She did not shrink. She did not shrivel.
She refused — with every quiet, courageous act of her life
— to become less than she was
She refused — with every quiet, courageous act of her life
— to become less than she was
The voice rising from somewhere old and sure: it is time. Time to move beyond merely surviving.
"What we can plan is too small for us to live."
— David Whyte
— David Whyte
For the woman who needs more than a circle can hold.
One woman sitting with another, at the fire.
One woman sitting with another, at the fire.
WHAT THIS WORK IS
More than a session. Less than a program.
Some things cannot be held in a group.
Not because the group is insufficient. The Lilith Circle is a powerful container, and the company of other women doing real work is irreplaceable. But there are moments — and there are women — for whom what is needed is something more particular. More private. More precisely attuned to the singular shape of this life, this moment, this woman.
The one-to-one work I offer through Lotus Space is not the same as executive coaching. It does not belong to the professional world, to the organisation, to the question of how to lead or perform or navigate. It belongs to the interior world — to the soul, the myth, the body, the deep knowing that exists underneath all the roles you have ever held.
It is soulful coaching. Which means: the rigour is real, the challenge is real, the care is complete — and the primary question is not what should you do but who are you becoming, and what does your soul need in order to get there.
I bring to this work twenty-five years of coaching experience, a deep grounding in Jungian psychology and the sacred feminine tradition, a personal familiarity with the territory of the threshold, and the particular combination of gifts that is mine alone. But what I bring most essentially is this: complete, unhurried, undivided attention to the woman in front of me. Not to her problem. To her.
The one-to-one work I offer through Lotus Space is not the same as executive coaching. It does not belong to the professional world, to the organisation, to the question of how to lead or perform or navigate. It belongs to the interior world — to the soul, the myth, the body, the deep knowing that exists underneath all the roles you have ever held.
It is soulful coaching. Which means: the rigour is real, the challenge is real, the care is complete — and the primary question is not what should you do but who are you becoming, and what does your soul need in order to get there.
I bring to this work twenty-five years of coaching experience, a deep grounding in Jungian psychology and the sacred feminine tradition, a personal familiarity with the territory of the threshold, and the particular combination of gifts that is mine alone. But what I bring most essentially is this: complete, unhurried, undivided attention to the woman in front of me. Not to her problem. To her.
✶ This is not a place for performance. It is a place for truth. ✶
“There is a voice that does not use words. Listen.”
— Rumi
— Rumi
WHO THIS IS FOR
You may be here because…
Something has shifted inside you — subtly or dramatically — and you sense that what you need is not a program or a circle but a conversation. A single, sustained, deeply attentive conversation with someone who will not try to fix you or move you through, but will simply be present with you while you find your own way to what is true.
Or you are in the midst of something large — a grief, a transition, a creative emergence, a relationship that is asking everything of you — and you want the company of someone who has walked through their own difficult country and knows how to sit with another woman in hers.
Or you have done the Lilith Circle, and something opened in that work that you want to continue. Not in a group, not in a structured program, but in the particular intimacy of one-to-one.
Or you have read something on this site — an essay, a line, a description of how this work is held — and something in you said: yes. That. That is what I need. And you don’t yet know exactly what to ask for. That is enough. That is the right beginning.
Or you are in the midst of something large — a grief, a transition, a creative emergence, a relationship that is asking everything of you — and you want the company of someone who has walked through their own difficult country and knows how to sit with another woman in hers.
Or you have done the Lilith Circle, and something opened in that work that you want to continue. Not in a group, not in a structured program, but in the particular intimacy of one-to-one.
Or you have read something on this site — an essay, a line, a description of how this work is held — and something in you said: yes. That. That is what I need. And you don’t yet know exactly what to ask for. That is enough. That is the right beginning.
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
- Louisa May Alcott
- Louisa May Alcott
What I can say with certainty is this: you do not need to arrive with clarity. You do not need to know what you need. You need only to arrive honestly — with whatever you are carrying, and the willingness to set it down and look at it together.
HOW THIS WORK IS HELD
The quality of the container
The one-to-one work at Lotus Space is shaped by several principles that distinguish it from other forms of coaching or therapeutic support.
