The fall 2025 group Mastermind Program is full. Registration is now closed.
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9-week Transformational Group Program
Engaging Creativity & Emergence for
Crafting Your Next Chapter
On Zoom every other Tuesday (5 sessions)
The workshops plant the seeds and the masterminds help them grow and bear fruit.
Start the new year off with your next chapter ready to go!
Instead of waiting until January to take your aspirations, offerings,
and creative self to the next level, this program is for those who
want to started NOW so you can get a jump start on 2026.
By the end of 2025 you will be in a new place, have more focus and clarity about
your next chapter, feel more confident in who you are and what you offer,
have created something meaningful, and have taken inspired action.
Take the new year pressure off, and start with momentum out of the gate!
Crafting our next chapter is an emergent process. Doing it with others in a safe, supportive group can help us amplify our inner creator and get more done. A safe container and ongoing support system helps us stay motivated to show up for ourselves and each other.
Breaking our patterns is a way to bypass our judge, and get right into something new, juicy, and rich that wants to emerge.
Hope you can join in this call to adventure!
If any of these resonate, this may be for you!
"I have so much more to offer than I am now in my work, but not sure how." "I'd like to feel more of my soul in my work and life.""I have a lot of ideas, but unclear which to focus on first, and how to structure them." "I'd like to create all new offerings." "I am so ready to create my next offer, but tend to get distracted or derailed." "I'd like to feel more connected to my creative, alive, fun self.""I'd like to feel supported by a group, and not feeling so alone." "I'd like to have more trust in my intuition and discernment.""I'd like to get unstuck from limiting stories and beliefs and create life-giving ones to put in their place." "I'd like more balance all around."
"I'd like a relationship with uncertainty that feels less anxious and more filled with possibilities." "I'd like to have more fun and joy in my life."
In this engaging program, you will:
- get clarity about what's next for you
- create offerings (services, products, signature approaches, programs) that bring you alive and serve others
- take inspired, purposeful actions to bring your aspirations to life
- embody your next-level mindsets and skill-sets and ways of being to live into in your next chapter
- move through blocks and resistances with more ease
- build more confidence in navigating uncertainty
- uncover and USE more of your creative, alive self in your next chapter
- release old stories that no longer serve, and embrace new generative ones
- have a community of peers to support you, and give you feedback
- have fun doing it!
Crafting What's Next workshop participant
Unique Emergent Format: Part workshop & Part Mastermind
Each session is both a creative mini-workshop focused toward creating your next chapter, and a Mastermind with group support. Each session integrates logic and intuition, left and right brain, passion and productivity, flow and structure, grounding and inspiration.
• The Creative Workshop part sparks breakthroughs through focused, facilitated experiences specifically designed to move the group forward - in creative, engaging, safe, and fun ways!
• The Mastermind parts adds peer support, multiple perspectives, and accountability to enhance insights and sustained action in a supportive community. This helps move a-ha’s into something real. And...they help the rich, unique, awesome parts of you be born out into the world in community, while held and championed in a safe space.
• The Emergence Focus hones in on what's most significant, most alive, and most "ripe and ready" to cultivate at this time - both from the inside-out and outside-in. After 25 years of emergence coaching, Michelle is deeply skilled in sensing/feeling into what's emerging, and partnering with her clients/participants to draw it out as it unfolds and make useful meaning of what emerged.
"Michelle’s philosophy and facilitation style helps me see things in a new way."
~ Laura Bowles, Coach and Entrepreneur, Crafting Your Next Chapter participant
We'll take deep dives into your stories, imagination, and ways being that nourish your soul and uncover more of your self, along with the practical steps of bringing your next chapter into the world. In a supportive group, we'll explore, experience, and APPLY techniques, frameworks, and practices, from various creative dimensions, to what's next.
Inner shifts to expect in this program:
Inner shifts to expect in this program:
- experience more ease in navigating uncertainty
- integrate different parts of yourself into more wholeness
- feel more resourceful and resourced
- discover more of who you are
- make choices that feel aligned with who YOU are
- understand and trust yourself, and your creativity, more
- feel more confident in sensing what wants to emerge
- learn to hear your inner "steady voice" amidst the chaos
- become more resilient in navigating uncertainty
- feel safer in being your creative self
Crafting What's Next workshop participants
What you'll Receive:
- Five 90-minute mastermind group sessions - each session is part experiential workshop part group mastermind
- One 60-minute Group Bonding & Co-creation workshop online - to get to know each other in fun and meaningful way
- One 50-minute 1:1 deep dive coaching session
- 15-minute Support Calls in between sessions, as needed
- A 90-day Creative Inspiration Calendar with themes, prompts, and ideas to keep your creativity flowing
- Peer support, group co-creation, and group bonding
- Learning how to navigate uncertainty, cultivate emergence space, and use the unknown as a co-creative partner
- A small group size for maximum attention
Crafting What's Next workshop participant
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About Michelle
Program Designer & Facilitator Michelle James has been working with her signature Creative Emergence Process, as well as Applied, Creativity, Applied Storytelling, and Applied Improvisation for over 2 decades with thousands of people in corporations, non-profits, government agencies, public events, special interest and community groups.
Michelle ran the Capitol Creativity Network, hosted two sold-out Creativity in Business Conferences, and ran online Creativity in Business summits. Through her Creative Emergence Coaching, she helps her clients consciously create what's next in their work and lives - in a way that expresses their creative soul, generates income, and serves a greater good - working at the the intersection of what's known and what's calling to emerge.
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Known for her work with emergence, and her richly textured, original, and dynamic learning environments, Michelle integrates multiples dimensions of creativity (cognitive, intuitive, somatic, energetic, soul, universal) with depth psychology, expressive arts, brain research, groups dynamics, somatic intelligence, integral theory, and much more in safe, accessible, and FUN ways to create purposeful and transformative experiences for her clients and participants.
Michelle has done improv theater for 25 years, and performed full-length improvised plays with Precipice Improv in DC for 10. For the past 7 years, she's been performing with Virginia Playback Theater in central VA. She is also a CoreSomatics® (a psycho-physical bodywork and movement healing modality) Master Practitioner and a TEDx Speaker.
Michelle's personal passion goes beyond designing and facilitating the techniques to also helping others adapt them, create with them, and make them their own in their unique way. Last year she published a book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator's Guide to Cultivating Creativity.
Michelle has done improv theater for 25 years, and performed full-length improvised plays with Precipice Improv in DC for 10. For the past 7 years, she's been performing with Virginia Playback Theater in central VA. She is also a CoreSomatics® (a psycho-physical bodywork and movement healing modality) Master Practitioner and a TEDx Speaker.
Michelle's personal passion goes beyond designing and facilitating the techniques to also helping others adapt them, create with them, and make them their own in their unique way. Last year she published a book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator's Guide to Cultivating Creativity.