Following Energy for Change Makers
stop pushing and start flowing in work and life
with energy focused
embodied leadership training
Fall 2023 Dates Below
“I joined so I could be a better leader at work, but what I also got was how to be a better leader inside myself, and to recognize what I want and need from the leadership of others.”
— Christina, Editorial Director and Head of Creative
Embodied. Paradigm-shifting. Trauma informed. Somatic. Co-creative. Intuitive.
There’s a new level of awareness emerging for those of us who want to create a different culture – a different future – for ourselves, our families, and Earth.
We recognize that the old systems are broken. Climate change is undeniable. We feel it in our bones.
It’s time to find, and live, another way.
And yet, how can you get from understanding a need for change to embodying that change in life, work and leadership?
How can you be a force for good in a broken world without breaking yourself?
Practice.
To help change makers stop pushing and start experiencing creative flow in work and life, I’ve designed an incubator-like leadership growth and development journey which also includes individual mentoring.
While there’s a clear structure and framework, this is not your typical leadership growth and development journey.
Keep reading to see if this embodied leadership training — and practice — is for you.
You’re a dynamic person – a learner, seeker, grower – committed to doing inner work through therapy, coaching, conscious eating, yoga and/or maybe even psychedellics.
While you may or may not consider yourself a leader, you’re often the one who shows up and takes responsibility. In fact, you’re a badass with a contributing heart — a change maker.
Specifically, you might:
Own your business, practice or consultancy
Hold a leading role in your organization or company
Find yourself managing and facilitating people, teams or projects
Hold transformational spaces for others as a therapist, coach, teacher, healer
You might be tired. You’re definitely tired of pushing. Tired of running on fumes. Tired of feeling like you’re going it alone.
You know how to push through depletion to make work happen, but you’ve come to a point where you’ve realized how pushing through has burned you out. Hurt your relationships. And in some cases, led to chronic illness.
You’re probably a recovering type-A personality who needs more time to recover. You see the damage caused by interlocking systems of domination steeped in codependency, white supremacy, intergenerational trauma (and more, sigh).
You want to practice “codependent no more” with your work, as a facilitator for teams and projects, in relationship with others, and across your whole life.
You also want to earn a good living.
The inner work you’ve done has been great but lately it seems like something’s missing, like a missing piece
You want to find a way to do work that matters without sacrificing yourself. And this means getting better at making decisions where you matter too.
You want to find a different pace that you can live into everyday.
Therapy or coaching has helped you realize that pushing through isn’t sustainable.
You can sense there’s another level of something that’s possible, but you don’t know how to get there.
You do know that you’d like to meet some other people like you: kindred travelers committed to walking their talk.
You’re also excited to explore what another paradigm of work and leadership might look like. Feel like. Be like.
It’s time to change the way you’ve been doing things, but you’re not sure how to do that exactly. This embodied leadership training will show you how.
To be able to make more of a difference, you need some more energy. Or better yet, you want to learn how to shift your energy.
You’re ready for another way.
If we haven’t met, I’m Staci Boden.
I’m a somatic energy guide, teacher, coach and mentor. I’m also a relationship midwife, seasoned group facilitator and badass heart-centered leader.
I’ve been practicing another way for over 20 years.
It’s called following energy.
I wrote a book about following energy featuring eight teachers: fear, awareness, choice, body, intuition, energy, intention and surrender. These eight teachers provide a structure and framework so you can start to follow the energy of work, leadership and life in your unique way.
Growing a relationship with these eight teachers daily through paying attention to your body and noticing everyday occurrences is a foundation for following energy.
Following energy can help you balance taking care of yourself with work that matters to you.
It can help you find your own pace between resting and being productive.
It can even expand potential beyond what you can imagine.
But here’s the edge.
If we’re going to do this work together, it will mean getting a bit wild.
“Since Following Energy for Change Makers, I feel stronger showing up as a leader. I feel like I have a lot more certainty about my role and more trust in my own leadership capabilities.”
