Hi, I'm Sharyn. Here's my official bio.
Sharyn Holmes (she/they) is the CEO of Formidable Voices, an events and social movement created in 2019 to elevate and create speaking opportunities for Black Indigenous and People of Colour across coaching, spirituality, wellness, social justice, creative and entrepreneurship.
Sharyn is also a qualified, award-winning leadership and inclusion coach, writer, speaker, facilitator, multidisciplinary artist, qualified and trained youth mentor and soon to be a qualified Menstrual Cycle Coach. Their work dives deep into social justice, spirituality and personal sovereignty. Sharyn is passionate about anti-oppression, anti-racism, creating inclusive spaces, feminism, inclusive menstruality, anti-capitalist & conscious business strategy, creativity and self-expression and works as a consultant in these areas.
Sharyn created and has taught the online anti-racist and anti-oppression course, Unpack Your Privilege® since 2018, the Inclusive Coach Recognition Program and launched the Inclusive Leaders Collective community for leaders, coaches, creatives and trailblazers in 2021.
Sharyn is a Beautiful You Coaching Academy Event/Program of the Year finalist for Formidable Voices and the Emerging Coach of the Year winner for 2020-2021.
Be An Inclusive Coach is an Event/Program of the Year Finalist for the 2021-2022 Beautiful You Coaching Awards.
She is also on the Advisory Board and Faculty of Feminist Coach Academy and is their Integration Call Facilitator supporting and guiding feminist coaches and emerging feminist coaches.
Sharyn has led transformative coaching circles since 2015 including:
- Sacred Circle Leadership, an online sacred circle training immersion
- Gutsy Leadership Circle guiding other leaders to bring sacred activism to the heart of their lives and businesses
- Descent Circle, a coven for revolutionaries, creatives, witches, dissenters, rebels, changemakers, disrupters and people who desire a place of belonging after decades of being conditioned to believe they don’t deserve to feel safe in their bodies, safe in their homes, to belong or feel the warmth that collective care and togetherness brings and;
- Witchuition®, a year long coaching coven on life, business and practical magic for witches, trailblazers, sacred activists, leaders, entrepreneurs and spiritual badasses now in its second year
- Inclusive Leaders Collective, a group coaching membership for leaders, helping professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs providing monthly Inclusive Leader Calls, Gutsy Leadership Circle curriculum and alumni-only practitioner training, an individual review and feedback service and access to the full Inclusive Coach program and learning framework.
- Coming in 2022 are Menstruality Courses and Coaching Sessions, including Craft Your Menstrual Medicine Toolkit.
Sharyn is the Mistress of Potions behind Ascendio Apothecary.
Sharyn launched Inclusive Menstruality in September 2021. Join the list to learn more about coaching sessions and my eCourse on menstrual cycle awareness, sovereign self-care and crafting your toolkit.
Sharyn is a sought after guest teacher, facilitator and speaker.
Work with Sharyn through the following services: 1:1 coaching sessions and VIP consulting packages, self-study & group programs, a leaders collective membership and an Experimental Art Club.
Sharyn is the recipient of The Spirit Scholarship and author of the forthcoming book, Becoming Gutsy and Formidable to be published by The Kind Press in 2022.
My definition of a sacred activist:
I walk the path of a social justice and anti-oppression advocate and have done so for most of my life in various ways. It's my devotion to humankind. Sacred activism isn't just a ’fad’ or 'trendy' addition, it's woven into every facet of this immersive work (and my life!).
- Social justice united with ancestral, cultural and community care, connection and practice.
- Holistic heart-led coaching united with a personal sovereignty and trauma-informed approach.
- Inclusive Leadership woven with embodied, intuitive & liberatory intelligence.
Doing away with gender binary language
I don’t use the words 'feminine' or 'masculine' to describe energy, bodies, traits or myself. Binary thinking and language erases and excludes, and I am not here for that.
I walk the path of a social justice and anti-oppression advocate and have done so for most of my life in various ways. It's my devotion to humankind. Sacred activism isn't just a ’fad’ or 'trendy' addition, it's woven into every facet of this immersive work (and my life!).
- Social justice united with ancestral, cultural and community care, connection and practice.
- Holistic heart-led coaching united with a personal sovereignty and trauma-informed approach.
- Inclusive Leadership woven with embodied, intuitive & liberatory intelligence.
Doing away with gender binary language
I don’t use the words 'feminine' or 'masculine' to describe energy, bodies, traits or myself. Binary thinking and language erases and excludes, and I am not here for that.
