Author
Your Life
A virtual weekend retreat for women professionals and leaders to restore wholeness, reclaim your power and reify your purpose.
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Author
Design Your Year and Career With Power and Purpose
Your mission should you choose to accept it is to reconnect to your greatness, unleash your clarity, creativity and confidence and craft a new story that sets you up to thrive in 2021, regardless of setbacks and circumstances.
The Author Your Life weekend virtual retreat is an opportunity to:
- restore a sense of wholeness and peace in your life
- reconnect to the values and commitments that matter most to you, and
- redirect your focus, intention and energy towards creating the year and career you desire
During the retreat you will:
- Choose a theme and define your One Thing for 2021
- Transform the challenges of recent times into sources of strength and purpose
- Discover and breakthrough any scripts or plot twists that have been holding you back
- Create a roadmap to fulfill on your One Thing for 2021
- Surface and own your unique value and zone of greatness
- Craft a power script to direct your path regardless of circumstances
- Develop a network of allies and champions to challenge and support you on your journey
- Have some fun
Retreat Overview
You are the author, director and lead actor of your own life. Yet most of us live as though we’re an unpaid extra on someone else’s stage.
Author Your Life is a 3-day leadership retreat that will help you reclaim your authentic power, reconnect to your values and craft a narrative and action plan to transform present day threats and challenges into opportunities that liberate the next chapter of your life, career, leadership or business.
Schedule
A weekend retreat taking place on Friday, January 22 – Sunday, January 24 from:
Friday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm PST
Outcomes
Through a combination of experiential workshops, integrative exercises and takeaway tools, we’ll take you on a 3-day journey to embody the wisdom of self-authorship and use it to propel the next stage of your life and leadership.
- Discover and transform your leadership story into a powerful and inspiring personal narrative that propels you and others forward
- Access tools, resources and practices that help transform the uncertainty and challenge of the present moment into a mentor and ally
- Craft a vision that aligns with your values, amplifies your strengths and honors your worth
- Step into your next chapter leadership with authenticity, power and love, regardless of setbacks or circumstances.
And connect with a community of powerful and inspired women for accountability and support along the way.
What's Included
All tickets include:
- Experiential professional and personal development sessions led by community leaders and facilitators
- Integrative activities for body, mind, heart and soul including yoga, improv and walking meditation
- An Authentic Leadership Guidebook to create your own customized leadership roadmap and accountability system to guide your growth and development over the next 12 months and beyond
- A personal values assessment
- Access to the Author Your Life Online Group
Want to UpLevel Your Experience?
UpLevel your experience with access to:
- Video recordings of all sessions
- 2 – 45 minute follow up Coaching Sessions
Your Facilitators
elan Bailey
Leadership Coach
As a 50 year old woman of colour, single mother, entrepreneur and tech leader, I’ve navigated the challenges of gender, race and age first hand. Through the journey, I’ve struggled with and come out the other side of what it takes to show up fully and powerfully and lead as my authentic self, regardless of circumstances or setbacks.
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Through the journey, I’ve struggled with and come out the other side of what it takes to lead as my authentic self and to keep adapting and growing with an open heart and mind, regardless of circumstances or setbacks.
Today, I help women adapt and develop their authentic leadership. And I help organizations master the art and science of developing adaptive, authentic contributors, leaders and cultures.
Julie Cotton
Improv and Integration Specialist
An Arizona native, Julie has been an actor/improviser for 35+ years and Wellness Practitioner since 2007. She is an avid student of life with lots of letters and certificates in many of the things she loves!
She has served on the Boards of her local Chamber of Commerce and her local Rotary Club.
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She is the Founder of Next Level Improv where she uses Multidisciplinary Integration of modalities like Improv to empower individuals and companies to create their highest and best reality! She stands for a world that is loving, joyful, and free where people remember the Truth of Who they Are and embody their Divinity!
Zeynep Tuck
Senior Strategist, Social Impact & Influence
Zeynep is a sucker for a good story. In fact, it's been the compass for her career. From the sales pits of PR firms to the boardrooms of the private sector, over to the newsrooms of global media outlets, Zeynep has strategically crafted stories that have engaged and influenced communities in meaningful ways.
