“Her skills have been invaluable and she truly empowers…”
“It has been a pleasure having Yolonda support the mothers in our community. She is real and relatable. She draws women into conversation and affirms their contributions, while also commanding the room with the calm presence she seeks to instill.
Her skills have been invaluable and she truly empowers mothers to become mindful, centered, and aware of the need for self-care as they love their children.”
-Mary Coleman, Executive Director at City of Promise*
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*City of Promise is a branch of the City of Charlottesville Department of Education’s Promise Neighborhood program that seeks to support underserved students and their neighborhoods. The organization serves as a facilitator for several local nonprofits striving to reach students in the Starr Hill, Westhaven, and 10th and Page Neighborhoods.
Private Coaching for home, community and business leaders
Empowered People® Coaching & Consultancy
Develop the subtle inner muscles, practices and skill it takes to be less reactive, more thoughtfully engaged, more rested, more confident and more influential as a leader in your home, community or business environment by way of a customized, supported and protected personal growth partnership with The Calm and Thrive Coach.
Group Coaching
Establish a more mindful, joyous, empowered and peaceful foundation for your life and in the relationships that matter most to you by learning to pause, refresh and calibrate to the frequency of conscious choice--moment by moment, season by season, day by day.
Business & Community Consultancy
Structure a more peaceful, authentic and empowering business, organizational or project environment by bringing mindful intention and care to the language, systems and protocols that form your front-end and/or back-end business, organizational or project experience. Isolate and solve for the notable sticking points and challenges that are impeding the progress and success of your business, organizational or project endeavors.
Empowered People™ in Difficult Conversations
When it comes to emotionally charged topics like race, sex, gender, politics and more, learn what it takes to exchange ideas given discomfort and/or opposing viewpoints with calm, confidence, clarity, mutual respect and openness so that you can relate better and make progress.
The Empowered People™ Masterclass for Nurturers
Learn to nurture yourself deeply and well, strengthen your sense of “couple” or “team” with your spouse/parenting community and begin to build a mindful and authentic Home Culture that truly supports you and those you love most.
The Empowered People™ Masterclass for The Masculine
Learn to bridge and better navigate the expansiveness and the magick that both includes and lies between both your rage, your fumbles, your folly, your fears, your triggers and “you, just trying to nut.” Be a better lover, partner, parent, leader, colleague and friend. Develop a mindful and authentic Personal Culture that truly supports and honors you while doing the same for those you love most.
“The whole world is built on agreements born from the conversations [communication] that happen inside relationships.”
Empowered People™ Philosophy:
conscious or "awake" connection with yourself and with others so that you can relate better and make progress.
Through awareness of breath, body, words, subtle being and context Empowered People™ are clear, confident, and connected to a space of inner calm that enables you to make conscious or "awake" and deeply respectful decisions as you relate to yourself and to others—even in challenging circumstances.
The Empowered People™ inner posture is one of curiosity, openness, non-judgement, compassion, loving kindness, balance, anchoring and full seeing. The subtle muscles that support and sustain this posture are formed and strengthened through practices in mindful breathing, meditation, inner being care, grounding, conscious communication, boundary navigation, self-awareness, somatic (body) awareness, forgiveness, gratitude and joy. These practices become signature strategies that support healing, freedom, expansion and success. We learn and implement these strategies within the context of our relationships. Relationships are the containers that hold absolutely everything, everywhere--even you as you hold the deepest you within yourself.
When we care for our relationships in wholistic ways, we make conscious connection with ourselves and with one another more possible, which makes room for the cultivation and nurturing of more healthy and Empowered People™, which makes for progress and a healthier, more equitable world.
“It is my belief that there is a holy space of limitless expansion and presence behind the eyes of every being that comes earth-side, and that when we engage with one another with both awareness and reverence of this we elevate absolutely everything.”
Home is the central place where people learn about themselves and about the world. The culture of the home is not just the walls, doors and rooms of the physical house. That is part of it.
Most important about the culture of home are the members who live in it and the way they feel while doing so. All the physical, emotional, mental and energetic experiences that come together to influence behavior, beliefs, perception and presence in the world create Home Culture.
To be conscious about your Home Culture is simply adopting a lifestyle, an ongoing practice of investing more and higher quality attention, more often, in what's going on with your family so that more of yours and your loved ones experiences with home are ones that heal, liberate and empower you all instead of drain, harm and disempower you.
You-centered
Reconnect with yourself so that you can know what you are feeling and thinking, so that you can nurture yourself deeply and well, so that you can effectively direct your attention and build more of the life you actually want—in ways that do not deplete you.
couple/parenting Team-Centered
Strengthen your sense of “Couple,” “Team,” and collaboration so that you don’t feel as if it’s all on your shoulders. Learn to leverage your spouse/partner or parenting team in the work that needs to be done at home. Confidently co-create conscious explicit vs. implicit agreements that feel mutually supportive.
Household-Centered
Build a mindful, dynamic and authentic Home Culture that feels life-giving to everyone in it--including YOU. Tune in to each school-age child’s whole-being needs at this time and customize an approach to living and learning that honors and nurtures who they truly are, anchors them, gives them wings AND does the same for you.
Whether the “space” you lead is one classroom, or a group of classrooms, a school system, a boardroom, a set of offices, a council chamber or a series of online/in-person conversations, in order to increase the likelihood that those who are a part of your space will bring their full presence and most valuable contributions to your mission and vision so that it can progress, you want people to feel safe enough, supported and equipped to deliver their best selves.
The culture you lead and facilitate goes a long way to make that possible. How much attention are you paying to what’s really happening with your people right now? How much intention and deliberate action are you investing? What clear people, practices, places and purpose have you clearly identified to support your success through this season? How’s it going?
To be conscious about your School, Work or Community Leadership Culture is to adopt the ongoing practice of investing more and higher quality attention, more often, in what's going on with you and with your people while in the space you are sharing so that more of yours and their experiences together are ones that support:
higher quality engagement
higher quality deliverables,
personal and collective growth,
whole-being wellness,
empowerment and
progress.
Kind Words from a Program Participant
“Yolonda is an incredible coach, guide, and teacher in all these areas. She has such wisdom, insight, and experience with utilizing these skills, tools, practices, or characteristics that she is fully able to walk you through the steps of incorporating these into your life successfully and realistically. She lays it all out in such a way, and walks you through applying it, that it’s like a light bulb goes off and you just know you can do it too. These are practices, tools, or characteristic traits that can truly be life changing and very empowering for the rest of your life.”