The Moxie Project Group Coaching
It doesn’t matter how much evidence and so called proof you think you have right now about your life (I’m not good enough, worthy enough, capable enough, confident enough, courageous enough) or the excuses you keep telling yourself about why you aren’t living the life you really want, you can change it.
You can rewrite your script, choose a different path, reclaim your real confidence and courage, make better decisions and choices, let love in, live well, flourish,tap into your innate creative potential whenever you want to.
But.
It may take some time.
It may take some time to undo all the false stories and scripts you have be telling yourself about you are your life.
Which is why I wrote the Moxie Project for you, for me, for all of us …
I got so frustrated by the industry – which I love and work in – not meeting people where they are at and respecting all where they have been. Person-centred working isn’t ‘one course for everyone’, person centred is you in the middle and me (or someone else) making sure that everything I do is meeting you where you are right now.
For years we’ve heard of methods, tools, step-by-step systems, blueprints, techniques on how to be more: successful, better, faster, happier, confidence, courageous and passionate. We’ve paid attention to the messages telling us what we want is on the other side of fear, or we are friggin’ dead (or a just plain old boring) if we have a comfort zone or two.
We’ve heard for years to be, be, be, be: be awesome, be braver, be bolder, be a badass, be the weight that society approves of, have more, earn more, be bigger, live the life we were born to live by breakfast time tomorrow. We buy the class, take the workshop, read the new book. We learn. We apply. We learn again. We try harder. We learn. We try really hard. We apply. The result? We feel like a hamster on the self-help wheel. We either don’t make it, or we only make it so far. Or we forget where we were actually supposed to be heading to.
Why?
Because we are habitually looking for our happiness, joy, peace, love, flourishing, brave, bold, courage, confidence outside ourselves. We have lived most of our lives by the outside dictating what we should think and feel on the inside. Its no surprise that when we want to change we follow traditions, we do what we do best and what we’ve learned, we go looking outside for others to tell us what to think and feel. We don’t have the answers we think, they must lie out there, some one will know, surely!
There are no shortcuts. None. If you truly want to transform your life it has to start on the inside: with you, your thinking, your beliefs, your values and your idea of who you think you are. How can we be expected to make any changes if we have no idea what our thinking is habitually like? How can we grow and develop if we haven’t got a clue about what we really believe about who we really are? How can we align ourselves with our authentic selves if we haven’t got a clue about where we are placing our attention and what we are placing value on?
For all life,
When you know who you are on the inside, when you realise that everything you are experiencing in your life is a result of your thoughts (and whether or not you follow them) and what you are placing value upon, then you can have fun with the rewriting of how you really want it to go.
Take care of the inside and it has a knock on effect on all areas: life, work, creativity, career and business. It doesn’t matter the content because you are the creator and common denominate for all of it. I mean, you are thinker.
Is The Moxie Project for you?
Maybe. It depends.
Has the above resonated with you? Do you appreciate that change and growth is a life-long journey and not a ‘done it once on a course’ affair? That any change and transformation can feel like you coming to your edges, and it might not comfortable, because you aren’t sure about how you will land, but do you trust yourself that you will land in the right way for you? Are you prepared to have the conversations you so desperately want to have with yourself? Can you accept that all change and transformation is a destructive process but it does’t have to be painful?
Would you like me to be more specific? Okay …
Maybe you’re utterly satisfied, happy and content with some areas of your life, it’s all tickety-boo. or perhaps to the outside world looking in, you appear and pretend to have it all together but you know that’s not the whole story:
- You want transformation. Perhaps when a friend asks you what you are up to, you answer, ‘Same old, same old’, you both laugh, but inside you feel a deep sadness because there is an element of truth to it. Life, it all looks the same. Where did you go? Passion? Purpose? Meaning? Peace? Happiness? You’re just making it each day to get to the weekend. When did you stop feeling all you could feel? When did you give up on those dreams and plans you had? What day was it?
- You are tired of wearing multiple masks. You read about authenticity, showing up as yourself, being real and genuine, daring to be bold and brave, and although it’s what you want you’re terrified that you’re not good enough to be seen when you expose your full self to be seen.
