Hello, lovely you!
I’m so delighted that you’re interested in 1:1 Mentoring with me!
This information is designed to help you see whether you deeply resonate with Mentoring with me, so you can connect in with your full body yes, your willingness for us to walk together.
I don’t offer one-off sessions.
If you’re wanting Aware Parenting support for one or a few sessions, you can find a list of all the amazing Aware Parenting Instructors in Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia on my website here and in the rest of the world here.
If you’re wanting shorter term Marion Method Mentoring, you can also find a list of Certified Marion Method Mentors here.
However, I do offer longer-term mentoring, for either six or 12 months.
I love supporting parents with Aware Parenting and their own reparenting and re-culturing with The Marion Method. I also work with Aware Parenting instructors and Aware Parenting instructors-in-training in their own journey of sharing their gifts with the world, using The Marion Method.
I’m passionate about guiding anyone who wants to free themselves from Disconnected Domination Culture consciousness with The Marion Method.
I have been doing mentoring with sweet Marion for more than two years and it’s been life-changing for me and my family. I’m so deeply grateful for her wisdom, guidance, and presence.
Our sessions are a dance of Aware Parenting and the Marion Method and it has been so supportive during this sacred time of motherhood, pregnancy, and postpartum. In a time that is so vulnerable and sometimes very confusing, Marion’s guidance always helps me return to my inner knowing and to a state of deep compassion, love, and will. Thank you Marion for the light you bring into this world and your incredible and powerful work.
You’re most likely to be a fit for Mentoring with me if:
You already know that you deeply resonate with me and my work and have listened to my podcasts/read my books/done my courses enough to know that we are likely to be a beautiful match.
You are willing to do your own inner work, and have probably been involved in inner work already for some time.
You deeply resonate with Aware Parenting:
You want to dive in deeper to understand Aware Parenting and to embody it at an even more nuanced level, including working with the balance of attention, attachment play, and loving limits, as well as becoming more present and compassionate with yourself and your child/ren.
You might be wanting to differentiate between needs-feelings and healing-feelings with your baby, support your toddler to sleep more restfully, or help your child to get freer from their control patterns.
However, most of all, you probably want them to stay deeply connected with who they really are, their true innate presence, their spacious awareness, and their intrinsic wisdom.
You deeply resonate with The Marion Method:
You want to apply the Marion Method to your reparenting and and/or your relationship and/or your entrepreneurial journey.
You want to really trust that your psyche and body are always doing what they understand to be most helpful, and the only thing that’s awry is that they are responding to situations from the past that no longer exist.
You want to embody the principles and practices of Love, Will and Conversations with Life in your daily life:
Love:
You’re wanting to express your feelings and thoughts and be received with unconditional love, and you want to develop or deepen your relationships with your Inner Loving Presences and to move increasingly towards unconditional self-love.
You want to increase your capacity to be lovingly present with all of your feelings, with deep compassion for all the younger parts of you, willing for them to receive reparative experiences.
You want to get free from Disconnected Domination Culture conditioning, especially guilt, shame, self-judgment, comparison, competition, and judgment of others.
Will:
You want to stop coercing yourself into doing things and overriding your noes.
You want to embody the willingness work every day, in your most minute choices, to the biggest desires and decisions in your life.
You want to get really comfortable in welcoming your frustration and rage, and to express them in healing ways.
You want to increasingly be able to listen to your yeses and noes, to embody full body yeses and noes, and to live from them in your day to day life.
You want to feel a deep sense of your true embodied power and to increasingly live from there rather than from powerlessness or power-over.
Conversations with Life:
You want support to decode the Conversations with Life, and to live your life collaborating with Life, with a deep sense of flow and trust. You want to experience a deep sense of belonging and to lovingly and willingly follow your callings.
You want your personality, life and relationships to be a clearer reflection of your Soul – who you really are, as a unique, powerful and loving being in the world, here to make a difference.
Mentoring with Marion is a magic that I didn’t know existed and I couldn’t have imagined I needed. Our time working together went beyond my expectations, and forever changed me as a woman and as a Mother.
Working with Marion has been deep and profoundly healing. We came to Aware Parenting looking for tools to help us better show up for our kids, but we are leaving with infinitely more than that.
It is impossible to practice Aware Parenting without a deep willingness to look inwardly at ourselves, and with the support of Marion’s compassionate ear, wisdom, acknowledgement and unconditional love, we have been able to explore deep aspects of our own childhood, how this shows up in our parenting and ultimately see our children, ourselves and each other with more clear and loving eyes.
Our journey with Marion through the lens of both Aware Parenting & The Marion Method, has touched on all aspects of family life. We have created more flow in how we play together, how we think about food and mealtime, how we connect as a couple, how we prepare for sleep, the language we use, the way we interact with our daughter’s school… the list goes on. It is transformational work at the deepest level.
Through her support with The Marion Method, we have untangled layers of conditioning, both societal and personal, living life more authentically from our true yeses and noes. The frameworks in The Marion Method are genius and meet you where you’re at, on all layers of your being – whether in the moment, you require mental, emotional and/or spiritual holding and support.
The voice note component has been super supportive to be able to workshop things that have come up in between sessions and also supported us to integrate. To have Marion to lean on in real time during the waves of parenting is a true gift.
Marion, thank you for everything working with you has been instrumental in supporting us to connect even deeper with the joy of parenthood and family life!
What do you really want?
Aware Parenting:
If you’re a parent, or a couple, do you want to deepen your practice Aware Parenting with your child/ren, supporting them to be deeply connected with themselves and their feelings?
The Marion Method:
Do you want to receive ongoing unconditional love, so you can find your own source of unconditional love from within? Do you want to be able to love all the parts of yourself ? Do you want to live from an anchored sense of Lovingness so you can also respond to others increasingly from there rather than from your younger parts and cultural conditioning?
Do you want to do your own inner reparenting, connecting with your inner children as well as your Inner Loving Mother and Inner Loving Father? Do you want to go back in time and receive healing for those younger parts? Do you want to support them to get freer from cultural conditioning and to put down the guilt and shame sticks?
