How can you transform your inner critic into a powerful and loving inner leader?
COACHING & IMPLEMENTATION
Resource leaders to be their most powerful and loving expressions of selves
We specialize in supporting queer leaders of color in transforming systemic and personal trauma into leadership, healing and belonging.
Coaching Programs
Resource your people to be authentic and compassionate leaders through our self healing programs.
Nourishing Confidence, Worthiness & Authentic Leadership.
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Embodied Self Compassion: Loving on Imperfectionism & Your Inner Critic.
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Queer Joy: Taking Pride in Who You Are.
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BIPOC Joy: Racial Healing & Worthiness.
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Tending to Grief & Emotional Pain.
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The Transformation Journey
Change is possible.
Timeline
3-24 months (we often work with clients for multiple years).
The Plan
Leadership Development Plan & 360 Review, along with bi-monthly 1-hour trauma-informed coaching sessions, and accountability check-ins and resources provided via text, voice memo, or email.
Reach your goal
Introduction to a high quality connection or community to achieve your goals.
SOMATIC TRANSFORMATION
We bring an embodied trauma-informed approach to coaching rooted in the latest research in somatic psychology and expressive arts
Our Pedagogy
An unique approach.
Caring space to be vulnerable about trauma, fears and insecurities.
Compassionate space to practice new leadership skills and behaviors.
Joyful space for individual creative expression and play.
Embodied self devotional practices and exercises.
Immediately useful tools and tactics.
Change starts with individuals.
Each person is microcosm of the organizational collective.
“I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. This means actually being in my life, and it means bringing my values into my daily decision making. Each day should be lived on purpose.”
-Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy
Coaching Team
Healing meets Strategy.
Our coaching team is composed of therapists, artists and strategists (most of whom are BIPOC and/or queer) who bring together a unique alchemy of psychologically safe space holding, embodied creative expression, and practical leadership strategies.
"Mel from Fairground and I met at the Lesbians Who Tech retreat in Panama. We got to talking about my challenges, and she put together a life-changing, highly-personalized workshop for me the very next day! In that workshop, we created a plan for the rest of the year, and from January to October, we implemented. I have been challenged so much throughout this process. I've grown tenfold as a CEO and a human. As a business, we have zeroed-in on and addressed a series of crucial pain-points. January-me would hardly recognize October-me, but Melissa knew along what I was capable of. Mel exudes kindness and wisdom, knowledge and strength, and I recommend her wholeheartedly. She will continue to be a part of my journey for years to come."
— Farah Khan, CEO & Executive Creative Director, House9