Welcome to Women Emerging!
Programs for Women during their midlife transitions.
With the right support you can emerge through these transitions into the life you truly desire.
Embrace the Journey. Ignite your potential.
Welcome to Women Emerging, a sanctuary crafted for women navigating the beautiful complexities of midlife transitions. Founded on the belief that every woman deserves to flourish during this transformative period. Our platform offers a supportive community, expert resources, and a wealth of inspiration to empower you on your unique journey.
We’re on a mission to redefine the narrative around midlife. Midlife Is not something you ‘get through’ but an opportunity for self-discovery, growth, and renewed vitality.
Our goal is to create a space where you can connect, learn, and emerge into the best version of yourself. We support you to move from surviving to thriving.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy
What happens at midlife?
Lots of things change. That’s a certainty. What if you could welcome it all, to embrace change as growth? You will experience peri-menopause, menopause and midlife in your unique way.
But there are common themes that women encounter on the journey:
- Hormonal cycles, health and wellbeing
- Identity, connection and sense of belonging
- Body image and ageing
- Career, passion and purpose
- Relationship dynamics and interactions
- Family, parental and caregiving responsibilities
- Financial security and independence
- Death, mortality and grieving.
Sometimes midlife women feel like they’re out of control. But getting to know yourself in the context of these life transitions can give you back a sense of personal agency – an awareness to take action. Reflect on your life and redirect your next steps.
Women Emerging is here so you can step into this next chapter with confidence and clarity. Thriving, not merely surviving in the autumn of your life.
Live with intent. Make your magic.
We are here to help you.
Our programs, masterclasses, retreats and special events are focussed on supporting you to:
- Own your power in every aspect of your life.
- Feel the love and support you deserve, both in our sessions and beyond.
- Get excited about the next chapter.
- Bid farewell to that pesky negative self-talk.
- Embrace confidence and clarity in crafting your dream life.
- Spark your creativity back to life.
- Amp up all your relationships.
- Dance to the beat of your own dru
- Level up your money game.
- Set boundaries like a boss.
- Cultivate a mindset that screams “thriving mode: ON”!
Midlife might throw some curveballs, but with our team by your side, it’s a gateway to epic transformation.
Join women emerging programs for a journey deep into your soul, where mindfulness meets your every twist and turn with a warm hug.
We’re all about rewriting your reactive script into one where you’re the star, calling the shots with power and grace.
Our mission?
To help you bloom personally and watch that magic ripple into your professional arena too.
Get in touch below for a free 30 minute discovery call. Let’s rock this midlife masterpiece together!
Our Current Programs
Our approach is focused on guiding your growth and unlocking your full potential.
We see midlife as a critical phase for change, and we’re here to support you through it.
Our programs provide a customised mix of holistic counselling, somatic therapy, life coaching all designed for women in midlife like you. We are here to help you navigate these changes and transition so that you can emerge into the life you want.
Most of our mothers and grandmothers navigated, ‘the change ‘in the shadows, left in the dark as their bodies, emotions, and relationships drastically altered. Finally, now, women are re-emerging to have empowering conversations about modern mid life experiences.
At Women Emerging, we guide you to shift the narrative from merely surviving or coping with midlife to embracing the full potential of its embodied, wisdom and alchemical magic.
Mid life brings challenges but also presents you with portals of possibility. Whatever stage you’re at, we can guide you to interpret the signs, to stir the pot and take the steps to become who you want to be.
Here are the current options for women going through their midlife journey. All the following programs are offered in person in Castlemaine, Central Victoria or online via zoom.
During all our programs, we emphasise safety. Emergence programs may evoke intense emotions. Our facilitators are knowledgeable about trauma and know how to assist the nervous system, ensuring you feel supported as you navigate your inner journey.
Emergence level 1: Looking Glass
Emergence level 1 – Facilitation program includes:
1 x 30 – minute complimentary discovery session to discuss the areas you would like to explore.
This is a good opportunity to discover if this is the right program for you and your emergence facilitator is the right fit for you. Book here for your complimentary discovery session
6 x 90 min sessions focussed completely on your individual needs.
Session 1
Using a guided technique, you will be supported to set a clear intention to create a map for future sessions.
Session 2
We enter the exploration together utilising the Women Emerging tools and techniques. You start to explore some of your old patterns and survival strategies that keep you stuck in behaviours that no longer serve you.
Session 3
Further exploration and a check in on how you are travelling in relation to your intention.
Session 4
Dive deeper into what has emerged so far.
Session 5
Start to consolidate your learning. You are building your window of tolerance for challenging feelings and learning about mindful self-compassion.
Session 6
Review and celebrate where you have emerged to at this stage.
At this point you may decide to take some time to integrate your experience or move directly into Emergence 2.