Soul-language comes first
We do not begin with goals or action plans. We begin with where you actually are. What you are feeling in your body. What images or dreams or recurring thoughts have been arriving. What the myth or the poem or the story that is living in you right now is trying to say. The practical follows when it is ready. It is never the starting point.
The body is included
The interior life does not live only in the mind. What you are navigating is held in your body — in the way you breathe when you speak about it, in the places that tighten or soften, in the physical sense of something being right or wrong that knows before the intellect does. We attend to this. The body is not a container for the mind. It is a site of knowing in its own right.
Myth and archetype as living maps
The ancient stories are not decorative references. They are maps of the terrain you may be navigating. When a woman is in the midst of a descent, knowing that Inanna made this journey — that she hung on the hook and survived it and came back changed but whole — does something that no amount of practical advice can do. It names where you are. It tells you that others have been here before you. It holds open the possibility of return.
Poetry as a working tool
When the right poem arrives at the right moment in a session, something opens that was not open before. I bring poetry into this work as Clarissa Pinkola Estés and David Whyte and Francis Weller bring it into theirs — not as illustration but as direct encounter with a truth that resists being said in any other form.
Rigour without pressure
This is not a soft container. I will ask you things that matter. I will notice what you are not saying as well as what you are. I will hold you to the truth of your own experience with care and precision. But there is no pressure to arrive at conclusions before you are ready, or to perform a version of your own growth for anyone else’s benefit. The pace is yours. The direction is yours. The work is ours.
Complete confidentiality
What is spoken in this space stays in this space. Not as a policy but as a covenant. The kind of truth-telling this work requires is only possible inside a container of absolute trust.
We do not begin with goals or action plans. We begin with where you actually are. What you are feeling in your body. What images or dreams or recurring thoughts have been arriving. What the myth or the poem or the story that is living in you right now is trying to say. The practical follows when it is ready. It is never the starting point.
The body is included
The interior life does not live only in the mind. What you are navigating is held in your body — in the way you breathe when you speak about it, in the places that tighten or soften, in the physical sense of something being right or wrong that knows before the intellect does. We attend to this. The body is not a container for the mind. It is a site of knowing in its own right.
Myth and archetype as living maps
The ancient stories are not decorative references. They are maps of the terrain you may be navigating. When a woman is in the midst of a descent, knowing that Inanna made this journey — that she hung on the hook and survived it and came back changed but whole — does something that no amount of practical advice can do. It names where you are. It tells you that others have been here before you. It holds open the possibility of return.
Poetry as a working tool
When the right poem arrives at the right moment in a session, something opens that was not open before. I bring poetry into this work as Clarissa Pinkola Estés and David Whyte and Francis Weller bring it into theirs — not as illustration but as direct encounter with a truth that resists being said in any other form.
Rigour without pressure
This is not a soft container. I will ask you things that matter. I will notice what you are not saying as well as what you are. I will hold you to the truth of your own experience with care and precision. But there is no pressure to arrive at conclusions before you are ready, or to perform a version of your own growth for anyone else’s benefit. The pace is yours. The direction is yours. The work is ours.
Complete confidentiality
What is spoken in this space stays in this space. Not as a policy but as a covenant. The kind of truth-telling this work requires is only possible inside a container of absolute trust.
✶ She was not asked to perform her wholeness. She was simply held in it. ✶
From surviving to being fully alive
From a fixed story to an authored one
THE THREE CONTAINERS
Three ways to begin
I offer one-to-one work in three forms. Each is complete in itself. Each can also become the doorway to something longer, if that is what is needed.
01. The Threshold Consultation
A single conversation, held with the full depth and preparation of any sustained piece of work.
You do not need to know what you are coming for. Many women arrive at a Threshold Consultation carrying a question they cannot yet articulate — a sense of something present that does not yet have a name, a crossroads that does not yet have directions. The consultation creates the space for that something to become visible.
We will not skim the surface. We will not use this session for intake or assessment. We will go directly into what is actually happening — using whatever tools and approaches the moment requires — and we will see what becomes clear.
