Welcome to Flourishing Phoenixes
Empowering Your Journey: From Burnout to Breakthrough
My name is Megan Woods and I am the founder of Flourishing Phoenixes. I am an academic, author, life coach and professional speaker.
I am passionate about helping people be the best version of themselves and I do that by meeting them where they are at, and then helping them bridge the gap between what they can achieve on their own, and what they can achieve with guidance, support and encouragement.
As a coach, I work with people who want to move forward from big life experiences and flourish in the next chapter of their lives. I specialise in supporting people who want to flourish after work-related experiences they found depleting or toxic. Some of my clients have experienced burnout. Others have returned to working after experiencing mental ill-health. But all of them have felt, at times, like a phoenix emerging from the ashes: a bit bruised, a bit wobbly and a bit unsure when they'll ever feel bright and shiny again. And now they're flourishing and flying. Some have pursued a new professional direction, or fulfilled a lifelong ambition. Some have redesigned their lives to make room for new priorities and joys. Some have reignited their professional passion. But all of them have found more clarity, more confidence and more joy. And they're shining again.
So if you are looking to flourish and rise like a phoenix. I'm here to help. I’m here to create a safe and quiet space for you, to focus on what you want, and what you want to happen next.You can feel however you feel. You can say whatever you have to say. I’m here to help you feel clear about what you want, and how you want to go after it in ways that feel safe and authentic to you. I’m here to help you feel seen, and heard, and understood, and that you have someone on your side, jogging alongside with a towel and a water bottle, to help you navigate your journey, cheer you on, and bear witness to what you achieve.
What I bring
In this work I draw on the expertise about the interactions between our work and personal selves I have developed through the research, teaching and consulting I have undertaken as an academic in human resources management. Over the last twenty years, I've explored work-related mental health, psychological safety, and various ways that work-related experiences impact people’s feelings of hope, optimism, resilience and self-efficacy (aka their psychological capital). I'm currently researching factors that contribute to - and help people deal with and recover from - burnout, imposter phenomenon, and psychological injury.
But I feel most passionate about the work I have done to understand more deeply, and improve, the lived experiences of people who are recovering, and returning to work, from mental ill-health. This work has included projects that explored people's experiences of returning to work from depression and anxiety, and of dealing with the worker's compensation system, and how those experiences have been enhanced (or worsened) by their work environment. Most recently, with funding from the WorkCover Board of Tasmania, I led the development of two suites of research-informed and evidence-based resources specifically designed to support workers, and their managers, through the process of preparing for, developing and implementing a return to work plan for people returning to work after time off due to depression or anxiety. Those resources will soon be publicly available, and I am both excited and humbled to think how many people they will help.
And now, having trained and qualified as a life coach with the Beautiful You Coaching Academy, I use my coaching skills to leverage my personal and professional knowledge of experiencing, recovering from and transforming through big life changes to help my clients thrive and flourish.
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Shine a light consultation package
My Shine A Light package is designed to support you to explore one specific issue or change you want to address and move forward with. For those times when you want someone in your corner to
- Develop strategies to tackle the situation
- Help you feel confident and comfortable about the approach you want to take
- Cheer for you as you step into the light, and as you bow off stage afterwards
Shine a Light could be for you if you’re:
- Dealing with a difficult work situation and you want to talk it out so you can figure out how to start dealing with it differently
- Working out how you want to move ahead with something that feels big (go for a job interview, apply for promotion) with a game plan and a feeling of confidence
- Loving the idea of having support, but not sure if you need the ongoing support of a full coaching series
When you invest in the Shine a Light Package I provide
- A pre-session questionnaire you complete before we meet so you can help me understand what you want to explore or change in our work together
- A 2 hour online consultation session in which we talk through what you want to change, and develop some strategies you can use to move things forward
- Ongoing support from me between sessions via email and / or voice note
- A 30 minute online follow-up session held one month after our consultation (or sooner, of you prefer) to review and celebrate what you’ve achieved
Investment: $300 plus GST
Clarity Action Joy coaching package
My Clarity – Action – Joy coaching package is designed to help you
- Understand more clearly where you’re at now, and what you want to feel, be and do by the time you complete your coaching series.
- Develop and implement a bespoke plan of action so you can make the changes you want to make in the ways that feel most right for you. In this part of the series, we start to really delve deeper into what you truly want for yourself – how you want things to be and feel, but also how you want to make that happen. That includes creating the space and opportunity for you to be a bit playful and try experimenting with different ways to achieve what you want to see which ones work - and feel - the best for you.
- Celebrate you and what you’re achieving for yourself by being with you the whole way.
The Clarity – Action – Joy coaching series is for you if you want:
- to feel seen, heard and unconditionally supported to go after whatever you want, and make your life whatever you want it to be
- to get more grounded in what you really want, and untangle that from what you did want, think you should want, or what other people want for (and from) you
- help and support to shut up (or even befriend!) your inner ‘mean girl’, and bring out your confidence and inner cheerleader
When you invest in a Clarity – Action – Joy coaching series I provide
- A pre-session questionnaire you complete before we meet so I understand how you would like to flourish, and especially, how you’d like to be clearer about what you want to feel, and be and do, how you’d like to take action to go after that for yourself, and the joy and joyousness you want to feel when you do.
- A 60-90 minute online consultation session every fortnight (6 sessions over 3 months or 12 sessions over 6 months) in which we work out what you want to achieve through our work together, develop the strategies and actions you can use to move things forward, and celebrate what you’re achieving as you create the experience of life you want to have
- Ongoing support I provide between sessions via email and / or voicenote, worksheets I write to help you achieve clarity, take action, and embed the changes you want for your life, and an online coaching journal you can use to share your progress, reflections, wins and challenges with me – or ask questions and ask for help - between our live sessions
Investment: $1800 (plus GST) for a 3 month package or $3000 (plus GST) for a 6 month package
Momentum support package
My Momentum package helps clients who have completed a coaching series with me tap back into my support as they continue their journey.
The Momentum package is for you if you
- know how you want to move forward, but want me to come with you on that journey to be your companion and cheerleader
- already know (or have now realised!) you achieve more when you have someone to check in with and be accountable to
- want to be able to share your progress and wins with someone who deeply understands what they mean to you and appreciates exactly what it has taken for you to get here
- want to be able to share and celebrate your wins with someone with whom you can fully own and enjoy your success (and not feel like you have to play it down)
The Momentum series runs for three months and includes
- A 30-minute discovery call held via phone or Zoom to explore what you want to achieve with Momentum support.
- one 90-minute live support session (or two 45-minute live support sessions) per month conducted via Zoom.
Investment: $600 per series (plus GST) if paid monthly, or $500 per series (plus GST) if paid in full before commencing).
