The Working Mom Sprint
Register Now for Cohort-Based Coaching for Working Moms Struggling During Covid-19
Thank you for your interest in The Working Mom Sprint! We’re so excited you’re here and can’t wait to come alongside you over 6 weeks to help you identify barriers to success, iterate solutions to both immediate and long-term challenges, and enhance your sanity, focus and presence with your work and family.
We are currently in between cohorts for the Working Mom Sprint. If you’re interested in future cohorts of The Working Mom Sprint, click here and we’ll let you know when the next one opens!
A note about pricing:
At MatchPace, we believe in offering a sliding scale to pay for coaching based on ability. Ultimately, we want to offer this content at a significant value regardless of income. If you were to pursue this support individually, it would cost $1,500. Please see the image below to learn more about our approach to pricing and determine your price point.
Tier 1: $499 per 6-week session
Tier 2: $249 per 6-week session (use coupon code ‘HALF’)
Tier 3: We believe no one should be turned away because of lack of funds. If you are interested in joining a cohort but find the pricing a financial burden based on the criteria below, use code ‘FREE’ for a scholarship.
You’re in Tier 1 if:
You are comfortably able to meet all of your basic needs
You may have some debt but it doesn’t prevent you from easily attaining your basic needs
You own your home or rent a higher-end home
You own or lease a car
You have regular access to health care
You have financial savings
You can afford an annual vacation or to take time off
You have an expendable income
You’re in Tier 2 if:
You may stress about meeting your basic needs but still regularly attain them
You may have some debt but it doesn’t prevent you from easily attaining your basic needs
You have access to healthcare
You might have access to financial savings
You are able to buy some items new and thrift for others
You can take a vacation at least every few years without a financial burden
You’re in Tier 3 if:
You frequently stress about meeting basic needs and sometimes don’t attain them
You have debt and it sometimes prohibits you from meeting your basic needs
You rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing
You do not have a car or have limited access to a car and/or can’t always afford fuel
You qualify for government services like healthcare or food stamps
You have no or very limited expendable income
You rarely buy new items and cannot take time off or go on vacation without financial burden
Covid-19 should be a wakeup call to society that without proper support structures, working moms truly can’t work well and live well. So what happens when those support structures disappear overnight?
The answer: burnout.
More importantly, how can you ensure you and the other working moms in your
life make it to the other side with career, family and sanity intact?
Want to offer the Working Mom Sprint to parents at your organization?
With the Working Mom Sprint, you’ll receive:
6-week cohort-based intensive for working moms
Workshops, individual and group coaching, and peer-to-peer mentoring
A proven coaching process to help you identify barriers to success, iterate solutions to both immediate and long-term challenges, and enhance your sanity, focus and presence with your work and family
Working Moms Sprint: How It Works
Step 1
COHORT SELECTION
You will submit a brief application about your current professional effort, challenges you want to address and goals you want to achieve through the Sprint
Step 2
COACHING
A combination of coach-led and peer-facilitated sessions will equip you with actionable tools to make lasting changes that empower you to stay effective, focused and present at work and at home
Step 3
ONGOING SUPPORT
You will experience both day-to-day changes and personal transformation, gleaning from collective wisdom from both facilitators and peers that will help you achieve your individual goals
Time Commitment
The target length for your Sprint is 6 weeks. This allows you to start building habits without over-committing you to a program in an ever-changing and chaotic season.
You will participate in a combination of regular facilitator-led or peer-led coaching sessions.
You will be assigned light homework to maintain momentum, keep you engaged and provide you with tools you can use beyond the Sprint whenever you need realignment to your established values and goals
You’ll receive:
Inspiration, encouragement, and accountability from your cohort members
Individual coaching and transformation
Renewed focus on priorities
Support to stop doing things that aren’t working right now or serving your family or workplace
Support to make it through
Topics we’ll cover:
Values
Burnout
Working at the right pace
Individual support for systemic problems
Working with your employers to find workable solutions
Ideas for supporting your family through the duration of COVID
Benefits of a Group Sprint
Observe and consider different viewpoints and approaches to problems and challenges.
Expand your network of valuable connections.
Benefit from the incredible energy and collective wisdom when individuals are vulnerable about what they’re facing, and are committed to giving and receiving help. It is motivating to be around people who are working towards their goals.
Cost-effective alternative to individual coaching or support.
Cheerleaders and accountability built into your cohort to motivate you to reach your goals.
Why Sprint?
MatchPace believes that we need to run at the right pace at the right time in order to work effectively and achieve our important mission without burning out. Ideally, working moms can set a sustainable pace over the long haul that allows them to properly balance competing needs at work and at home. But there are times an all-out sprint is necessary: to meet a certain goal (like miles per minute, or finishing a race in a certain amount of time, to use a running metaphor), or to make gains that make the rest of the run–your parenting and professional effort–more sustainable over time. Then, sprinting is worth it.
During the Working Mom Sprint, you get to dedicate some concentrated time to gather new ideas, test them out, and make changes that will empower you to not just survive the pandemic with your career and family intact, but come out the other side more agile and resilient.
A Sprint is also a concept used in Lean Six Sigma: it’s a time-boxed iteration cycle for sourcing, ranking, and testing new ideas for moving your business model forward. In this Sprint, we’ll move our personal models forward and unearth how you are looking to get through the marathon that Covid-19 has turned into.
That’s why a sprint–a 6-week intensive to gather new ideas, put them into practice, and uplevel your sanity, focus, and presence–is so necessary. It allows you to make significant gains to stay on track personally and professionally during and after the pandemic.
A short, intense investment in yourself will help you make the gains you need to stay in the longer race
Who can participate?
Anyone who is a working parent, with children ranging in age from birth to out of the house (because we know your investment in your children doesn’t end when they graduate!)
Working moms or other caregivers committed to participate in the entire 6 weeks of the Sprint and willing to be accountable to the facilitators and other participants
Agreement to the Coaching Contract, a basic commitment to show up, participate and do the work asked of you
About MatchPace
MatchPace is a mission-driven company that has helped organizations work better since 2016. We believe that in order to live well, we need to work well. But that means we need to rethink the way the world works at work. Only then can organizations accomplish their missions while fostering an environment that helps people thrive both in and outside of work. Never has this been more important than during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many of us at MatchPace are working parents, so we’re living the realities of the pandemic first-hand alongside you. We are experiencing the overwhelm and burnout every other working parent feels, and we see it with our friends and clients, too.
Fortunately, a major disruption to the way we work–like we’re experiencing now–is the ideal time to evaluate what workplace structures and norms are serving you and where you need to realign with your values - both individually and as an organization. The Working Parent Sprint can help you (or your employees) do just that.