— Jacqui, CEO
“This was a wonderful experience. I’m so grateful to have participated. I felt like the timing of being in this group, combined with my own personal journey, really accelerated my self-confidence and clarity about what I want in my next life chapter. Thank you!”
— Sara, Organizational Development Consultant, Google
Following Energy for Change Makers
A four-month leadership growth and development journey of shared learning, 1:1 mentoring, somatic practices, and attuned support so that you can re-imagine and embody your relationship with work, leadership and change-making.
Energy is alive.
Energy talks. Shows. Guides. Teaches. Energy reveals stuckness as well as flow.
Energy can be soft, flat or rollicking. Energy can be heartbreaking. Energy can be pleasurable. You can play with energy. You can boundary energy. You can dance with energy.
Following energy is an empowering and creative somatic practice for balancing self-care with growing capacity and expanding potential.
The heart of following means learning to journey through the unknown.
And so, our practice begins by going on a journey together.
Held by myself, your four month leadership growth and development journey combines virtual energy learning, mentoring and somatic practice with individual and group support including
1 virtual 45-minute 1:1 intention setting session
8 live virtual circles on Fridays from Noon – 2pm PT (recorded): October 13, November 3, November 17, December 1, December 15, January 12, January 26, February 9
Unlimited asynchronous 1:1 WhatsApp, Loom or email coaching during business hours
1:1 connecting with peers for integrated learning
Access to a private Following Energy Community
A final 45-minute 1:1 integration session
Bonus group offerings (entirely optional):
3-hour virtual retreat with extended energy practice
2-hour embodied leadership training for decoding trauma and codependency with guest facilitator Carlee Adamson, trauma literacy founder, coach, consultant
Space is limited to 10 people.
All inclusive tuition: $3300
A deposit of $400 holds your space.
Payment plans are available, including a 6-month option.
There are two scholarships for this leadership and development training for change makers who are also BIPOC, LGBTQ+, differently-abled and/or from an othered community.
Program Details
“I enjoyed the content as it felt more aligned with the way I want to lead than the dozens of business books and self-help books I have read before. Very embodied and not focused on ‘efficient optimization’ or ‘hacking.’”
— Caitlin, Director of Client Strategy and Operations, Truist
“A rich and supportive community with a talented guide to help you evolve and grow to be able to live a richer and more meaningful life.”
— Kelli, Chief of People Officer
Your program journey, step by step
A LIVE INDIVIDUAL 45-MINUTE INTENTION SETTING SESSION WITH ME (ON ZOOM)
To start off our embodied leadership training, we’ll enjoy an individual moment to settle in.
I want to get to know you more.
What about following energy calls you? What inspires you in work (and life!)? Where do you feel stuck? What do you need out of this leadership growth and development journey?
In this conversation, I’ll help you craft a powerful intention to make the most of your experience with following energy.
“I absolutely loved setting the intention and having the 1:1 session with Staci to support that process. I also especially loved the exercise to help our intention come alive…. And really loved the weekend retreat! So much to love, so many wonderful gems - they are now tools for me that are so valuable.”
— Julia, psychotherapist
8 VIRTUAL GROUP DATES AND STRUCTURE
The best way to really learn how to follow energy with me is through activating my book material, Turning Dead Ends into Doorways.
And so, our leadership growth and development circles will feature the eight teachers from my book -- fear, awareness, choice, body, energy, intention, energy and surrender – as a flexible framework for your journey.
If you like to read, you’ll have access to the book itself. And if you prefer audio learning, there will be audio recordings and/or podcast episodes available as well.
Ultimately, this isn’t about book learning but life learning.
Relating your intention to each teacher will start a conversation with yourself and daily life.
Our circles will include energy mentoring and guided imagery practices with me.
We’ll also have dynamic conversations where you explore questions and experiences as change makers to facilitate community and make following energy practical in your work, leadership (and personal) lives.
