Acts of Liberation
Time to step through your fear
believe in yourself
​speak your truth
reconnect with your dream
own what you uniquely have to offer?
​You and the world need you to
claim ​your power 
and clear the way to get on with
​whatever it is you're here for!
Make this next month the time when you
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  • Connect with your vision
  • Befriend your inner critics
  • Step into your courage
  • ​Become a stand for yourself
  • Have a tribe of awesome women backing you
  • Have a 'surround sound' plan to keep it going! 
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​That's in the space of one month.
What will you then choose for the rest of the year to make this a game worthy of your participation?

liberation: the act of setting someone free
from imprisonment or oppression.
 "a fantastic course if you are really at a point of knowing something inside you needs to emerge…but you don’t quite know how or when or what! 
​It’s about giving to yourself and honouring the gifts inside you.​"
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- Fiona Vander Poorten Sawyer

​The challenge in stepping up

One of the most challenging aspects of stepping up beyond our existing zone into a new dimension is that
  • Until we reach that next zone, we honestly don't know how it'll be!
  • When we're there, we realise how powerful we are, and everything changes. The hard part is getting there.
  • When we start to step out, the very blocks we're wanting to deal with will be the same ones firing up the ante big time, all in an effort to stop us. Go figure! No wonder it's daunting. It's hard work!
THAT'S where liberation is needed. ​For ourselves!!
To let our true selves show up.

liberation: the act of setting someone free
from imprisonment or oppression.

What would YOU want to liberate yourself from?
What would that make possible?​​


Acts of Liberation

is a four week streamlined coaching program designed to step up your experience and effectiveness - on your terms - in a dimension of life important to you.

Why? Instead of feeling dissatisfied, that you're wasting your potential, your experience will be one of liberation - - AND you''ll have a better idea of what you want next.

You will
  • connect with your vision and identify and realise a result that you would love in your life.
  • reassure your Inner Critic while you get on with what you want (Even the title is designed to reassure your Inner Critic)
  • identify and address your most immediate block. 
  • claim and practice your courage, and have strategies for gaining ready access to your courage when you need it.
  • inspire and be inspired by a group of likeminded women who are stepping into playing big and being the change they want to see. 
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Background

It started with Unstoppable Women
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Unstoppable Women is my signature 3-4 month premium small group coaching program. It's designed for women who are ready to claim their power, step into their vision and play big to realise the results they want for themselves and their world. It synthesises the very best of what I've learnt in over 35 years into seven key elements that together enable women to honour themselves and the gifts inside them. The results have been extraordinary. So is the ongoing difference women have experienced in many parts of their lives.  ​

What's in the way

The thing is, though, while many women are keen to dive in, a good number are not able to do so.

Partly it's the level of commitment they would want to give, timewise, moneywise, belief in self, the rest. Partly the fact that they'd like to be surer their dream is something they'll want to pursue.

And mostly there's that big, crappy catch-22 operating. That is,  the VERY issues that successful women want to transform - such as self doubt, self-sabotage, feeling stuck and that they're wasting their potential - these are the exact same issues that the Inner Critic takes full advantage of to stick the boot in and PREVENT change!

What's at stake

What's at stake are meaningful lives for women. And the planet.

My commitment is for every woman to claim her power, realise her potential and live a life she truly loves.

I've been thinking long and hard about what would help that happen for more women. What would help the first step into a new realm be way more accessible. What would be the minimal that would enable the strength and sustainability of Unstoppable Women so that women can believe in themselves at a new level, be their own catalyst, choose what they want to do next - and have the basis for stepping up further if they wish.

These are Acts of Liberation. And they are game changers.

The approach

​The approach is designed to enable you to connect with your own inner resources, have the fundamentals in place to see the shift you want in four weeks - AND know exactly what's needed to sustain the difference.

Acts of Liberation combines
  • the power and focus of coaching
  • the intentionality and inspiration of a small group of women who are equally committed to transforming an area of their lives in terms
  • AND the key elements from Unstoppable Women that will support you in achieving results within a month, and have a plan for sustaining the breakthrough.  