Do you want to gradually free yourself from Disconnected Domination Culture conditioning of coercion, guilt and force? Do you want your Will-Hurts to be heard – your frustration, powerlessness and outrage? Do you want your willingness channel to be more free-flowing, so you become more and more willing to have, do and be what your heart desires? Do you want to feel more of your innate power?
Do you want to be a conscious participant in your Conversation with Life even more? Do you want to feel an even deeper sense of belonging, meaning, and interconnectedness?
Do you want support in sharing your gifts in the world with willingness rather than coercion? Do you want to be in clear Conversation with Life so that you feel a deep sense of flow and fulfilment in your life’s work?
Do you want to trust your Self and Life even more than you do now?
Thank you for giving my me my first experience in this lifetime of communicating with another human who seems to have no judgement and just compassion and unconditional love. I’ve literally never experienced that before to that depth and it’s amazing. It’s been such a gift to experience that from another human, thank you. It’s also been way more healing than any inner child work I’ve done before.
I’m honestly struggling to put into words how profound these last few months have been working with Marion.
I’ve only just begun walking the path I’ve always wanted to walk in motherhood and for myself and yet, the magnitude of change is unrecognizable.
My inner dialogue, my way of seeing life, motherhood, myself, family, work, really everything has shifted in the most amazing ways!
Marion’s ability to hold space, walk alongside you, and forever be that inner mother everyone longs for is a special gift to the world. I absolutely could not recommend working with Marion more.
I’m learning to trust timing, knowing everything happens exactly when it’s meant to, while still wishing I could have begun this path sooner due to the immense relief and inner calm Marion has taught me.
I am forever grateful for my time with Marion and wish I had her on speed dial for the next 20 years and beyond!
I have so much love and gratitude for this incredible woman.
I’m so willing
to support you in practicing Aware Parenting with your child/ren, if you’re a parent, so your parenting journey can be filled with love, joy, listening, and deep connection.
The Marion Method:
I would love to offer you unconditional love, over and over again.
I would love to help you hold the younger parts of you with the most gorgeous compassion, and to give them what they really needed back then.
I’m here to help you develop relationships with your own Inner Loving Presences, so that you can increasingly replace harshness and dissociation with a wellspring of loving presence for all parts of you.
I’d love to help you connect with what your heart longs for, and to hear all the parts that stop you from being willing to have that, so you can find deep, embodied willingness that Life then responds to.
I’m here to walk support you in freeing up your willingness channel, so that you feel the energy in your body to take willing action and to know how powerful you really are.
I’m willing to support you to increasingly live from your Soul; from the love and the power that you truly are; to be who you really are and do what you’re here to do.
I’d love to help you see the Messages from Life and to feel a deep sense of belonging, so that you know that you’re here for a reason and that Life wants you to share your gifts.
For so many years I had been yearning for a mentor who I felt a deep respect for and resonance with. Marion is the answer to that yearning for me.
It has been a huge year with the pregnancy and birth of my second child (the first we have practised Aware Parenting with from birth). Marion’s support has been truly invaluable, I worked through so many old wounds and fears and went on to have a beautiful, perfect, homebirth and such an easeful, powerful, and mind-blowing transition to two children.
Marion’s wisdom and deeply compassionate listening have shepherded me into a new era of personal maturation in myself and in my motherhood.
The mentoring with you has been so amazing and profoundly transformational at such a deep level that I will forever be grateful.
More details
This is mentoring, rather than therapy or counselling.
This is for people who already have some degree of I consciousness, which means you can be present with your uncomfortable feelings, are generally aware when you’re identified with younger parts of you, and know that the harsh voices about yourself are not true, even if you are still working with putting those sticks down.
This is not for people who are suicidal, clinically depressed, have frequent panic attacks, or who are often flooded by painful feelings.
“Every year I’ve seen your mentoring offers and had a strong sense that I’d love to do it but the timing never felt right. I never got a “yes”. This year I was delighted to have the “yes” and to sense the timing being right for me. I was entering a new phase of life, with my children, my work, my health and the things that I knew were holding me back. I had a sense of where I wanted to go but after years of feeling stuck in various loops, I had no clear sense of how I could get there.
I expected fireworks, revelations, dramatic unveilings and instead this year with you has been one of sweetness, love, reassurance and discovery, but in a really easeful and nourishing way. Of course there has been revelation but somehow the continual simple loving presence that you provide has created something unexpected for me – an inner resource I didn’t know I was missing and a trust that everything I need to heal is already here with me.
I think I’ve always looked for gurus, final answers, structures that would make everything better and there’s been something about this time with you and this year that has dismantled that in the best possible way – not because you aren’t amazing, wise, insightful, inspired (you are!) – but because you facilitate your mentees to recognise their own insight, wisdom, inspiration and the abundant resources we already have to heal and to create meaning in our lives.
I feel I have become more of myself, my own best ally…tuned in even more to my own magic and the magic of those around me. And the things that I dreamed of at the start of the year have somehow come to pass in a way I could never have imagined – such an easeful way. I really recognise the power of willingness now!
More than anything I have come more to peace, through our work, with the understanding that there is no destination and I’m not going to come to a place where things have stopped ever hurting! It’s such a relief! But now I have the inner resource so much more firmly in place, through your modelling what loving listening feels like in my body, to give that to myself whenever I need it.
I’m so very grateful Marion, for all of your own inner work that has got you to the place where you can offer this deep compassion for others. I have felt your lack of judgement so strongly and that has made me feel so free to explore what I really want, what is really possible and to trust that I could bring any aspect of myself and still be loved.
All this and so much more.
To anyone thinking of doing mentoring with you I would say, of course, do it! Jump in with all your many hearts. And prepare to be surprised, loved and nourished. I’m glad I waited for the “yes” and I’m so very glad it finally came!”
The specifics
The Marion Method:
LOVINGNESS WORK:
I love to listen to you with unconditional love and compassion.
I love to offer a safe space where you can express whatever you want to express and know that you will be unconditionally loved.
You could ask me to say particular phrases to you.
I can stand in for the Soul version of someone in your life, present or past, and you can say all the things you’d like to say to them and I will respond with loving compassion. You might want to hear particular phrases from them too.