Fall 2023 Dates are Fridays, Noon - 2pm PT:
October 13
November 3
November 17
December 1
December 15
January 12
January 26
February 9
“I loved being in a group setting with people interested in alternative paradigms of leadership. Very often you have to slide into ways of being in the world that you don’t want to emulate or don’t necessarily fit. To come into a room of people who are successful and powerful and who don’t want to keep doing that made me feel like I wasn’t alone in wanting a different way.”
— Caitlin, Director of Client Strategy and Operations, Truist
UNLIMITED ASYNCHRONOUS 1:1 MENTORING
Going on a journey to follow the energy of your potential initiates an alchemical process.
A good intention –which I will help you identify – is going to stir things up in your body and daily life.
Synchronicity will appear.
Things may get a bit wild during this leadership skills training, remember?
And so, you’re encouraged to continue the conversation with me as much as you want via WhatsApp or email or Loom from Tuesday - Saturdays with a two-day turn around on my end (because: boundaries). And I will reach out to you at least once a week to connect.
You’re going to learn how to follow energy with me at your side.
We’re going to have some wild fun together.
“The one-to-one asynchronous mentoring was outstanding. I couldn't believe I could just leave as many voice messages as I wanted, and I'd always get a response. Staci would send a message or a picture or a video of the ocean because she knew that it calms me. It's like, what? I don't know how she had the capacity to extend that much care on an individual level. That was something I've looked for and not found in other one-to-one dynamics, and it was such a gift, really healing, and tremendously valuable.”
— Christina, Editorial Director and Head of Creative
1:1 CHANGE MAKER TIME
Change makers from earlier sessions have offered some feedback about the leadership skills training with you in mind.
More individual time, please. And help us help ourselves.
They SO enjoyed meeting and learning together, that they wanted to connect directly one to one. Some did but others had such a full plate, it didn’t happen. They missed each other.
Being leaders and often program creators in their own right, they gave it to me straight, “Staci, make it a requirement for us to meet individually. We can rotate through a person or so a month. Help us calendar it.”
Have I mentioned how much I like people who say what they need?
Message received.
You’ll receive help with scheduling monthly 1:1 time with peers.
FWIW, future change makers have been thrilled with this new “requirement” .
In fact, some participants enjoyed connecting so much, they began working together after our program ended. YES!
“Asynchronous mentoring was one of my favorite parts of the experience. The weekly check-ins from Staci were VERY helpful as reminders of the content and to think about how the concepts were showing up in my daily life. I loved that it was a tool I already use daily and easily fit into the flow of my day.”
— Sara, Organizational Development Consultant, Google
TWO BONUS GROUPS (OPTIONAL)
Embodying Leadership Training
A big part of being the change and embodying a new paradigm of leadership is an inside job.
Trauma and codependency and power-over ways of being exist in our blood, relationships, work and life.
Of course this impacts our ability to lead and to be good leaders.
Early in our journey, we’ll explore a tool for transforming codependent prescribed roles based on choice as a teacher from my book. This also offers insight for shifting from a power-over into power-with paradigm.
About a month later, you’ll also be invited to a bonus two hour training with trauma literacy coach and facilitator Carlee Adamson and myself.
Together, we’ll share thoughts and somatic practices for decoding trauma and transforming codependency within yourself and as a change maker practicing leadership towards a more just world.
Virtual Restorative Retreat
In the midst of transformational learning journeys it’s important to give yourself a moment to rest. So you can reflect. Let go. Notice what you’ve been noticing. Allow yourself to wander. Wonder. And bask.
Integration is key for expanding capacity and development.
And so the last month (or so) of Following Energy for Change Makers includes a three hour restorative (virtual) retreat.
This focus will include reflection and somatic practices set to music.
Within that, it’s all about you.
Based on what the group wants (and needs), I’ll draw upon my vast experience with somatic practice and energy healing including guided visualization, dance, and/or breathwork to create a delicious integrative experience.
