All around us we see institutions and systems that are no longer fit for purpose. And leaders who are overwhelmed by the increasing levels of uncertainty and complexity.
Sometimes you wonder if there is more to all of this. All this rushing around, all this distraction, all the work you do. A barely discernible inner voice nags away in the background - am I doing enough, will life be OK for the next generation? But there is hardly enough energy to get through the week, so you limit your attention to what you can do, what you have to do.
What if you could come together with other successful like-minded women, who care as deeply as you do? Where you feel you belong and can be yourself. And have fun along the way. Buoyed to address the challenges of our day - personal, organisational, and societal. Because they are all interlinked.
The time is now. It’s time to use your power differently. The power of an integrated intelligence that moves dynamically, organically, and fractally, to more fully play your unique part in creating a better world. With other powerful women who get it. Accessing your natural but forgotten capacity to dance with the unknown and the complex, whilst shifting how you see things as you go.
“We are in a period of immense transition with very few sage guides to walk beside us. I believe that Áine is one of those deeply needed sage guides. Her heightened ability to observe and provide counsel, her ability to withhold judgement and let go, coupled with compassion and love, makes her role critical to our shared future””
“A Game Changing Collective of women was one of the most prescient things I’ve been part of, what a privilege.”
Overview of the
Conscious Game Changers
Programme
Over the 12 months programme, as part of a group of Conscious Game Changers, you can become more energised and build on your extensive experience to create meaningful change, in areas that matter to you.
It will require you to open up, be challenged, give support, and be supported by a group of like-minded, influential women, to access your inner power in being a Conscious Game Changer, in your own unique way.
Here is an overview of what to expect:
The programme is a deeply immersive experience, an experiential feast. A Digital Temple, where you come for one-on-one sessions with Áine and monthly group transformation sessions, in a powerful catalytic group container, with your fellow travellers.
Inner transformation, deep connection and outer action are all incorporated to create meaningful change. Two residential retreats (desirable but optional), are offered for nourishment, invigoration and deep work on your transformation. Online frameworks, worksheets and practices, aligned with each group session are provided.
Your uniqueness is deeply honoured, your unfolding transformation is evoked and mapped out. We use leading-edge psychological frameworks, systems thinking, and incorporate image and metaphor, poetry and dancing.
“We can transform our worlds for the better when we find our voices, join with others and take action consistently with our purpose. This is what being part of the Game Changers Group showed me. Inner transformation is so important – but it can be confronting. Undertaking this process with the guidance, wisdom, compassion, humour and accountability of the Game Changers Group makes it possible. By challenging our narratives, the Game Changers Group opens up new perspectives, the letting go of fear and limitations, and creates the potential and excitement for positive and systemic change.I so looked forward to the time I spent with my fellow Game Changers and I cannot express my gratitude enough to Aine. ”
“The process and way Aine uses her decades of experience and wisdom to identify and name your current state and potential future state is remarkable. Game Changers guides you to a vision of your optimal self as a contributor and agent of change. As the program develops over the months, its impact sneaks up on you. It is like an awakening. The women in my group were wonderful and the respect we have for each other is immense. Many of us have continued to collaborate and support each other’s work as a result of the program which has been a joy and unexpected outcome”
Research behind the
Conscious Game Changers
Programme
The design of the Conscious Game Changers programme is based on over 25 years of working in the field of change with senior leaders, organisational change advisors, organisations, and institutions. It is informed by consulting on a range of change projects across three continents and Áine’s extensive training and experience in areas such as:
Defensive Reasoning (Harvard’s Chris Arygris)
Adult Development (Terri O’Fallon),
Complexity and Systems Change (Nora Bateson),
Integral Models of Change (Ken Wilber),
Voice Dialogue (Hal & Sidra Stone),
Somatic Psychotherapy (3-year programme based on bioenergetics), and
Immersion in different models of awareness practice.