I can go with you in the time machine back to painful past experiences and support you through The Inner Loving Presence Process.
I can help you differentiate between needs-feelings, healing-feelings and thoughts-feelings, and how you can respond most aptly to each.
I can support you to develop a compassionate inner dialogue and in putting down the emotional sticks (guilt, shame and other self-judgments you learnt in the Disconnected Domination Culture).
I can help you in being an emotional detective, working out themes in your life and how they are playing out.
I can support younger parts of you who are present in the here and now to be heard, supported and protected.
I love to appreciate and celebrate the ways you’ve learnt to be safe, be loved and belong.
WILL AND WILLINGNESS WORK
I can support you by being willing for what you want to be willing for.
I can stand with you in being unwilling for what you want to be unwilling for.
I can offer reparative phrases, welcoming and trusting what you want, and celebrating and appreciating your no.
I can support you in creating a willingness wall.
I can support you in setting up your own regular willingness practice.
I can listen lovingly to your frustration, anger and outrage.
I can help you learn to love your frustration, anger and outrage.
I can help you express your will energy in healing ways.
I can support you in exploring the reasons why you learnt not to say no, and help the younger parts of you to feel safe saying no.
CONVERSATIONS WITH LIFE
I can help you make sense of the messages that come during our sessions, including tech issues, background noise, or visits from children or animals.
I can help you see the Conversations with Life more clearly.
I can help you make sense of the messages that come through synchronicities, signposts, songs you keep singing, or strange things that happen.
I can support you to trust your understanding of the messages.
I can support you in deconditioning beliefs about Life supporting you.
I can support you to feel a deeper sense of belonging with Life.
“Working with you over the past three years has been a complete transformation in every facet of my life. I initially sought your guidance with the simple intention of deepening my Aware Parenting practice and helping my young baby sleep better. Little did I know that our journey together would evolve into something far greater—a profound, life-enhancing experience that has touched every part of my existence.
From the outset, your compassionate and insightful mentorship helped bring light to the complexities of past relationships, and ways these relationships were not serving me (or them). You guided me towards compassionately dissolving connections that no longer served my growth and instead, being willing for and calling in new relationships where I feel deeply seen, safe, and supported. This transition was filled with an abundance of compassion and grace, qualities that have become the foundation of my new, empowered self.
Throughout our work together, I’ve learned to reclaim my power and honour my true desires. I have become attuned to my own needs, powerfully expressing my “yes” and “no” without guilt. No longer do I find myself compromising my well-being to meet the requests of others. This shift has opened a path to living authentically and joyfully, guided by a deep trust in Life’s unfolding.
The profound changes I’ve experienced are not limited to external circumstances. Internally, I have discovered a renewed sense of self-worth and inner power. Being in your presence, Marion, and receiving your unwavering support, has allowed me to rediscover how powerful I truly am. Your ability to see, hear, and understand me in ways I had never known has been transformative.
Every session with you has been a sanctuary where I felt completely held and nurtured. The Marion Method and Aware Parenting have been instrumental in this journey, providing me with tools and insights that extend far beyond parenting. They have illuminated a path to my true self, helping me to heal and grow in ways I could never have imagined.
I am filled with immense gratitude for you, Marion. Your work, your presence, and your unwavering support have been pivotal in my journey towards a more empowered and fulfilled life. Thank you for guiding me to this place of deep connection, joy, and authenticity.”
With heartfelt appreciation,
Marion’s bright light began shining in my life a short time after giving birth. I don’t recall exactly how I found her but it felt like divine timing. There was some big shifts happening in my life and I sensed that I needed extra support plus I wanted to deepen my understanding of Aware Parenting.
Well, I had no idea what was about to unfold. It seems that since I finally had the anchoring emotional support from Marion, Life quickly revealed all the pain that had been waiting patiently to heal.
With Marion walking alongside me, I have moved through and healed parts of myself that I had once thought I may die without ever addressing.
It has been a monumental journey that has all taken place within my home with many hours of Voxer messages and Zoom calls with Marion.
It felt so incredibly huge but holding my baby in my arms every day and night always reminded me why I was doing this deep work.
I am so deeply grateful for Marion’s support. It has changed the trajectory of my life, my family and the lives of my family in generations to come.
Do you have a yes in your body?
Or send me an email!
Shelley
Aware Parenting instructor and Marion Method Mentor
Helena
Aware Parenting instructor
Kylie
Dearest Marion,
I first heard about you through a shared post from Kate Baltrotksy, an Aware Parenting Instructor I was following.
I loved what you had written and started following you. You wrote a post about willingness and ways that our own willingness (or unwillingness) show up in our children’s behaviour.
At the time I was having trouble with my breastfeeding relationship – my daughter was wanting boob all the time and I found it so difficult to say no. I started journalling about it and so much grief came up about losing her love if I said no to her. I cried rivers of tears and knew I had touched on something deep.
So I bought your willingness course and worked through it. It was life changing!
I had been trying to buy a house all year and losing out at every auction.
I was living in my mum’s shed, feeling completely isolated, my partner and I were fighting and he was sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Mum and I were fighting too, so it felt like the two people closest to me were hurting me the most. It was so hard. I was only just surviving through huge releases in emergency listening time though Hand in Hand.
Within a couple of weeks of practising willingness I was feeling like a changed woman and we finally bought a house!
The clarity I was able to bring to the negotiation of the sale made what had seemed so difficult, a complete breeze!
I was learning to hold myself through deep fear of losing love when I said no to people or stood my ground.
I signed up to the Marion Method Immersion and learnt about the whole Marion Method.
I loved learning about how the psychospiritual parenting approach and how much our babies and children mirror us and teach us about unconscious, often harmful patterning.
Parenting has become the greatest teacher through having these tools to work with this deep psychological material.
Seeing the patterns that have come about through the domination paradigm and having a framework to understand and heal is so, so powerful and I am so grateful for this work.
I then signed up for ‘The Room’ and loved tapping into the conversations with life and the poetic wisdom that the collaboration with Mary brought.