Sometimes one conversation is exactly what is needed. Sometimes it becomes the beginning of a longer journey. Sometimes it reveals that what is needed is the Lilith Circle rather than one-to-one work. All of these are equally good outcomes.
The Threshold Consultation is also available to women who have completed a program like the Lilith Circle — and find themselves at a new edge some months later, needing a single session of re-grounding rather than a new program.
You do not need to know what you are coming for. Many women arrive at a Threshold Consultation carrying a question they cannot yet articulate — a sense of something present that does not yet have a name, a crossroads that does not yet have directions. The consultation creates the space for that something to become visible.
We will not skim the surface. We will not use this session for intake or assessment. We will go directly into what is actually happening — using whatever tools and approaches the moment requires — and we will see what becomes clear.
Sometimes one conversation is exactly what is needed. Sometimes it becomes the beginning of a longer journey. Sometimes it reveals that what is needed is the Lilith Circle rather than one-to-one work. All of these are equally good outcomes.
The Threshold Consultation is also available to women who have completed a program like the Lilith Circle — and find themselves at a new edge some months later, needing a single session of re-grounding rather than a new program.
The Threshold Consultation
A single 90-minute session
A single 90-minute session
- 90 minutes, held via Zoom.
- Full preparation by Maureen in advance
- A brief written reflection sent to you within 48 hours
- No obligation to continue
Investment: AUD $369
02. The Emergence Series
For the woman who is in the midst of something and knows she needs more than one conversation.
A threshold is not resolved in a single session. If you are in the middle of a significant passage — a grief, a creative emergence, a relational rupture, a life transition that is asking something new of you — you need sustained presence, not a one-off.
The Emergence Series is four to six sessions held over four to six months — one session per month, with the option to add voice message support between sessions for the moments that do not wait for the next appointment.
The series is shaped around where you are and what you are navigating. There is no fixed curriculum. There are recurring threads — myth, body, poetry, the soul’s language — and there is the particular arc of your particular journey, which will tell us where to go.
Four sessions if the threshold is defined and you are already close to what you need. Six sessions if the terrain is less clear, or if what needs to happen requires more time to emerge. We discuss which is right for you before we begin
For the woman who is in the midst of something and knows she needs more than one conversation.
A threshold is not resolved in a single session. If you are in the middle of a significant passage — a grief, a creative emergence, a relational rupture, a life transition that is asking something new of you — you need sustained presence, not a one-off.
The Emergence Series is four to six sessions held over four to six months — one session per month, with the option to add voice message support between sessions for the moments that do not wait for the next appointment.
The series is shaped around where you are and what you are navigating. There is no fixed curriculum. There are recurring threads — myth, body, poetry, the soul’s language — and there is the particular arc of your particular journey, which will tell us where to go.
Four sessions if the threshold is defined and you are already close to what you need. Six sessions if the terrain is less clear, or if what needs to happen requires more time to emerge. We discuss which is right for you before we begin
The Emergence Series
Four or six sessions over four to six months
Four or six sessions over four to six months
- Four sessions (4 × 90 minutes) or six sessions (6 × 90 minutes)
- Held via Zoom or in person in Brisbane, monthly
- Voice message support between sessions
- A threshold text or poem offered at each session
- A brief written reflection after each session
Investment: AUD $1,680 (4 sessions) – AUD $2,120 (6 sessions)
03. The Companion Journey
For the woman who wants a sustained companion for the interior journey, without the structure of a defined program.
Some women do not need a program. They need a relationship — an ongoing, evolving, responsive companionship with someone who knows them across time, who holds the thread of their story from session to session, who is present at the moments when life asks the most of them.
The Companion Journey is an ongoing monthly one-to-one relationship, renewed each quarter. It is not open-ended in a way that creates dependency. It is renewed consciously, deliberately, because both of us agree that the work is alive and the relationship is serving your growth.
Women who come to the Companion Journey are often those who have completed the Lilith Circle and want to continue the work in a more sustained and personal form. Or women who have been in the one-to-one work for some time and find that what they need is not more programs but more depth in the same ongoing relationship.
