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For leaders, facilitators, and practitioners who must stay steady in unsteady times
You are someone others rely on. But who, or what, do you rely on when the world feels destabilizing?
Receptivity is an overlooked, yet essential, leadership capacity that strengthens discernment, creativity, and wise action. It's the foundation of resilient leading, living, and creating.
In this immersive 6-week experience, you will cultivate 9 dimensions of receptivity so that clarity, responsiveness, and inner alignment become reliable, not just occasional. This work changes how you meet work and life situations.

experiential. Embodied. transformative.

"I went into the workshop hoping to rekindle to my creativity, which I did. But what I didn't expect was the huge transformation I had. I reconnected to my inner strength, and left feeling more grounded and empowered." ~ Beverly Goodrum
  • Are you someone others rely on, and you want to ensure your inner well stays replenished?
  • Do you value your intuition, but wish you engaged it more consistently and reliably?
  • Are you feeling like external chaos has unsettled your focus ?
  • Are you committed to meeting uncertainty in ways that actually support you and those you serve?
  • Do you want your choices and creations to come from alignment rather than pressure?
If so, this program is designed for you.
Step out of the the world's noise each week and into a vibrant, safe group field to cultivate a habit of nourishing yourself in the richness of your inner landscape.
WHATReceptivity for Resilience is a 6-week online creative program designed to experientially strengthen your embodied capacity to receive - information, guidance, insight, nourishment, and support - both from within yourself and from life around you.
WHOThis program is for leaders, coaches, facilitators, practitioners, and anyone else who supports, or influences others - and has to show up full-on for them. In an constantly chaotic world, it's easy to let our well run dry, but we still have to show up fully resourced for those we serve. This program is not for people looking for quick productivity hacks or externally validated answers. It's for those committed to taking time and space (at least once a week) to pause and go deeper. It's an immersive exploration to get to know and cultivate your receptivity. Once you embody the capacity of receptivity, choice-making becomes easier and creativity expands.

UNIQUE APPROACH: Multi-dimensional & Creative. We'll engage 9-Dimensions of receptivity, with each aspect integrating with the others to form a rich, resilient, inner ecosystem. At its core, receptivity is the practice of opening ourself to what's already present, and what's emerging, rather than striving, controlling, or avoiding. You'll experience whole-brain ways to access receptivity via different creative languages: verbal, visual, imaginal, intuitive, somatic, energetic
FORMAT The format is creative, deep, and playful. Each sessions is part experiential workshop and part group coaching. Participants will be guided into different realms of Receptivity using different languages of the creative self for whole-brain, embodied engagement. It will be a small group, and everyone will have a chance to be supported in real time. Each week you will get (optional) practices to do during the week to deepen your experience into one or two dimensions. BEING BEFORE DOING In the program, it's less about doing, and more about being. The "doing" is more of a spacious receiving: yielding instead of forging ahead, listening instead of asserting, feeling into instead of figuring out, savoring instead of rushing, and making space for knowings to emerge. There 6 weeks are about cultivating your inner field, so your actions are aligned to who you really are. TRUST BUILDING You already receive information in ways you were never taught to trust. In this program, you will learn to how to start trusting it. "PARTNERING" WITH SOURCE All of the dimension-dives and practices are designed to help you access and partner with your inner knowings/wisdom and creative source (animating life force energy) so that you feel more resourced, supported, and guided - with more discernment - in a noisy world where it's easy to lose our center. This connection becomes an anchor to something safe and alive inside of you.
"Thanks for a wonderful and creative experience. I kept thinking about beautifully planned and structured it was, marveling at how you were able to get a group of strangers to act and communicate with such vulnerability and openness. I enjoyed how playful you helped me feel, how safe the container was, and how this brought out new creative capabilities. It was such a joy to be part of your retreat." ~ Timothy Touchette
Enhancing receptivity supports:
  • Deeper, more present listening
  • Increased trust in yourself and your inner guidance
  • Enhanced empathy and understanding
  • Greater clarity, agency, and discernment
  • Bouncing back more quickly after setbacks
  • More options, and more confident choice-making
  • Release of outdated patterns and emergence of new ones
"Thank you for a safe space and leading us so generously through connecting to our creative selves! You really attracted, and created, such a loving community." ~ Atieno Fisher
What you get:
  • Six 75-minute groups workshops with group coaching
  • Receptivity Playbook
  • Practices to do in between sessions and after the program
  • 15-minute momentum calls, as needed, during the 6 weeks
  • New connections who support your journey
  • Discount on all additional 1:1 coaching sessions or packages purchased during the 6 weeks
  • This is for those who are really committed to their inner growth. It requires showing up for yourself for 6 weeks. It's that length because that's what it takes for a new habit to take hold.

  • You'll be invited to do accessible practices in between sessions - optional, but highly recommended - to help receptivity become integrated so that by the end of the 6 weeks, it is a natural part of your life, and you are in a truly different place.

  • A supportive community, creative practices, and real-time support create time and space for your innate receptive capacities to come alive.

  • You'll leave with an expanded concept of yourself, strengthened connection to your inner guidance and creative source, and feeling more resourced in a demanding time.

  • As a result, your choices, actions, and creations will come from a steadier, wiser, and more life-giving place more consistently in your work and life.
In this creative program, you will explore and experience:
  • The 9 Dimensions of Receptivity: what they are, why they matter, and how to engage them
  • Conditions for cultivating receptivity
  • Deepening your relationship with your wise and creative self
  • Whole-brain approaches to receptivity engaging different languages of the creative self
  • Connecting with the creative intelligence of what's emerging
  • Coaching time
  • The power of a supportive group field
Details
When: Fridays, February 27 - April 3, 2026 3:00-4:15pm EST How often? We meet weekly, every Friday afternoon for 6 weeks Where: Zoom Investment: $444 The winter 2026 program is full
After you register, you will receive a welcome email with the link and other details. Due to limited enrollment size, there are no refunds for this program after registration.
"What began as resistance quickly became one of the most healing and creatively freeing experiences I've ever had...my nervous system settled in ways I did not know were possible. It was a magical experience - grounding, joyful, surprising." ~ Irina
Founder of The Center for Creative Emergence, Michelle James has been designing and facilitating whole-brain/whole-body/whole-being creative and process, and engaging emergence, for over 25 years with thousands of people. She's been working with different dimensions of receptivity in her emergence coaching practice for over 2 decades, and recently put her discoveries into a signature 9 dimensional approach, which will be shared for the first time in this program. Her book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator's Guide to Cultivating Creativity, has a huge trove of creative practices from various domains you can do yourself, with work teams, or communities of practice. Learn more about Michelle here.