- Maybe you’re in one of those rut like things with no ladder or any idea how to haul yourself up. The thing about ruts is we don’t know we are in them until we take a look around and all we see is walls on either side. It could be that you’ve stopped creating, you compare yourself to others, you miss opportunities because of fear and doubt, dulling yourself down, think you aren’t going to make it anyway so you don’t start.
- Maybe it’s your confidence and courage that’s slowly been eroded away. Fear has taken over, running riot in your mind. You can’t find peace anywhere, it’s a constant onslaught of worrying what people think, if you’re ‘good enough’, stepping back in some areas of your life when you know it’s time to step up.
- Perhaps you’re a little lost, or think you are on the wrong planet some days. There is a school of thought that many of us – after we’ve lived a few years – start asking very different questions to those when we first entered adulthood. You know, the big life ones: who am I, what am I here for, what have I to say, where have I to go, who have I to speak to? Maybe it’s time to learn to trust yourself?
- Or maybe, just maybe you’re just tired of trying to ‘fix yourself’, and ‘straighten yourself out’. What you’re really looking for is a completely different shift in your thinking. And you want like-minded and like-hearted people around you while you play. You’re ready, willing and able but please not another self-help book, been there done that, worn the book cover.
- Perhaps over time you have swapped self-love for self-loathing, compassion for criticism, intention for insignificant. You could be tired of always waiting for your life to begin, to start when this or that happen then you will feel as though you are living.
I gave myself permission to just start.
“I’m so very happy to have come across The Moxie Project and Dawn personally. What did it/she help me with?
In my work as a portrait photographer, I have discovered many positive and powerful side effects of working with photos and photography. Photography can have empowering and healing qualities. It can be a guide to where you want to be. Somehow I was still waiting for permission to start using this knowledge in my work more actively.
Interestingly enough, signing up for the Moxie Project, talking to Dawn and doing the exercises only for a few days, I realized I could just start doing what I really love doing: using photography as a means for creating awareness and personal growth. I didn’t need any more permission than I could give myself.
So while only in the Moxie Project for a week, I started doing it and I launched an online project (now) called ‘Zien is Geloven!’ (Seeing is Believing!). Thanks to Dawn I felt the confidence to develop it as it went along.
BTW: if you really want to speed up your personal (and business) growth process, I’d recommend anyone to get their hands on that extra coaching Dawn offers per Skype. She (and her dog) will listen and guide you there where you want to be. It’s worth every pound. And more.” – Lucy Lambriex, http://ziebinnenzijde.nl
Thanks to TMP (and Dawn) I am living, not just existing.
This course will give you the tools to rebuild the foundations from this moment onwards , whatever your past , TMP gives you a brand new start. Your life on your terms begins when you embark on this incredible journey of discovery with strangers who become friends and share the same fears you thought were unique to you. It won’t always be easy , but you are never alone with Living Moxie. This journey is the most incredible adventure and you’re the headline act…. TMP opens your eyes and your heart to the most courageous and special human being in the world… You.
At the time of writing this I had just come home from a knackering yet gloriously happy and messy day at work with magical noisy human beings , a job I would never have even dreamed I’d be able to have let alone do before I met you. I came across Living Moxie when I needed it most , I have learned to be kind to myself , how to love my partner and an equal , I have got out of a soul destroying job and now work in my dream job and bloody good at it , my head says I would have done this eventually all on my own but my heart heart knows the truth. You gave me the boot up the arse my mother would , I mean every word and more. I believe in myself and I live with love because of you and TMP. Thank you. – Mim McGrane
Previous participants have/are:
- Quit soul sucking jobs and started doing work that matters.
- Started businesses and/or changed direction of their current one simply by stopping waiting on permission slips.
- Speaking out and speaking up.
- Stopped feeling as if it’s was ‘too late’ for them, and ditched the story of ‘when the time is right’.
- Become more aligned with their core values, and stopped doing what was taking them further away.
- Discovered their passions and purpose for their work, career, business, or remembered again why they started.
- Accepted their gifts and talents, and started using them.
- Noticed the loving person they always knew they were, there is nothing wrong with them.
- Let go of tired worn out stories, beliefs and myths.
- More confidence and courageous action in their daily living, owning how they feel.
- Allowed their full creative self to come to play, and created, and sang, and danced, and made stuff.
