Women leaving their mark on the world.
When success is no longer the question, the deeper work begins.
StrengthWisdomHeartLegacy
A year-long journey for women leaving their mark on the world.
01The Invitation
Across the world there are women who have lived full, accomplished lives. You may be one of them.
You have built organisations, raised families, shaped communities or carried responsibility for many years. Through experience, resilience and determination you have created success in many forms.
And yet, at a certain point in life, a quieter question often begins to emerge.
What do I want the next chapter of my life to create in the world?
Not more achievement. Not proving ourselves. But contributing something that reflects the wisdom of our lives.
The name carries two meanings. It evokes the archetype of the Empress — a woman who embodies sovereignty, creativity, and generative power. And it speaks to the act of im-pressing the world: not through force or competition, but through presence, wisdom, and authenticity.
To Em-Press the world is to leave a meaningful imprint through who we are and what we create. It is the shift from achievement to contribution. From ambition to legacy. From proving ourselves to expressing our deepest values in the world.
The question that was
What can I achieve?
The question that matters now
What truly matters now?
02The Programme
The Em-Press Journey unfolds across twelve months for a small circle of eight women — intimate enough for genuine depth, structured enough to produce real outcomes.
Gate One
Strength
Warham · England
Gate Two
Wisdom
The Andes · Peru
Gate Three
Heart
Bali · Indonesia
Culmination
Legacy
The world
duration
One year
12 months
circle
Eight
women per cohort
gatherings
Three
5 days · 4 nights
1:1 sessions
Four
with Lisa or Lauretta
circle calls
Ten
monthly integration
outcome
Legacy
project built to endure
03Three Locations · One Living System
Peru and Bali were not chosen as beautiful destinations. They were chosen because they are energetic counterparts — two lobes of an ancient living symbol. In the Andean tradition, this complementary balance has a name.
The Quechua principle of sacred complementarity — the idea that opposing forces are not in conflict but in creative relationship. Masculine and feminine. Active and receptive. Creative and compassionate. Each one needing the other to be complete.
Peru carries the sacral — the masculine creative force. Generative, fluid, originating. Bali carries the heart — the feminine compassionate force. Nurturing, opening, offering outward. Together they form the lemniscate, the infinity symbol, the eternal movement between complementary forces that creates something whole.
Norfolk sits at the crossing point. The still centre where the two energies meet. The solar plexus — the seat of sovereign personal power. The place where Em-Press was conceived, between two close friends, in a landscape that has held warrior women for two thousand years.
Peru and Bali are the two lobes of the lemniscate. Norfolk is the crossing point — the still centre where both energies meet and where Em-Press began.
Solar Plexus · Warrior
Norfolk · Gate One · Strength
The seat of sovereign personal power. The energy of self, identity, and the pull you have lived. The journey begins here — defiant, grounded, unmoved.
Sacral · Creative Masculine
Peru · Gate Two · Wisdom
Generative, fluid, fertile. In the Andean tradition of Yanantin, legacy projects are not planned. They are born. The masculine sacral is the complement of the feminine heart — each incomplete without the other.
Heart · Feminine
Bali · Gate Three · Heart
The integrating gate. This bridge between what has been built and what is given outward. Bali holds the feminine heart chakra — nurturing, opening, compassionate. Here, strength and creative power are offered freely. Not performed. Given.
04The Journey · Gate by Gate
Each gate is held in the landscape it was always meant to be held in. Each opens something the next will refine.
Gate I · Strength
Boudica Sky · Warham, Norfolk
Solar Plexus · Sovereign · Warrior Energy
The journey begins on land that has held warrior women for two thousand years.
Gate I · Strength
Warham, Norfolk
Gate II · Wisdom
The Andes, Peru
Sacral Chakra · Creative · Yanantin
At altitude, the air strips away the unnecessary.
Gate II · Wisdom
The Andes, Peru
Gate III · Heart
Bali · Indonesia
Heart Chakra · Compassionate · Opening
Each woman leaves with a clear legacy project committed to and begun.
Gate III · Heart
Indonesia
05Between the Gatherings
Each gathering opens something. The integration work — the real change in life, habit, and thinking — happens in the months that follow. Em-Press supports that work through ongoing connection, coaching, and accountability.
The circle does not dissolve between gatherings. It continues to meet, support, and hold each woman's legacy project as a real and developing piece of work.
Ten online gatherings for integration, reflection, and peer accountability. The circle holds each woman's progress and celebrates each step forward.
Private sessions with Lisa or Lauretta — focused on translating insight into real movement on each woman's legacy project.
The eight women form a genuinely non-competitive circle. Many describe these peer relationships as among the most valuable aspects of the whole journey.
Structured support in shaping and committing to a personal legacy project — so what begins as an intention becomes a defined, real contribution to the world.
06The Legacy Project
At the heart of Em-Press is a personal legacy project — a defined, soul-led contribution each woman designs, commits to, and begins to build across the year. Shaped from a lifetime of experience. Guided by the circle. Refined through the three gates.
By the end of the journey, it is not a plan. It is real.
“From achievement to contribution. From ambition to legacy. From proving ourselves to expressing our deepest values in the world.”
07Held by Two Women
It was conceived in Norfolk, between two close friends who recognised in each other the question that would become this journey. They built Em-Press because they needed it themselves.
Co-founder · Chairwoman · Board Director · Coach
35 years of senior global leadership. She knows, from the inside, what it takes to navigate demanding environments while raising a family and keeping yourself whole. In 2024 her own journey to Peru became the philosophical foundation of Em-Press.
The most powerful legacy is not what we have built, but what we offer from that place of wholeness.
Co-founder · Author · Facilitator · Guide
Born in South Africa. Lives in Bali — not as a visitor, but as someone who has made a home within the energy of the heart chakra. Author of The Grey Space, a breakthrough work integrating coaching and therapy.
Women arrive carrying so much. We create the space to put it down, and discover what they truly wish to carry forward.
08A Note on Readiness
The women who benefit most are those for whom the timing is genuinely right. That means the bandwidth to travel three times internationally, the time for monthly connection and 1:1 coaching, and the inner readiness to do honest, reflective work on what comes next. If you are in the middle of a significant transition, it may be worth considering whether a future cohort would serve you better. We would rather you ask that question now, with honesty and without pressure.
Time
Three 5-day international gatherings. Ten monthly circle calls. Four 1:1 sessions. Approximately 35 to 45 days of focused engagement over twelve months.
Resources
A premium programme. Investment covers facilitation, venues, and between-gathering support. International travel, accommodation, and personal expenses are additional. Full details at em.press.
Presence
More than attendance — genuine engagement. The journey works because each woman's willingness to be honest, open, and truly present.
The years of building, proving and carrying responsibility begin to give way to a deeper question about how the wisdom of those years might now be used. Em-Press brings together a small circle of women who feel this shift — and are ready to explore it together.
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em.press
Three gates · One year · Eight women
“The world does not need women to prove themselves again. It needs women ready to Em-Press it with who they truly are.”
