INVITATION TO WORK WITH ME 1-ON-1
I have a mentorship for experienced consultants, advisors, and practitioners who sense a more advanced version of their work ahead of them, more fully their own than what they’re doing now, and they can no longer set it aside.
They want to bring that work forward at the level it’s meant for, built around how their mind actually works, even when others don’t understand or push back.
For some, that means a new direction. For others, it means making a more significant contribution in the role they already have, or changing the clients and problems they work with.
And they want a thought partner who can recognize what they may not yet see about their own work, without deciding for them what it should become.
Over 12 months, we work across three connected areas, returning to each as you and your work develop:
1) Building the foundation for what’s next
The more advanced work you’re moving toward calls for steadiness in the situations where your automatic reactions can still take over. When something feels uncertain, or someone pushes back, you might self-edit, over-explain, take responsibility for how they feel, or reconsider what you wanted.
Some of these reactions follow unconscious rules learned much earlier in life. These rules can also filter what you consider possible. You may find yourself gravitating toward options that seem safe or readily understood by other people. Others, including the ones that could suit you better, get dropped before you even know they were there.
We identify the specific rules influencing your responses, explore where they came from, and work to update them.
So when someone pushes back, you can distinguish between a valid reason to reconsider and a familiar reaction taking over. You become better able to tell which ideas you actually want to pursue and which ones you’ve learned to think you should want, then make decisions based on what matters to you and what the situation calls for.
2) Shaping the next expression of your work
The way you see patterns, make connections, understand people, or approach certain problems comes so naturally you don’t always notice what you’re doing, or how.
We look closely at your experiences to identify what you do differently from others with the same title, how those abilities work, and where you want to use them. You come away better able to put words to it.
We also get specific about fit: the clients, problems, and conditions that suit you. For the people I work best with, fit isn’t simply a preference. Certain working conditions can take a substantial toll on their energy and capacity, while the right ones support them in doing their best work.
Throughout this process, I notice patterns across what you tell me, connect things you’ve described in different situations, and draw your attention to details that haven’t yet become apparent to you. We examine those observations together, and you determine what fits your experience.
From there, we develop a clearer picture of the work and direction that suit you and how you want to bring your contribution forward.
3) Holding the work steady as it expands
As you make changes, new situations come up. People respond in ways you didn’t expect. Familiar themes return in different circumstances, now at a level you have more capacity to work with.
We work with what’s coming up as it happens, whether in your work, your relationships, or other areas of your life.
Over time, things that used to affect you for days pass more quickly. You notice a familiar reaction while it’s happening instead of only understanding it afterward. Someone disagrees with you, and you can consider what they’ve said without immediately questioning yourself.
You also recognize sooner when the way you’ve set up your work needs to change and what to do about it, so your work keeps fitting you as you grow.
As part of this mentorship you'll receive:
– Regular monthly 1-on-1 Zoom sessions, typically 2–3 hours each, to explore what’s coming up in your work or other areas of life, identify relevant patterns and contributing factors, and give important questions the attention they need. A second session in months when additional support is appropriate.
– My pattern recognition and nonjudgmental perspective to help you recognize connections you may have missed, consider new possibilities, and make your own decisions
– Direct access to me between sessions through Voxer or Telegram, so we can discuss questions, decisions, and situations as they arise rather than waiting for our next meeting.
– TimeLine Therapy™ and hypnotherapy, including an initial TimeLine Therapy™ session after your intake and typically a second later in the mentorship. Additional sessions are incorporated as relevant to your progress.
– Evolutionary astrology and Human Design, used selectively as optional perspectives for self-understanding when relevant and of interest to you.
– Resources selected for your particular circumstances, which may include hypnotherapy recordings, guided visualizations, breathwork, somatic practices, or materials from my resource library.
This mentorship is for those who:
– Have already done substantial inner work and can see many of their own patterns. They want to operate from what they already know at levels they haven’t worked at before, particularly when circumstances become more complex or consequential.
– Are willing to examine their own assumptions and responses, make their own decisions, and act on what emerges while we work together. They value an outside perspective without expecting someone else to provide the answer.
– Have significant professional experience in work that relies on judgment, expertise, and the ability to understand complex situations, whether in consulting, advisory, practitioner, leadership, or another field.