- Peace at trusting their own inner wisdom, saying things like, ‘I know what I’ve to do. Done it’.
- Started voluntary and non-profit projects, and got funding for it.
- Asking for what they need and set better boundaries, treated themselves with respect, love and kindness.
- Let go of the need to ask for the approval and permission from others, and started.
- Learned how to handle the naysayers and critics (inside and out), and become their own best friend.
But it’s not one element of TMP that is responsible for that, far from it:
It’s not piece of The Moxie Project that is responsible for the above happening, it’s all the smaller pieces making up the whole. And, most importantly it’s the person showing up for themselves, really embracing the project as a place to leave behind what is no longer good enough or serves them in anyway.
It’s the diving in and out of the lessons each day, relearning what the world has taught you to forget. It’s doing the work, answering the questions, bringing fears and doubts to the surface, having conversations you need to have with yourself about, ‘What’s next?’
It’s bringing your thoughts and ideas into the group and being open to receiving, getting encouragement, leaning in and taking support from others in the community. It’s taking part in the weekly campfires, to start the creation.
It’s showing up fully and taking part in the calls, taking what you need from them, and sharing what you know.
What are my intentions for the Moxie Project and you?
Through all the parts in place my wish is:
- You reclaim your courage and confidence, to no longer live to others expectations of what you should be doing with your own life.
- You breakthrough through the barriers and hurdles that you think are keeping you stuck, stalled and stopped.
- You discover, own, declare and begin the process of using your skills, talents, uniqueness and gifts.
- You are creating your life in your own unique way. No longer bothered and fussed by what others think, you are living in accordance with your own truth.
- You use the skills and tools + love for yourself to quieten the naysayers and critics (those in your own head, and those around you) so you can get on living the life your soul intended. Did I just use the word ‘soul’? I think I did!
- That you realise that everything you seek is within in you. You have your own guide, let’s call it innate wisdom.
- You have a knowing about how precious time is, that you’re here for only a short moment so you are digging deep and fully committing to yourself for life (not just the length of a course!): for your desires, your dreams, your passions, your creativity, making your difference and leaving your legacy.
Simply Inspiring
It was tough going to be honest. I didn’t really know what to expect, what I wanted was to understand why I kept going so far with my ideas and then stopping. In the lesson Letting Go, it came to me. I had done this my whole life, the starting and stopping. I was always told ‘I wasn’t good enough’, and was consistently compared to my sister. That session was worth the money for the course alone. What I loved about the course was it was fun, the people in my little group (although we all knew that our confidence and courage had taken a blow) were so inspiring. -Fiona Freeman
Helped Me Change My Thinking
I actually couldn’t believe I signed up for the Moxie Project. I thought I didn’t need it. You know (Dawn) that I had done so much ‘work on myself’ but what I realised through the project that all this work was back to front. I realised half way through that I had been trying to fix the world so that I could feel good enough. I had it back to front. That was my aha moment. It was like a penny dropping. TMP taught me well that ‘if it’s to be, it’s up to me’. I loved the real stories, the fun way you put it all across, I haven’t seen anyone do that before. You know, it was fun. I never once felt vulnerable or asked to do something I wasn’t comfortable with. – Paula Trueman
Here’s where you’ll focus …
There is a curriculum – there are no shortcuts, but there is a path – The Moxie Project is a group experience, each group shapes and guides what each project is, each course is slightly differently to last, how can it not be when there are humans involved? That means I will – because I with you the whole way – make changes, amendments, decide what is needed when and where and build the path for you, and your group.
I will deliver, lead and facilitate the core curriculum below and I will also be led by your needs, and those of the group. That may also mean using materials, snippets, resources from other courses if I need to.
Everything you do falls into these areas:
Your Confident Life
Undoing and unlearning fear
Using the words of Moxie: bold, brave, courage, confidence, fearlessness, spirit … you’ll look at what eroded them, the false stories you keep telling yourself about, how to let go of the fear that is limiting you and how you can reclaim sovereignty over your own life. You will look at your tired and worn out beliefs that getting in your way.
Your Courageous Life
With heart and mind
The Moxie Project is all about living the truth of who you are. And that takes courage. It takes courage to pay attention, to listen to yourself, to not be caught up in the stories of failing and falling. It’s about stepping out of what’s safe and expected. And you’ll look at resilience, nourishment, self love and self care and how to make them real for you. .
