One-on-One Work with Melanie
Most people who find their way to one-on-one work with me have encountered something in a workshop, course, retreat, or in my writing that stayed with them — and are looking to go deeper. Others arrive through a referral from someone who knows us both and senses a resonance. What “going deeper” looks like is different for everyone, which is why I offer two very different kinds of one-on-one work. They draw on different parts of my background, operate in different registers, and are suited to different kinds of questions. Both are offered to a limited number of people at any given time.
I. Leadership Mentoring and Consultation
This work is for leaders in mission-driven organizations who want structured, frameworks-based support for the challenges of leading in complex, high-stakes environments — whether that's navigating a team through transition, reclaiming strategic focus from the pull of day-to-day demands, or developing the foresight to get ahead of conflict and stakeholder dynamics before they escalate. Sessions draw on the frameworks, workbooks, and tools I've developed and refined through 20+ years of working with senior leaders, as well as my own executive experience. This is practical, rigorous work grounded in your specific context and challenges.
II. Self-Trust and Deconditioning Support
This work is for people sitting with a quieter, more personal kind of question — something like: how do I figure out what's actually right for me, underneath all the noise? What does success look like on my own terms, not the terms I inherited? How do I make decisions I can trust, when anxiety or external pressure makes everything feel equally urgent or equally impossible? We’ll draw from a variety of self-understanding, creative, and metaphysical practices that share a common focus: helping you hear yourself more clearly, especially when external pressure, anxiety, or the weight of others' expectations makes it hard to know what's true for you.
Over time, many of us learn to override our own sense of what's uniquely right for us in favor of what feels safer or more acceptable. This work is about the slow, often surprising process of deconditioning from external scripts and learning to trust what you know. It tends to resonate most with people who've been surprised by something that surfaced in one of my freewriting or creative exercises, or who've found themselves drawn to the self-trust thread that runs through my work even when it wasn't the main topic.