Usually held on a Saturday, these entirely optional gatherings offer an opportunity to rest, release, replenish.
You actually don’t want to miss it if at all possible.
“The opportunity to sit with the kind of people who come to Staci’s groups is a particular gift. It’s rare to get to be with the reflection and accountability and presence these folks bring.
I’ve not only formed lifelong friendships but Staci’s groups have been a place I’ve wanted to bring some of my closest people.
In terms of creating virtual community, Staci’s groups have an alchemy of being in village in a way we don’t get, especially in our leadership lives.”
— Carlee Adamson, Trauma Literacy founder, coach, educator
YOUR VERY OWN PRIVATE FOLLOWING ENERGY COMMUNITY PORTAL
Finally, you’ll receive access to a private Following Energy community portal online. This space will provide:
Additional resources related to each teacher (podcasts, songs, etc.)
Practices to help you deepen your relationship with the teachers (downloadable)
Reflection prompts to encourage wisdom sharing and community support
“Following energy is a great way to learn how to translate feelings, thoughts, awarenesses (all forms of energy) into constructive guides and information from which to achieve personal or professional life goals and intentions.”
— Lisa, Founder, CEO of Truist
“I don’t know if this happens with every intention, but with mine it is internalized now like a compass that has been embossed into my heart or my body. It's changed the way that I will go forward probably forever, certainly professionally, and I hope personally.”
— Christina, Editorial Director and Head of Creative.”
GROUP STRUCTURE AND VIRTUAL MEETING DAYS
FRIDAYS, NOON-2PM PT (RECORDING AVAILABLE):
SESSION 1: WELCOME & INTENTIONS ( October 13)
SESSION 2: FEAR AND AWARENESS (November 3)
SESSION 3: CHOICE (November 17)
SESSION 4: BODY AND INTUITION (December 1)
SESSION 5: ENERGY (December 15)
SESSION 6: INTENTION (January 12)
SESSION 7: SURRENDER
(January 26)SESSION 8: BIRTH (Feb 9)
BONUS (OPTIONAL) SESSIONS TBA:
3 HOUR RESTORATIVE RETREAT
2 HOUR EMBODIED LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR DECODING TRAUMA AND CODEPENDENCY
“I loved the structure and support of the Following Energy for Change Makers program. And the big surprise was the value and depth of the asynchronous mentoring between Staci and I. It became something that was special, deep, and so sweet. It’s like - oh my, just what I needed to hear, delivered from a wise and kind woman, and just for me!?! I had no idea; what a revelation - I loved it!”
— Julia, psychotherapist
“I loved the group, the material, the process, and Staci!”
— Jacqui, CEO
FAQS
Can I join if I’m new to following energy?
Yes, this leadership growth and development offering is a comprehensive (fun!) and structured journey which provides a foundation to practice following energy.
Can I join if I’m a client or have attended other following energy groups with Staci?
Yes, because you choose a new intention, each time we go on a journey with my book there’s opportunity to grow another level of capacity. And please note, the focus of this leadership and development journey is your relationship with work, leadership, change making.
Can I take Following Energy for Change Makers again?
Yes! While the structure and framework of this program provides consistency, choosing a new intention creates a different experience. Intentions reflect new aspects of yourself, leadership and work that you want to cultivate. In fact, having some sea legs with following energy will allow you to swim with more depth and ease. Another way to think of working with intentions is to imagine different flavors of ice cream.
Do I need to read your book, Turning Dead Ends into Doorways?
I encourage you to read the book, and regardless, I’ll be guiding you through the book material. We also offer this material in audio, video and shorter written forms on our private network.
I’m super busy, how much work is involved?
Following energy is a practice focused on life learning. We want everyone to attend the live Zoom circles to connect with the (other) amazing change makers, and they are recorded in case life happens. We provide content in different medium (see above) for gentle learning. The most important aspect is simply remembering your intention and noticing the connection between each teacher, body sensations and daily life happenings (synchronicity!).
