Working at the intersection of ritual intelligence & venture leadership
Founded by Cleo Shortland, the Wā Programme guides founders and owners through the threshold between what they’ve built with their hands and where they’re being called to lead next. Through ceremony and deep listening, tap into your personal brilliance in this four-month journey to bring what’s next alive.
Working at the intersection of ritual intelligence & venture leadership
Founded by Cleo Shortland, the Wā Programme guides founders and owners through the threshold between what they’ve built with their hands and where they’re being called to lead next. Through ceremony and deep listening, tap into your personal brilliance in this four-month journey to bring what’s next alive.
Wā
(noun) time, season, period of time, interval, term, duration.
How it works
You disappear. We get to work. You re-emerge.
Explore
The journey begins in the truth of what you’re beginning to see, unfiltered. Through deep enquiry and ritual informed reflection, we name what the problem is and explore all possible outcomes.
Connect
We delve into your relationships with people, your work, your direction. This is where you activate your personal brilliance and decide on your next move.
The Threshold
It’s time to move through the threshold by stepping into your vision. Action and creation effect your personal evolution.
Emerge
Emerge with the clarity and conviction of your ideas and your impact firmly in hand. You are alive in the evolution, your new lived reality.
What you receive8 fortnightly 1.5hr sessions with Cleo, each building on the last
Unlimited communication line with Cleo between sessions
Trello board to track progress
Programme start date and duration10 August 2026
4 months
InvestmentUSD $2,500 per month over 4 months
Kind words from my clients
Frequently asked questions
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A transition guide uses one-on-one guidance, ritual and visualisation tools to help you rethink what’s possible. It’s deep work that looks at ways to access your personal brilliance and convert this into a vision, decisions and action. From here, we can build with clarity and move purposefully toward what’s next.
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It’s important that when seeking support, you have clarity in what you’re receiving. Each mentor, coach, and guide has a different strength that you can tap into.
Here is a ritual to help you on that journey.
Find a quiet space and ask yourself:
What keeps me up at night about my business?
How do I want to feel after a coaching session?
What environment helps me do my best thinking?
Once you have sat with those answers ask yourself: can Cleo help me with these? And if you need some extra support, you can always get in touch.
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No, quite the opposite. Some of my favourite clients are the ones who've zigzagged, pivoted, started over, or built something that doesn't fit a neat category – usually in the quest of finding something more fulfilling.
I've done the same myself, so I'm not here to hand you a cookie-cutter roadmap. What we build together is shaped entirely around you: your story, your strengths, and the vision that excites you most.
Unconventional paths often lead to the most interesting places giving you greater clarity and direction.
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If you're a neurodivergent business owner wondering whether this is for you, it depends.
I'm not a specialist in neurodivergent care, and I want to be honest about that. What I can offer is a container that doesn't require you to show up perfectly to sessions. The work happens between sessions too through unlimited communication, at whatever hour your brain decides it's ready ;). Waking up to 20 messages and voice notes from a client when they’ve received an epiphany is not uncommon, and I love it. All thoughts, well rounded and half made, are welcome here at Wā.
I invite you to get in touch and we can figure out if my approach is a fit for you.
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Good! I don't work that way.
There's a difference between a framework and framing. Frameworks are handed to you. Framing emerges from the work itself. It is introduced once clarity arrives.
My approach leaves space to free flow. This is where the real thinking happens. And once something starts to take shape, we begin building a gentle structure around it.
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I’m a New Zealand based business coach. I work locally and abroad with clients in Australia, North America, UK and Europe.
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That feeling, that everyone and everything else comes first, is often exactly why we need to talk. It's how you've always shown up. And it may be the very thing to release to step into what's next.
Most of my clients find me at their most stretched. This is a beautiful lived experience for us to work within.
And if after our conversation you decide now isn't the moment, that's okay too. I ask my clients to trust their own timing. You'll know when it's time.