This Poem Changed Me
A two-hour immersion for creatively constipated, artistically curious women leaders and business owners – done with formulaic, extractive blueprints, and who know, with every cell in their body, that together we rise
xxxxx xth April | 4pm-6pm UK (8am-10am Pacific)
This is a session about permission. It’s also about writing poetry, and how to begin, even if (especially if) you haven’t written poetry since school.
It will show you that you are already a poet – you just didn’t know it (sorry-not-sorry for that one).
But seriously – why would we do such a thing? Write poetry? Together? And how does it transform our lives and leadership?
These are questions I’ll answer. We’ll also practice. Not to ‘write well’, but to let go of the bullshit conditioning and let our souls sing.
The world needs our souls to sing. Together. Like a huge, enthusiastic, and at times slightly out-of-tune choir, you can’t help but be moved by – a collective of humans unashamedly basking in their own joy and aliveness, united by something that can’t quite be explained.
It’s from that place that our most alive, world-changing ideas emerge. The ideas deeply needed at this time in human history.
It’s that energy that sources us to voice them – and bring them into reality through our leadership, even though our knees are shaking.
Inner work has its place – but it’s the wondrous mystery of art in all its forms, and one another, that awakens and sustains our creative power as women.
We cannot create the change we’re truly here to make by following the old blueprints on leadership and business. They weren’t made for us. (Yes, yes. I know you already know this)
The era of the leader as poet is here – unapologetically embodying her full-spectrum aliveness. Following her highest, wisest, minxiest, sovereign self.
Weaving her ideas together in ways that make no sense to most people, but to her people, land like a beautiful song that makes them weep with relief at the permission they feel to sing their own.
This immersion is for women who:
are doing transformational work in the world – as business owners or leaders, or feel called to be
sense they are here to serve a higher mission, even if they don’t have words for it yet
are tired of formulaic advice about how to ‘grow your impact’
are curious about the idea that creative play and exploration (rather than yet more inner work) is a portal to our truest expression as leaders and changemakers
long to contribute more fully and freely, but hold themselves back
When is it happening?
xxxxx xxth April 2026 @ 4pm - 6pm UK (8am-10am Pacific)
Over Zoom
There will be no replay – this is a live, experiential gathering. Why? Because one thing that dims our creative power is consuming too much content in isolation.
What ignites it is coming together, creating with intention, and supporting each other rise.
How much?
The investment to join is £30
How does this fit with my wider body of work?
My deepest wish is that this immersion connects you more deeply with the power you already possess as a creative being. It’s a lovingly crafted, potentially transformational container, in its own right.
It may give you exactly what you need, and it may also spark a desire to explore one of the other containers I offer.
You can read about those here.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
I can’t wait to see you there!
With love, and in creative power,
Claire
About Claire
Claire Mackinnon is a transformational coach, creative catalyst, and women’s leadership guide devoted to supporting women to step into their creative power – so they can bring forward the change only they can make.
Her work is rooted in the Joy-Led™ approach to creativity, leadership and business – a body of work that supports women leaders and business owners to bring forward their ideas and offerings in ways that feel alive, aligned and deeply generative.
An ICF PCC-certified coach with more than 2,000 hours of international coaching and facilitation experience, she has supported hundreds of leaders across industries including technology, retail, professional services, and education – as well as an ever-growing community of mission-led women entrepreneurs.
Claire is the founder of The Joy-Led™ Creativity Collective, a community of women changemakers stepping into their creative power and reclaiming their voices for these times. She also leads The Joy-Led™ Business Creation Collective, an intimate, circle-based community supporting women business owners to bring their work forward from a place of inner alignment and full-body aliveness.
She writes on Substack about her own journey of creative reclamation, and is currently completing her debut memoir, Finding Aphrodite: One Woman’s Dance from Shame to Aliveness, through which she hopes to spark a wider cultural conversation about women’s creative power – and the urgent need for leadership rooted in aliveness, truth, and joy.
You can join Claire’s email community here to be kept up to date about her offerings and community events.
Praise for this work…
“When I write here, I am often surprised by the vigor, the clarity, the urgency of my voice and my creative vision. Afterwards, I notice I have a new sense of centeredness in myself: My truth, my voice, my vision. I'm better able to discern what I want and don't...And I'm able to invite others into magical, connected, rich experiences like this one.
My capacity is greater, and my intuition takes a front seat.
When I listen to other women's words, I feel recognition, affirmation, power, drama, care, fire, wildness, loss, joy, the whole spectrum of all of life right here precious in our hands. I know that we are united, unstoppable, healers, truth-speakers, and wise women. The world needs us.”
—Vanessa Baker-Rodriguez, Coach and Founder, Bravely Aligned
“What often surprises me is what actually lands on the page. It's like a release valve for things I didn't know I needed to express or could not have otherwise found the words.
Afterwards, what remains is a sense that I've been held by the broad, strong, and divinely feminine arms of the collective group. I carry that along with me for days.
My sense of myself as a creative being has been excavated from the depths.
This work is here to bring us closer to our real selves, to build our sense of belonging to ourselves and to a bigger community of women. It feels like one of those untold things that pass down through the generations of women that we've just somehow lost connection with.”
Caroline Macgregor, Founder, UP-scale
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