Between on-the-go WhatsApp check-ins and eight group sessions (recorded), the structure of this leadership and development offering is designed with busy people in mind. In fact, asynchronous mentoring with me will make you feel more held and supported while juggling a full life than going it alone.
Is there a payment plan?
Yes. After paying a deposit of $400, payment plans for up to six months are available.
Is this program considered leadership development which my organization, company or business might expense?
Yes! In fact, we’ve had success with companies and organizations funding this leadership growth and development program partially or entirely.
The skill and practice of following energy includes:
Shifting mindset (especially with fear)
Developing awareness and empowerment
Making powerful decisions amid complex dynamics
Practicing holding and activating healthier boundaries
Transforming conflict into collaboration with individuals and teams
Navigating discomfort and uncertainty to facilitate transformation
Accessing intuition and building trust
Letting go of control in a way that expands potential
Following energy can facilitate extraordinary leadership within you and your work. If you’d like a list of benefits to share with your company, business or organization, contact me.
Does Staci have the chops to help me realize potential in my work life?
Yes. I’ve been cultivating my own business which includes back end design, production, communication, technology (and more) plus leading events, groups, teams, trainings, and communities for over 20 years. Throughout, I’ve been mentoring individuals and businesses to vision, develop and launch new projects, jobs, businesses, careers.
I was a longtime coach in The Freelancer’s Workshop and The Marketing Seminar with Akimbo, an online community founded by Seth Godin.
I’m also a seasoned group facilitator and lead teacher trainer. Experiencing my group facilitation will make you a better facilitator and leader.
And ultimately, what’s most important is my profound capacity and experience with following energy which will be focused on you and your next level of amazing work in the world (let’s do this!).
“I’m a recovering Type A personality and I was always taught to make decisions from my logical brain by considering all of the data and possible outcomes.
Learning to follow energy made me realize it was kind of like using a Dollar Store calculator instead accessing a super computer.
Following energy taught me how to listen to my body and the people around me, to notice where there was flow and blockages. I was then able to tap into a deeper wisdom and to start making better decisions, faster, with less second-guessing, and less exhaustion.”
— Miki Johnson, founder, leadership coach, somatic energy guide
“I really enjoyed not only intellectually engaging with the framework of the Teachers, but also gaining an embodied sense of each teacher in community with other intentional learners.”
— Marie, Executive Coach, People Leader, Facilitator, Consultant
Progam details include:
1 virtual 45-minute 1:1 intention setting session
8 live virtual circles on Fridays from Noon – 2pm PT (recorded): October 13, November 3, November 17, December 1, December 15, January 12, January 26, February 9
Unlimited asynchronous 1:1 WhatsApp, Loom or email coaching during business hours
1:1 connecting with peers for integrated learning
Access to a private Following Energy Community
A final 45-minute 1:1 integration session
Bonus group offerings (entirely optional):
3-hour virtual retreat with extended energy practice
2-hour embodied leadership training for decoding trauma and codependency with guest facilitator Carlee Adamson, trauma literacy founder, coach, consultant
Space is limited to 10 people.
All inclusive tuition: $3300
A deposit of $400 holds your space.
Payment plans are available, including a 6-month option.
We’re offering two scholarships for this leadership and development training for change makers who are also BIPOC, LGBTQ+, differently-abled and/or from an othered community.
“The idea of following energy felt amorphous, but somehow also like a good idea… Now, at the end of the program, I can say: I get it! I'm doing it! And it feels SO much better than my old ways.”
— Julia, psychotherapist
When work makes you want to run for the hills, how does following energy keep you standing strong?
Give yourself 3 minutes with Carlee Adamson, founder of Trauma Literacy, change maker and beloved who has inspired many of my groups, and even my book over a decade ago.
