Now, more than ever…
Dear Changemakers,
Now more than ever, here’s what I want for you….
To have hope for the future, without bypassing reality.
To know that amid so much uncertainty, you can embody true resilience, without having to worry about what comes next.
To trust that you can continue to be impactful and create meaningful change without burning out under intense conditions.
To be clear about what you stand for and be free to make your next move, without having to compromise your values.
For the foundation of your work to be adaptable to any conditions, clear and easily understood, without having to take another training.
To build a world that works for you, without the guilt that comes with thriving while the world is burning.
Do you want these things too?…
To rise with trust and resilience into the unknown future…
To take meaningful action in service to our shared future…
Here’s the
inconvenient
reality:
So many sensitive changemakers are living subtle values misalignments that make it difficult to lead with certainty in this unpredictable time.
Why?
Because our truest values and leadership are often frozen underneath protection patterns rooted in the unfinished business of our personal, inherited, and collective history.
When this happens, we can end up with relational dynamics, commitments, and even entire “life callings” that aren’t aligned with who we are.
There’s no faster road to burnout or conflict than devoting to a calling, relationship, or community that goes against your most resonant values.
Because our nervous systems respond to value conflicts as threats.
When this happens, our bodies guard and valiantly protect us.
It’s expensive. And we pay the cost energetically, emotionally, and mentally. Especially when our outer ‘yes’ is actually an inner ‘no.’
And there is no time more important than NOW to line up with your truest values and express them through your leadership in the world.
The Outcome?
Feel radically fulfilled while working within your capacity to share your most impactful offerings.
Know that no matter how uncertain things become, you can be certain that you have something irrevocable guiding your next steps.
Devote to practices of self-care that meet your deepest needs and reorient you to your self and your path.
Cultivate relational resonance where true collaboration and reciprocity can take hold.
No More Choosing Values Off of a List
We follow a liberatory framework that honors diverse ways of knowing. Cognitively deciding what’s important to you is different from somatically recognizing what brings you back to life.
No More Guessing or Trying to Figure Out What Matters Most
Together, we build in enough time, space, care and attention to explore beneath the vigilance of the nervous system patterns that kept your most resonant values frozen, masked, hidden or dulled because of your history.
Forget about your word of the year. These are your words of a lifetime.
As you center and let your values lead your life, they can become the strategic undercurrent for your professional visions and the foundation for your self-care.
I’m Tele Darden…
And I’ve learned that when you resurrect your truest values from under the rubble of personal & collective trauma, literally everything changes.
Almost a decade ago, I had a thriving bodywork practice, owned a wellness center, and was teaching future massage therapists their craft, but ironically, I was very unwell. I was painfully unaware of how burned out I was, and I was denying and hiding my chronic pain and illness. I was supposed to be a healer by vocation, but secretly didn’t want to give another thing to another human. I was showing up and meeting my clients and students well, but my body dreaded having to take on another fully booked day.
So I made some changes. I closed the center, stepped away from teaching, moved my business online, and committed to centering my own care. I reinvented the way I worked to be within my capacity. I decolonized and divested as best I could from the places where I was embodying white supremacist, ableist, capitalist, cis-het patriarchy - (this work continues). I made time to rest and reconnected with my ancestors and the earth.
My symptoms decreased. I started repairing my relationship with enjoyment. And even after years of doing my work, even though I had recovered from burnout, I knew something was missing. I was still unsatisfied.
As I was confronting my ableism and accepting my neurodivergence, I came across Heather Morgan’s Values-Based Integration Process, a way to identify your deepest core beliefs as a part of the unmasking process.
What I realized? One of my most resonant core values was frozen, unexpressed – and its absence dimmed the saturation of my entire life.
I began to resurrect my relationship with the Creative, and started centering my other values. As I learned to meet places where my values conflicted, my capacity to exist expanded, and aliveness recolored my daily life. I returned to the world and enrolled in grad school to include them more fully in my work. I became more present in my parenting, and my ability to be of greater service in my community expanded in ways I would never have imagined.
It’s not a perfect triumph story, I’m still learning how to accommodate myself and meet my needs AND I have way more capacity to live my life in ways I never thought possible. I’ve integrated what I’ve learned, my knowledge on somatic trauma resolution and 15 years of experience as a practitioner, facilitator, and teacher into this body of work.
What I’ve learned is that your values are irrevocable.
They’re the antidotes that allow you to be well inside of unwell systems.
AND no one can change the impact you’re meant to have on the world.
Are you ready
to rise in your leadership
with your values
at the center?
Values Rising is a 3 month 1:1 intensive container that helps you reclaim, refine and embody your most resonant values so you can bring more of yourself into your work and the world without burning out.
You receive five 1:1 sessions & eight guided meditations to support your somatic process.