During this time I also completed ‘get free from guilt’ which I have gone back to over and over and used this information to try to guide other mothers and friends when they were hurting themselves in this way.
I kept thinking about the Marion Method but wasn’t sure if I could afford it. Then one day I decided to go for it, and emailed you about it and you said you had just been thinking that you wanted me to join the group!
It’s amazing how often these synchronicities have happened in my work with you.
The sessions with you have been so powerful. You are so supportive, so insightful, so loving.
I also just love where our conversations flow and the energy and inspiration I feel rush into my body through our conversations.
The sessions have often brought about deep healing. My relationships have all improved immensely. I am much more able to speak up for my own needs as well as listen to the needs of others even when there is conflict between the two. This in itself is huge for me!
I now feel like I have a much more solid base to put my ideas out into the world, something I have struggled with immensely in the past.
The groups are also so wonderful. To have a group of women who are deeply committed to healing from the domination paradigm and all their wonderful insights and support is so spacial and just as much part of the healing journey.
The wonderful thing is there is always more to uncover, learn and practise. The tools are like a taurus, every spiralling, turning back in and revealing more.
I am so so grateful to you, your incredible presence and your wonderful body of work, Marion. Thank you!”
Marisa xxxxx
To be able to recognise which of the three feelings I am experiencing as I have them has led me to feel joy and a feeling of completion around expression – thoughts feeling, needs feelings & healing feelings.
These teachings have been essential for my growth internally & externally. For myself & for my family.
The life I have and am creating is possible because of the listening & wisdom I have received over these past six months in this mentorship.
The willingness work is so powerful! Presence, lovingness & willingness.
I am finally arriving home within myself, coming back to living from my heart & experiencing the magic unfolding in me & around me.
Thank you for your wonderful teachings and unconditional love, Marion.
1 – 1 mentoring with Marion … It’s hard to find words to describe the journey I have been on ever since I started the mentioning.
I don’t know where to start expressing my gratitude for the things Marion has taught me.
The things I have learned have changed how I see myself and the world forever. The love and acceptance I felt during that time have been life-changing and I’m still finding it hard to understand how having Marion in my life for such a relatively short time has changed everything so totally and absolutely.
Never in my life have I felt so deeply understood, listened to and cared for and nourished.
Marion is more than a mentor. The way she helped me connect the dots in the most loving and compassionate way is like watching an artist paint a picture.
Her voice is with me every day and has become a resource that I can tap into whenever and wherever I need to. Her presence and love feel like an invisible string guiding me throughout the day giving me a sense of belonging and trust.
Marion’s work is so incredibly powerful and transformative that I truly believe that she, and everyone having been on this journey has the ability to bring change. Change that is so desperately needed.
If you feel called to do this work, do it. Don’t hesitate. This is the pathway to a journey you will never come back from. It is ongoing.
Once you are on it, and if you are willing, the invisible string of love and wisdom will guide you and stay with you gently pulling you towards the life that you have always dreamed of.
This has not only been the greatest gift to myself but to everyone around me, particularly my family. Thank you, Marion, for walking beside me and sharing your gifts, wisdom and knowledge so generously.
I cannot begin to express with words all the ways that working 1 on 1 with Marion Rose has completely changed the course of my life. Giving myself the gift of working 1 on 1 with her will forever be one of the most important ways I have chosen to spend my money. There is no price I could put on the transformations that have happened in my life as a result of this work. Working with Marion has laid the foundation on which I will spend the rest of my life building on.
If you’re looking to work with someone 1 on 1 who will support you completely, honour you deeply, and guide you with LOVE, look no further. I promise you won’t regret it!!
Marion, you are my psychospiritual mentor and I deeply value the journey I have embarked on with you over the last few years.
I have been fortunate to complete many of your courses, online groups, and individual face to face mentoring sessions.
You have deeply touched my life in many areas including parenting, career, personal and spiritual. Your support, wisdom and insight have been transformational for me.
I feel so deeply connected to myself and my children, and a growing interconnectedness with everything within and around me.
My heart is filled with gratitude and I look forward to continuing this journey with you.
It is hard to put into words what it is like to work with Marion. I went into mentorship because after years of work through books and courses, parenting still felt so challenging/depleting/impossible.
For weeks, it just felt like me talking about my day and my struggles, and her listening and validating. She would send love to all my younger parts, and offer reflection. It felt like a relief to have someone to share all my day to day challenges with, but at the same time, it just felt like we talked about the same thing over and over again.
Then when we were in session one day I let it all out. I raged, cried and got really pissed off. Before that session that day there was still that hesitation to really be seen in all my rage and trust I would still be loved, but I was. Marion gave me the space to be myself and celebrate all that I am.
Little did I know at the time, that those early conversations talking about the same thing over and over again were repairing years of broken trust in my relationships. They allowed me to feel that trust was a possibility. The loving presence and patience that Marion provided in our sessions gave me a sense of safety that I had been longing for, and was able to reclaim within myself.
With this renewed sense of safety and foundation, I brought a fuller experience of myself to our conversations. I had the space to voice things I would normally hide. I began to see challenges in my life in a different way, even in a humorous way, yet still hold the pain/frustration/anger at the same time. It felt liberating! I felt like I could be myself and forge deeper connections just by being me.
She taught me the power of love spans time and space. She taught me how the simple act of sending love to your baby self can change you, and those you love, especially your child.
Marion showed me a different way to engage with life. She showed me the magic in the everyday, and that deep, healing laughter could be found in the most ordinary places.
I am forever grateful!
A Year with Marion is quite simply the most important thing I’ve ever done for myself.
Marion holds a space where any and all things are welcome. In this space I had the opportunity to relax, release and look at my life in ways I had never done before.
I trust that whatever arises is Life offering the next part of the puzzle. With Marion I was able to meet whatever arose, hear the invitation, and reimagine moments in my life where I had misunderstood myself and Life itself.
