Compassionate Courage:
a free workshop

We're always being told we need more resilience.

Big girls don't cry.

Face the world with a bold heart.

Pluck up your courage (again).

That thing you’re scared to start because you don’t know how it will turn out? Just do it!

Yikes.

It’s exhausting

And if you’re like most people, you’ve already tried loads of things to reduce fear - like ‘just do it’ or ‘push through’.

Maybe you’ve tried meditation or a visualisation technique.

Or maybe you’ve tried something more ‘practical’, such as shutting yourself away from the world, avoiding the mall or the internet, or yelling at everyone around you to JUST KEEP QUIET.  

Or maybe you’ve simply kept pushing through, hoping things will somehow change all on their own, and doing your best to ignore any growing feeling that there must be something wrong with you if you can’t get brave (or stay brave).

You may have had some temporary relief along the way, but the brutal truth is, the world feels increasingly chaotic; and when you think about doing The Scary Thing again, it’s like someone glued your feet to the floor and you just. can’t. move.

Sweetheart, it’s not you.

It’s the system, missing a HUGE and important point.

Courage is a finite resource, and increasingly we live in a world that keeps us tapping into it 24/7, draining our ‘courage tanks’ and leaving us bereft and confused (and thinking we’re broken - we’re not)

There are four simple principles underpinning this project:

  1. The system in which we were raised is fucked, and it installed unconscious habits of thought and behaviour in you (eg ‘it has to look a certain way’ and ‘anything worthwhile is hard work’ and ‘someone else knows better than I do’ and ‘protecting my own energy seems hard to grasp’)

  2. That crap in your brain is absolutely not your fault, and it’s not a character flaw - but it is now your job to retrain your own brain and clean up the mess

  3. Brains are superbly designed for retraining, when you have the right tool pointed at the right problem, and they do MUCH better when we weave in playfulness, fun and delight

  4. Magic turbocharges the process at both an esoteric and somatic level

When you’re seeking a solution to the problem of ‘how do I even BEGIN to feel courage when the world is chaotic and my life needs more courage than I have to give and I have that task I keep putting off…?’ - the answer is not YET MORE self-punishment and self-criticism.

And that’s how most of us were raised.

Push harder. Bully yourself into doing the scary thing.

What if there’s a better (and easier) way?

Lisa Hayes

Lisa Hayes Coaching

“Janette is intuitive in mysterious ways. She is a magic maker. She is powerfully compassionate and a fierce advocate for her clients. Janette is generous, present, and in my personal experience, almost always five steps ahead of me when I feel stuck or lost. Janette can see through the fog better than almost anyone I know.

Janette is a master at both creating a space to heal and grow AND holding that space without judgement in what feels like an infinite absence of rush. Janette‘s work feels like the calm, the storm, and the rebirth after the storm. All of those things can live in one session with her.”

Meet your host

As a late-stage boomer with a passion for social justice, I know what it’s like to try and manage the impacts of perceived danger and real danger in a world where we can be attacked simply for seeking to make the world a better place.

As a recovering workaholic, I know what it’s like to have YET MORE stuff on the to-do list (including stuff that my brain is SURE is risky, whether it really is or not)

As a life-long SF geek, I know the importance of asking ‘what if?’ and using fun, playfulness and laughter as deliberate antidotes to adversity, and acts of resistance to oppression.

Ever since I was union rep on a TV production in 1995, and went into battle for child actors to get proper lunch breaks, I’ve helped liberate thousands of people from toxic systemic BS.

I’ve done it as a union organiser for actors and, later, academics; and since 2011, I’ve done it with thousands of coaching clients.

My core coaching qualifications included three years of training in total, alongside various additional training in positive psychiatry and positive psychology, psychological first aid, trauma, identity shifting, emotional intelligence, astrology, chaos magic, and diversity, equity and inclusivity.

I’m fiercely passionate about freeing women from those old toxic systems in our heads, so we can all flourish - as an act of personal and political defiance.

Helping you get a taste for how to protect and replenish your own courage tanks is 100 percent in my wheelhouse.

What you can expect

  • A simple, fun, enjoyable gathering with like-minded humans in a safe space

  • Almost instantaneous relief from the pressure to be brave

  • Zero ‘dude-bro hustle’, zero rah-rah cheerleading, just a shitton of love and support

  • Reclaim your actual natural courage (even though right now that may seem elusive)

  • Expand your skill and capacity at compassion (the ‘secret weapon’ power so misunderstood and so effective)

  • Support from planetary ally Mars, along the way

The nuts and bolts

How we meet up

This is a free workshop, run as a live Zoom call (with recording available for folks who can’t make it).