Emergence level 2: Courageous Crossroads
Emergence level 2 – Courageous Crossroads Facilitation program
You are now at the ‘Courageous Crossroads’ where you are ready to take a deep dive straight into your exploration.
Your relationship with your facilitator is solid, you feel totally safe, and the level of trust is through the roof.
You have enhanced your capability to endure difficult emotions, while boosting your self-compassion and curiosity and you will have learned more about nervous system regulation.
These qualities are vital to support your ongoing exploration at the Courageous Crossroads.
6 x 60 min sessions, tailored around your intention, following the same format Emergence level 1 : Looking Glass, however you will be experiencing what you are exploring at a whole new level.
You will be unwrapping more of you and more of you will begin to emerge through the process. Be prepared to be surprised. You will be going deeper, and you will be exploring more of the patterns that keep you stuck. This is Emergence! Every action/tool and technique has been developed to support you to breakthrough from what is blocking your freedom.
Soothing The Savage Self
Soothing The Savage Self :
Transforming your critical self-talk into loving courage
One-on-One Self-Talk Mastery Program
Duration: 6 weeks
Week 1: Self-Talk Assessment and Goal Setting (60 minutes)
Week 2: Cultivating Self-Awareness (60 minutes)
Week 3: Challenging Critical Self-Talk (60 minutes)
Week 4: Cultivating Self-Compassion (60 minutes)
Week 5: Building Resilience and Courage (60 minutes)
Week 6: Integration and Next Steps (60 minutes)
You will receive individual guidance, support, and feedback tailored to their unique needs and goals throughout the program. Homework assignments, journaling prompts, and supplementary resources provided for reinforcement and ongoing practice between sessions.
About Us
Women Emerging Facilitators understand the unique challenges women face during midlife, such as navigating career shifts, rediscovering identity, managing relationships, coping with empty nest syndrome, and embracing aging with grace and vitality.
Through our holistic and integrative approach, we provide a safe and nurturing space for you to explore, grow and thrive.
What’s different about Women Emerging Facilitators?
What we do is not talk therapy (although we will talk). Through the technique of mindfulness, we help you to access your bodily wisdom. Through mindfulness techniques we have developed over thirty years, we help you to access your bodily wisdom. You can never solve problems with your mind alone. All the wisdom you need to gain access to is in your body.
Women Emerging Facilitators are dedicated to:
• Offering you undivided attention
• Guiding you through life transitions
• Offering clarity and aiding you in breaking old habits
• Utilising the most effective tools and methods for each
circumstance
• Assisting you in tapping into your inner wisdom and finding your
own answers through the wisdom of your own body.
We are presently certified as facilitators, coaches, holistic counsellors, somatic experiencing therapists, psychotherapists, and are broadening our range of programs and techniques with new Emergence Facilitators.
Where are you on the path to activating your midlife magic and thriving through midlife?
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Fran Woodruff – Founder Women Emerging
Hi and Welcome!! I’m delighted that you’re visiting Women Emerging.
Welcome to the crossroads, dear woman.
I’ve been a learner and seeker for most of my life. After decades of therapeutic work and reflective enquiry, I’ve gathered a bunch of tools to guide you on this important journey of renewal.
I’m a trained Coach, Mindfulness Guide, Holistic Counsellor, Facilitator and Family Constellations Practitioner who is currently undertaking Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy training.
For many years I worked in the corporate and public sectors, communicating and engaging with stakeholders to get things done. I succeeded because I’m a great listener and empathic conversationalist. My natural warmth means I am someone people trust, a confidante with whom they share challenges, ideas and stories, nutting things out to make change possible.
Along the way I remained curious about who I was and how I wanted to be in the world. Menopause and midlife rudely and abruptly shook the foundations of all I’d understood to that point.
For a time, I thought there was something seriously wrong with me. My inner critic was fierce. Finally, the penny dropped. It’s not me, it’s midlife!
When I realised that there was nothing ‘wrong’ and that life was inviting me to look at the past, present and future from a different vantage point, I was able to access the alchemic magic to emerge with new insight, vitality and purpose.
The midlife cauldron of complexities is big. Issues affect us all as we age – the physical, emotional, financial and relational. But knowing what I know now about this time, I appreciate that it’s a chance to become who we were meant to be.
I don’t want you to struggle along thinking there’s something wrong with you. Learn from my experience. Yes, midlife and menopause can be difficult. But they’re also ripe and rich with opportunity when you have the right resources and support to facilitate your emergence.
That’s the passion and purpose that emerged for me. Women Emerging is here so you can step into your next chapter with confidence and clarity. Thriving, not merely surviving.
My practice is trauma-informed, and I work with mind, body, head and heart so you feel safe and can access your truth and inner wisdom in the ways that work for you. Take the first step and book a free Midlife Magic call.