The beautiful tools Marion has created—the Inner Loving Presence Process and the Willingness Practice in particular—have settled deeply in my bones. Through the ILLP, the dialogue in my head, that voice that narrates my day, is now loving, compassionate and supportive. The Willingness Practice has become second nature. Because of it, I now have a strong alignment between what calls me forward, and my capacity to flow with it willingly. Things that would have stopped my progress or slowed me down in the past are now understood and folded lovingly in to how I proceed. Things that used to stop me now simply show me what else I want or need in order to move forward.
An old fear of being judged for what I say used to prevent me speaking up. Now I see that the fear was showing me that I need to feel safe. Today I am willing to speak, and I am not willing to receive judgement from others.
A fear that writing and publishing more would mean less time with my family shows me that I value the time we currently have together. Today I am wiling to write and publish more AND do it in a way that maintains beautiful connection with my family. It is no longer an either-or proposition.
My life is enriched in very profound and very practical ways by Marion’s work. Having her one on one support, being in the presence of her deep compassion and acceptance, has been truly life-changing. It has literally rewired my brain to expect love, compassion and ease.
If you feel called to work with Marion, I can sincerely assure you it is a call you can trust. Mentoring with Marion is a gift that will last a lifetime.
I signed up with Marion and her Psychospiritual Entrepreneurship Immersion as a way of gifting myself some outer support to help me take action on a women’s retreat I received a clear downloaded to offer.
For many years I’ve worked quietly and intimately 1: 1 with women as well as running regular womens circles but I’d never really marketed myself in any big way feeling content with word of mouth referrals. For this retreat though I was being called to show up in a bigger way and I knew that I felt some fear around using my voice.
When I reflect back to when we first began, I can see with hindsight how my core issue showed up in our very first session together! We kept losing internet connection and whenever I spoke it was cutting in and out. “A clear message from life” as Marion would say.
To be honest, as I reflect back I am so blown away by the profound nature of the work that Marion & I did together, it is difficult to put into words.
And when I tune in as to why, I sense its because of the deep soul nature of Marion and her work.
I felt so deeply held and safe to express myself in Marion’s Presence.
I could FEEL her unconditional love, compassion and deep empathy on every level of my being as she listened. Her guiding words penetrated me body, heart and my soul.
During some of the most intense times, Marion helped me understand how the fear and pain that was arising in the present, as well as the thoughts that I believed along with it, were from my past coming up to be loved & acknowledged. This was so helpful for me to be aware of when I was in the thick of it.
She helped me expand my own capacity to be lovingly present to those intense experiences AND move through them by reminding me of my power as the woman I am Now, deeply trusting in my connection to my Divine nature as well as to my Soul’s calling.
She supported me to move at my own pace, deeply trusting my process moment by moment, and I truly believe this was so integral to the deep healing transition I went through.
During our whole time together I could feel how Marion genuinely believed in me, and in my Sovereignty.
And I believe this is because Marion is a true Queen herself, whose compassionate leadership was born to inspire us to step into ours.
My psychospiritual journey with Marion helped me realise that I was not speaking to a whole part of myself and my personal journey that is important to share in my offerings.
In acknowledging this I witnessed powerful energetic shifts happen within my family relationships both backward and forward in the timeline. I feel so grateful to be integrating all of this now and aligning to my truest path.
Words cannot convey my love & gratitude for you Marion.
Our journey has shown me that you cannot underestimate the power that holding space in unconditional love & safe connection can do for someone, and that we definitely don’t need to do this deep inner work alone xx
The mentoring I had with Marion over the past six months has been such an incredibly deep well of support for the issues I’ve had showing up; particularly in uncovering the root of old patterns from the past that were still playing out.
The Marion Method unhinges old, outdated domination paradigms and brings better outcomes through more love-filled, tuned in, compassionate choices. It’s like learning a new language that opens new doors.
Since meeting Marion and being guided by her teachings over the last few years, I’ve added so many powerful, loving practices and approaches to my life’s toolkit.
Working with Marion will cause deep shifts in the way you connect with yourself and life itself.
Marion is a wise medicine woman. Her medicine is love and compassion.
The Divine mother love energy flows through her and touches everyone who comes in contact.
She has shown me what it feels like to be loved unconditionally and for that, I will be forever grateful.
Dear beautiful, Marion,
Words cannot describe how grateful I am for the depth and unwavering, unconditional love and support you have shown me. You humbly describe yourself as a Mentor but your work is nothing short of healing and positively transformational.
When we embarked on this massive journey together I consciously set HUGE goals and little did I know my Soul was setting some of her own.
I never, in a million years, would have anticipated the profound positive shifts I so longed for would happen in such short space of time.
To be honest, I more imagined there would be a long, slow gradual build up required in order to achieve such change, for me to establish the resources, confidence and courage to leave my ‘secure’ public service job would take at least one to two years. This happened totally unexpectedly and divinely within weeks of us working together. I am still blown away at how it all unfolded and have not been happier pursuing my soul work since!
We had been experiencing significant challenges with one of our children that was noticeable to all who were around us. The judgement and rejection of their behaviour and feelings and the lack of compassion and desire to understand what was driving the behaviour from modern society conditioning felt crippling and isolating to me.
Within an incredibly short space of time you guided me through two massive experiences with my child, supporting and reassuring me that their raging expression was healthy and my capacity to stay with them until the charged energy and feelings neutralised would be hugely beneficial.
Along side birthing my last baby undisturbed, this was the most powerful and empowering parenting experience I’ve had. What’s most remarkable though isn’t the softening and relaxation I witnessed immediately after the rage and grief, it’s their genuine expression of love, concern and generosity for themselves and others that has consistently continued to be part of their nature for the MONTHS following and still to date.
Pain is an interesting part of our human experience and ‘being present’ is a popular recommendation to work with or heal pain.
“be present with your emotions”
“be present with the other person, they don’t have the capacity,”
“Just be present with yourself”
“Just be present with them”
Who else gets how incredibly freaking difficult or even impossible it is to ‘just be present’ with your own pain or with others?
This reminds me of the saying “people can only meet you as deeply as they have met themselves” – Matt Kahn.
It is crystal clear to me, and I believe everyone I have seen you work with, your ability to be piercingly present is like no other. And I feel confident in saying this is because of how deeply and passionately you ABSOLUTELY practice what you preach.
