Companies leverage the tools and talents of Working with Power to retain great women and transform teams. And in a growing number of cities our facilitators use that same brilliance to build communities of professional women through our public events.

The NEW Power Lunch for Women

Say good-bye to the side effects of success that so many women suffer: struggle with your clients, your employees, your family, your schedule. It doesn’t have to be so hard! Each luncheon stands alone, but because they're monthly, you can get ongoing support from the expert facilitators and ongoing community with other women seeking accomplishment without all the trade-offs.

These sessions are your monthly infusion of ease, where you learn concrete skills you’ll find nowhere else – skills that leverage your natural strengths as a woman. Each luncheon takes place at a lovely private club and includes a plated meal. And (unlike so many meetings!) you’ll be energized by meaningful connection with women you can both enjoy and admire.

The Elements of Feminine Power Retreat

At the beautiful Alderbrook Resort on Hood Canal, WA
October 10-12, 2008
April 3-5, 2009
October 2-4, 2009

We invite you to come home to your feminine power. You will spend this weekend in a transformative experience: luxurious rooms, delicious meals, top-notch service, pampering in a beautiful spa, and lots of surprises and goodies along the way. Best of all, you will join other women in rediscovering and mastering your innate elements of feminine power. You will return home with the skills you need to have more success with greater ease!

The Elements of Power 8-Week Challenge

This fun, interactive learning experience will flip a switch inside you that will forever alter the way you look at the world… and the way you live within it.

We call it The Challenge, not because it’s a struggle, but because it will challenge you to “handle” all the cool stuff that’s gonna happen! Your challenge: to fully receive the little synchronicities, “miraculous” changes in relationships, and other treats that life has in store for you! To read more, click here.

Previous Events Include:

Hiding from Judgment: Why Women Play Small to Avoid Criticism and How We Can Stop
Being a high-performance woman sure puts us in the spotlight, doesn't it? Growing a business, getting PR, or leading a team opens women up others' judgments and criticism. And a shocking number of us hold ourselves back, staying small just to make sure we avoid becoming targets for people's nastiness. If you're tired of holding yourself back to make sure you don't threaten others or you're sick of hunkering down under the barrage of judgments -- this workshop will show you how to handle others' criticism (and your own!) so you're free to fly high without fear of being shot down.

Friends with Money: How Women Can Overcome Financial Tension in Our Relationships
Money is one of the most common sources of strain in marriages and friendships. As women, we care so much about both our connections and our prosperity, that sometimes we feel like we have to choose between the two. Whether it’s earning more than our parents, husbands, or friends, inheriting money, or taking a unique path with spending or saving, money often does create complications in relationship...but it doesn’t have to be so hard! Come learn how integrating self-reliance and connection can help you make peace between money and relationships.

Not "Successful" Yet: The Secret Self-Doubt that Plagues Accomplished Women
Have you ever achieved a goal and then realized it didn't feel as great as you'd hoped? Have you ever worried that the people who think you're brilliant will one day find out you're not? Are you ever disappointed with your accomplishments because you think you should have attained more by this point in your life? If you said yes to any of these questions, this training will show you that you're not alone in the epidemic of self-doubt among strong women. We'll help you find new ways to relish your accomplishments and rack up even more of them with less effort.

Neither Mommy nor Tyrant: Feminine Secrets for Powerful Management
As managers and leaders, well-intentioned women often find themselves vacillating between trying to be a friend to keep morale high and becoming a drill sergeant to get things done. There IS a better way to maintain connection and be productive as a team. Come to this event and learn the six feminine secrets of powerful management. You'll arrive at your office Friday morning a better, more consistent leader than you'd been on Thursday.

Integrating Feminine and Masculine Power in Leadership
This workshop will help you assess your strengths and growth areas within twelve specific elements of power, six masculine and six feminine. By learning where your power is under-active, over-active and balanced, you'll gain insight into yourself and into others' reactions to you.

Yoga Wisdom for Workaholics:
Unplug from Overdrive, Plug into Your Spirit
Do you have a hard time stopping at the end of the day? Despite your spiritual nature and your practices, do you find yourself working too hard, and forgetting the spiritual wisdom you know? In this workshop, you will learn how to integrate your spirit into your way of working, and get just as much done with less stress and more soul.

The Elements of Balanced Power:
Integrating Masculine and Feminine for Effectiveness and Fulfillment
Women and men alike hunger to make an impact and to feel nourished by their work. To experience both, we must integrate both masculine and feminine ways of being and working. In this workshop, you will learn the twelve elements of power, six masculine and six feminine, and how to use each element in its rightful place.

