Leading from Within
Session Details
Everything you need to know about the six-session journey, cohort experience, and commitment before applying.
At a Glance
Six Sessions
A developmental journey through creative practice and reflective leadership.
Small Cohort
Approximately 10–12 leaders learning and reflecting alongside one another.
What exactly does the experience include?
60 Minutes
Each live session offers time to arrive, reflect, create, and connect.
Live Online
Sessions are facilitated virtually through Zoom.
Monthly Meetings
Sessions are spaced approximately four weeks apart, allowing time to revisit practices and notice what begins to shift.
Companion Guide
A resource for reflection, creative practice, and capturing insights across the journey.
What the Experience Includes
Leading From Within is a six-session journey that combines creative practice, reflection, dialogue, and community to help leaders develop sustainable habits for returning to themselves.
Six Live, Facilitated Sessions
A developmental journey in which each session builds on the learning and practices that came before.
Guided Creative Practices
Accessible experiences using color, mark making, mindful doodling, found poetry, and visual reflection. No artistic experience is required.
Reflection and Meaning-Making
Journaling, guided prompts, and opportunities to notice patterns, deepen awareness, and connect experience to leadership practice.
Dialogue and Shared Learning
Structured opportunities to listen, reflect, and learn alongside a small community of thoughtful leaders.
Between-Session Practice
Simple invitations to revisit creative practices, notice what is shifting, and explore new ways of showing up in everyday leadership.
The Leading From Within Companion Guide
A companion resource for capturing reflections, documenting insights, and supporting your journey between sessions.
Together, these experiences become more than individual practices—they become a personal rhythm for returning to yourself.
What a Session Feels Like
Each session follows a familiar rhythm designed to create both structure and freedom.
Participants are guided through a sequence of reflection, creative practice, meaning-making, and connection—without pressure to perform, create polished artwork, or share more than feels comfortable.
Arrive
Slow down, become present, and notice where you are beginning.
Reflect
Use journaling and guided prompts to give thoughts and experiences somewhere to go.
Create
Engage in an accessible creative practice that supports awareness, expression, regulation, or reflection.
Make Meaning
Notice what emerged, what shifted, and what the experience may be showing you.
Connect
Share, listen, and learn alongside others in a supportive community.
Carry Forward
Leave with one small intention or practice to revisit in the weeks ahead.
Over time, this familiar rhythm becomes part of the practice—a way of slowing down, reconnecting, and returning to yourself.
The Journey Across the Series
Each session builds on the one before it, creating a developmental journey from awareness to intentional leadership.
Across six sessions, participants explore different creative practices while developing a personal collection of strategies and rituals they can return to in moments of complexity, uncertainty, and change.
By the end of the journey, participants don't simply leave with six creative activities. They leave with a growing personal practice—and a set of rituals—for returning to themselves with greater awareness, compassion, and intention.
Between Sessions
The journey continues between our live sessions.
Participants are invited to revisit the creative practices, reflect on what they are noticing, and experiment with small ways of bringing greater awareness and intention into everyday leadership.
The goal isn't to complete assignments or add more to an already full schedule. It's to begin discovering which practices help you slow down, reconnect, and return to yourself when you need them.
Participants can also use the shared online space to reflect, share what they are noticing, and continue learning alongside the cohort.
What Participation Looks Like
Leading From Within is shaped by the people who participate in it.
The experience becomes meaningful when participants are willing to engage with curiosity, reflect honestly, listen deeply, and contribute to a respectful learning community.
Be Present
Attend and engage in the six live sessions as fully as circumstances allow.
Approach the Process with Curiosity
Engage in creative practice without concern about artistic skill, comparison, or creating something “good.”.
Reflect Honestly
Be willing to notice what emerges while choosing what and how much you want to share
Listen Deeply
Make space for the experiences and perspectives of others without needing to fix, advise, or respond.
Continue the Practice
Revisit practices between sessions and notice which ones help you reconnect, recalibrate, and return to yourself
Respect the Community
Honor the privacy, experiences, and contributions of others in the cohort.
Investment
$250 for the full six-session journey.
Your investment includes all six live sessions, the Leading From Within Companion Guide, between-session reflection and practice, and access to the shared cohort space.
Payment is made after acceptance into the cohort.
What Happens After You Apply
The application process is simple and personal.
Applications help ensure that Leading From Within is a good fit for participants and support the creation of a thoughtful, engaged cohort.
1. Submit Your Application
Complete the short application and share a little about yourself, your leadership context, and what is drawing you to the experience.
2. Your Application Is Reviewed
Applications are reviewed to consider alignment with the experience and to help create a thoughtful cohort.
3. Receive a Personal Response
You'll receive a response with next steps and an invitation to join the cohort if the experience feels like a good fit
4. Prepare for the Journey
Once you join the cohort, you'll receive session dates, payment and preparation details, and information about what you'll need for our first session.
Common Questions
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No. Leading From Within is not about creating polished artwork or learning artistic techniques.
The creative practices are simple, accessible ways to slow down, notice, express, and reflect. No artistic experience is required—only a willingness to engage with curiosity and explore the process.
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The practices use simple, accessible materials such as a journal, pens or markers, watercolor paints, paper, and materials you already create during the journey.
You'll receive a complete materials list and preparation information before the first session, with plenty of time to gather what you need.
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The journey is designed to fit alongside the realities of leadership.
Between sessions, you'll be invited to revisit practices, reflect on what you're noticing, and experiment with small ways of bringing them into your everyday life. There are no assignments to complete or deadlines to meet.
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Because each session builds on the one before it and the small cohort is an important part of the experience, participants are encouraged to attend all six live sessions.
I understand that unexpected circumstances arise. If you need to miss a session, we'll connect about how you can remain engaged with the journey and prepare for the next session.
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No. To support privacy, trust, and honest reflection within the cohort, live sessions are not recorded.
If you miss a session, you'll still have access to the Companion Guide and relevant practices, and we'll connect about how you can remain engaged with the journey.
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No. You will be invited to reflect, share, and participate in dialogue, but you always choose what and how much you want to share.
There is no expectation to disclose personal experiences, explain your creative work, or share anything you would prefer to keep private.
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Leading From Within is designed for thoughtful education leaders who want to develop more intentional ways of navigating the emotional demands and complexity of leadership.
Participants may include school and district leaders, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, nonprofit education leaders, and others whose work involves supporting people, learning, and change.
No previous experience with creative practice is required.
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You'll receive a personal response after your application is reviewed. If the experience feels like a good fit, you'll receive an invitation to join the cohort along with payment, preparation, and next-step information.
Ready to Begin?
If Leading From Within feels like the right next step in your leadership journey, I'd love to welcome you into the next cohort.
Together, we'll create space to slow down, reconnect with what matters, and cultivate practices that help you return to yourself—again and again.
Because the way we lead others is shaped by how we lead ourselves.
In the space of slowing down, new insights begin to emerge.
Each cohort is intentionally kept small to support meaningful dialogue, reflection, and connection.
