Our Vision And Purpose
A Business + Learning Community
Harnessing Collective Purpose and Wisdom
Rising Connected is a social business and learning community, grounded in the essential feminine values of connection, healing, emergence and collaboration, and the awakening of feminine wisdom.
Our long standing vision is of a world in which feminine wisdom and values are fully honoured and embraced and where women can be deeply supported on their inner and outer journey of transformation, integrating healthy feminine and healthy masculine in all territories life – family, community, business and leadership.
At the heart of Rising Connected is growing community of what we call feminine leaders – women who’s purpose and path is to help bring feminine wisdom and values into a world that is suffering from being entrenched in short term, task driven, productivity addicted ways of operating. In short we believe that feminine values, wisdom and strength are the most essential ingredients needed to heal our disconnected world.
We understand that in order to Rise in our unique expressions of feminine leadership and make a healing impact in the world, we need to Rise Connected. This means being more authentically connected to ourselves, to one another and of course to life itself – to our natural world and to the wider unseen field of life in which we are all interrelated and interdependent.
The core of our transformational work has been developed over many years by founder Joey Walters, who is now joined by co-founder, Karen Mellers. Together Joey and Karen have created a new ‘community-based’ business supported by many amazing women who have worked closely with them to deepen the work and discover how to share it with others. We understand the power of community and do our very best to walk our talk with the feminine wisdom and values that we teach.
The result of this is a range of powerful community programmes and ongoing resources for coaches, healers and change leaders (and those aspiring to be) and for organisations that want to support their feminine work force to embody their true feminine power and leadership. We also offer 1:1 Coaching for those ready to up-level their impact and dive deep into their own healing and awakening journey.
Central to our work and to the community, are our Circles, underpinned by a set of 8 lived agreements that support us in holding space for the transformation that life is calling us all to engage in. As a community we are growing and supporting these transformative Circles for Feminine Leaders, where they can be nourished by their connection with one another, walking each other home to a deep knowing of themselves – of their wisdom, their gifts and their power to share them.
Our aim is to be a warm, reSourcing ‘home’ for women to restore their feminine life force and align with their true purpose – to trust their gifts and to share them with a world that sorely needs them.
About Joey Walters
Founder and Director of Transformational Learning
An intuitive leadership coach, mentor and Circle teacher, Joey is Founder of Rising Connected and Director of Transformational Learning.
For the last 20 years, she has been creating ‘connecting’ spaces for purpose-inspired women to awaken and share their feminine wisdom and voices, and to become purpose-inspired transformational leaders in their businesses and organisations. Prior to this, she had a full career in Marketing Communications, culminating in co-founding a successful London based business.
Her more recent work has been centred in exploration of “The Power Of Circle” – the core principles and practices of 8 ‘essential’ Agreements that underpin the safe, collective space in which women can learn how to ‘hold space’ for themselves and others on the path of inner transformation and feminine leadership.
In 2017 she offered her first Ted Talk called ‘Rising Connected ~ Giving Women The Courage To Lead’.
In Rising Connected, Joey leads nature-based retreats and online Circle-based leadership and teacher trainings as well as offering 1:1 support. She is passionate about working with nature as a primary resource and creating transformational ‘containers’ that evoke authenticity, safety and wellbeing for everyone.
Joey is also working with all genders as a Core Team collaborator and Coach at Matrix Development (thematrixdevelopment.com), a leading change catalyst for corporate leaders and organisations.
She lives with her partner and two boys, natured in the woodlands of Central Scotland.
About Karen Mellers
Co-founder and Director of Community Programmes
Karen Mellers is co-founder of Rising Connected and Director of Community Programmes, bringing her passion, vision and a wealth of strategic experience to Rising Connected.
A wellness business consultant, nutritionist, intuitive coach and circle and retreat facilitator, Karen’s passion for natural wellness comes from her own journey of healing. She was diagnosed with scoliosis of the spine at the age of 14 and now has the determination and passion to share with others the knowledge, help and support she has received from many experienced teachers in staying healthy and well, naturally.
Prior to joining Joey in setting up a new business container to ground the vision of Rising Connected, Karen worked with Weleda UK, for over 10 years where she founded and led a team of over 700 (mostly female) ‘Wellbeing Advisors’ who deliver Wellness Consultations within their communities.
Karen is also the co-owner of Secret Warriors, a Derbyshire based retreat business running tailored retreats to help people feel stronger, happier, and healthier. She has over 8 years’ experience in creating and running Wellness Retreats across the UK and in Spain.
She is known for her high enthusiasm, structured, warm-hearted, and intuitive visionary leadership and for creating safe, transformational spaces that encourage women to step into their full potential. Her focus is opening spaces for the 8 life-enhancing Agreements at the core of Rising Connected’s work, to be experienced, enabling women to relate new more authentic ways with themselves, each other, and the world.
Karen lives with her husband and her dog, Lily, in Derbyshire with her son and daughter now at university.
We will be sharing much more about the business + community in this page soon.
If you’d like to connect with us, please get in touch at connect@risingconnected.com