Enabling a different kind of excellence in your culture, leadership and outcomes.

Compassionship™

Compassionship™ is our proprietary model that uses compassion and takes an integrated focus and interdependent way of doing and being across four domains - Self, Mission, Effectiveness, People.

Compassionship™ is focused on the “human enterprise”. It influences the way we work and interact by taking a balanced approach to your people, your mission, your effectiveness, and yourself as you contribute to your bigger purpose.

The benefits and outcomes of working in all “planes and domains” of Compassionship™ are:

  1. Self becomes more compassionately congruent.

  2. Mission ensures you are compassionately purposeful.

  3. Effectiveness delivers compassionately successful results.

  4. People become more compassionately connected.

The global disruption and evolution we are facing requires our leaders to engage in more holistic, conscious and compassionate human development to lead transformational change

Why Compassion?

Compassion Connects

The “people/human” stuff in our day-to-day work creates complexity and fear. Compassion connects us with our common humanity and with our innate wiring to reduce suffering and be in community.

Compassion Expands

It strengthens & expands our perspective; and with that strength, we have greater capacity for possibility, growth and change… in people and in results.

Compassion Delivers

By noticing and acknowledging suffering that exists across various components, we can step into a place of action from there. This leads to different, more sustainable outcomes and more effective action.

And…compassion alone is not enough!

Compassionship™ is:

  • An approach for delivering effective change and outcomes.

  • An integrated way of being and doing for excellence and resilience in a fast and changing world.

  • A model for shared conscious leadership.

  • A model for leadership using head and heart intelligence.

  • An approach to increasing interdependence and effectiveness whilst working with paradox.

  • About leading from a place of compassion and connection instead of fear and ego.

  • Strong and courageous and facilitates taking action that reduces toxicity and struggle whilst increasing well-being and results.

Compassionship™ is Not:

  • Soft, weak or fluffy

  • Just ‘being nice’

  • Avoiding the tough issues

  • ‘Attend a workshop and you’ll get immediate results’. It’s a commitment to progressive and impressive effectiveness.

What People Say

  • “Gwen and Sona, your expertise and dedication have been invaluable to our leadership team's growth and development. From the beginning, you guided us through a structured and insightful program that deepened our understanding of the Conscious & Compassionate Leadership framework (CompassionshipTM) and the various concepts that underpin this. You also provided us with practical tools to integrate these learnings into our daily practice; and with the respective teams we lead. The program you implemented has not only enhanced our individual growth, but of the group as a whole and has empowered us to extend these learnings across our entire school community. We have been consistently impressed with your ability to connect with each of us in a professional, friendly, and trusting manner whilst encouraging our leadership skills to evolve in meaningful ways. The IN Trust framework, in particular, has been a powerful resource in helping us sustain and build upon the progress we've made. Your commitment to our ongoing development is evident, and we are grateful for the continued support you offer as we move forward. Thank you for your unwavering commitment to our success, and we look forward to continuing this journey with you as we further integrate the Conscious & Compassionate Leadership framework across the school. With much gratitude and appreciation”

    — Principal, Education

  • “Thank you for your support our staff this year – once again, we have reaped the benefit of you working with our leaders and providing them with greater capacity and a self- awareness to do their work and trust themselves in what this looks like! You would be heartened by the number of times I hear the phrase – “I had the courage to have the compassionate but critical conversation” ... you provided the foundation for this to happen. Thank you!”

    — Director, Government

  • “I have been very impressed with the way in which Gwen and Sona work with educational leaders, helping them integrate both performance-driven accountability and human-centered care in their leadership practice. Their Compassionship™ framework has proven invaluable in developing leaders who can balance strategic vision with emotional intelligence, creating environments that are both high-performing and deeply supportive. They have impacted substantially not only upon leadership development and culture transformation within our educational communities, but also have played an outstanding role in supporting leaders at all levels to navigate complex challenges with both courage and compassion.”

    — Principal, Education Sector

We are always in transition. 

The work of Compassionship™ is to alleviate the unnecessary struggle and suffering while we all transition, change, connect and thrive

Compassionship™

Involves training, coaching and a leadership commitment to a new way of working. It requires you to ‘let go to let grow’ and instil new habits into your ways of working.

Is a conscious approach to engaging with and leading people, to get the best results possible to thrive in a challenging world.

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