You never expect the souls you’re working with to do things or go places you haven’t been yourself. You lead by example using your tools and practices daily not coercing others to do the same, but gracefully inspiring them too – just like a true leader.
You know what pain is, you know how to feel and honour it, you’re not scared of it, you know that it’s a beautiful healthy part of us that needs to be heard and healed rather than rejected and suppressed. And, in my experience, you do that like no other.
You are a living, breathing example of what is underneath the pain, love.
Absolute, unwavering, unshiftable, undeniable, unconditional love.
It’s where we come from and it’s where we go. It is our true essence, and you, Marion Rose, live and teach it like no other.
SO much eternal love and gratitude to you,
The Marion Method Immersion is a thorough soaking in LOVE. I felt it…until I believed it…until I became it.
And the biology of that belief is changing everything.
Immeasurable gratitude to you Marion and my extraordinary MMI soul sisters whom I walked with.
This is an offering of deep knowledge and tangible practice at the leading edge of mind-body medicine and psychotherapy.
I feel exceptionally privileged to have experienced this.
Marion, I am filled with gratitude for what I have learned about love and will from you. Thank you for seeing all of me, for loving all of me.
I am brimming with smiles and heart hearing your messages.
I experience your energy as a huge loving wave that gently rolls across the whole planet. Your voice is the call of nature’s truest energies of love and creation.
Knowing you, being in connection with you reconnects me to my most innocent intent in life.
Thank you. I love you and your message.
This is the end of Marion Method Immersion and feels like the beginning of a whole new life.
Marion, you create the most beautiful spaces. Every moment with you is enriching for me.
And to have you plus all these other wonder women I feel SO blessed.
I have emerged from this six month immersion with a felt sense of what being ‘mothered well’ is like. A LOT of that came from Marion’s constant pouring of affection and unconditional love on me through Messenger almost nightly, 3 sessions a month, and monthly Zoom conference calls; and some was from her helping me notice how I’d done that for my own daughter and imagining it was for me too.
I absolutely loved how, in our sessions together, I could ask for whatever I felt I wanted, and Marion would happily oblige. At different times, I asked her to speak directly to my body, to my psyche (the hurt child) and to my soul. Those experiences were always profoundly moving, as she poured on love and empathy and compassion. My spirit was deeply, deeply stirred and has renewed hope and enthusiasm.
I now wake most mornings and ‘hear’ my Inner Loving Mother say to me, ‘I’m right here with you darling’….and the same when painful feelings are coming up, when I remember to. Every time, it eases the hurt, I feel more ‘cushioned’, not so raw and exposed, not so vulnerable and alone. It gives a certain sweetness to the feeling, because it’s now minus the misery of the old, old sense of being alone with it.
The other aspect that has had a major difference is listening to Marion and becoming aware of all the ways my avoidance of coercion has governed so many aspects of my life and decisions.
She helped me see all the ways I know what I’ve NOT been willing to experience or have happen to my daughter, and how that’s a powerful thing.
And on the flip side of that, I’ve had a good look at where I’ve rebelled and ‘pushed back’ on anything that has even a whiff of coercion to it….and now I’m able to bring awareness of that to any decision I’m making. For instance, I might think I don’t want to do something but what I’m actually doing is baulking at feeling coerced into doing something. Once I recognise that, then I can decide, without that in the way, if I actually DO want to do it, or not.
And I loved our Zoom sessions. Such a WARM group of women….that’s what stood out the most to me. And I have to say, I loved the timer too, so that I could listen willingly and whole heartedly.
I LOVED Marion’s generosity that lent a sense of abundance to the course, being welcomed to join all the new workshops and courses she created whilst we were Immersed in her bath of love.
And knowing I have ongoing access to the other members and the course material made for a softer landing, when the immersion reached completion.
I can think of so many people I would love to have this experience.
I’m feeling at a loss for words.
How does one describe an experience that has been life changing and yet effortless?
Powerful yet peaceful.
Present yet full of ease.
It’s like I fell in love with myself.
I can see myself through Marion’s eyes and the view is spectacular.
I fell more in love with my children.
I fell in love with the women in my group.
Every moment I got to learn with Marion and expand my awareness was sacred and I will carry these past 6 months in my heart forever.
Nothing has changed my perspective on myself, my potential, my power to heal, my ability to form deep, resonating, mutual friendships, and my understanding of past hurts like the Marion Method Immersion.
(To the Mentees’ group):
I’ve so loved being part of this group and witnessing you all in all you’ve shared here. It’s truly a gift. Even though we’ve not met in person, I feel like I know many of you like old friends. This journey that we’ve all been on with Marion is like no other and it feels so good to know there are women around the world who’ve had the courage to look within and love, trust and be willing to create a loving relationship with themselves, with others and with Life.
To dear Marion… oh my! I’ve expressed only some of my gratitude to you on Voxer and on our last call.
I want to CELEBRATE you with all of the women in this amazing [Mentees’] group. You and your Soul’s work is absolutely divine and lifetime changing. From the depths of my heart and Soul, I thank YOU for all that you are and all that came here to be. You’re ever loving and your love and support has been so helpful and inspiring for me.
Last week, in reflection with my time with Marion, I wrote all that I’ve learnt and embodied. I know that I’ll go deeper with all of these as my journey continues. I’d love to share it with you all because I’m so proud of myself.
So here goes…
– That I’m not responsible for others feelings and they’re not responsible for mine.
– That frustration + rage + a strong desire for answers are such a powerful mix for me. That when I lean into and become curious about these feelings that I can really understand what it is that I really want and don’t want. It creates such willingness for me. I used to be so scared of those feelings.
– How powerful I truly am and that I really do love myself deeply.
– How connecting in, listening to and loving all parts of myself is so powerful.
– Many Aware Parenting practices that help me be a more present and loving mother to my daughter and her future siblings.
– Understanding my themes, both ancestral and childhood. Knowing these helps me understand why I have behaved, acted, thought, experienced things in the past or present. Also, they help me connect in with the younger parts of me.
– A feeling of safety and security within myself that I’ve never felt before. I feel both ground and light within. Ahh what a relief!
