MysticMag chats with Fiona McCoss, a bold and unapologetic women’s mentor, known for pushing boundaries and leading women to embody their wild, sensual, and authentic selves. With a focus on feminine empowerment and radical self-expression, she challenges conventional norms and inspires transformative change. Fiona’s work is about helping women reclaim their truth, power, and unapologetic expression, merging the primal with the divine.
Fiona, can you share a personal story of how embracing your wild feminine energy has transformed your own life and leadership journey?
One of the biggest ways my wild feminine energy changed my life happened when I was 26 and in an unhappy relationship, with a mortgage to a family home (I didn’t want kids), living in a commuter town and working in London, leading a split life. I bought the book Wild by Cheryl Strayed, on a whim, which unlocked a deep yearning in me to reclaim my independence and to liberate myself from the life I was in.
Two years later, I was long out of that relationship, I’d quit my well-paid London job, and booked a one-way ticket to SouthEast Asia with no idea of what was ahead of me. And that was to be one of the biggest pivotal times of my life, letting this wild yearning for adventure and change lead me. It was also my Saturn Return!
It was a wild feminine urge, a deep knowing, that I had to escape the cage of conformity and smash the glass ceilings that were keeping me small and suffocated. Starting my own business, meeting my life partner in the Philippines, Digital Nomading for four years, then moving back to the UK to live on a farm was not what I ever thought would happen! But it did and I am so glad.
I always say to my clients, when you hear the wolf cry calling you into your liberation, there is no unhearing it. Just follow that howl…
What inspired you to create the WILD FEMININE Facilitator & Leadership Training, and what do you hope participants will gain from this experience?
As a Manifestor in Human Design, when I have a creative urge and idea I always run with it! And while there are many facilitator trainings out there, mine is unique as it’s a blend of both applied facilitation and the energetics and embodiment of feminine leadership.
A lot of my work is supporting women to create soul-inspired and body-based businesses, or supporting those who are already in business to do things differently. So I was inspired to create something that was a refinement of my own embodied experience, personal insights, all the best bits of my own trainings, and applied practices. Essentially, I wanted to create what I would have wanted myself when I was starting out on my journey into facilitation and leadership. So far it’s my most in-depth offer yet and I am extremely proud of it.
But don’t just take it from me, one of my past students wrote in her testimonial “It’s very obvious Fiona has poured her heart into this training, sharing all of her wisdom. I’ve completed this training with a deeper knowing of myself, my path and I am facilitating from a more embodied place than ever before as I begin to weave this work into my offerings.” (Arlene Conroy.)
At the end of the six months, students will practically gain tools and practices to be able to curate their own style of facilitation, they will have had both in-person and online facilitation experience, they will gain deeper insights into their own challenges, desires, and visions through our 1:1 sessions, plus the invaluable sisterhood and community support. So much about this training is about the deep inner work and shifts on the way to becoming an embodied leader and facilitator of wild feminine work. Call it an initiation, perhaps…
What are some common challenges women face when trying to tap into their feminine power, and how does your training address these challenges to empower participants?
Women have inherited multiple chronic conditions, sadly, which usually has the root in never feeling good enough. We’re told in this world we earn our value through external metric-based merit; money, status, qualifications, IQ. So without those things, who are we? This also perpetuates the feeling of Imposter Syndrome when we do have them, another huge fear that comes up in women, that we’ll get caught and be exposed as a fraud despite our intelligence or accomplishments. Also our conditioned default-nature as the Good Girl / People Pleaser keeps us permanently in codependent relationships as we – a collective – constantly override our own boundaries and over-extend ourselves to be the “giver” and the subservient Yes Girl to the point of exhaustion.
My Training is a slow-burn journey supporting women into their power as embodied leaders and facilitators by working both with the psyche and the soma, the mind and body. To re-pattern deeply set programs we must work somatically as well as with mindset – this approach is what creates long-lasting effects.
Through applied learning, self-practice, embodied integration, and facilitation practice, with community support, and 1:1 coaching, the students can experience deep transformation as they learn to claim their voice, refine their gifts, own their power, step into their leadership (at home and out in public) and become unapologetic in who they are and with what they are bringing to the world in terms of their business and brand.
How do you balance traditional teachings of feminine energy with modern approaches to leadership and facilitation in your training programs?
My Facilitator & Leadership Training offers a potent and applicable blend of both traditional practices (from the Tao and Tantra for example) as well as modern science-led somatic and trauma-centred approaches. There is so much more information out there now about trauma-informed and trauma-aware practice and facilitation and with the changing landscape and understanding of the range of bodies and experiences that may show up in our spaces, as facilitators, its vital that we know how to curate experiences in a responsible way, to the best of our ability, while also understanding what we are not qualified or experienced to hold or guide.
What defines “leadership” is also shifting with the shifts in consciousness. There is a palpable difference in feminine (or new paradigm) leadership and traditional (old paradigm, more masculine) leadership. I teach women feminine- and body-based leadership and facilitation which models power-with not power-over energy, non-hierarchical dynamics, collective and community-centric instead of One Man Wins ideology, reciprocal and generous instead of penetrative and extractive, consensual instead of dominant… These are qualities I want to teach and inspire in the students to be better leaders of the future.
How do you envision the role of a WILD FEMININE facilitator in today’s world, and what unique contributions do you believe they can make to their communities and beyond?
Past students of mine are embodiment facilitators, empowering boudoir photographers, holistic breathwork and pelvic therapy practitioners, therapists, psychic soul guides, feminine energy alchemists, and political activists, for example. So the tools and practices they learn and embody over the six month Training can be applied to a wide scope of passions and roles.
These women are in their body, they are rooted in their female centre, their pelvis, living in alignment to their cycles, regulated and resourced, connected to their creative pulse and channel of unapologetic expression. As Wild Feminine Facilitators, they know that their unique medicine, gifts, and power creates impact, and to be around a woman who knows that in herself is activating enough. They will inspire change simply by modelling what embodied, conscious, feminine-led space holding and leadership looks like; everywhere from the kitchen table to big speaker stages. And I can’t wait to see it!
If you would like to find out more about Fiona McCoss, please visit https://fionamccoss.com
