UNMASKED

UNMASKED with Marie Bernardo™

Remember who and what you’ve been missing.

An intimate experience for high-functioning professional women who are used to being the one everyone relies on.

A day to step away from the noise, understand what’s been happening beneath the surface, and make space for yourself again.

You lead. You make decisions. You solve problems. You support people. You carry responsibility at work and often at home.

From the outside, you’re capable, successful and getting on with it.

But internally, it can feel very different.

Your mind rarely seems to switch off.

You overthink decisions you’re more than capable of making. Reread the email before pressing send. Replay the conversation on the drive home.

There’s always something else to think about, organise, anticipate or get right.

You tell yourself you’re just busy.

That things will settle down after this deadline, this project, this particularly demanding period.

Except somehow, they never really do.

And perhaps somewhere beneath everything you carry, you’ve started to miss yourself.

You’re functioning. But what is functioning costing you?

You don’t need to be falling apart to be emotionally exhausted.

In fact, many high-functioning women become extraordinarily good at carrying pressure.

You keep delivering.

Your clients are looked after. Your team can rely on you. Things get done. Life keeps moving.

But functioning well on the outside doesn’t mean there isn’t a cost on the inside.

It can look like:

• finding it difficult to switch off, even when the working day is over

• overthinking decisions and conversations

• feeling responsible for everyone and everything

• constantly anticipating what needs to happen next

• saying yes when you’re already stretched

• second-guessing yourself despite years of experience

• feeling guilty when you stop

• having very little mental space that genuinely feels like your own

• wondering why things that used to feel manageable now seem to take so much energy

UNMASKED was created for that woman.

Not because there is something wrong with her.

Because she has been carrying a great deal for a very long time.

What if you could put some of it down?

UNMASKED is an intimate, carefully considered experience for just ten women.

A day away from the usual demands, roles and expectations.

A day to understand what has been happening beneath the pressure, recognise some of the patterns that may be keeping you constantly “on”, and experience what it feels like when nobody needs anything from you for a while.

This isn’t about becoming a “better version” of yourself.

And it isn’t another day telling you to be more productive, more resilient or better at coping.

It is an opportunity to create some space around everything you’ve been carrying.

To understand yourself differently.

To reconnect with the parts of you that may have become quieter beneath responsibility.

And to begin finding a different way to move through the life you’ve worked so hard to build.

Calmer.

Clearer.

Lighter.

And a little more like yourself again.

More than a day away

UNMASKED is not a one-day workshop that ends when you leave Blackwood.

Your Founding Circle experience begins before we meet, unfolds throughout our day together and continues after you return home.

Your $995 Founding Circle experience includes:

Before we meet

✓ Your place in the inaugural UNMASKED Founding Circle
✓ Your personal Pre-Experience Reflection
✓ Personal welcome and preparation for our day together
✓ Private return coach transport from Melbourne

Your day in Blackwood

✓ Full-day UNMASKED Founding Circle experience
✓ The UNMASKED Method™, powered by the Wellness Wings® Framework accredited by the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
✓ Guided reflection, conversation and practical tools
✓ Your Personal Reflection Journal
✓ Your personalised UNMASKED Blueprint™
✓ Time and space in nature
✓ Morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and shared dinner
✓ Curated Founding Circle keepsakes and personal touches throughout the experience

After UNMASKED

✓ Three live online Integration Circles
✓ One private coaching session with Marie
✓ Ongoing encouragement to help you bring what you discovered into everyday life

Investment: $995 AUD

Flexible payment plans are available.

Imagine if things felt different

What if you could switch off more easily?

Make a decision without analysing it ten different ways?

Leave a difficult conversation at work instead of bringing it home in your head?

Notice when you’re taking responsibility for something that isn’t actually yours to carry?

Trust yourself without constantly checking and rechecking?

Be present with the people you love because your mind is actually there too?

Have more room for fun, curiousity and the things you enjoy?

Have some time that genuinely feels like your own?

Not because all your responsibilities have disappeared.

Because you’ve learned a different way to relate to them.

Your journey begins before Blackwood

Before UNMASKED, you’ll receive your personal Pre-Experience Reflection.

It isn’t homework.

It is the beginning of creating some space for yourself.

You’ll have an opportunity to reflect privately on what is taking up space in your head, where life feels particularly full, what you’ve been carrying and what you would love to feel different.

You’ll also be able to tell Marie anything that would help you feel comfortable and supported throughout the experience.

You choose what you share.

That principle continues throughout UNMASKED.

Nothing is compulsory. There is nothing to prove.

Your existing Pre-Experience Reflection already establishes this choice-based approach and asks women about what feels full, what they need, their boundaries and how they would love to feel when they head home.

Then, someone else has it from here

On the morning of UNMASKED, we’ll meet in Melbourne and travel together by private coach to Blackwood.

For perhaps the first time in a while, you don’t need to organise the journey.

No directions.

No traffic to navigate.

No rushing to find the venue.

No decisions about where you need to be next.

Find your seat.

Settle in.

Watch the city gradually disappear behind you.

For today, someone else has it from here.

This is already one of the strongest ideas in your UNMASKED architecture because the coach is not simply transport, it begins the experience of relinquishing responsibility.

A different kind of experience

UNMASKED isn’t built around sitting through PowerPoint presentations.

And you won’t spend the day being given another list of things you “should” be doing.

Through the UNMASKED Method™, we’ll explore what happens beneath sustained pressure and create opportunities to notice your own patterns, assumptions, roles and internal expectations.

There will be conversation.

Reflection.

Evidence-informed insights and practical tools.

Time to write.

Time in nature.

Connection with other women.

And, importantly, space.

You may recognise patterns you hadn’t noticed before.

You may finally find words for something you’ve been experiencing for a long time.