– The power of Marion’s processes. What a gift to be able to continue to use these whenever I choose.
– Understanding my repression mechanisms.
– A deeper understanding of my husband and that the more empathy and love that I have with him and express to him the more that he reveals his true Self.
– That every day my love for my daughter is deeper. I didn’t think that was possible.
– That when I connect in with what I’m feeling, needing, wanting and/or thinking that I can then be in a place of empowerment to choose what I deem is best for me (not what others think/feel).
– The power of understanding, meeting and expressing my needs.
Thank you for witnessing me. Sending you all so much love and hope to remain in contact. Wishing you all the BEST in your beautiful journeys.
Love, Esther xoxo
Marion’s work is transformational! I am so deeply grateful to me from just a few months ago, for allowing myself 1-1 support from Marion. It was one of the best investments I have ever made, for me and my whole family – especially now, being a mother of a 3 year old and a baby.
Having followed so many of Marion’s courses these past few years, this was a next level experience.
Being bathed in Marion’s pure loving compassion for 3 months was surprisingly gentle and powerful at the same time.
Here I experienced the true power of being held in such an enormous unconditional loving space – being heard, seen, acknowledged and supported over and over again during this deep inner journey of healing and letting go of past hurts and intergenerational trauma.
And that way, becoming more and more who I truly am, myself being LOVE and WILL.
My capacity to be with what is has increased drastically, such as my capacity to respond to my day to day challenges with spaciousness, gentleness, willingness and loving compassion.
I feel deep gratitude for having found Marion quite early in my parenting journey. Before I’ve known her, I had kept on searching for the right person to support me in my inner journey, and hadn’t found someone that was a fit for me. With Marion and her profound method, it was like finally arriving home (in her presence, her community and in myself) and from then on my inner and outer support just kept on growing.
And now I know it’s all there, in myself and I have the chance to tap into it, every single moment, while I am willing to receive more and more of this support.
Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring
I love supporting people who want to become instructors or who are already instructors, to make a living doing what they love!
People who have already taken part in this 1-1 Mentoring with me in the past have:
Become certified as Aware Parenting instructors;
Started offering 1-1 consultations;
Set up Instagram and Facebook accounts and started writing regular social media posts and emails;
Set up a website;
Set up a podcast;
Set up online courses;
Run workshops;
This mentoring includes:
50 minute weekly sessions on Zoom – which you can use for whatever you want (see below). (Sessions on Sundays).
Half an hour Voxer (messaging app) messages a week. (I will generally respond within 48 hours.)
I am so willing to help you do all the things that you want to do with Aware Parenting!
I can help you both with emotional and practical elements.
I’m here to support you in each of these areas:
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, HEALING AND REPARENTING
Offering you empathy and compassion for any feelings that show up as you go to share more in the world;
Supporting you to heal old hurts that show up as you do this;
Listening to the younger parts of you who need to be heard;
Helping you move forwards in ways that aren’t flooding for you;
Giving you reparative experiences so that you feel willing to take your next steps;
Offering you loving encouragement;
Celebrating you.
VISIONING
Helping you get clear about what you want to contribute, have, do and be;
Inviting you to clarify exactly what you want to do and who you want to work with;
Connecting with your calling as an Aware Parenting instructor.
PLANNING AND WILLINGNESS FOR ACTION
Step by step planning of what you want to get done;
Time planning and willing action – so that you do what you want to do when you are willing to do it;
Trusting your timing and supporting you to trust your timing too;
Consistently taking action both behind the scenes and in public sharing.
EXPRESSING YOURSELF
Sharing authentically in ways that also feel comfortable for you;
Being yourself and choosing what you share and don’t share;
Listening lovingly to what feelings and younger parts show up when you go to express yourself;
Supporting you to transform your ideas and life experience into posts and offerings.
BECOMING AN INSTRUCTOR (if you’re not already)
Support with writing your application;
Listening lovingly to what comes up to be heard in relation to being an instructor;
Support in feeling ready and willing to be an instructor.
CONSULTATIONS
Supporting you to offer sessions in person / using Zoom;
What to look for when going through a questionnaire;
Listening lovingly to what shows up in you;
Supervision if you’re already offering sessions.
RECEIVING MONEY
Deciding how much to charge;
Working with money themes and fears;
Valuing what you offer and being willing to receive.
DESIGN
Helping with Canva and design for all your content creation, which could include design for your website, landing pages, logo, social media, etc;
I’ll offer suggestions and ideas if you’d like them;
Helping you heal old school hurts in relation to your art work and offerings.
SOCIAL MEDIA
I’ll offer support if you want to regularly share your own content on FB and IG posts, stories, etc;
If you want to, I’ll support you to photos of yourself and work with anything that gets in the way of that;
I’ll help you create quote cards in Canva if you want help.
MAILCHIMP
Setting up a newsletter and template;
Setting up a free offering;
Setting up automations for free or paid courses.
SAMCART or PAYPAL or ACUITY
Choosing which one you’re going to use;
Setting up payments;
Setting up a booking system with Acuity if you’re going to do this;
Putting clear yeses and noes in place in relation to when you offer consultations.
CREATING ONLINE COURSES
I’ll support you in creating the course;
I’ll help you set it up either in Facebook or in Samcart;
I’l help you with editing in Descript and uploading audios into Soundcloud or Samcart.
I’ll help you with birthing it into the world.
CREATING A PODCAST
Listening lovingly to the younger parts of you and their themes of being heard;
Practical support to set it up using Soundcloud and Descript;
I’ll listen lovingly to your ideas for topics or conversations.
COLLABORATIONS
Working with others in creative ways;
Supporting the younger parts who show up;
Suggesting it, setting it up, implementing it.
WRITING BOOKS
Trusting your downloads;
Support with ideas and feelings;
Who to get support from with self-publishing.
HOW WE CAN DO ALL OF THESE:
In the Zoom calls, we can screen share when required and I can support you with things like Canva designs for your website or social media, Zoom, Instagram or Facebook.
In the Zoom calls and in Voxer, I can support you with getting clear about what you want and how you’re going to work and what you’re going to do.
