Soul Leadership Councilship

A gathering of individuals to explore topics related to the whole person in order to support a field of conscious awareness, soul emergence, creation energy & inspired action toward thriving in life and work

 

A FIELD OF EMERGENCE

Councilship Sessions

Over many years of inner alchemy, I have learned to follow my inner guidance in order to move through emotions, develop conscious awareness, trust the magic of my work and life, attune to my purpose, foster creation energy, and take inspired action from my inner guidance or my soul.

All of this has unfolded through my own particular way of moving toward innovation while rooting into and honoring the past, including my lineage and my stories.

Through the burgeoning of the Internet, through presciently pursuing the bleeding edges of new technologies and trends that became essential to a thriving life, I developed an entrepreneurial mastery that was birthed and thrived through my storytelling skills.

My gifts as a writer—from noticing and contemplating, to pattern seeking and making sense of the unknown—uniquely positioned me to operate and grow multi-million dollar businesses and engage communities of millions.

But along the way, a perspective shift dropped in, allowing me to attune to relationship dynamics and the stories that made them, whether those relationships be between core members of a business or generations of family members.

In time and in collaboration with my lineage and its heart opening medicine of Ceremonial Cacao, a 100% pure plant medicine that has been cultivated by Mayans for centuries, I developed a keen ability to listen to my inner voice and guide others to balance all the voices within the body, using that equilibrium to power their mission and magic.

I now weave how to listen to soul, self-love and self-healing practices (like Ceremonial Cacao), with decades of entrepreneurial mastery to help creatives, visionaries, healers, and leaders transcend blocks in order to heal and bring their most authentic selves to work, life, and art.

Today, I create intentional space to commune with Ceremonial Cacao, which fosters a loving sensation in the body. Through ceremony—which is hosted and designed in collaboration with my ancestors—I share stories and holds space for individuals to rest, remember, reconnect within, expand, and emerge.

Post-ceremony, I council individuals through everything from organizational shifts, role recalibrations, life pivots, soul emergence, and all kinds of life transitions. I help you vision unending possibilities, align with your ever-unfolding purpose, and take inspired action from your most integrated self or the soul.

My ceremony and councilship is designed for creatives, visionaries, leaders, and healers who may be moving through transformation, wrestling with uncertainty, requiring a reset or a way to reinvigorate bonds, moving through organizational pivots and recalibrations, making meaning from past projects, exploring new ventures, and resting in the knowing that they’re exactly where they’re meant to be in order to allow full emergence.

Councilship sessions are designed to explore and integrate whatever comes to the surface and can be offered in a single session post ceremony or over multiple sessions as mentorship or coaching.

My style of council-ship, which blends the ancient (soul) with the modern (entrepreneurship), is a soulful practice and benefit that positively impacts the group culture while helping individuals root into ways to manage anxiety and emotions, understand their values, as well as feel seen and supported.

Topics Explored—

Listening deeply

Accessing intuition

Softness vs hardness

Developing emotional intelligence

Understand blocks

Soul emergence

Moving through conflict

Telling the whole truth

Cultivating space & rest

Stepping into presence

Leading with integrity & love

Telling new stories

Connecting Within is Vital in 2024

Cacao ceremony and council-ship is a health and wellness program that positively impacts group culture while helping individuals root into ways to manage anxiety and emotions, understand values, feel seen and supported, and boost morale. As well—

Individuals who are connected within understand their mission and values, and will realize ways to align both to their organizations.

Individuals who are connected within take full responsibility for their own outcomes and harbor fewer resentments to the external.

Individuals who are connected within develop the capacity to manage anxiety and emotions, and bring far less stress to the office.

Individuals who are connected within bring vested contributions to their companies, making deeper impact to an organization’s intentions and success.

Individuals who are connected within learn to clearly communicate when professional paths are no longer aligned, allowing organizations to focus on growth rather than performance challenges.

Individuals who are connected within value growth, innovation, overcoming adversity and are solution-oriented. They bring those values to their organizations.

Foundations of My Style

Entrepreneurship x Soul

Entrepreneurship

20+ Years of Inspired Work in Technology, Hospitality, Travel, Retail, Non-Profits, Placemaking, Publishing & Well-being

Retail

Launched an award-winning retail brand, recipe site, and pop-up retail market that featured artisan food, chefs, authors, and workshops for 25,000+ guests

Retail & Placemaking

Contracted by Harvard University to design a retail market that served 8,000 guests in under a month while also place-making an emerging section of their new campus

Publishing & Well-being

Wrote two cookbooks, "Food Gift Love" (HMH, 2015) and "A New Way to Food" (Roost, 2019) that sold 25,000+ copies and were featured on QVC and in The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal

Hospitality & Placemaking

Opened The Charles River Speedway, a retail marketplace now open in Boston, as the General Manager, Chief Storyteller, and Vendor Partnerships Lead

Technology

Guided community development for the largest team of mapmakers on the planet—6,000 people in 55 countries—through Here, a Nokia Company

Non-Profits & Crisis Storytelling

As the marketing and storytelling advisor to La Colaborativa, the largest support organization for the Latinx community in New England, I offered strategy and practices to raise $500K in 2020 and $1M in 2021, during the height of the pandemic

Hospitality & Retail

Managed Winston Flowers’ three-acre garden center, flower shop, and home store, leading P&L and vision for largest retail outlet, with annual revenues of $4M where I was personally responsible for generating $500K in sales over previous year in first year

Technology

Launched the very first e-commerce website for Barnes & Noble Books. Launched one of earliest online communities, New York Online. Designed communities for America Online.

Travel & Technology

Introduced and integrated Expedia’s TripAdvisor Help System in order for active community members to participate in content moderation, reducing costs by more than 50%

Soul

10 Pillars of Soul Work, a Paradigm of Activities to Align with Your Essence

 

Hi, I’m Maggie Battista. I’m a storyteller, strategist, ritualist, teacher & mentor.

I share stories on the sweetness of life and the magic that unfolds when you listen to your soul.

The soul speaks through an inner voice which is the calm and all-knowing wisdom that surfaces from within when you get quiet and listen.

I weave how to listen to soul, self-love and self-healing practices (like Ceremonial Cacao), with decades of entrepreneurial mastery to help creatives, visionaries, healers, and leaders transcend blocks in order to heal and bring their most authentic selves to work, life, and art.

I guide individuals through everything from organizational shifts and role recalibrations, through self-awareness and self-healing paths, and to soul emergence so they vision unending possibilities, align with their ever-unfolding purpose, and take inspired action from the soul.

My offerings are leading edge benefits that recalibrate the inner world, helping you center abundance, ease, coherence, and self-trust.

And the bonds that emerge through our collaboration make work and life a lot more fun, and a lot more magical.