Camera is optional, but I highly recommend attending via computer if you can - that way, you can participate in any chat-based conversations as part of the workshop.

I will guide you through a little teaching about courage and it’s sacred partner, trust, and how they work together; then we’ll do some fun and easy work together that will help you plug up leaks in your courage tanks, and begin to replenish them.

There will be plenty of time for sharing, and plenty of time for coaching, for those who want or need it.

And I can guarantee there will be laughter and love and fun and infinite compassion, all woven into our time together - because that’s how I most like to roll AND it’s the best way to learn.

I think you’re going to love it!

Timing

We'll meet up a few hours before Sun moves into Mars-ruled Aries, the place where courage is both a natural fit, and (sometimes) the biggest challenge if our tanks are low.

It’s a beautiful combination, just right for this kind of work.

Date/Time:

  • New York: Wednesday 18 March, 4pm

  • Los Angeles: Wednesday 18 March, 1pm

  • London: Wednesday 18 March, 8pm

  • Tokyo: Thursday 19 March, 5am

  • Melbourne/Sydney: Thursday 19 March, 7am

  • Brisbane: Thursday 19 March, 6am (sorry folks!)

Cost

Zero. Zip. Zich. Not a brass farthing. Nada.

The one thing I would love for you to do, is to invite a friend or two whom you know needs this too. Send her the URL for this page, and get her to register separately, so I can send through any follow-up support goodies, plus of course the call recording.

Let’s help women* tap into their (our) creativity and reclaim our natural gifts of compassionate courage.

* to be clear, in my world trans women are women - and gender fluid people are also very welcome.

FAQ

  • This is not designed to help you gaslight yourself about what’s happening in your world, especially if you are in a literally unsafe or abusive situation.

    Can this approach help you to feel strong enough that you can make the changes that create more safety? Yes, it can.

    Can it build your resources so that your definition of ‘scary’ becomes more useful to you? Absolutely.

    And this is not about pushing you into taking risks (the opposite, in fact!) - so you have nothing to lose by trying it out.

    • Your to-do list, if you have one, in whatever form it's in right now (you will NOT be required to share it, and you won't be doing any of the things on it)

    • Pen and paper

    • A red candle and a way to light it (if it's safe to have a naked flame where you are - no drama if you can't do this bit, it's not essential)

  • I would love that! In fact, feel free to bring as many as you’d like. The more, the merrier. 😁

    All I ask is that you please get them to register using their own name and email address - that way, I can be sure they’ll get the post-call goodies such as the recording or any other resources I end up sharing.

  • I’ve blocked out a full 90 minutes, because I want to be available for as many questions as people have.

    However, I anticipate the workshop itself will take about an hour.

    There will be a little teaching, so you understand the approach itself, and there will be plenty of time for you to do the fun, creative stuff (because it’s a workshop, not a lecture!)

    My intention is that you leave with your courage tanks better protected, and a plan for how to replenish them.

  • Good question.

    No - there is no ‘fakery’ about this.

    It will be a standalone workshop from which you will learn what I’m offering - which makes me happy because the more women who know how to do this stuff, the better!

    I do have a program coming up after this, that I think is also incredibly useful, and I’ll spend about two minutes out of the 90 giving you the bare bones of it.

    But the remaining 88 minutes will be workshop with time for Q and A, pure and simple.

Cathy O’Brien

(regarding paid program Your Abundance Identity)

“I cannot say enough about this revolutionary and life-changing program.   

Janette approaches everything with seemingly endless amounts of compassion, understanding and never one tiny bit of judgment. 

I know you will find this program as transformational as I did.”

Ready to Join the fun? Awesome!

Use the booking form below, and let’s get this party started 🥳

First, choose your own timezone to see the workshop timing for you.

Next, hit the ‘Book’ button and add your details, tick the box so I have permission to email you call reminders, recording and post-workshop goodies, then hit ‘book class’.

You’ll get a confirmation email with all the details of how to join the Zoom call, and a couple of reminder emails closer to the day.

I can’t wait to dive down the creative rabbit hole with you!

And remember - this is a fabulous thing to share with a friend, so please do send them this page and invite them along.