The Companion Journey is offered to a very small number of women at any time. When it is full, it is full.
The Companion Journey
Ongoing monthly sessions, renewed quarterly
Ongoing monthly sessions, renewed quarterly
- One 90-minute session per month
- Held via Zoom or in person in Brisbane
- Voice message support between sessions
- Threshold texts, poetry, and practices offered as the work requires
- Renewed consciously each quarter
- Available to a small number of women only
Investment: AUD $1,440
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
What women say happens
I am careful about the language of outcomes. The interior journey does not lend itself to bullet points. What happens in this work is not a set of deliverables.
But it is real. And women who have done this work describe it in ways that are consistent enough to name.
They begin to hear themselves
The noise — the accumulated opinions and expectations and inherited narratives of other people — begins to quieten. Not all at once. But gradually, a woman begins to distinguish between what she actually thinks and feels and knows, and what she has been told to think and feel and know. This distinction changes everything.
The body stops being a problem
Many women arrive carrying a fraught relationship with their own body — a sense that it is something to be managed, corralled, made presentable. In this work, the body becomes an ally. A source of information that is more reliable, in many ways, than the mind. This shift in relationship — from adversary to companion — is one of the most quietly significant things that can happen.
The story changes
Not the facts of what happened. Those do not change. But the meaning — the story that has been built around the facts, the narrative that says here is who I am and here is what is possible for me — begins to shift. Old stories loosen. New ones, truer ones, begin to form. This is not positive thinking. It is honest re-authorship.
The indestructible something becomes audible
Every woman I have worked with has, at some point in the work, encountered it — the part of her that did not break, that refused to become less, that has been carrying the flame through everything that has been pressed down on it. When a woman hears that voice clearly — not for the first time, but perhaps for the first time without shame or qualification — something settles in her that had not been settled before. She knows who she is. She always did. She just needed someone to be present while she remembered.
But it is real. And women who have done this work describe it in ways that are consistent enough to name.
They begin to hear themselves
The noise — the accumulated opinions and expectations and inherited narratives of other people — begins to quieten. Not all at once. But gradually, a woman begins to distinguish between what she actually thinks and feels and knows, and what she has been told to think and feel and know. This distinction changes everything.
The body stops being a problem
Many women arrive carrying a fraught relationship with their own body — a sense that it is something to be managed, corralled, made presentable. In this work, the body becomes an ally. A source of information that is more reliable, in many ways, than the mind. This shift in relationship — from adversary to companion — is one of the most quietly significant things that can happen.
The story changes
Not the facts of what happened. Those do not change. But the meaning — the story that has been built around the facts, the narrative that says here is who I am and here is what is possible for me — begins to shift. Old stories loosen. New ones, truer ones, begin to form. This is not positive thinking. It is honest re-authorship.
The indestructible something becomes audible
Every woman I have worked with has, at some point in the work, encountered it — the part of her that did not break, that refused to become less, that has been carrying the flame through everything that has been pressed down on it. When a woman hears that voice clearly — not for the first time, but perhaps for the first time without shame or qualification — something settles in her that had not been settled before. She knows who she is. She always did. She just needed someone to be present while she remembered.
"I felt more deeply alive after the sessions. The coaching was a real gift, enabling me to sort out my thinking - a rare and a beautiful offering.
The process was rich, powerful and inclusive."
Kate – Queensland
The process was rich, powerful and inclusive."
Kate – Queensland
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
— Rumi
— Rumi
BEFORE WE BEGIN
What this work is not
Because honesty is the foundation of everything I offer, I want to be clear about what the one-to-one work at Lotus Space is not.
It is not therapy
I am not a psychologist or a therapist. This work does not diagnose, treat, or manage mental health conditions. If you are experiencing acute mental health difficulties — depression, anxiety, trauma responses that are destabilising your daily life — please seek professional mental health support first. This work may be a powerful complement to that support, but it is not a substitute for it.