To create meaningful change we need to act simultaneously from four domains of experience:
The Technical domain of Tangible Problems/Solutions
The Cultural domain of Ways of Relating and Systems of Organising and Governing, that can materialise and reinforce problems AND can invigorate and liberate
The domain of Self that, in ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling and acting can create problems, AND can be a source of ingenuity and good, with deep reserves of untapped potential
The domain of Being or the Field of Awareness which contains and infuses all, holding paradox and mystery and unlimited possibility
We can work with our Being, Hearts, Heads and Hands when we access all four of these domains to create meaningful change. We create partial solutions when we miss one of these domains, often with unintended consequences.
“Something magical gathers when women with intention to make a difference come together to learn, reflect, awaken. Áine is an Alchemist. In Game Changers she creates a group atmosphere where one’s vulnerability opens into creativity. It is a space fused by courage, kindness and laughter – critical ingredients for those taking on the hard work of change agency. Deep thanks for sharing powerful tools that enable continual, graceful pivoting towards the good.”
Benefits of the
Conscious Game Changers
Programme
Over 12 months, as part of an intimate, select group of Conscious Game Changers, you will be guided to:
Build real relationships that are meaningful and long-lasting with like-minded and like-hearted powerful women, who feel the pain of the world’s problems and get what it is like to be you.
Tap into deep reserves of energy and strength, powerfully connecting inside with what you are here on this earth to do.
Feel the invincible power of you connected with the field of possibility, whilst dropping down into your body.
Dance with uncertainty and complex entangled difficulties, in ways that are ultimately spontaneous, joyful and open up novel solutions.
Become magnetic, suffused with new ideas full of creative potential, moving out energetically into a more expanded sense of self.
Use your mind in service of your soulful intelligence to design concrete actions, where there is less forcing, less pushing, less effort.
Become kinder to yourself and others, feeling less inner angst and less outer conflict.
Stop giving yourself away in the small ways you accommodate others to your detriment, or in the bigger ways where you say yes when you want to say no.
Spark off the brightest minds to untangle persistent nagging difficulties.
Become more accessible to others, free to use your natural gifts, and clear about how to get the right support.
Learn how to address technical problems in ways that create more sustainable solutions, by going upstream to leverage the power of new ways of relating and perceiving.
This programme is for successful influential women, who care, want to grow, and be guided
to create meaningful change, with other like-minded powerful women.
“Being part of the Game Changers was a turning point in my life. Aine’s ability to transform myself and the wonderful, supportive women in my group, whom I now call my friends, was remarkable. Her wisdom, honesty and compassion helped each of us find new confidence, clarity and purpose. She helped us understand that we must use our power differently. We must release power from within, working with both our heads and our hearts to drive meaningful impact in this increasingly uncertain and complex world. There has never been a more important time for the Game Changers initiative. Much will be expected from those who participate, but the rewards can be life changing. The opportunity to work together with like-minded women on creating a better world is an opportunity not frequently offered, but one of the best decisions I ever made.”
Content of the Programme
The Way of the Conscious Game Changer
1. The Process of Change Activation
Mapping Your Unique Transformation Journey, incorporating Images and Metaphors
Co-designing Tailored Transformation Practices
Mapping the Possibilities and Challenges of Your Change Context
2. The Gateway of Grounded Connection
Knowing you Matter - Feeling like you Belong
Relishing a Real Down to Earth, Eyes Wide Open Seeing of Who You Are
Experiencing the Tender and Fierce Care of Like-Minded Others
Delving into Your Territory of Change
3. The Shape of Meaningful Focus
Knowing Deep in your Bones ‘What is Yours to Do’
Reconciling Different parts and Becoming more Comfortable with ‘Not Knowing’
Enjoying the Realisation of your Own and Others Uniqueness
Mapping Your Field of Change
4. The Portal of Possibility
Learning to Turn Poison into Nectar - Transforming Emotions
Tapping into a rich Source of Energy - Uplifting Your Spirit
Letting Go into the Nourishing Depths - Illuminating Your Blind Spots
Igniting Novel Ways of Seeing and Acting - Supporting Your Change
5. The Cycle of Wise Action
Untangling the Invisible Binds that Imperceptibly Hold You Back, and Opening Up, Down, and In to Being ALL of You?
