Send out your weird love notes
An immersive Joy-Led™ experience for mission-led women ready to unleash their voice and (finally) say what they really mean
[Insert time and date here]
Damn. It’s noisy out there. Thanks for that, AI. But we have nothing to fear! Because the people looking for our work aren’t interested in regurgitated AI slop.
Yes, that’s right!
They are longing for us. Pure, unadulterated us. It helps them see themselves - or a version of themselves they long to inhabit, but don’t quite know how, yet. Which is where we, and our deeply needed work comes in.
This new immersion is a Joy-Led experiment inspired by my work with the communities of women I lead, my more than a decade as a business owner, and as importantly my experience learning the craft of writing memoir.
Two years ago, when I submitted a 66,000 word first draft of what will be my debut book, my editor’s feedback was a loving slap in the face. But it made what then followed possible: a bad-ass manuscript that has made grown women weep (in a good way), but more practically, I have applied her wisdom to every piece of public writing since.
This is what she said about my perfectly respectable first draft:
‘This needs to be transposed up a key. Strike that - a whole octave. It’s written like you have a pillow clutched to your chest. Drop it and show us who you really are.’
It was a life- and business- changing invitation. Accepting it transformed the manuscript, and started to change my business writing. It is now hardwired into my creative process after years of practice since. It has seen me shimmy past the conditioning we contend with as women as we step into our power, time and time and time again. and call in incredible clients that say things like: ‘did you write that just for me!?’
And what do I love just as much as applying it to my own copy?
Supporting other women drop the pillow, and say what they are really here to say. In their invitations, on their home pages, in their posts, in their emails.
Oh my! The feeling of seeing a woman unleash her voice, and let rip, is one I shall never tire of.
In this world of ours, where everything is starting to sound the same, the time is ripe for us to send out our weird love notes to our people. They are waiting, I promise you.
The time for dimming our light to fit some kind of imagined, corporate template is over.
There is no template, my friend! We are the template, and this session will support you to embody that as fully as you can, as you are, right now and begin to practice this wondrous frame in all your business writing forever more.
The format
You’ll bring something you want to work on in the session – it could be your home page, your about page, a post, an email. Something where you have a draft, or something already out there that you know could go up a key.
Drawing on tried-and-tested creative prompts, together we’ll drop into our fullness. We’ll connect with the soul and deepest truth of our work, and open the parts of us that are ready to speak.
Then we’ll move into the heart of the session: in-depth pair work, drawing on a powerful exercise designed to help you unlock the truths your copy doesn’t articulate (yet).
We’ll also spend time together in the big group, exploring what’s emerging and supporting one another in a very particular way, so we feel empowered to take our voices out into the world and sing.
When and where?
[Insert time and date] over Zoom
There will be a recording available for everyone who attends live.
It is also recommended you bring a voice recorder to capture the gold from the break-out work.
How much?
£50 + UK VAT
There are 12 seats only per session
How does this fit with my wider body of work?
My highest wish is that this workshop connects you more deeply with the power you already possess as a creative being. It’s a lovingly crafted, potentially transformational experience in its own right.
It may give you exactly what you need. Or it may open the door to exploring one of the ongoing community spaces I lead.
You can read about those here.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out at support@clairemackinnon.com.
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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