Pricing: One payment of $1800
(3 payments of $600)
(or 6 payments of $300)
What clients say about Values Rising or 1:1 work with Tele…
Salyna Cole
“Values Rising is powerful anti-oppressive identity medicine. It feels like a customized map back to the truest parts of who I am. If you’re feeling lost, overwhelmed, or having trouble finding your center, this is the work your life needs.
I wear a lot of hats, and sometimes I can feel fragmented or stuck in one expression of myself. Values Rising gave me my somatic North Star. I parent differently from the heart of my values. I’m infusing my values into my business. They consistently come up as my truth in conversations of expansion and challenge in my marriage. Even after completing the sessions, they are still working their magic as I weave them into my entire existence. I really felt Tele’s creatrix throughout the entire process. There were times I felt stuck or confused, and she always had a creative way to bring my body’s wisdom forward. This was a life-aligning experience that has shifted the way I show up in greater harmony with my somatic blueprint.”
Sonal Vyas
“ It's hard to put into words how much gratitude I have for the opportunity to work with Tele. We started working together over 2 years ago and she instantly made me feel at ease by how intentional and thoughtful she is about the space she creates and holds. In a time when it can feel challenging to find the light and path forward, the offering of this values work was such a timely gift. Instead of just naming values, the intuitive process we took to uncover my values created a deeper connection and understanding that has created a lasting imprint. Understanding my values in this way has created a soft place for me to land and a foundation that grounds me. While chaos can still surround, I feel a strong sense of alignment in who I am and how to make choices where I can be as aligned as possible. I am so grateful to have crossed paths with Tele."
Gloria Eid
“Tele has been in my corner for several years supporting me in tending to my inner landscape while I build my business and make moves that stretch me out of comfort. Her coaching has been a soft and potent place to land to recalibrate myself before and after I've met various life and career milestones. Her approach to transformation is truly healing, grounding, and rooted in ancestral wisdom and the body's intelligence, and I’m so grateful for the container she creates for slowing down and going inward. Through our conversations, it never fails that I return back to alignment and receive insight and clarity rooted in my values and what matters most. Tele is one of the most skilled somatic practitioners I have come across who operates from the highest integrity and care. After working with her, you'll walk through the world with greater depth, connection, love, and self-compassion.
Rachael Maddox
“Grounding. Truth. Healing. Awakening amidst complexity. Tele supports me with all these things. I bring her a knotted jumble – whether philosophical, somatic or interpersonal, and she helps me find and follow the sacred thread to a more peaceful, values-aligned and generative way forward. I have brought some of my lowest life moments to Tele, and she has held me with impeccable care, relatability, effectiveness, intuition and love. I have brought some of my most complex leadership challenges to Tele, and she has seamlessly helped me ground into my values and bridge what felt like impossible gaps. If you're a leader with range and a neurospicy brain – someone who needs to be met in the complex brilliance of who you are – Tele is an incredible mentor and guide. I am forever grateful for her presence in my life.”
Iso’ke Aminah
“Working with Tele has been such a delight and came at a time when I was ready to expand. I learned that there was a deep freeze happening in my system, and when I bumped up against it, my whole system would collapse. For years I had no clue what was happening. With Tele's gentle presence, guidance, and ability to listen deeply to what wasn't being said, she could sense what was clearly in the field and with this support, the thawing process began. I have learned new skills to support myself, and feel confident to utilize these skills when I feel my nervous system needing some extra TLC. If you are new to somatics or have been working with somatics for years, Tele has the depth, skills and presence to support you and I highly recommend her!
Cara Jones
“I never really know what I’m going to be working on when I sign up for sessions with Tele, but I always know something awesome will happen.
Tele is a powerful guide who brings a rare combination of body wisdom, intuitive gifts and human curiosity that help weave whatever I bring to each session into ever-helpful insight and action (or, even better, non-action) steps. She has supported me through one of the hardest years of my life and business and has helped me source the wisdom and gifts from it all.”
Sonali Deepika
“I have had the pleasure of knowing Tele for 2 years now. Our connection began through my interest in Alchemical Alignment. She became my teacher, and during this time I started 1:1 sessions with her. These sessions have continued regularly for over the course of one year. Tele has held and supported me through loss, grief, a big move and, most importantly, through a monumental freeze in my business.
Each time I enter our session space, I know and trust that I will be met with whatever my body and my being is holding and needing to be attended to. We meet a small, doable piece ini whatever way that arises. Tele’s exquisite attunement, cultivation of a field of mutual respect and care, and immense capacity to be present to all that arises in the field has been a gift to me at this time in my life.”
Here are my values…what I stand for…what can never be taken away from me
& what I bring forward to you…
as permission…
as transmission…
Freedom
Collective & Gestalt liberation. Somatic, ancestral, spiritual & material experiences and expressions unencumbered by systems of harm. Choice.
Trust
Developing capacity for accountability. Rooting in integrity. Exploring the tension in grace. Moving with no expectations and the prayer to be trustworthy for myself first and then to others. Honoring no.