Liberating more of the Power that Comes from Inside you
Dancing to the Beat of your own Drum and Feeling the Thrill of Experimenting
Engaging in the Trenches of Your Change
6. The Field of Reciprocity
Unlocking Defensive Reasoning and Opening up Novel Perspectives
Going Beyond Familiar Ways of Relating and Learning to Stay True to you
Building on Emerging Ways Forward
7. The Way of Celebration
Shining a Light on the Unique Brilliance of You and Your fellow Conscious Game Changers
Reviewing and Relishing the Changes you have Made
Fortifying your Bonds for the Future
Reflecting on your Progress and New Found Possibilities
“Aine’s Game Changers program is both professionally very helpful and good for the soul. Knowing our unique contribution requires a deeper understanding of Self. The program is like having a warm blanket draped over you, while you explore how you can become a more effective and fulfilled agent for change. The inspiring and caring group of women that Aine brings together, is an unexpected but brilliant part of the program - creating a long-term cohort, who you can always safely come back to at any time during our journeys of life long learning. ”
Áine Watkins
Founder and Guide
Across three continents, Áine has facilitated, coached, designed, and led people interventions in organisations in the areas of talent assessment, leadership development, and organisational change. Clients have come from an extensive range of sectors including finance, health, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, telecommunications, and professional services. Before and after working as a management consultant, based in London for PricewaterhouseCoopers for almost a decade, she worked as a transformation consultant for two niche consulting firms, one based in London and the other in Sydney.
Áine’s passion has always been working at the leading edge of change interventions. In 2017, she convened her first group of Game Changers in Sydney, wanting to use her experience to create a wider impact, beyond the success of individuals and organisations. She engages in an iterative process of experimentation and learning, fine-tuning her methodology, on an ongoing basis. She continues to advise strategic organisational change consultants and coaches a select group of leaders - partners, general managers, chief executives, chairs of boards, and professors with a particular focus on professional services.
She has been intentionally engaged in personal transformative practice since her mid 20’s, which enables her to become a clear instrument of change and gives an unparalleled understanding of the complexity at the heart of us all. Qualifications include an MSc in Organisational Psychology and a BA in Psychology. She is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society.
Summary
Two 90 min 1:1 sessions with Áine Watkins at the beginning of the programme, to map out your personalised transformation journey and the external changes you are creating.
Two additional 1:1 sessions with Áine Watkins, over the course of the programme, to tailor practices to your specific needs.
Eight monthly curated 3-hour virtual group sessions, to engage in specifically designed processes of transformation.
Eight monthly curated 1.5-hour virtual group sessions to workshop your specific ‘external’ challenges.
Access to a portal of online support materials to supplement your learning, offered before and after online groups.
Two weekend residential retreats.
Menu of practices and worksheets to facilitate change as well as a tailored transformation map and practices from the 1:1 meetings.
Private messenger group (on WhatsApp or Signal) where you can engage with each other between group sessions.
Timing accommodates European and Australian Time Zones.
Payment Details
The price of the 12-month programme is AUD12,000+ GST. A 50% deposit is required to confirm your place in the programme. Payment for the remaining 50% balance is due half way through the programme. This is for a limited time only due to the small number of spaces.
“Áine brings women who believe in the power of community together. When she invited each of us us into her first Game Changers group, I found a not only a unique group of women - a sisterhood - but also a way of closing the doors on doubt or that feeling of ‘why me’ and finding a path to ‘it’s all of us and my part is important to what we can all achieve’. I’d wish a Game Changers experience for every woman I know an opportunity to spend hours learning from each other, doing the hard work to understand yourself, and a deep appreciation that we are each an important link in the chain and that this is our time.”
“I really wasn’t sure what to expect when I signed up to Game Changers. I thoroughly enjoyed the initial one on one sessions with Aine who made me feel at ease and gave me a lot of food for thought and internal reflection.This started my journey. I felt initially nervous about group sessions and working with people I didn’t know and really opening up to them. This feeling was short lived and I was soon inspired to be part of such an amazing group. I looked forward to our sessions. The group comprised successful, supportive, empowering, amazing and kind women. I felt inspired and empowered after every session. I felt a sense of belonging and contentment. They challenged me to work harder and reflect to become the best version of myself. I can’t recommend this group highly enough. Thank you Aine for facilitating such an amazing experience for us all. I have made lifelong friends.”