– Want to be more deliberate about the problems they work on, the contribution they make, and how they spend their professional time. They want to make fuller use of their abilities through work that matters to them. Good income and professional standing still count, but on their own they’re no longer enough on their own.
This is not intended as support for someone in acute crisis, or someone primarily seeking a conventional business strategy, career-placement service, or prescribed answer about what to do next.
A NOTE ON TIMEFRAMES AND WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER:
The full mentorship begins with a 12-month engagement
I’ve chosen this timeframe because my understanding of you develops as we work together. As different situations arise in your work and life, I get to know how you respond, what matters to you, and the patterns that show up across your experiences.
We can then return to earlier questions with a fuller understanding of what’s happening, building on the changes you’ve already made and continuing to develop the work you want to bring forward.
Clients who’ve worked with me over longer periods have described becoming steadier in situations that previously affected them much more strongly, and more able to follow through with choices that matter to them.
After the initial twelve months, we can discuss continuing at a similar rhythm or moving to less frequent sessions. There’s no prescribed length for the relationship beyond that initial commitment. We decide together whether continued support is useful, and clients tend to reach a clear sense of when they’re ready to step back.
The two-month introductory engagement option
I also offer a focused two-month option for people who want to work on one important question about their professional direction, distinctive contribution, or fit.
This is the opening phase of the same approach, including an intake, one TimeLine Therapy™ session, two follow-up sessions, and Voxer or Telegram access throughout the two months.
We agree on the focus together. Depending on what you’re exploring, we work toward one of three outcomes:
1.) Direction: Better recognize where you want to take your work next, distinguishing your own interests from the directions you think you should pursue.
2.) Your distinctive contribution: More clearly recognize and describe an ability or way of working that comes naturally to you, including how and where you want to use it.
3.) Fit: More accurately discern which clients, projects, problems, or working conditions suit you, so you can make more deliberate choices about what to accept, change, or decline.
You don’t need to know which focus makes the most sense before we begin. We’ll determine that together through our initial conversations.
The two months are a complete engagement in themselves. If we both want to continue, they can also become the opening phase of the 12-month mentorship.
Pricing:
– Twelve-month mentorship: $15,000 USD, payable in full or in 12 monthly payments of $1,250.
– Two-month introductory engagement: $5,000 USD, payable in full or in two monthly payments of $2,500.
If you choose to continue into the 12-month mentorship within 30 days, the introductory engagement counts as the first two months of your mentorship, and your $5,000 investment is credited toward the total.
I’ve recently revised my mentorship structure from an initial six-month engagement to twelve months, following a detailed review of my client work.
I’m retaining my previous mentorship rate of $15,000 during this transition. Beginning January 1, 2027, the investment for the 12-month mentorship will increase to $20,000 USD.
Why I've developed this kind of mentorship
This is the kind of support I wish I’d had when I was changing my own work.
I moved from naturopathic clinical practice to online work, and then through several more changes before I got to the work I do now. Along the way, I worked with a number of mentors and received plenty of valuable advice.
But I didn’t fully understand what I wanted from my work or what truly suited me. Some of the goals I brought to those mentors were based on what I thought I should want, without realizing it at the time. They worked with the information I gave them.
Other times, I was encouraged toward approaches and directions that had worked well for other people but weren’t a good fit for me.
What I needed was someone who could recognize patterns I was too close to see, help me examine the assumptions I’d never thought to question, and distinguish what I actually wanted from what I thought I should want.
Someone who could bring their own expertise without deciding what my work should become.
I think I would have reached the work I do now with a lot less guesswork if I’d had that kind of support.
Questions about working together?
You’re welcome to email me at michelle@michelledowker.com or send me a Facebook message. I’m happy to answer questions about the approach, either engagement option, or whether this might be appropriate for your circumstances
Interested in working together?
Complete the application to get the process started.
It asks about your professional background, what you’re considering or wanting to develop, why you’re giving it attention now, what you’ve already explored, and what you’d hope to gain from working together.
I personally review each application. If it looks like we may be a good fit, I’ll email you within three business days, and we’ll arrange a conversation through your preferred communication method.
We’ll use that conversation to determine whether the work, the timing, and the engagement are right for both of us.