Your Creative Life
What makes you come alive?
What is it that fills your heart and lifts your soul? In the Moxie Project you will look at your core strengths and talents, your passions and purpose, your ‘wake-up call’, goals, intentions and bring alive what speaks to you all thorough the day.
Your Connected Life
Support. Belonging. Showing Up.
We can’t do this alone. We all need connection, conversation and community. Part of the Moxie Project is how to create meaningful, rewarding, rich relationships around you, how to ask for help, get support and show up as you in these places.
What’s included?
There are various ways to take part in The Moxie Project. The full project includes everything below, or you may choose to work through the project by yourself without the need for interaction, calls, campfires, community and access to myself.
#1: Lessons of moxie to help you align with your core and tell the truth about you
Programs: Full and Self-Paced Moxie Project
3 x a week for 8 weeks, you’ll receive a Moxie Project core module which includes: building stronger beliefs about you and your abilities, unlocking your courage and confidence, authenticity, releasing and letting go of what no longer serves you, self-love and self-compassion, building your resilience, how to get out your own way, looking fear in the eye, self-efficacy, defining your own definition of meaningful, trusting your inner wisdom, claiming sovereignty, building your own support network, releasing your full creative potential, stepping out of safe, recovery, well-being, goals with heart, assertiveness.
#2: Powerful self-reflective question sheets, journal prompts & exercises with each lesson
Programs: Full and Self-Paced Moxie Project
These come with each core lesson. The self-reflection questions are where previous participants tell me they had the biggest shifts. Through the questions you’ll discover your core beliefs and values, identify where your own barriers and blocks are (and how you can overcome them with the resources you have), you’ll identify patterns and habits in your thinking, you’ll be able to explore, identify and begin the rewriting of scripts and stories that never belonged to you.
You’ll also receive sets of journal prompts with each lesson, if you like to journal/blog. And you’ll be give lots of space to check-in with me after each and every lesson to receive support. feedback, and ask questions.
#3: Group coaching calls with myself and your peers where you can bring your questions, get support, focus on you.
Programs: Full Moxie Project Only
Every week for 8 weeks, you will be invited to a live group coaching Q and A with myself and others in your project. They are relaxed, safe, informal and intimate. You won’t be able to hide because of the small group size. You will be able to ask questions live, or submit them before the call. As the Moxie Project is limited in numbers, you will have enough space to be heard and get any of your questions answered.
Final times for the group coaching calls will be set after The Moxie Project closes and will be delivered at times where I can accommodate all time zones as much as possible. Even if this means running smaller Q and A groups.
There are no long-distance calls numbers or charges, the ‘meeting room’ is a private space we where connect to online. Q and A calls are not recorded but any extra lesson and teaching calls are.
#4: Access to an online forum/community where you can check in, connect, share, receive and give support, get help with your intentions and goals
Programs: Full and Self-Paced Moxie Project
The Moxie Project is about transformation, growth, changing beliefs, going after dreams and goals. It’s a heck of a lot easier (and makes sense) to have people you can share with while you are on that journey.
Meeting other participants, connecting, sharing, starting up conversations and joining others is a massive part of the project. Having people around that you can bounce ideas of, chat with, learn from, accountability and share with is priceless.
I will be present in the community posting questions, answering questions and offering support. The community remains as long as you wish to be part of it. This community takes place within the private classroom. It’s not a Facebook group.
#5: Invitation to 4 x Campfires
Programs: Full Moxie Project Only
Every other week you will have the opportunity to come to come a Campfire with me, okay not a real one, online it’s a little difficult. These last for 4 hours and the whole focus is getting stuff done.
We check in with each other at the start to declare what we are working, then again half way through, then finally at the end. These were added to the Moxie Project in 2014, maybe you need to accountability, focus and support of others. Campfires give you all this.
You may even wish to use this space and time to connect with other participants to have discussions about the project, where you are at, what you need help with. I will facilitate the space for this to happen.
Some participants use this time for going through the project course materials and others have used the time for working on their career goals, business ideas, even home projects. The premise is accountability, staying focused, paying attention and getting things started, moving or finished. Campfires are not Q and A’s but you can bring questions to them.
