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From Passion to Purpose

For therapists who feel called to create group offerings beyond one-to-one work—but want thoughtful guidance bringing that vision to life.

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⭐ Are you a therapist, coach, or helping professional with a quieter caseload than you’d like, a calling to reach more people, or a passion that’s asking to become something bigger?

Perhaps you’ve thought:

  • I know I have something meaningful to teach—but I don’t know how to get it from a desire to actuality.
  • I’ve thought about creating a workshop, support group, retreat, training, course, membership, or consultation group—but I don’t know how to shape it.
  • I know I could create something impactful—but I’m unclear how to structure it, position it, or get people to say yes.
  • I’m sitting on expertise that deserve a bigger container.

If so, this may be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

⭐ By the End of This Experience, You’ll Have:

A clearly defined audience
A specific pain point you solve
Greater clarity around your approach, methodology, or teaching process
The right format for your idea
A mapped participant transformation journey
A structured offer outline or curriculum
Messaging that communicates your value clearly
Practical visibility and launch ideas
Greater confidence stepping into leadership
A concrete roadmap to bring your offering to life

This is about helping you clarify your expertise, define the transformation you create, and shape it into a compelling offering that expands your impact and supports a more sustainable practice.

Whether your vision becomes a workshop, support group, retreat, training, membership, online course, consultation group, or premium experience, this intensive helps you bring it into clear, actionable form.

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⭐ Why This Is Different

This is not a passive course where you simply consume information and hope to figure it out later.

This is a hands-on, step-by-step working intensive where, each week, we actively build your offering together.

You’ll be guided through a clear developmental process—from clarifying your idea, to shaping the structure, designing the experience, refining your messaging, addressing visibility, and bringing your offering to life.

Each participant will receive dedicated 1:1 coaching, where Michelle—and the group—offer personalized support, guidance, ideas, feedback, and problem-solving around your specific offering.

Between sessions, you’ll receive practical action steps to keep momentum moving so you’re not just inspired—you’re actually building.

You’ll also have the opportunity to bring questions, obstacles, uncertainty, and real-time decisions into the room as they arise, so you’re supported throughout the process rather than left trying to piece it together alone.

That’s what makes this different: you won’t just learn about creating an offering—you’ll actually create one.

⭐ This Isn’t Theory

Michelle Joy, MFT is a speaker, educator, soon-to-be author, and creator of The Developmental Enneagram for Couples.

She has spent over 20 years creating transformational experiences—not only in therapy rooms, but through the very kinds of offerings she now helps others build.

Over the past two decades, Michelle has built transformational experiences from the ground up—not by following someone else’s formula, but by discovering firsthand what truly works through years of creating, facilitating, refining, and leading.

She has:

  • Created and facilitated a wide variety of support groups from scratch
  • Built and led consultation groups for helping professionals
  • Created and facilitated Marriage Prep 101 workshops for couples
  • Developed trainings, workshops, and educational programs from the ground up
  • Created online memberships and transformational group experiences
  • Developed retreat curriculum from scratch, including experiences that filled to capacity
  • Created and hosted the Enneagram Summit for the Helping Profession, now in its third annual year, attended by thousands of helping professionals around the world
  • Spoken nationally as an educator
  • Served hundreds of professionals, couples, and participants through programs, workshops, trainings, groups, retreats, and educational experiences she personally designed and facilitated

What she teaches here is not theoretical.

It comes from years of learning through direct experience:

  • what creates transformation
  • what keeps people engaged
  • what helps offerings fill
  • what supports meaningful participant experiences
  • and what doesn’t work so well

Her gift lies not simply in teaching content—but in helping people identify the deeper wisdom they carry, structure it into transformational experiences, and bring high-integrity work into the world.

This isn’t theory. She has built the very kinds of offerings she’ll help you create.

⭐ Program Structure

🗓️ September 16 – November 4, 2026

8 consecutive Wednesdays
Live weekly online sessions
90 minutes each, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM PT
Teaching + hot seats + implementation + guided feedback

A small, intimate, high-touch live online intensive. Because this work is deeply individualized, space is intentionally limited.

Each participant receives multiple opportunities for direct coaching, real-time feedback, and practical next steps.

This is not passive learning. This is a working intensive where your ideas come into fruition.

⭐ Weekly Experience

What are you here to create?

Clarify:

  • who you most want to help
  • what breaks your heart / lights you up
  • what problem you feel called to solve
  • what transformation you care about

Outcome: connect with your mission / your bigger “why”

What should this actually BE?

Explore the differences between:

  • workshop
  • support group
  • psychoeducational group
  • mastermind
  • retreat
  • summit
  • online course
  • membership
  • certification
  • consultation group
  • live training

Each person chooses the right format.