It is not executive or career coaching
The soulful coaching I offer through Lotus Space is focused on the interior life, not the professional one. If you are looking for coaching to help you navigate leadership challenges, organisational dynamics, or career transitions, that work is available through Owen Consulting Services. There is sometimes an overlap — a woman navigating a professional threshold is often navigating a soul-level one simultaneously — and I will name it if I see it. But the primary focus here is not the career.
It is not a quick answer
If what you need is clarity by next Tuesday, this is not the right place. The soul moves at its own pace. The work requires patience — with the process, with yourself, with the not-knowing that is often the beginning of real knowing. I will not manufacture urgency, and I will not offer shortcuts that bypass what actually needs to happen
I am not a psychologist or a therapist. This work does not diagnose, treat, or manage mental health conditions. If you are experiencing acute mental health difficulties — depression, anxiety, trauma responses that are destabilising your daily life — please seek professional mental health support first. This work may be a powerful complement to that support, but it is not a substitute for it.
It is not executive or career coaching
The soulful coaching I offer through Lotus Space is focused on the interior life, not the professional one. If you are looking for coaching to help you navigate leadership challenges, organisational dynamics, or career transitions, that work is available through Owen Consulting Services. There is sometimes an overlap — a woman navigating a professional threshold is often navigating a soul-level one simultaneously — and I will name it if I see it. But the primary focus here is not the career.
It is not a quick answer
If what you need is clarity by next Tuesday, this is not the right place. The soul moves at its own pace. The work requires patience — with the process, with yourself, with the not-knowing that is often the beginning of real knowing. I will not manufacture urgency, and I will not offer shortcuts that bypass what actually needs to happen
THE CLOSING INVITATION
If something in you is ready…
You do not need to have it figured out.
The women who come to this work almost never arrive with a clear and articulable question. They arrive with a sense — often unnameable, sometimes quietly desperate, usually long overdue — that something is being asked of them that they do not yet know how to answer.
That sense is enough. It is more than enough. It is, in fact, exactly the right beginning.
The first step is simply a conversation — an initial call of about thirty minutes in which we can hear each other, and feel whether this is the right container for this moment. There is no obligation. If it is not the right fit, I will say so honestly and, if I can, point you toward what might be.
If you are reading this and something in you is saying yes — not the yes of certainty, but the yes of recognition, the yes of a woman who has been waiting for something real — then I invite you to reach out.
That sense is enough. It is more than enough. It is, in fact, exactly the right beginning.
The first step is simply a conversation — an initial call of about thirty minutes in which we can hear each other, and feel whether this is the right container for this moment. There is no obligation. If it is not the right fit, I will say so honestly and, if I can, point you toward what might be.
If you are reading this and something in you is saying yes — not the yes of certainty, but the yes of recognition, the yes of a woman who has been waiting for something real — then I invite you to reach out.
She is not lost. She is right here.
And she has been waiting, with great patience and increasing insistence, for exactly this.
And she has been waiting, with great patience and increasing insistence, for exactly this.
"Maureen has coached me for the last 18 months through some really difficult personal and professional times. She is professional, warm, funny and fun, super impressive in an understated way, smart and able to hold a space like no one I know.
She has given me a new understanding of the value of shadow work, was willing to tackle difficult topics and challenge me in a productive way that meant I didn’t get defensive. Maureen saw me for who I am rather than what I’ve done or achieved and reminded me how magnificent I am.
I unreservedly recommend Maureen for personal and professional coaching."
Cassandra – Queensland
She has given me a new understanding of the value of shadow work, was willing to tackle difficult topics and challenge me in a productive way that meant I didn’t get defensive. Maureen saw me for who I am rather than what I’ve done or achieved and reminded me how magnificent I am.
I unreservedly recommend Maureen for personal and professional coaching."
Cassandra – Queensland
“We were meant for more than endurance.
We were meant to dance and sing, play and laugh --
to unselfconsciously tell our stories, to make love
and take delight in this brief, privileged,
luminous adventure of being alive.”
- Francis Weller
We were meant to dance and sing, play and laugh --
to unselfconsciously tell our stories, to make love
and take delight in this brief, privileged,
luminous adventure of being alive.”
- Francis Weller
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