The focus is on simple tools and processes that when implemented in a coordinated way will enable you to achieve the results that matter.
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Acts of Liberation: the modules

  1. Connect with My Vision
    The first element of unstoppable women everywhere. This is where vision, passion and purpose come together and get activated by being authentically connected with reality and given impetus through a goal. You'll know the glow!
  2. Befriend My Inner Critic
    A critical component of creating a clearing for your magnificence. Along the way we'll catch a few of the key less enabling beliefs and statements that run the show, go below to the fear, and lean in to get comfortable with the discomfort so it feels loved and you get to carry on. (Don't tell your IC just yet!) 
  3. Be a Stand For ME
    This module combines strategies to empower you in stepping into your courage at a personal practical level, as well as further afield. Become compassionate and unstoppably resolute on your behalf as well as the world's as you may have been doing until now.
  4. Bringing it together: the 'Surround Sound System"
    Gain an analysis of the Unstoppable Women elements with suggestions for how to set this up for yourself in an integrated way to sustain your focus and momentum through the year. 

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Your Circles of Empowerment
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  • ​​Weekly online written and video materials providing key distinctions, courage practice and your personally designed acts of liberation.
  • 4 group coaching sessions (90 minutes each).
  • Daily 'inspiration from the universe' to inspire and help to unpack the week's topic focus.
  • Daily accountability game (optional)
  • A community of women who are on a similar journey and are a powerful stand for themselves and each other.
  • A private and supportive online accountability group where everybody gets together to share, learn and grow together. This online community continues to be available and appreciated after the duration of the program itself as an empowerment structure to support you in staying on track in the areas important to you.
  • Access to a wider community of women. Connecting Courageous Women in Business meets monthly in Brisbane with a feature topic and at times a guest speaker. The network provides an inspiring context to meet other passionate, reflective, outside-the-box women who are also committed to a sustainable life and making a contribution to their community/planet. 
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Plus
  • A secured and confidential online private client portal enabling easy-to-track communication between you and your coach, and storage and fast access to your notes and to materials used during your coaching.
  • Pre-session prep and post-session recap tools to enhance and anchor the benefits of the coaching session and build success.
  • Access to a range of relevant resources.
  • Recordings of every session.

Listen to your heart

to what it's telling you...

Janet Josie (Jj) Blake talks about what she gained from Acts of Liberation


​Read what women have to say

​ While Acts of Liberation is a brand new program, it is deeply informed by the wisdom of Unstoppable Women. Read what women have to say about Unstoppable Women....

Fiona Vander Poorten Sawyer

Director
​the Can Film Competition
I committed to do UW [Unstoppable Women] because I was running a small language school in Brisbane and failing. I knew I had a lot of baggage to do with success, taking money and being business minded. I wanted to overcome the programming of my Catholic training.
 
Chris helped me to unpack those issues. Her mantra to step up and to be courageous resonated with me and I saw that I could be and do anything with the right attitude.

 As a result, ironically, I began to see the small school as limiting – closed it down and am now running a national foreign language film competition for schools, which I will also now take to NZ!  

Chris’s tools help me every day in juggling my family of 5 boys, staying on track with the Phd I am doing, completing my novels, paying attention to my health and spiritual  goals and maintaining an arts practice.

​I highly recommend this to women who are unafraid to let their light shine!  ​

Kristy Holden

Principal
​The Paperworkplace
Unstoppable Women has provided me the tools and confidence to complete qualifications & further action my career, see and accept myself as others do, become more aware of who I am in the world, engage with people and no longer be reclusive, be present to now, reduce negative self-talk, get out in the world and live life on my terms (how wonderful & exciting that is).
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I can only see more positive growth, change and life experiences as I continue to action the tools gained. Each day I see more of the awesome true real me. 

