A season just for you

A three-month, one-to-one journey of deep listening, following your curiosity toward what matters most to you.

The Wā Programme. Founded by Cleo Shortland.

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A season just for you

A three-month, one-to-one journey of deep listening, following your curiosity toward what matters most to you.

The Wā Programme. Founded by Cleo Shortland.

(noun) time, season, period of time, interval, term, duration

What is yearning to come through you and into the world?

How it works

Every call starts with what's present. You arrive as you are, with no preparation, and bring whatever is most alive: a decision, a restlessness, a pull you can't yet explain. That is always the right starting point, because the work follows your curiosity.

The method rests on one idea: your needs and desires live inside your stories, and they arrive in layers. As you speak, we listen for them and name them. Naming matters. An unnamed need runs your decisions from the background, while a named one becomes something you can work with. Over the season we weave threads between everything we've named, and the solutions emerge from the weave itself. They are found in what is already yours.

You bring the knowing of your own life and work. I listen deeply, ask the questions that take you further into that knowing, and witness what is asking to be seen. When fear arrives, and near any real threshold it does, we read it as a sign you are close to something true. We meet it first with slowness and understanding, and from there we shape the aligned action you will take into your life.

Ritual gives the work its structure. Karakia opens and closes each call with intention, marking our time as distinct from ordinary time. And the season completes through making. You create something real along the way: a decision enacted, an offering, a body of work. Change becomes yours when it becomes lived.

The change itself happens mostly between calls. This is why we meet fortnightly. The fortnight is where insight meets your actual life, and the open line means you are accompanied while it does. Progress shows up as observable shifts: choices made, conversations had, things built.

This is for founders and business owners at a turning point. The business is working, and something new is stirring in you. It is calling to be seen, to be woven, and to be brought to life.


"Your positivity wasn't just uplifting, it was empowering. You have a way of helping people see what's possible rather than focusing on limitations, and helping them recognise their own strengths and potential. That gave me greater confidence in my own abilities, and I always left interactions with you feeling energised, capable, and more willing to back myself and take the next step forward. The lasting impact for me was a stronger belief in what I could achieve and the confidence to go after it."

— Aime Carter, Sissys

What you receive

A three-month journey including six 90-minute video calls with Cleo, with an open communication line between them. You arrive as you are. No preparation needed. You bring what's present.

You are guided into self-enquiry, moving toward what is asking to be seen and witnessed.

A season of working closely together gives the work room to breathe.

Karakia, a Māori incantation, is offered to open and close our calls with intention and care.

Your investment

US$2,000/month · US$6,000 total.


"My time working with Cleo was alchemical. I had never felt so deeply held and understood, a natural gift she holds. What stayed with me was a connection that transcended the surface and the ordinary. You could always tell that holding space energised her as much as it uplifted us both.

Through ritual, contemplation, deep enquiry and a focus on creating the future, Cleo sped up my personal evolution in a way only very few people can. Blending the rational and the creative, her structures and frameworks create a safe container for deeper magic to come through.

There is a true element of belief and magic in working with Cleo that goes far deeper than the mind, and you have to experience it to understand what can be created together. I made so much progress in those years, having Cleo hold my visions with unwavering faith. Cleo is the real deal.”

— Rhea James Fox, Writer

Cleo Shortland

Kia ora, I’m Cleo Shortland

Life is about capturing it all. The imaginative, the joyful, and even the painful moments we would rather leave behind. The Wā Programme holds that same season for you: room to notice what's most alive in you, and to witness what it asks of you. Holding a moment in time before moving to the next.

This work will encourage you to follow your curiosity before stepping into what's most alive.

Step into the experience

Book a curiosity call with Cleo to learn how to step into the experience.

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