning of childbearing and parenting. Mentoring has offered me the most incredible gifts, and now I am grateful to have the opportunity to walk this path with you.
This is a space where you can feel held with deep compassion, and rest in the knowledge that support is always there. Being witnessed in your experience and receiving compassion and support can create profound shifts in our relationship with ourselves, our partners, our children, our parents, our friends and our wider community. It can be a gentle unraveling, where I hold space for you as you explore parts of yourself.
What can we cover in mentorship?
Explorations around conception, pregnancy, birth, parenting, family of origin, partnerships, childhood imprints, intention setting, whatever is present for you. I will hold space for you as you move through your feelings, with love, compassion and no judgement.
What’s Included?
Mentorship includes a fortnightly 60 minute session and up to 30 minutes of voice note sharing every 2 weeks. I will respond to your voice notes within 24 hours. This provides an ongoing container for whatever comes up for you between the sessions. It can feel so beautiful to know someone is always there, listening with love and compassion,
Where do sessions take place?
Sessions take place online, and we can choose a time that works for you. We use Voxer for voicenoting. It can be the same time each fortnight, or there may be some flexibility depending on my availability.
Why am I passionate about this work?
Parenting has been the catalyst for unearthing some of the most difficult parts of myself, parts that I have found hard to like. It has exposed deep feelings of shame, anxiety and guilt that I had buried and not allowed myself to feel. I have also been faced with intense anger and rage that was confronting and terrifying, as well as transformational.
Allowing some of these big feelings to be unearthed has been a slow and tricky process, and sometimes it feels like one step forward, two steps backward. Now I know that in life there is no backwards, we are always moving towards a deeper place of learning, growing, understanding and accepting all of the parts of ourselves. I have been so fortunate to have been mentored for many years, and this is why I want to share this with you.
Why mentor with me?
For the past 15 years, I have had the privilege of walking alongside people through rites of passage. I have been a space holder for babies landing gently on earth as well as leaving this earth, during postpartum bliss and loneliness, easeful feeding and challenging feeding, connected relationships and painful ones, harmonious family dynamics and tricky ones. Times when there is stability and flow, and times when there is pain, messiness, and chaos.
I have witnessed people in the depths of their experience, and this continues to deepen and expand my learnings. Along my midwifery pathway, I have been fortunate to work alongside lots of different practitioners who have taught me about Thought Field Therapy (tapping), somatic body work, homeopathy, naturopathy and how health is viewed by different cultures. I then became an IBCLC, and an Aware Parenting Mentor and I love to weave all of these beautiful approaches together.
I am so grateful to have the opportunity to share this space with you. I am here with you to experience the whole spectrum of human emotion. I am here for you to feel held, heard and honoured. For you to know that your story is important. To know that your story makes sense. You make sense!
I am here to laugh with you and celebrate your achievements. I will welcome your tears, your grief, your sadness. I will honour your rage, your anger, your frustration. I will hold you in your disappointment, your loneliness, your resentment. I will meet you whereever you are. All the parts of you are welcome here.
We can go at whatever pace feels right for you.
What’s the investment?
3 months $1500
6 months $3000
Pay in full or payment plans available ($250 fortnightly or contact me to discuss other options)
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Acknowledging my Learning Lineage
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Robin Lim, Midwife, Author and Founder of Yayasan Bumi Sehat.
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Lianne Schwartz, Midwife, Healer and Trauma Therapist
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Marion Rose, Ph.D. Psychospiritual Mentor, Level Two Aware Parenting Instructor and creator of The Marion Method
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Aletha Solter, Ph.D. Developmental Psychologist, Founder and Director of The Aware Parenting Institute.