Transformational Mentorship Coaching

 
 
 

As a recovering academic and rule-follower, I offer mentorship coaching tailored to your transformation using my own interdisciplinary toolbox called Embodied Action so that you can achieve goals and breakthrough blocks to create paradigm shifts and radical transformation by being in mind-body-soul-Earth alignment.

 
 
 

About Mentorship Coaching for Embodied Action

Mentorship Coaching is a unique program I developed after 20 years of advising and mentoring educators, professionals, and advocates through transitions of life, career pivots, graduate degrees, and wellbeing. Unlike other therapy or coaching work, this program is both individual and group based, which past and current clients rave about the impact of having focused time as well as a community of genuine support. Mentorship coaching is an integrative, holistic approach where we co-construct and collaborate on your personal, educational, spiritual, and professional journey. It is informed training in mindfulness, trauma-based somatic healing, climate health, and nature-based interventions combined within my personal scholarship on the study of gender, learning and development, and psychological sociology.

 
 

My Awaken Resilience Model ensures an alignment of mind-body-soul-community that is relational, reciprocal, and grounded in individual, collective, and Earth wellbeing. You (re)learn connection to yourself, being in presence, and power of choice. You (re)gain clarity on your values and purpose from living in other’s expectations and wants. You grow your impact in ways that create paradigm shifting change and improve systems as a good ancestor.

Our work in Mentorship Coaching occurs both individually, in a private 1:1 container, and in group work within my Cultivated Connection Community Program, open only to current clients that is full of other change-oriented folks so that you find validation, feel connection, and relative safety to heal.

 
 

Three Options for How to Engage Together

 
  • One Clarity Assessment and 90-minute Kickoff Call to orient to your values, develop foundational goals, and plan our focus

  • Biweekly 1:1 mentorship coaching calls (12 total, 55-minute each)

  • Client-only group sessions within the Cultivated Connection Community program (at least two per month, $900 value)

  • Email support so that you can feel connected and supported during the workweek

  • Online Growth Tracker for accountability of weekly reflecting, planning, and integration

  • Access to my group programs and workshops, like Creativity Lab and Grow Boldly ($700+ value)

  • Celebration & Next Steps call to reflect and plan your next steps

Investment: $3,900 or $650 per month

  • One Clarity Assessment and 90-minute Kickoff Call to orient to your values, develop foundational goals, and plan our focus

  • Biweekly 1:1 mentorship coaching calls (18 total, 55-minute each)

  • Client-only group sessions within the Cultivated Connection Community program (at least two per month, $1350 value)

  • Email support so that you can feel connected and supported during the workweek

  • Online Growth Tracker for accountability of weekly reflecting, planning, and integration

  • Access to my group programs and workshops, like Creativity Lab and Grow Boldly ($700+ value)

  • Celebration & Next Steps call to reflect and plan your next steps

Investment: $5,400 or $600 per month

  • One Clarity Assessment and 90-minute Kickoff Call to orient to your values, develop foundational goals, and plan our focus

  • Biweekly 1:1 mentorship coaching calls (24 total, 55-minute each)

  • Client-only group sessions within the Cultivated Connection Community program (at least two per month, $1800 value)

  • Email support so that you can feel connected and supported during the workweek

  • Online Growth Tracker for accountability of weekly reflecting, planning, and integration

  • Access to my group programs and workshops, like Creativity Lab and Grow Boldly ($700+ value)

  • Celebration & Next Steps call to reflect and plan your next steps

Investment: $6,600 or $550 per month

 

When you’re ready to learn more, book a no-pressure call with me. We’ll talk about why you’re interested in mentorship coaching, and I’ll answer any questions you have.

 
 
Supporting and integrating careers, leadership, and Personal

Supporting and integrating careers, leadership, and personal development

I’ve worked with:

  • Non-profit, corporate, and higher education leaders who want to address their burnout and become resilient leaders

  • People working through major life transitions, including educational and career advancement, divorce/separation/breakups, parenthood, identities, and personal growth

  • Professionals earning their terminal or graduate degree while working full-time and negotiating life’s many other relationships and responsibilities

  • Mid- and late-career professionals and faculty who want to (re)energize their work with a greater focus on purposeful impact

  • Folks navigating mid-life transitions and wanting to shift their relationship to work

  • Teams and organizations who want to develop more resilience

Sample Mentorship coaching topics often addressed include:

  • Creating change within systems through inclusive, paradigm-shifting frameworks of critical theories, mindfulness, creativity, somatic and wellness

  • Countering stuck feelings or blocks and how to identify your sabotaging behaviors and thoughts to create neurological rewiring and resilience

  • Tossing out fear-based imposter syndrome myths and other socialized bullshitery that keeps you playing small

  • Letting go of the external stories so that you can rewrite your own rules

  • (Re)Evaluating expectations and setting boundaries with realistic timelines and goals

  • Shifting your mindset to create spaciousness in your routines and work

  • Releasing the political, gendered, and cultural norming that doesn’t serve your goals nor can create positive social change

  • Breaking down the steps and expectations of the ambiguous process of career or educational transitions

And anything that comes up for you that you don’t want to hold on to anymore as you transform into your boldest life that you love living!

 

What clients are saying about their work with Tamara:

 

A little about me…

I have advised and mentored faculty, leaders, professionals, and graduate students for over 20 years through research, publications, activism, career and life transitions. I have published and presented research worldwide, and have bounced back from rejections, revisions, and reinventions after some good yelling and crying. I have navigated relationships and divorce, motherhood, promotion and tenure, administrative bureaucracy, and finally kissed academia goodbye to create this body of work that is bigger than I could have imagined within the walls of the ivory tower. Through slow-work, soul-searching, and the breakthroughs, I created a new journey and am here now to support you in creating a paradigm shift to live a life worth loving.