ABOUT
Welcome to the
Burnout to Balance
Mastermind Community
Reimagining caregiving and leadership from a place of vitality, balance, and joy.
As adults who work with and raise our youth, it is vital that we take the time to practice high-level emotional, social, physical, and spiritual well-being. This enhances our ability to positively influence, connect, and empower others, meeting them right where they are. What research has shown time and time again, is that the more we know, love, trust, and can be our whole, well selves, the better our overall professional and personal experiences will be.
If you are ready, it's time to create the care, support, well-being, and health you want to experience for yourSELF. This is easier said then done as we know. However, it is possible to, step-by-step, shift out of the patterns that don't really serve us, and move forward with new ones that feel good. You are important. You have a valued role to play in this world. It's time to have a proven method to help you get there with more excitement and ease!
From My Own Journey of Burnout to Balance
“I had to discover something new,
because nothing else was working.”
Although I am a veteran educator, well-being researcher, and credentialed Health & Wellness Coach, I have experienced deep burnout multiple times. When traditional methods failed and I progressed into further physical and mental health challenges, I was forced to discover something entirely new.
Through years of trials and celebrations, I have learned that chronic depletion almost always stems from disempowering childhood relationships rooted in a lack of trust, worth, and self-love. By diving into holistic practices and mastering The WAVE Process®, I realized that because every body and mind is completely unique, we need a self-directed method to connect with our true health and well-being. By breaking through the emotional patterns at the root of my own burnout, I—and the many I have coached—have unlocked the empowering ways of being that help restore
physical and mental vitality.
What is The WAVE Process®?
The WAVE Process® was originally created by Kim Griffith, MA. It is a revolutionary coaching and communication methodology that creates deep levels of connection and empowerment. Together, as Empowered Partners who have practiced, researched, and lived this process for 17 years, Kim and I have watched it serve as the ultimate resilience blueprint for hundreds of people from infants to 88 year olds.
Driven by my own quest to shift out of chronic burnout, I deeply researched and integrated the WAVE into a specialized self-coaching methodology for educators in learning environments called Empowerment Coaching & Learning. At its core, it is a somatic process that helps release the disempowering, subconscious patterns that disconnect us from ourselves and others, allowing us to intentionally integrate new, empowering behaviors. It's blueprint systematically assists us in enhancing our self-love, self-worth, and self-connection, which progressively raises our emotional and social intelligence to incredible levels. The WAVE naturally builds nervous system (body-mind-heart) resilience from the inside out. This masterclass brings that rich, 17-year history directly to your personal health and well-being journey, combining somatic alignment with trauma-informed professional Life and Wellness Coaching so your physical, mental, and emotional health outcomes have the absolute best chance of improving and you have the highest ability to experience your purpose and reach your full potential.
Why the Old Paradigm of Wellness is Failing You
A Time-Tested Approach to Inner Well-Being
The words "Self-Care" and "Wellness" have been thrown around for over two decades, usually correlated with marketing products we "should take" or rigid rules we "should do" (like taking 10,000 steps a day). While these practices can be wonderful, an outside-in approach telling you what is good for you can be deeply confusing, ineffective, and exhausting.
There is a much better time-tested way to "do" self-care... a way that comes directly from your heart-mind-body-spirit connection. No one can tell you how to execute your personal well-being journey. Although peer review studies can help begin your holistic journey, you must depend more on what your unique SELF needs, and go from there.
The Art and Science of Wellness Coaching
Our self-coaching method for self-care is not therapy, but it is a trauma-informed practice so we do work with our past to understand how developmental trauma patterns work, but only from a highly conscious awareness. In fact, knowing this self-coaching method IS the best way NOT to become re-traumatized! So we definitely work with your emotions, sensations, and beliefs which highly correlate with the actions you take. It is based on the art and science of personal and professional Life and Wellness Coaching. While there is beautiful overlap in how our past experiences affect our current beliefs, coaching distinguishes that every person is already unique, brilliant, and whole no matter what their challenges are.
As we choose to step more and more out of victimization, fear, or self-blame, and can accept and validate ourselves right where we are with radical self-responsibility, forgiveness, and love, we will learn to feel, think, and act in ways that promote our own self-care, fulfillment, and well-being.
As you become a WAVE Coach for yourself, you learn that what you need will always be provided in perfect timing. With this mental attitude of trust and abundance, things that are preferred and really work will naturally begin to manifest and unfold and you suddenly find yourself feeling more free and living life with more excitement and ease.
How to Join the Mastermind
- Your Path to Balance -
Step 1: Click the Join Mastermind button and Submit Your Registration Form. This step simply ensures your personal goals and needs fit the Mastermind group's offerings.
Step 2: Choose Your Cohort. We run three distinct 12-week cohorts throughout the year (Winter, Summer, and Fall) to ensure you can join when your life allows it most. To accommodate busy educators and caregivers, each cohort features two live track options:
The Sunday Sanctuary Track: A restorative, live late-afternoon (EST) session to reset your energy before the workweek.
The Mid-Week Daytime Track: A high-vibrational midday session designed to fit into your floating open periods or lunch blocks.
Can't make a live gathering? Your private Mastermind platform instantly archives full video replays and somatic materials so you can catch up at your own convenience without missing a beat. (But of course, you will gain more, if you attend!)
Step 3: Choose your Investment Plan
We keep this Mastermind highly accessible and affordable for working educators and caregivers! So the moment you submit your registration, you will be instantly redirected to our secure checkout portal where you can lock in your seat. Choose between our Pay-In-Full special or our flexible monthly installment plan that you can pay in 3 monthly installment. (Note: The investment cost will be on the registration form.)
Step 4: Instantly Unlock Your Community Sanctuary
As soon as your payment clears, our platform automatically opens the doors. You will instantly gain full access to our private Burnout to Balance Mastermind ONLINE community workspace, which includes your calendar link for our weekly 1-hour live mastermind gatherings, and your very first Theory Bursts of Information!
Meg's Story:
After quitting her college basketball team, Meg was driven to find out why she had shifted from passion, joy, and vitality, to burnout, fear, and sickness. She was determined to discover what made young people (herself included) have the best chance of reaching their full potential in life.
She spent thirty years researching, piloting and benchmarking positive youth development and well-being practices and programs with her basketball players and physical education and health students. She earned a doctorate in education specializing in developing new models, practices, and curriculum for educators that empower their students.
She then became a credentialed, trauma-informed transformational Life, Wellness and Health Coach while she carried out her duties as a Wellness Director at a non-profit health education and residency program for medical personnel.
In 2010, she founded a a nonprofit, ibmee.org, (I Be Me) to train and coach educators who work in our school systems to break through their epidemics of burn-out, depression, and toxic stress without quitting their jobs. Her first ever program trains educators to become certified Empowerment Coaches in the classroom.
She has now been training and coaching youth, educators, parents, couples, and other caregivers for over 30 years using her research-based, trauma-informed, transformational program called the Empowerment Education® System of W.E.L.L.-Being. She specializes in building social-emotional intelligence and physical health and well-being.