Go forth with clear-eyed intention—
for even the sun burns and water can drown.

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METHODS


Leadership Development for Creative Minds
Three distinct offerings. All are intended to meet you where you are, all are designed to get you somewhere else. The following engagements will take you deep and wide and therefore include weekly one-on-one meetings and additional practices. I ask that you be willing to commit to a minimum of three months. 

  • The Edge: A guided process with just enough structure and personal curation to expand your intelligence and shift the place from which you engage with the world. This process has been designed for aspiring and seasoned leaders alike, with the demands of the dynamic political, economic, environmental, and cultural surroundings kept in mind. The goal is to ensure new skills can be implemented where they matter most in your sphere.

  • Small Groups: Intended for groups of eight or fewer who are connected by way of the same organization and are seeking to unite in vision and approach. 

  • Thought Partnership for Entrepreneurs: Unstructured time to discuss what is required when holding vision and uncertainty in tandem. Entrepreneurs' decisions and considerations seem endless, and sometimes we need to talk it out. The focus here can range from brass tacks of strategy to relational dynamics, and everything in between.
      Consciousness Expansion
      From meditation to matters of the heart, home, and health, personal practices worth cultivating begin here. With the increased popularity of breathwork, sound healing, and various psychedelic retreats, the often simple yet critical grounding elements of sustainable consciousness expansion become lost in the mix. I offer the following to safely make the most out of perspective-shifting experiences:

      • Meditation Guidance: The design and integration of a daily personal practice. Think adaptive, not aspirational. 

      • Preparation and Integration: Teachings on how to enter and navigate the transformational experiences we seek, and then thoughtfully sensemake of what follows. Whether you are a “journeier” or a facilitator seeking support for your individual clients or group, my collaboration is available. 

      • Microdosing Protocols: Guidance on creating and navigating a protocol for a sub-perceptual mood-influencing substance, and thoughtful sense-making along the way.

      • Somatic Guidance: An in-person guided experience intended to tune in to your physical body’s 
        deeper intelligence.  
      Grief Walking
      Life’s transitions inevitably bring us into contact with grief—often repeatedly, sometimes all at once. No grief is unwarranted; no grief should be underestimated. I offer preparation for and partnership through these liminal spaces.

      • Creative Blocks
      • Birth and Death
      • Marriage and Divorce
      • Breakups and Breakdowns
      • Career Change and Relocations
      • Legal Matters and Financial Uncertainty 
      • Family, Friend, and Colleague Separations
      • Acute and Chronic Illness and Palliative Care 
      michelle m. mercedes