SUSTAINED TOGETHER™
Sustained Together™ is a facilitated space for senior female leaders in registered charities and non-profits to pause, take stock and explore how to further sustain themselves, their organisation and the sector as a whole.
Available as a one-day in-person workshop or a ten-week online journey.
Finding steadiness in uncertain times
There is a growing sense that many systems are shifting beneath us.
For senior female leaders in charities and nonprofit organisations, these pressures can feel particularly close.
Leading a charity or non-profit means holding responsibility for people, services, funding, governance and the mission itself. There may be little space to consider how you are doing within it all.
Sustained Together creates that space: to reflect honestly, learn with other leaders and identify what will help you continue with greater clarity, support and connection to purpose.
What is Sustained Together?
Sustained Together™ is a facilitated process of reflection and shared learning. It is not a generic training course. You bring your experience, questions and current realities; I bring a clear structure, thoughtful questions and careful facilitation.
Grounding, shared agreements and respectful conversation help create the conditions for psychological safety. You choose what you share.
Together, we explore four interconnected areas:
Arrive and take stock
Notice where you are now, what leadership is asking of you and what you want to move towards.
Understand yourself and others
Explore your responses to pressure, your identity as a leader and the relationships around you.
Meet what is difficult
Examine limiting patterns, face challenges and reconnect with the mission without losing yourself within it.
Move forward sustainably
Identify practical actions, support and ways to maintain balance in everyday leadership.
There is enough structure to hold the process and enough space for the needs and wisdom of the group.
At its core, the programme is about:
sustaining the people who sustain the mission.
The Sustained Together Journey
Two ways to take part
In-person: facilitated day
Online: ten week facilitated journey
On location
In-person group
A dedicated day away from everyday demands, moving through the four areas with personal reflection, facilitated dialogue and shared learning.
The day offers time to see your situation more clearly, connect with other leaders and identify what you want to carry forward.
from home or office
Online group
A steady rhythm of reflection and conversation, with time to explore and apply insights between gatherings.
Each week includes a short introduction to the theme, brief personal reflection prompts and a live facilitated group gathering.
The journey moves through ten weekly themes:
Take Stock · Envision Direction · Regulate Self · Explore Identity · Map Relations · Transcend Limitations · Face Threats · Integrate Mission · Design Action · Maintain Balance
The value of doing this together
The day is about feeling supported by female peers, in the charity sector, who understand the role and who experience similar challenges.
The day offers a confidential, thoughtful space in which we step outside our role and consider our own life, direction, fears, values, relationships, purpose and wellbeing - in relation to the organisation we are working with, the organisations of our peers and the sector as a whole.
Sustaining the people who sustain the mission
Supporting leaders, supporting the sector
Sustained Together is commissioned by an umbrella organisation, funder, network or sector body for a cohort of female charity and non-profit CEOs.
The intention is to support clearer decisions, stronger connections and more sustainable leadership, while helping sponsors understand where wider support may be needed.
Individual reflections and group conversations remain confidential. Optional reporting covers agreed, anonymised collective themes. A follow-through meeting with the sponsor considers the learning and possible next steps.
Sustained Together
Your facilitator
I’m Siobhán Cahalan, a leadership and governance coach, coaching supervisor, workshop designer and facilitator.
My work brings together governance, coaching and reflective practice. As a charity trustee and coach for senior female leaders in the non-profit sector, I understand the responsibilities carried by leaders and boards. I create carefully held spaces where people can listen to themselves and one another, access their wisdom and consider what comes next.
Contact
An invitation
If your organisation, network or fund would like to support the women leading the mission, I would welcome a conversation about Sustained Together.