Superwoman's Heartache: The Relationship Pain of Powerful Women
Whether struggling to find a partner or yearning for more satisfaction in the long-term relationship they have, the most powerful women often suffer the most relationship pain. Why is that? In this workshop, you will learn how we powerful women set ourselves up for pain and how we can move past it, to attain the satisfying, soulful relationships we crave.

The Gracious "No": A Woman's Way to Setting Limits With Demanding People
Women often tell us that a large part of their stress would be relieved if they could just get people to hear them when they say "no" and to agree when they make a request. Sometimes we resort to harshness and cutting people off, and other times we cave in to others' demands. Whether you've got employees who can deflect any request you make or customers or bosses who can't seem to hear the word "no" from you, this workshop will give you concrete skills for holding your limits with anyone, while at the same time maintaining your connection to them. Come learn to assert yourself and your limits using your innate feminine power.

Get It All Done Without Sacrifice: A Woman’s Way to Flawless Productivity
So many go-getter women feel stressed--even frantic--and we wonder how we'll keep it all up. We yearn for more space, connection, relaxation, softness...but we don't know how to create it...or where we'd find the time. And when we think about slowing down, we wonder if it'd make us ineffective and lethargic. If we learn to relax, will we lose our edge? Not to fear! We CAN create more peace and calm without losing our momentum. Come learn to leverage your innate feminine power so you can get more done with less stress.

Liberated from Perfectionism: A Woman's Way to Excellence Without Struggle
If you're really, really good -- but never good enough for your own standards -- you're not alone. Perfectionism is an epidemic among accomplished women (and don't we think it's the secret of our success?). At this workshop you'll meet other amazing women who refuse to settle for "good enough" but are tired of the constant struggle to get everything perfect. And you'll have fun together learning how to meet your high standards without exhausting yourself in the process.

Never Enough Time: A Woman's Way to Overcome Procrastination and Achieve More with Ease
Do you find yourself putting off certain tasks or feeling crunched for time? Does it seem like only a deadline brings out your best work? Busy professional women often find ourselves under time pressure, and we label ourselves as "procrastinators." This training will help you understand the true cause of procrastination. We'll laugh together at our self-defeating strategies for putting things off (and for getting things done!) and you'll leave with surprising, sassy new tools for attaining your ambitions with ease.

Shifting Out of Overdrive: How Women Can Be More Productive With Less Stress
When you’re at work, you’re thinking about home. When you’re at home, you’re thinking about work. Even on vacation, you have a hard time winding down to truly relax. Like many women, you’re suffering the side effects of overdrive: being constantly “on” has made you successful, but now it’s hard to turn “off”…or even to shift gears very easily. This training will teach you why this common problem plagues successful women and the three key skills that will help you become even more effective without having to work so hard at it.

Slings and Arrows: A Woman's Way to Handle Criticism and Judgment as You Become More Successful
Being a high-performance woman sure puts us in the spotlight, doesn't it? Growing a business, getting PR, or leading a team opens women up to judgments and criticism from employees, peers, friends, family, competitors...and complete strangers! So what are we to do? Armor up and pretend we don't care, or play small to avoid becoming targets for people's nastiness? Neither works.
If you want to lead with strength, ask a lot of yourself and others, and be "at the top" but not LONELY there -- this workshop will show you how. You'll learn to handle others' criticism and judgment (and your own!) and maintain relationships as you rise in your career. Afterward, you'll be free to fly high without fear of being shot down.

Goals That Work for You: A Woman’s Way to Getting Real Results
You know you need to set goals, but none of the processes you’ve tried were fun, and they didn’t really work. Sure, you reached some of your goals, but they weren’t always as satisfying as you’d thought they would be. And other goals gathered dust and made you feel like a slacker when you looked back at them. This time, it’s different! At this training, we’ll help you set the right goals and go after them in a way that really works. By integrating both your masculine power and your feminine power, you’ll be more effective and focused, and way less stressed.

Get Twice as Much Done with Half the Stress
So many go-getter women feel stressed when they think about how much there is to get done. Tasks for work, managing a home and family and self-care...what's that? We fantasize aboutrelaxing and finally being able to enjoy all we create in our life, but we don't know how when that time will come! Sometimes we think about slowing down, but we worry if it would make us ineffective. If we learn to relax, will we lose our edge? Not to fear! We CAN create more peace and calm without losing our momentum or level of success.