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Cultivate new ways of being : Inner Leadership

ONLINE : 5 SESSIONS every 2 weeks

(2 time options: Aust, US & UK friendly)

In a world of constant change and complexity, inner leadership is the key to staying grounded, adaptable, and effective.


This transformative course empowers you to cultivate presence, self-awareness, and authenticity while unlocking creativity and potential in the face of challenges.


Through five dynamic sessions, you’ll develop the skills to listen deeply, regulate emotions, navigate ambiguity, strengthen trust within yourself and with your collaborators, and align with your heart-led purpose. With practical tools, embodied practices, and a focus on real-world application, you’ll emerge with the clarity and resilience to lead with integrity and create meaningful change in your work and in your life.

Learning Journey Outline

Join us for Five Online Sessions (1.5 hours each, first session is 2 hours) with Weekly Practices to deepen your learning between sessions. This is an immersive experience, with reflection and connection in Small Peer Group breakouts. Stay connected with the group between sessions in a Supportive WhatsApp Group to share experiences and grow in community.

Session 1: Cultivating Presence and Deep listening

Purpose: Enhance focus and deepen connection for better decision making Activities: Listening with all our senses and activating inner knowing Outcomes: Enhanced presence and sensing capacity  

Session 2: Self-Awareness and Regulation

Purpose: Stay grounded amidst stress and challenges. Activities: Practical tools for emotional regulation and resilience. Outcomes: Developed ability to manage stress and complexity
enhancing your response-ability.  

Session 3: Transforming Challenges into Potential

Purpose: Seeing opportunities in challenges Activities: Embodied practices to move through blocks to unleash potential Outcomes: Enhanced creativity
and opportunity  

Session 4: Authenticity and Integrity in Relating

Purpose: Enhance trust in relating with others Activities: Communicate authentically with integrity in alignment with needs and values Outcomes: Improved relational capacity and deepened alignment 

  

Session 5: Aligning with Heart-led Purpose

Purpose: Alignment with Purpose to drive change Activities: Embodied visioning and mapping to clarify purpose. Outcomes: Resourced with enhanced clarity of direction

Learning Journey practices include: Reflective & Journaling Practices, Regenerative Frameworks, Embodied Mindfulness & Movement, Non-violent Communication, Neuroscience & Polyvagal Theory
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Who is this for?

This journey is for anyone who is open to committed to developmental processes to grow their inner awareness and contributing to positive change:

  • Leaders and change-makers
  • Students and entrepreneurs
  • Consultants and facilitators
  • Coaches and Teachers
  • Parents and practitioners
  • People interested in cultivating new ways of being to create change in their life, in work or in the world

 

What participants have said

“I gained inner strength to execute on my ideas.”

“This course helped me transition out of stuckness faster.”

“I now feel more connected to nature and life energy in my work.”

“The tools and practices offered opened new pathways for action.”

“Facilitators Jax and Viv are deeply committed to their vision, presence and participants. They draw in adventurous “deep sea divers” and changemakers from all around the world to explore this journey with.”

 

Dates TBC

This course will be hosted in two different timezones to suit people globally. 

For Teams

If you are interested in this learning program for your organisation or team, please get in touch to discuss.

Testimonials

Jax and Viv create a nourishing and centring experience while sharing some key learnings from the inner development field. It's a rare chance to pause, and practice in relationship with kind and thoughtful company.
Amanda Koegh
Sustainability Leader
"Viv and Jax hold a beautiful container in which to explore “Being,” bringing forth embodied and cognitive practices that allow space to explore the enlivening and challenging spaces of being within oneself and in community. What a joy it is to BE in this community."
Karina Kallio
PhD Candidate
‘I loved the interesting and practical small group work in each session and having the opportunity to work with and meet different people. All activities were conducted in a safe and supportive environment. The activities between sessions were relevant to the content and helped embed my learning.
Kate Hampton
Coach
‘I loved the interesting and practical small group work in each session and having the opportunity to work with and meet different people. All activities were conducted in a safe and supportive environment. The activities between sessions were relevant to the content and helped embed my learning.
Kate Hampton
Coach
"I encourage you to attend the School of Being – be prepared for things to shift within you in unexpected ways."
Rachel Knox
Therapist & coach
"I encourage you to attend the School of Being – be prepared for things to shift within you in unexpected ways."
Rachel Knox
Therapist & coach
This is a quality course led by two high quality Human Beings! I thoroughly enjoyed both the content and all of the different types of interactions in the ‘break-out rooms’. Totally recommended.
Jeff Knowles
Sustainability Consultant
Jax and Vivien wonderfully hold space for inner exploration and development.’
Karyn Sherman
Facilitator & Coach
This is a quality course led by two high quality Human Beings! I thoroughly enjoyed both the content and all of the different types of interactions in the ‘break-out rooms’. Totally recommended.’
Karyn Sherman
Facilitator & Coach

About School of Being

School of Being is growing a learning community to restore wellbeing—within ourselves, our relationships, and the living world—to co-create flourishing futures. Through embodied and developmental practices, we explore unlearning and learning new ways of being that nurture a flourishing future. We believe that wellbeing is essential to creativity, imagination, and collaboration needed to meet today’s challenges and to co-create a thriving Mother Earth.

 

Your Facilitators

 

Jax Wechsler (left) is a trauma-informed facilitator, educator, and coach passionate about change, inner development, and enabling better futures for individuals, society, and the planet. A life-long learner (and un-learner), her areas of interest and expertise include neuroscience and polyvagal theory, somatics, regenerative development, social innovation, earth-based spirituality, resilience, creativity, and collective and intergenerational trauma. She strongly believes that inner development and new ways of being, grounded in inter-being with nature, will help people meet current social and environmental challenges, to thrive and flourish. Jax is committed to nurturing inner and outer sovereignty, supporting individuals and communities to reclaim their agency and wellbeing in the face of complex systems.

 

Vivien Sung (right) is a facilitator, educator and visual storyteller passionate about guiding individual and collective change to restore wellbeing and right relationship with our living world. Her work is rooted in the belief that regeneration is not only ecological but deeply relational, grounded in heart-centred and restorative ways of being. Combining her deep curiosity with expertise in leadership and inner development, creative and systems thinking, regenerative development, systemic constellations and energy healing, she stewards pathways to well-being. She believes flourishing futures require more than technological solutions—calling for a revival of heart, imagination, and spirit.

 
 
 

Acknowledgment to Country​

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands of the Wangal, Gadigal and Yuin people and their ancestors who have lived in harmony with this land for thousands of years. We pay our respects to elders past and present for their deep knowledge, wisdom and connection to land, sky and waters. We thank them for their Care for Country and extend that respect to all First Nations people.
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