How do you actually help people create meaningful change?

Many helping professionals know they’re good at what they do—but have never slowed down enough to clearly articulate how they do it. In this week, we’ll begin uncovering and clarifying the unique wisdom, perspective, and process that shape your work so your offering reflects something authentic rather than generic. This is where your approach begins to take clearer form and where the seeds of your unique methodology start to emerge.

How do you create an experience that helps people change, not just consume information?

Having expertise is one thing. Knowing how to translate that expertise into a transformational experience is another. This week is about shaping the actual participant journey—thinking through what creates engagement, emotional movement, insight, connection, safety, and meaningful transformation. This is where your offering begins to shift from “an idea” into a thoughtfully designed experience that people genuinely benefit from.

How do you describe your offering so the right people immediately understand its value?

Even meaningful offerings can struggle if they aren’t communicated clearly. This week focuses on helping you find language that captures the heart of what you’re creating in a way that resonates, builds trust, and helps the right people recognize that your offering is meant for them. This is where clarity becomes compelling communication.

How do people actually hear about what you’ve created?

Creating something valuable is only part of the equation—people need to know it exists. In this week, we’ll explore practical, ethical, and aligned ways to begin sharing your offering with others without needing gimmicky marketing tactics or becoming someone you’re not. The focus is on sustainable visibility strategies that feel authentic and realistic for helping professionals.

Because sometimes the biggest obstacle isn’t strategy—it’s what happens inside us when we step into visibility, leadership, and creation.

For many helping professionals, the deeper challenge isn’t knowing what to do—it’s navigating what gets stirred up emotionally when it’s time to be seen, charge for your work, step into leadership, or bring something personal into the world. This week creates space for the internal barriers that can quietly sabotage momentum, so you can move forward with greater confidence, clarity, and self-trust.

This final week stays flexible based on what emerges in the group.

Possible focus:

  • final offer refinement
  • launch troubleshooting
  • pricing questions
  • messaging edits
  • participant presentations
  • visibility support
  • unresolved blocks
  • implementation questions

⭐ This Is For You If:

You have meaningful expertise from your professional work
You feel called to create a workshop, group, retreat, training, or transformational offering
You want thoughtful guidance bringing an idea into reality
You value depth over shallow business tactics
You want personalized support
You’re ready to bring something substantial to life

⭐ This Is Not For:

People looking for passive-income shortcuts
People wanting aggressive marketing tactics
People unwilling to do reflective or implementation work
People wanting fully done-for-you business building
People seeking advanced business consulting for already established offers
People wanting sophisticated launch strategy, scaling, or certification architecture

⭐ Enrollment

Because this is highly personalized, enrollment is limited.

If you know you’re sitting on expertise that deserves a bigger container and want thoughtful support turning it into a transformational offering—the right offering can change not only your work, but the number of people your wisdom is able to reach.

Your investment includes:

  • 8 live weekly group sessions (90 minutes each)
    A small, intimate, high-touch experience with real-time teaching, support, and implementation guidance.
  • Multiple personalized hot seat coaching opportunities
    Dedicated time throughout the program where Michelle and the group offer focused feedback, ideas, strategy, problem-solving, and support around your specific offering.
  • Step-by-step guidance each week
    A clear developmental process so you’re not trying to figure this out alone.
  • Weekly implementation assignments / action steps
    Practical homework to help you actively build your offering between sessions.
  • Personalized feedback and guidance in real time
    Bring questions, roadblocks, uncertainty, and evolving ideas into the room as they arise.
  • Small group support + collaborative brainstorming
    Learn not only from your own process, but from the insights, creativity, and questions of fellow helping professionals.
  • Help clarifying your audience, offer, and positioning
    So your idea becomes something clear, compelling, and aligned.
  • Messaging support
    Guidance around how to describe your offering in a way that resonates with the right people.
  • Ethical visibility / enrollment strategies
    Practical ways to begin filling your offering without gimmicky marketing.
  • Support around internal blocks
    Including fear of visibility, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, charging, and stepping into leadership.
  • A roadmap to bring your offering to life
    Leave with something tangible—not just inspiration.

Rather than entering the new year still thinking about the offering you wish you had created, step into it with confidence, clarity, and something real already built—ready to share, launch, and bring to the people you’re meant to serve.

Registration

Target Audience: Therapists who feel called to create group offerings beyond one-to-one work.

Meetings 8 consecutive Wednesdays

Dates September 16 – November 4, 2026

Time 10:30 AM–12:00 PM PT

Location Zoom

Fee $697 for the 8-week series

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