offers steady, gentle and effective guidance in awakening to mindful, authentic and thriving connection--with yourself and others--so that you can relate better while you build a nurturing and progressive home, school, business or community culture.
A 6 to 12-month learning, growth and support program led by The Calm and Thrive Coach, Yolonda Coles Jones, designed to help leaders discover, apply and continue what it takes to relate better and make progress at home, at work, at school or in your community.
Our centering, inspirational and transformative programs of study are designed for:
parents to school-aged children and teens ⧫ business leaders ⧫ school leaders ⧫ community leaders ⧫ citizens
who want to realize healthier relationships now and thereby participate in building a healthier world.
Are you a leader in your home, school, business or community with a strong desire to feel calmer, more confident, clearer, more courageous and more cared for as you build and sustain the culture of your home, school, business or community?
Tired of breaking up (or causing) so many fights, not knowing where to begin to move your good and needful work forward in a healthy way, not having the right words to say, feeling lost, helpless, overwhelmed, depleted or out of control?
Ready to build a mutually supportive home, school, business or community culture that allows you to relate better to yourself and to others, make progress in your endeavors and realize a greater sense of inner and overall balance and ease?
You take your journeying in this life and the roles you find yourself in seriously. You want to move through all of it--the highs, the lows and everything in between--with wisdom, power, grace and deep connection.
Learn to apply the Empowered People™ philosophy and formula to whatever is in your path as you immerse yourself in this in-depth learning and growth experience to discover what it takes to build either a Supportive Home Culture or Nurturing, Empowerment and Progression Spaces.
Develop more calm, more clarity and more confidence as you relate to yourself and to others. Inspire and influence those around you as you do your important individual and collective work in the world.
At Empowered People™ Deliberate Love School, our mission is to do our part to encourage the direction of attention towards the ways in which our relationships to ourselves impact our relationships with others and furthermore to recognize and influence the ways we exist inside those relationships as they are what make up our world.
“The whole world is built on agreements born from the conversations that happen inside relationships.”
You will not find a program that brings together your emotional, physical, mental and spiritual wellness in order to support you in all of these named areas AND give you actionable steps to help you make your journey with confidence, calm and clarity like this one.
Founder, Yolonda Coles Jones, (also known as The Calm & Thrive Coach) birthed and built these programs after her decades of work as a professional coach, facilitator, veteran homeschool parent, teen sex educator, consultant, lay counselor, birth doula and deeply connected being in the world. Her vast--from the utterly devastating to the magnificently regenerating--experiences inform the offerings. Her calm, nurturing, supportive and powerful energy permeates the learning and growth experience.
Frustrated
Stuck
Lost
Tired/depleted
Feeling like it’s all on your shoulders
Overwhelmed
Gain clarity
Make notable progress
Get your bearings
Replenish and learn what it takes for you to keep well
Strengthen your sense of team
Find your Zen Zone
the actual words to say that unlock more thoughtful conversation and make room for you
simple yet powerful strategies to help bring yourself back online to presence when you get derailed by intense emotion or in your movement through life in general.
guidance to the ways to inspire and influence (vs. nag and drag) the members of your household, school workforce, business community or civic community to engage more readily and more thoughtfully
clarity on what will best suit your unique situation
a greater sense of calm and confidence
repeatable processes that invite more ease and support into your reality
“Since working with Yolonda, I have changed my life by being more aware, going after my goals in practical ways, working on creating not only the me I want to be, but the home culture I want our family to have and thrive in, connecting more in relationships, and sharing not only Yolonda herself and the work that she does with others, but also the bits of wisdom and encouragement she gave me and am happy to gift it to others in conversation. My life has changed since discovering Yolonda and working with her, in that it’s on a new, beautiful path along my journey.”
Regular Live Group Coaching Sessions
Attend regular learning sessions and get your questions answered live, personally, by Lead Coach Facilitator, Yolonda Coles Jones. You will be part of an intimate audience of your peers who are invested at your same level of commitment or higher. Gain further insight from listening in to questions posed by other program participants.
Don’t worry, if you have to miss a live gathering, you will have access to the playbacks for the duration of your enrollment.
Independent Deepening Exercises
To support you in reflecting on where you are now and connecting in real time to where you want to be, pre-recorded sessions that are stored in the Online Learning Portal will be accompanied by worksheets for you to complete independently. This is where you unlock and unpack how to implement what you’re learning to custom-fit you and your family. Yolonda’s signature inquiry-based approach to gaining insight will amaze you.
Private Online Community
This private online space is where all course participants can connect and share thoughts as you move through the program, and where Yolonda can share pertinent resources and answer questions as they arise.
More Kind Words
“Yolonda’s guidance helped me to bring more joy and a deeper practice of gratitude into my home just by appreciating what I hoped to see more of. Just in the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed how much more willing my son is to help around the home, and he has shown me more gratitude for the things I do for him. ”
BONUSES: Access to previously recorded Signature Courses
As a member of the majors program you will gain access to masterclasses and self-study courses that are in alignment with your major.
Subjects include:
Empowered People™ in Nurturer Roles
Empowered People™ in Difficult Conversations
Empowered People™ in Grief, Loss, Acute Trauma and Big Transitions
Empowered People™ in Learning Lifestyles
Empowered Me (You-Focused)
Empowered Us (Couple/Team/Partnership-Focused)
Empowered Family (Household-Focused)
Come in to Empowered People™ Deliberate Love School by choosing to major in one of these areas:
The Supportive Home Culture Major is designed for parents who are in the role of “Lead Nurturer” to school-aged children and teens. The program is also suitable for those who are not “lead” nurturers but who are looking to better understand and expand their capacity to nurture--themselves and others.
Learn to set and cultivate the kind of baseline tone in your household that inspires, empowers and offers whole-being wellness to everyone in it (including you).
Empower yourself and create clarity in order to build conscious connection with your family.
Learn how to collaborate with your child(ren) as well as leverage your spouse or partner(s).
Decrease tensions, reduce the fighting and discover how to not sacrifice your entire self and your career on the altar of raising a family.
Ensure that your results are deep and lasting with Yolonda walking alongside you as you both learn and live into implementing what you’ve learned
The Nurturing, Empowering & Progressive Spaces Major is designed for school, business and civic community leaders who are looking to cultivate learning, production, change and conversation cultures that make room for conscious or “awake” connection, restoration, empowerment and growth.
Learn to harness your power to set the tone as the leader in order to reach your collective goals and also keep well.
Build your confidence in working with opposing, differing or emotionally charged viewpoints
Discover what will make your unique school, workplace or community culture one where people feel more at ease, more inspired, safer, seen, appreciated and are more engaged so that your mission can move forward with more intention, mutual care and greater success.
“Since working with Yolonda, I have changed my life by taking more focused, nurturing alone-time for myself that ends up filling me up so that I may have the capacity to nurture my family more, as well.
I have shifted my relationship with myself...allowing myself more time and space to heal, to nurture myself, and to ask for help.
To someone who is on the fence about working with Yolonda, I would say that if they want to bring more peace and clarity into their lives, or if they want to see more humanity in their children, then Yolonda is who they want to work with.”
Take 10 deep belly breaths and imagine the reality you REALLY want at home, in your school system, in your workplace, in your civic community. Ask yourself what price tag you’d assign to that reality. Decide now to make a step towards it, knowing that every investment you make in the form of time, money, energy and action with that vision in your heart, mind, body and spirit brings you closer to it.
Can you really afford not to invest in a new reality?
What is it costing you to leave things as they are?
Are you happy with your present reality?
How much more time do you want to waste?
Browse through playbacks from pop-up coaching experiences.