​Everything has changed for the better; it’s more amazing than I’ve ever dreamt. My sincere thanks Chris. 

Jane Sleight-Leach

CEO
Life 2 Project
My big vision is to provide support services and a healing centre for women getting back on their feet after domestic violence.

I was in action making it happen, however I was frustrated and exhausted and felt like a boat without a rudder.

I didn't believe in myself and felt like an imposter without formal qualifications. I was hiding my feelings and opinions as I've always shied away from anything I see as conflict. feeling. And I wasn't attracting the level of assistance I needed. I now see that my own self-beliefs were keeping me small and I can recognise and deal with them.  

Through the Unstoppable Women program, Chris led us through questions, learning experiences and action that enabled me to make a big shift - and to feel safe and supported while it was happening. 

Elina Juusola-Halonen

First-time Author
Inspiration....that's what I'd lost....and I needed to regain it.

I have always aspired to writing books and that has been my dream and my aim, but I have had dyslexia since I was a child...and talking in your second and third language of course, it always comes out that you can never really express your true feelings - not that I can say that even in Finnish... I really wanted to write a book in English. But I needed help with that. So that was my big challenge - overcoming these, expressing myself in another language so I would actually get my message through. ...and I had lost my community..I was totally disconnected from it and I needed that, particularly  to do a book about social change, transformation. 

And ... I needed a coach. I accept that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. ...It was YOU..yeah...the deep understanding that you took my cause and - it is really moving - you helped me - REALLY [tearing up] - and I am grateful.

...Unstoppable Women ...The steps were quite soft, and every time we had that group [Skype] meeting... I went okay, THIS is something I need to think about....

You need a catalyst, yeah, and in my case it was Chris Henderson. You need something like this impulse and you need the inspiration.

Elina's Unstoppable Woman goal was to write her first book.  The book, entitled "Love on the Line: How to Recover from Romance Scams with Dignity and without Victimisation" will be published in January 2016.

Elina has already signed a contract to write a second book

Pauline Rigby

Educator and Principal of Mindseeds
Thank you Chris. . . for your encouragement, your sense of fun, and your prodding to get me back on track. The courage you display in your own work is infectious and inspiring.

Thanks to your Unstoppable Women program, the private coaching, a supportive on-line coaching group, a two day workshop and the joyous Women Howling at the Moon events, I have revamped and relaunched my “Mindseeds” program.

​It's 'all systems go'  and lacking courage is not an option any more! 

Maria Delaney

Consultant
​The Social Change Agency
I've struggled with depression and anxiety most of my life, and that feeling of not being 'good enough' that is familiar to many. Despite this I have been ambitious about making a difference for others - pursuing a career and ongoing studies in education for social justice and violence prevention. As a 'survivor', researching and writing a thesis about the intersecting personal and political dimensions of agency for change has been an emotional journey.

I had been feeling tired and stuck though - at times even hopeless about achieving my goals.

My research led me to understand how important it is to take care of myself and to allow others to help me... that everything we achieve is in relationship and in community. Chris inspired me to work with her because she is such a vibrant model of positivity and possibility.

I have particularly enjoyed the personalised and sensitive guided reflections and also the opportunity for reflective conversations with other women participating in the coaching program. The empathy, validation and stimulation I experienced in this context has been very empowering.

Since I've begun the Unstoppable Women coaching journey I've noticed my responses to formerly anxiety provoking situations have changed. I have established a much more healthy relationship with myself.

My thesis writing is progressing, I'm happy and relaxed, and I'm managing to cover other bases too.
​Unstoppable : ) 
EXTRA BONUSES
Additional module and report
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Graduates may use part of the program's investment
​towards Unstoppable Women 
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If you'd like to connect with your own inner resources
be a stand for yourself 
​work out what you want next... 
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 A surefire
investment for your life
$497
​(plus merchant transaction fee $10.22)
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It will be an honour to be your personal courage catalyst,
to enable you to realise your desired results and
be your own courage catalyst.