UNMASKED with Marie Bernardo

Remember who and what you’ve been missing.

You hold so much together for everyone else.

Your work. Your family. Your responsibilities. The decisions that need to be made and the things that somehow always seem to land with you.

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

But inside, your mind rarely seems to switch off.

You overthink decisions you’re more than capable of making. You reread the email before pressing send. Replay the conversation on the drive home. Tell yourself you’ll slow down when things settle down.

Except somehow, they never really do.

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

UNMASKED is a one-day experience for women who have reached a point where they don’t want to keep feeling the way they do.

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

Through the UNMASKED Method™, powered by the Wellness Wings® Framework, accredited by the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), you’ll begin to understand why you’ve been feeling this way and discover practical, evidence-informed ways to navigate pressure, protect your internal capacity and trust yourself again.

Imagine if things felt different.

What if you could switch off more easily?

Worry less and stop overthinking everything?

Trust your decisions without checking and rechecking them?

Believe in yourself the way other people already do?

Imagine leaving work at work instead of replaying conversations all evening and being present with the people you love because your mind is actually there too.

Having more room for fun. More energy for the things you enjoy. Some time that genuinely feels like your own.

Not because all your responsibilities have disappeared.

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

A different kind of experience

UNMASKED isn’t built around sitting through presentations or giving you another list of things you “should” be doing.

It’s an intimate, carefully considered experience shaped by conversation, reflection, practical application and connection.

We’ll move through the UNMASKED Method™ together, giving you time to think, write and make sense of your own experience.

You may recognise patterns you hadn’t noticed before, understand why certain things have felt harder than they used to, or finally find words for something you’ve been carrying for a long time.

There is nothing to prove.

No version of yourself you need to present.

No expectation that you share anything you don’t want to.

You can arrive exactly as you are.

Your day begins before you arrive.

Your UNMASKED experience begins when you step onto the private coach in Melbourne.

Most women spend their lives making sure everyone else gets where they need to be.

For one day, someone else takes care of the journey.

There’s nothing to organise, no traffic to navigate and no need to arrive feeling rushed.

Find your seat, settle in and watch as the city gradually gives way to the quiet beauty of Blackwood.

Throughout the day, you'll have space to think, write, reflect, connect, and spend time in nature.

Some of the most meaningful moments may happen between sessions, over morning tea, walking through nature, sharing lunch or talking over dinner.

There’s something powerful about hearing another woman put words to a thought you’ve quietly carried yourself.

“I thought it was just me.”

And suddenly, there are nods around the room.

Your reflections become something uniquely yours.

Your Personal Reflection Journal gives you somewhere to capture what you’re noticing and learning throughout the day.

As the experience unfolds, you’ll begin recognising patterns, recording what matters to you and capturing what you want to remember when everyday life becomes busy again.

Those reflections will gradually form your personalised UNMASKED Blueprint™, created from your own insights rather than someone else’s idea of what your life should look like.

And it doesn’t end when the day does

One day can create powerful insight, but learning to experience life differently takes time.

That’s why your UNMASKED experience continues after you return home.

We’ll reconnect through three live online Integration Circles, where you can revisit your UNMASKED Blueprint™, notice what’s changing and work through challenges as you put what you’ve discovered into practice.

You’ll also have a private coaching session with Marie, focused entirely on you, your circumstances and the next steps that feel right for your life.

By the time the coach makes its way back to Melbourne, the intention isn’t simply that you’ve enjoyed a beautiful day.

It’s that you leave with a deeper understanding of yourself, practical ways to protect your internal capacity and a clearer sense of who and what you’ve been missing.

And perhaps, as everyday life begins again, you’ll find yourself making a little more room for her.

Your Founding Circle experience includes

Before the experience

✓ Your place in the inaugural UNMASKED Founding Circle
✓ Private return coach transport from Melbourne

During the experience

✓ Full-day UNMASKED Founding Circle Experience
✓ The UNMASKED Method™, powered by the Wellness Wings® Framework
✓ Your Personal Reflection Journal
✓ Your personalised UNMASKED Blueprint™
✓ Morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and shared dinner
✓ Curated Founding Circle keepsakes

Continuing afterwards

✓ Three live online Integration Circles
✓ One private coaching session with Marie
✓ Ongoing encouragement as you put what you’ve discovered into practice

It’s a carefully considered journey that begins before we meet, unfolds throughout the day and continues after you return home.

Why only ten women?

The inaugural UNMASKED Founding Circle has deliberately been limited to just ten women.

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

It allows every woman to feel seen.

Keeping the Founding Circle small isn’t about exclusivity.

It’s about protecting the experience.

Meet Marie

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

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

Marie is an ICF-accredited coach and certified trauma-informed meditation and mindfulness teacher. Her approach draws on 20 years of corporate leadership experience, lived experience of chronic illness, and extensive training across women’s mental health, neurodiversity, neuroscience-informed coaching and other evidence-informed modalities.

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 helped me reconnect with myself, balance the load and become 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 women who quietly carry more than most people realize.

You may recognise yourself if:

Your mind rarely seems to switch off.
You’re tired of feeling stretched or second-guessing yourself.
You’ve spent so long meeting the demands of work, family and everyone around you that making space for yourself keeps slipping further down the list.
You miss feeling more confident, having time that feels like your own, or simply feeling more like yourself.
You’re not looking for another motivational seminar or an inspiring day that feels good in the moment and disappears by Monday morning.
You want to understand why you’ve been feeling this way and discover practical, evidence-informed ways to navigate pressure and protect your internal capacity.

Most importantly, you don’t need to be falling apart to know you want something to feel different.

Your Founding Circle investment

The combined value of the complete Founding Circle experience is well over $1,500.

Your investment: $995 AUD

Flexible payment plans are available.

The inaugural Founding Circle is intentionally limited to ten women. Once the remaining places are filled, registrations will close.

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 or suddenly make life uncomplicated.

What it can offer is a different way of understanding what’s happening within you, practical ways to protect your internal capacity and the space 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.

Thursday, 22 October 2026
Blackwood, Victoria
Inaugural Founding Circle, limited to 10 women
Investment: $995 AUD, flexible payment plans available

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