You might want to use your Voxer day for sharing about your plan for the week and how you are getting on.
I will listen lovingly to whatever feelings show up as you go to take your next steps.
I can support you with questions about Aware Parenting theory and what you would do in various situations. You can share questionnaires for clients and we can go through them to see what you would pick up on and offer.
I can offer supervision if you are already offerings sessions or if you start offering them.
IF YOU WANT AND ARE READY, I CAN:
Share your IG and FB posts and stories (tag me whenever you want me to do this!);
Do a FB live and IG live with you as a guest;
Be a guest on your FB live and IG live;
Refer clients to you.
AWARE PARENTING INSTRUCTOR MENTORING COURSE
I will open the doors to the AWPIMC if you want to join early instead of waiting until next March if you want to join (course fee not included but I will give you 20% off the payments.)
You might have already done the AWPIMC or you might not choose to do it.
DISCOUNTS OFF MY COURSES
20% off any of my courses during the 5 months that we are working together.
PREREQUISITES
You’ve been practicing Aware Parenting for at least a year;
You are already really familiar with the theory and practice eg. You’ve read multiple of Aletha’s books or done several AwP Courses (contact me if you’re not sure if you fit the prerequisites).
You are close to having all the prerequisites to becoming an Instructor.
Or, you might already be certified as an instructor.
ABOUT ME
I’m a Level Two instructor and the Regional Coordinator for Australia and New Zealand.
I have mentored more than half of the Aware Parenting instructors in Australia and New Zealand and also several in other countries too.
As an Aware Parenting instructor, I have:
Been offering 1:1 Aware Parenting consultations for 19 years;
Been offering workshops and talks for 19 years;
Created more than 30 online courses, doing all the technical backend things myself since 2014;
Created all my own social media posts, newsletters etc;
More than 2.9 million listens on The Aware Parenting Podcast (Lael Stone co-hosted until episode 123) We also had Gabor Maté on as a guest for episode 123;
Collaborated with several other Aware Parenting instructors including Helena Mooney (creating The Aware Parenting Babies Course), Joss Goulden (we created the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Community and the Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast) and Nic Wilson;
Written #1 bestsellers The Emotional Life of Babies and I’m Here and I’m Listening and co-authored Raising Resilient and Compassionate Children with Lael Stone, which have all been number 1 in many Amazon categories. Sound Sleep and Secure Attachment with Aware Parenting is being published soon;
A multiple ‘six figure business’.
I joined the AwP Instructor Mentoring Course for the first time in 2019, however I was not in the right time of life to be completing the training. I quickly fell behind and didn’t think about it again until March 2021. I joined the live round that Marion was running and I decided then and there that I was all in. I wanted to complete the course and become an instructor.
In August 2021, I messaged Marion to ask if she had ever considered doing 1-1 mentoring for people who wanted to build a business around being an Aware Parenting Instructor. She messaged back saying she couldn’t believe the synchronicity of Life, as she had just been thinking about offering something exactly like that! She asked me to send a list of things I would love from the mentoring, which I did, and to our surprise our lists were almost identical!
And so it began!
It was definitely one of the toughest decisions I have ever made, due to so many fears that came up. However, on my first zoom call, I could tell that this was one of the BEST and most important decisions I had ever made in my life.
Life had my back and so did Marion. She was there every step of the way from deciding how to get started, to my first post, to all of the techy things, to always showing such loving empathy and kindness to all of my younger parts that showed up to be heard.
I felt SO supported in a way I had never felt before. She gave me strength when I had none and put me back on track, each and every time I wanted to quit. She believed in me and reminded me how far I had come.
She also reminded me to stop and celebrate my wins, something that was hard for me in the beginning.
Without her support, there is no way I would have made it this far. After 5 months together, I have been able to bring this pipe dream business of mine into reality and can now clearly see my willingness to one day leave my job and run this full time, whilst travelling and homeschooling my daughter. I have also cultivated an incredibly strong and resilient inner loving crew through Marion’s ILPP work, that will be there forever.
I cannot begin to say how highly I recommended mentoring with Marion. She is an incredible role model, teacher and friend. Her experience in life, business and motherhood are incredible and I could not be more appreciative of the time we have journeyed together.
If you have ever considered mentoring with Marion in any of her offerings, don’t hesitate. Just do it. You will not regret it at all.
The words ‘Thank you for everything Marion’ are so limited in expressing my feelings of gratitude and love I have for your help. What you have done for my daughter and I and our future, is way beyond what I could write here. You are an amazing human being and I am so humbled to walk alongside you!
Our journey together was equal parts practically and emotionally supportive and the deep inner work that came with this time together was transformative.
Thank you Marion, from the deepest part of my heart for this incredible journey.
All my love. Anne xxx
It’s such an honour to share my journey through the AwP Instructor Mentoring with you Marion. The English language is limited with words to fully capture the feelings and experience though transformational, inspiring, heartfelt, deeply connected, enriching, life changing share a glimpse into the journey.
After 12 months of maternity leave and 7 years of yearning for a life which aligned with my values I made the choice to say goodbye to my job. After 15 years of corporate, I had no idea what the next phase of my life looked like. The first step I took was signing up for your Conversations with Life course with one big question in mind – “Where to now?”
A few weeks into the course, I saw your announcement for the AwP Instructor Mentoring and something within me ignited. The feeling when I read your post, wow I was buzzing and giddy with excitement.
I jumped in fully even though I had no idea how it was all going to play out. I didn’t have a plan rather I placed all trust in a body feeling and a voice inside me saying ‘YES’. I am so celebrating me for being brave and curious to take that leap.
Walking alongside you these past 5 months I have been deeply held, heard and seen in a way I have not experienced before. Trust, connection and compassion surrounded me and supported me to safely explore parts of myself that in the past had been too painful to explore – yet these were the parts preventing me from living a life connected to my values.
After our sessions I emerged full and connected yet lighter and clear of the path forward. For all the practical, technical and emotional support you have gifted me, I am forever grateful. Your voice and words I carry with me in the forefront of my mind, encouraging and loving me every step of the way. Thank you, thank you so very much.
So much love,
Sarah xx
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