The Creative
The erotic, unseen force that expresses itself through nature, magic, conjure, emergence. Threshold crossing from imagined to material. Recognized by the remnants of beauty it leaves behind. Rhythmic, mutable predictability that flows through the currents of the Rio Abajo Rio.
Embodiment
The gift of being a living being who can move, feel, & respond to the world in tandem with life. Microsomic wonder. Temporary homecoming. Tending well to the ancestral body. Creating the conditions to be safe enough for the parts of me lost to survival to return.
THE PROCESS
Step 1:
Storytelling
(Session #1)
You share the moments in your life when you felt authentically in resonance—alive, satisfied, fully like yourself— we capture the details and feel for the somatic expression of what matters most to you. (2 hrs.)
Step 2:
Recognizing
Resonance
(Session #2)
We cognitively and somatically begin to recognize the patterns of what is most important. We find how the most relevant parts of your stories come together to illuminate what brings you to life and form the foundation for your definitions. (60-75 minutes)
Step 3:
Creating
Definitions
(Homework - email & text support)
This is your homework. In between sessions, you create personalized definitions and visual representations to give your values a place in the world.
Step 4:
Sharing &Strategizing
Definitions & Micro & Macro Expressions
(Session #3)
You share and/or refine your definitions and what you’ve created. Which of your values are being fully expressed? Where have they been frozen, and what do you need to support the thawing? Together, we explore what it looks like to work within your capacity and express your values in the most optimal ways. We honor your rhythms, need for rest, and desire for action as you plan how to be in devotion to your values. (60-75 minutes)
Step 5:
Metabolizing
Rupture to Support Repair
(Session #4)
We look at 1-2 current experiences where you’re experiencing values conflicts to to find clarity and resolution. This is the heart of somatic work that addresses layers of unresolved personal, inherited and collective history. (60-75 minutes)
Step 6:
Honoring
Integration & Preparing for Emergence
(Session #5)
Our final session in the series allows for time for the process to feel complete and prepare for what comes next. Values Rising is an ongoing process that needs to be steeped, lived into, and refined over time. (60-75 minutes)
Your Investment
Values Rising is a 3 month 1:1 intensive container that helps you reclaim, refine and embody your most resonant values so you can bring more of yourself into your work and the world without burning out.
You receive five 1:1 sessions & eight guided meditations to support your somatic process.
Pricing: One payment of $1800
(3 payments of $600)
(or 6 payments of $300)
FAQ’s
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Do you recognize yourself in one or more of these experiences:
You’re on the threshold of a pivot or fresh start in your business or work, and are looking for a more authentic way of bringing your gifts forward.
You’re tired of guessing your purpose. You want to be certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt what you’re here to do.
You have a difficult history that sometimes leaves you feeling challenged by identifying and centering your needs and desires. It’s easy to be in service of someone else’s vision or meet their needs, but you can find yourself disappeared, overidden or lost along the way.
Something about this moment is calling you, and you want to contribute more towards community or collective liberation, but you’re confused or feel stuck around where and how to start.
You want your work to be a bolder expression of what you stand for and believe in.
You’re a neurodivergent entrepreneur who wants to work in a more sustainable way.
You’re feeling the impact of burnout and know something needs to change in your work and relationships.
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Congratulations! Even if the full process doesn’t feel like the right fit, I’m curious….
How would it feel to receive more support learning how to develop somatic recognition and more fully embody your values?
Are you practicing micro and macro expressions as the foundation for your self-care and framework for your leadership and service?
If you want to explore both or either of those questions, book an introductory session and we’ll work together to find the answers. https://www.teledarden.com/book-now
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When you’re feeling ready to sign up, just click the link above which will take you the booking page. Find a time that works for your schedule and once you book, I’ll send an email with instructions about the storytelling process and how to prepare. A $300 deposit is required to hold your spot, which will be credited towards the total cost of the process.
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Unfortunately, at the moment, my schedule is full and I don’t have the capacity for discovery calls. If you’re almost sure that you want to work together but still have some questions, you can send me a message through my contact form or book an introductory session to get a better feel for whether it would be a good fit to work together. https://www.teledarden.com/book-now
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By booking your 1st session you’re committing to the Values Rising process, which is a total of 5 1:1 sessions for $1800. For ease of scheduling, those sessions can be booked and paid for as you move through the process. If, after the first session, you decide that it’s not a good fit and let me know within 24 hours, you’ll only be responsible for the cost of the first session - $600.
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Yes. I have a very limited number of sliding scale spots available each month for Melanated Folks of the Global Majority and LGBTQIA+ folks who are in financial need who want to deepen into this work with me. Rates range between $975-$1800. Please see Alexis Cunningfolks thoughtful infographic before reaching out. (scroll to the bottom of the page)