You may discover how much energy has been going into holding things together.

Or you may simply experience what it feels like when, for a few hours, nobody needs anything from you.

There is no expectation that you disclose anything you would prefer to keep private.

No forced vulnerability.

No pressure to perform your transformation.

You participate in the way that feels right for you.

Beneath all the roles, there is still you

Leader.

Partner.

Director.

Manager.

Mother.

Daughter.

Friend.

Problem-solver.

Organiser.

The reliable one.

The strong one.

The one who gets things done.

These roles may be meaningful parts of who you are.

But they aren’t the whole of you.

UNMASKED creates space to explore a question many successful women rarely have time to consider:

Who am I when I’m not being who everybody needs me to be?

Not because you need to reject the life you’ve created.

Not because ambition or responsibility are problems.

But because there may be parts of you that have become very quiet while you’ve been busy being everything else.

Your existing experience architecture makes this one of the emotional centres of the day, placing down roles without rejecting them and asking who remains when she is no longer required to perform them.

Your UNMASKED Blueprint™

Throughout the day, your reflections, insights and practical tools will gradually become something uniquely yours.

Your UNMASKED Blueprint™.

Not somebody else’s prescription for how you should live.

Not a generic action plan.

A personal record of what you have noticed about yourself, what you want to remember, what supports you under pressure and what you want to make more room for when you return to everyday life.

Something you can return to long after Blackwood.

And UNMASKED doesn’t end when the coach comes home

Because Monday happens.

The inbox fills up.

Clients need answers.

Someone in your team needs you.

Family life continues.

And old patterns can be remarkably easy to return to.

That’s why integration is part of UNMASKED, not an optional extra.

Over the following weeks, we’ll reconnect for three live Integration Circles.

These intimate online sessions give you space to notice what is happening in real life, revisit the tools, work through challenges and receive coaching and guidance as situations arise.

You’ll also receive one private coaching session with Marie, focused entirely on you and what you need.

Because the goal isn’t to leave Blackwood feeling wonderful for 24 hours.

It is to bring something different home with you.

Why only ten women?

The inaugural UNMASKED Founding Circle is deliberately limited to ten women.

A small group creates space for genuine conversation, reflection and connection.

It allows the experience to be personal.

It allows every woman to be seen.

And it enables the thoughtful individual touches that simply aren’t possible in a room of 50 or 100 people.

Keeping UNMASKED small isn’t about exclusivity.

It’s about protecting the experience.

Meet Marie Bernardo

Marie Bernardo is the Founder of Co-Active Life Design® and creator of Wellness Wings®.

Her work helps high-functioning women and professionals build the internal capacity to navigate pressure, think more clearly and sustain the careers and lives they’ve worked hard to build without losing themselves in the process.

Marie brings together 20 years of corporate leadership experience with professional coaching, trauma-informed mindfulness and meditation training, and evidence-informed approaches to mental fitness, psychological flexibility and emotional resilience.

The original Wellness Wings® program was developed for healthcare professionals and received RACGP accreditation. Marie's work has since expanded across business, leadership and professional environments.

At the heart of her work is a simple belief:

You can be capable, ambitious and successful without sacrificing yourself along the way.

What women have shared

“It was a turning point for me.”

“It helped me reconnect with myself, learn to balance the load and be kinder to myself. Weeks later I still felt lighter, more connected and better equipped to navigate everyday challenges.”

Maria Surace

“The practical strategies have stayed with me well beyond the workshop and continue to support me in both my work and personal life.”

Caroline Roberts

“Marie’s frameworks helped me better understand my emotional patterns and gave me practical ways to navigate challenges with greater confidence.”

Jeanette Farren

Is UNMASKED for you?

UNMASKED was created for high-functioning professional women who quietly carry more than most people realise. The woman who:

• carries significant responsibility for people, clients or outcomes

• finds it increasingly difficult to switch off

• overthinks or second-guesses decisions despite being highly capable

• feels mentally or emotionally “on” much of the time

• is often the person others rely upon

• has become accustomed to putting her own needs further down the list

• wants greater calm, clarity and trust in herself

• misses having mental space, energy or parts of herself that used to feel more present

• knows she can keep going, but is questioning whether she wants to keep feeling this way while she does

You do not need to be burnt out.

You do not need to be falling apart.

And you certainly don't need to have everything figured out before you come.

You simply need to recognise that something about the way you're experiencing your life could feel different.

Your Founding Circle investment

$995 AUD

Your investment includes the complete UNMASKED journey:

Your pre-experience reflection and personal preparation, private return coach transport from Melbourne, the full-day experience in Blackwood, all meals and refreshments, your Personal Reflection Journal and UNMASKED Blueprint™, three subsequent Integration Circles and one private coaching session with Marie.

Flexible payment plans are available.

Only ten places are available in the inaugural Founding Circle.

Perhaps the question isn’t whether you can keep going.

You already know you can.

Perhaps the question is whether you want to keep experiencing your life in quite the same way.

UNMASKED won’t make your responsibilities disappear.

It won't make your career less demanding or suddenly make life uncomplicated.

What it can offer is space to understand what is happening beneath the pressure, practical ways to protect your internal capacity, and an opportunity to begin trusting yourself and your own needs again.

You can be deeply grateful for your life and still feel exhausted by it sometimes.

You can love your career and find the pressure difficult.

You can adore your family and still want some time that feels like your own.

You can appreciate everything you have while recognising that you don't want to keep feeling the way you do.

Those things can all be true at once.

You don't need to become someone new.

It may simply be time to make some room for the woman who has been there all along.

UNMASKED with Marie Bernardo™
Thursday, 22 October 2026
Blackwood, Victoria
Private return coach from Melbourne
Inaugural Founding Circle, maximum 10 women
Investment: $995 AUD
Flexible payment plans available