#6: Individual and personal attention, support and help from myself
Programs: Full Moxie Project Only
Spaces are intentionally limited. The group small is size for The Moxie Project deliberately so I can support you. It’s small enough that you don’t feel overwhelmed, and intimate enough to have conversations and your words aren’t drowned out. it’s big enough to bounce ideas and get help from others.
I am with you the whole way. Those aren’t just words.
Before the project begins, my work starts, I will ask you as soon after you book what you want to work on, why you are here, what do you need, what’s currently happening, what would you like to take away from the project.
Through the main 8 weeks I am available to you via email, in the classroom, in the community, in the calls, in the campfires. And I available to in a period of time I call aftercare.
#7 Aftercare in your community and ongoing monthly calls for 12 months
Programs: Full Moxie Project Only
After the first 8 weeks is over, you move into aftercare: your community remains and ongoing support, invite to monthly Q and A calls carry on (for as long as The Moxie Project is available).
Why?
It’s my duty as a trainer and teacher to help you move along and into the next part of journey, but I know this doesn’t always happen in 8 weeks. Aftercare has been put in place to help. I’ve found many people return back to the project after a couple of months, redo some of the lessons and worksheets. I make myself available to you during this time. The intensity of the aftercare may not be the same as the first 8 weeks, but it is there if you need it.
My role as a coach is not to ‘keep you’, it’s to help you move onto the next stage having got everything you needed from this one. The first 8 weeks are the start, not the end.
How to join The Moxie Project:
The Moxie Project is currently closed to new participants.
I am not going to write a paragraph about how much is your happiness worth to you, or what’s the other ones, for the price of latte you can change your life or ask yourself, what else can you do with £5 a day – they make me want to puke.
Be mindful. If TMP resonates with you in any way, if it touches you, if it’s something you’ve been looking for – and you can afford it – then I will leave it up to you if you want to book or not. I won’t fear you into making a decision. It’s the exact opposite of what the whole project is about. I’ve written down above all the details, please make an informed choice. I want you to feel good about taking part.
If you would like further one-to-one one coaching I have included a third option which includes 4 x 60 minute clarity sessions (you technically get one session for free).
After you register/book your place you will be asked to confirm your email address for the project. Please take this step because so I can send you all the details about what happens before you begin. And so I can connect with you personally.
Final thoughts:
When I attend courses, take workshops, book events I want to be really clear that I will be in the right place, so I’ve summed up all the above for you below:
This is for you if:
- Your confidence and courage has slowly been eroded away. You have ideas, plans, hopes and dreams of creating an alternative story for your life, your work and your career
- You are in a transition. A life event or experience has woken you up to asking deeper questions. Maybe you’ve listened to the ‘wake-up’ call. You have a stirring, a knowing, that ‘this is not the way it’s supposed to be’ and you are wanting to commit to a new way of living your life.
- You know you need to step up in some areas of your life. You’ve let them rust.
- You have ideas, plans and intentions for your life. But you have a few doubts, and – like other humans – you are letting the past dictate the future.
- You aren’t saying what you really want to be say. You know the path you should be taking, but you are stalling walking it.
- You are moving from one Act of your life to the next. It’s a time of change, development and growth. You want to make your experience matter.
- You want to be seen, not in a ‘look, mini-me’ way. You want to show up fully as you. You are done with masks. You are ready and willing to trust yourself and you’re own wisdom. You don’t mind what you’re not anymore, you want to be who you are.
- You want support. You want the time, space, community, connection and conversations that will challenge you in a safe, no harm way. You want to be a beacon for others too.
And it’s not for you if,
- You aren’t committed.
- You think that the content alone will give you the answers you need. You have to do the work.
- You are looking for more than an individual group coaching programme, you want to use The Moxie Project to ‘fix other people’ in your life, you have deeper issues beyond my experience and the intentions of the project.
- You don’t have the time. You aren’t really sure if you can commit to full 8 weeks. I’m sure the project will come round again if you can’t commit now. It is a commitment.
- You have a pattern of not finishing what you start. Please be all in or not. It’s a simple decision. If you can’t be all in, that’s fine, and it’s honest.
- Your mind is willing, but your heart isn’t. It requires both.