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.
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 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!
Foundation of Mentorship Coaching
The foundational logistics for all options include:
• Pre-work Clarity Assessment to dive deep and develop foundational goals and needs
• Kick off with a 90 min Clarity Call to orient to your values and and plan our focus
• Client only group hours within the Cultivated Connection Community program, includes annual Creativity Lab and book groups
• Email access so that you can feel connected and supported during the work week
• Weekly Growth Tracker for accountability- you get a copy AND I get a copy for - helps with weekly reflecting, planning, and integrating
• Auto enrollment in Grow Boldly workshop series for personal and professional growth within an even larger community
• Practices so that you can add tools to rebuild resilience, reconnect with nature, create mindfulness, and community connection
• Weekly newsletters emailed to you to continue life long learning on timely topics with prompts for reflection, practice, and/or reading more
Three Options for How to Engage Together
Focused Action Package
6 Month Container of Support
Includes the foundation detailed above
12 1:1 calls over 6 months (55-minute each)
3 targeted topic sessions (20-minute calls) so that when critical issues pop up you are supported
1 90 minute intensive 1:1 at 3 months so that you can reflect on your celebrations, growth and reset your plan mid-way
Celebration & Next Steps 1:1 at the end of 6 months so that you can feel ready for your next steps
Embodied Action Package
12 month container of support
24 1:1 calls over the year (55-minutes each)
6 targeted topic sessions (20-minute calls) so that when critical issues pop up you are supported
3 90 minute intensive 1:1’s at 3, 6, and 9 months to reflect on your celebrations, growth and reset your plan every 90 days
Celebration & Next Steps 1:1 session at the end of the year so that you step forward boldly into your transformation
Bold Action Package
12 months of VIP support
Includes the foundation and 12 month package
Kolbe Assessment so that you learn how to work with your strengths and create support where needed (part of Clarity Call)
2 extra 1:1 calls within the year (55-minutes each)
Text support so that you have access, connection, and relational support
6 hours of writing or feedback sessions used when and how you want them
6 targeted topic sessions (20-minute calls) so that when critical issues pop up you are supported
3 90 minute intensive 1:1’s at 3, 6, 9 months to reflect on growth and tweak your plan
Celebration & Next Steps 1:1 session at the end of the year so that you step forward boldly into your transformation
Total commitment for 6 months of support: $4800
Payment options: upfront (10% off $4320); 2 payments (upfront and midpoint) or monthly
Total commitment for 12 months of support: $9000
Payment options: upfront (10% off $8100); 2 payments (upfront and midpoint) or monthly
Total commitment for a year of VIP support: $11,200
Payment options: upfront (10% off $10080); 2 payments (upfront and midpoint) or monthly
I’ve worked with:
Women working through major life transitions, including educational and career advancement, divorce/separation/breakups, motherhood, identities, and personal growth
Graduate students from a range of disciplines offering advice and guidance on career and research
Professionals earning their terminal or graduate degree while working full-time and negotiating life’s many other relationships and responsibilities
Mid and late career faculty who want to (re)energize their work and purpose
Adjuncts and new faculty who need support transitioning into academe without losing their soul
Women struggling to develop their scholarly and leadership identities due to imposter syndrome and other limiting beliefs that hold them back
Individuals wanting to plan their phase towards retirement or career change and shift into new work
Departments and programs on policy and leadership development
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.