I’m thrilled she and I are co-facilitating a bonus training session on decoding trauma and codependency for embodying a more co-creative paradigm of change making within yourself, work, and leadership.
Carlee Adamson, Trauma Literacy founder, coach, and change maker shares how during hard work moments following energy keeps her standing strong.
A love note for change makers interested in this embodied leadership training program (and a secret)
If you’re still reading, thank you.
I’m going to tell you a secret in a minute but first, I need to share a bit about my people.
I get to support the most amazing heart-centered smart badass humans dedicated to intentional living. Ever.
These folks have been working damn hard to do great work for a long (long) time.
But they keep bumping up against resistance.
Some of the resistance comes from people or organizations who say they want change but aren’t walking their talk. And some it stems from power-over systemic injustice.
It can feel exhausting—and lonely—to keep standing up for change out there on your own.
Here’s the secret part.
As grateful as I am to be their pillar, awhile back I started feeling called to create a space to connect these kinds of people with each other– which might also be you.
It was time.
Time to gather a circle of leaders and change-makers to see what can happen when we follow energy in community together.
Time to create a circle for you to support and collaborate with each other directly.
During our first meeting in the last cohort, after listening to people introduce themselves, a participant bursted out, “I am so glad to meet you all. You are just the kind of people I hoped would be here!”
Not only did we explore the meaning of following energy step by step together, the change makers present exchanged powerful stories to deepen insight about leadership, particularly discussing individual and group facilitation.
Some moments felt intimate and even healing.
Other moments generated new ideas for how to activate a different paradigm in the workplace. In real time.
After facilitating groups for over 20 years, I’ve learned that each group has its own unique flavor.
Our last circle was not only exciting and delicious, it was soulful. Nourishing. Funny. Restorative.
I wonder what kind of delicious might be next?
For more FAQ context from me, enjoy this informative playful video:
Is FE for a beginner? Do I need to read the book? What if I’m busy? Enjoy some FAQs with Staci
Space in this leadership skills training is limited to 10 people.
All inclusive tuition: $3300
A deposit of $400 holds your space.
We’re offering a scholarship for a change maker who is also BIPOC, LGBTQ+, differently-abled and/or from another marginalized community.
Your Somatic Energy Leadership Guide, Staci Boden
I’m Staci, a lead somatic energy teacher, guide, facilitator, ceremonialist and author. For over 20 years, I’ve been teaching individuals and groups to follow energy with practical wisdom to navigate anxiety, improve relationships, embody leadership, make powerful decisions, and create amazing work.
A founder of energy healing lines, including a 21 year-old dance ceremony and Following Energy based on my book, I’ve designed, produced and led countless evenings, ongoing groups, weekend retreats and facilitator trainings in-person and globally online.
Currently, I host a podcast, see private clients, facilitate women’s groups and mentor leaders and change makers with following energy to embody creative potential in work, life and leadership.
If you’ve gotten this far, wow and thank you!
Because following energy is a relationship based way of life and daily practice, I get to connect with remarkable change makers and humans.
Sometimes we spend years learning together.
And then they generously offer to share some of what they’ve gathered from following energy in videos so you can discover some benefits of following energy too.
I encourage you to make a cup of tea and enjoy their wisdom.
Velma Gentzsch, a non-profit leader on how following energy helps balances unending work.
More from Carlee Adamson who helped inspire my book!
Carlee Adamson, coach and educator, shares how Dead Ends into Doorways is an essential guide for life.
Here’s a final conversation about the benefits of Following Energy with Miki Johnson and Jacqueline Hartman—leaders, recovering type A’s and somatic energy guides for Turning Dead Ends into Doorways.
Some highlights about how following energy supports:
Making decisions you can trust
Getting behind your business or organization as a unique energy to follow
Practicing healthier boundaries
Finding (trusting!) your own way of experiencing and navigating energy
Real talk with seasoned leaders and energy navigators about decisions, boundaries, trust and having fun.