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With the recent launch of her content production and community-elevation studio, she has pivoted into the social impact space full time, collaborating with organizations on projects that elevate underheard and underrepresented voices. One of the ways she does this is by facilitating workshops for corporate ERGs, communications teams, and content and marketing departments focusing on inclusive storytelling and media pitching, as well as in-house content strategy and production best practices.
Vanessa Luu
Co-Founder, GenCore Leadership
Vanessa Luu is a co-Founder at GenCore Leadership, a boutique Vancouver firm providing inner child focused mentorship to entrepreneurs on a path of consciousness. The curiosity of her journey as a woman of colour led her dig deep within to a powerful place where she could speak her truth and inspire others to do the same.
In 2018, she founded Connecting Curious Minds; a conference that brought together entrepreneurs and professionals who strived to make an impact beyond the walls of business. The conference was a space where leaders embraced their truth through powerful and vulnerable storytelling, breaking stereotypes of corporate environments. Through creating spaces that foster vulnerability and authenticity, she leads from her heart from a place of compassion and power.
Traca Savadogo
Relationship Strategist and Queen of Curiosity
Coming Soon
Buoyed by necessity and a burgeoning word-of-mouth clientele, Bang! Resume Works was born.
Since then, she has continued to give countless wary job-seekers a real shot at career success—not only writing resumes, but kickass covers, and killer LinkedIn profiles, too.
Joanne is also dedicated to fostering the personal and professional development and growth for racialized women—providing curated content and services, workshops and coaching to help them gain confidence, navigate the workplace and #winatwork.
Jennifer Thaker
Your health is your wealth
Coming soon
Before opening The SIX Studio, Karen worked in Race and Social Justice in Leadership and Education Policy. This lens allows her to tap in deeper with all my students, ignite curiosity, and ultimately take action — during this time of pandemic and BIPOC communities claiming power, we all need to ground down and understand who we are and how we are part of the bigger collective.
Program Flow
Day 1: Restore Wholeness
Uncover the experiences and scripts that limit or liberate your leadership story.
Reconnect to your authentic core and reintegrate power, love and presence.
- Welcome and Opening
- Awaken Greatness Meditation
- Timeline Discovery
- Treasure Hunt
- Inner Child/Power Reflection
- Yoga Integration
Day 2: Reclaim Your Power
Reclaim your authentic voice, power and expression.
Discover and practice expressing your authentic leadership
- Opening kundalini yoga
- Gifts and Scripts
- The Shit or Shitty
- Three Pillars of Self-leadership
- Leadership Improv Dojo
Day 3: Reify Your Purpose
Reconnect to your purpose, and your authentic self-expression. Create a foundation for a future that lights you up.
- Health is wealth – integration in action
- Create your leadership narrative
- Develop your authentic leadership roadmap
Your Investment
General Admission: $100 US
UpLevel Your Experience: $250.00 US (includes recordings and two one-on-one coaching)
Scholarships: If you’ve been impacted by COVID and would like to attend, but cannot cover the investment, you can apply for a scholarship.
FAQs
What's Your Refund policy?
If you are no longer able to attend, we will offer a refund minus a $25.00 administration fee up to 7 days before the start of the event.
If you purchased an Early Bird ticket, you can also transfer the ticket to someone else, to preserve the discounted pricing. Just use the contact us form below to let us know ahead of time.
You're a Canadian company. Why are your prices in US dollars?
I’m 100% committed to fair pricing. I offer Canadian pricing wherever I can. In the case of this event, the majority of the expenses will be in USD so we are charging in USD.
If you are facing financial hardship because of COVID-19 or other reasons, you can apply for a scholarship
I'd like to attend, but due to financial hardship I can't afford the ticket price??
If you’ve been impacted by COVID and would like to attend, but cannot cover the investment, you can apply for a scholarship.
Do you offer a group discount?
Yes, we do for parties of 4 or more. You can contact us using the form below.
How does my scholarship donation get distributed?
We pool all donations into a scholarship fund. As we reach 80% of the ticket price (we donate the rest) we issue the scholarship to the next person on the waiting list or to a recipient you’ve designated.
If you’ve chosen the scholarship recipient, we can issue the scholarship anonymously or with attribution based on your preference.
Can I donate to the scholarship fund if I'm not attending the event?
Yes, please use the contact form below to connect with me. I’ll send you an access code that you can use at check out.