Meg Vellejos McCoy

Hello there, I’m Meg.

An award winning leader with over 20 years of experience. My work restores IMAGINATION as a Leadership Skill.

The leaders who shape culture, communities, organizations, families , movements — are not always the ones with the best strategies. They are the ones with CAPACITY to perceive possibilities beyond the limits of current reality — and they bring others into relationship with that VISION by EMBODYING it.

The caliber of stewardship of their vision is felt before they even speak.

They are thoughtful, emotionally intelligent and deeply in tune — and who were WILLING to step into leadership with their inner lives in harmony with their sacred ambition.

When you walk beside me, we walk into broadened capacity for LEADING greater visions backed by your DEPTH.

Imagination is the primary human technology from which all meaningful leadership emerges.

Leadership is an art form — and you don’t need to be an artist to bring imagination into the craft of leadership.

Where creativity expresses, imagination perceives.

Where creativity makes, imagination envisions.

Where creativity produces artifacts, imagination architects futures.

Every movement, culture, family, organization, and community is first imagined before it is built.

The quality of our leadership is directly tied to the quality of our imagination.

The cost of not cultivating the skill of imagination as leaders is managing over inspiring, mimicking over innovating, wasting a lot of time and money on maintaining old identities over cultivating the skill to generatively destroy what’s outdated and not knowing when and how to skip the right steps.

Imagination is a LEADERSHIP skill.

A skill is something you practice and gain mastery in — and it’s high time we cultivated more mastery of holding MORE as possible, and brought expanded vision into every home and industry.

In this house, you’ll find visionaries, inter-industry innovators, creatives, founders and otherwise “anomalous heroes” who are here to vision what’s possible — and ACT on those visions with coherence .

Together we dissolve blocks, stop outsourcing validation by sourcing our own permission, amplify origination, and drop into the interior worlds with potency and presence that renders us unf*ckwithable through unadulterated contact with our deepest callings, desires and shadows.

Once the foundations are in place, we open our receivers up to truly novel solutions to problems others don’t have the capacity to face — and skip the right steps to quantum leap to novel solutions to novel problems where others keep cycling through the same problems and predictable results.

This isn’t “lightwork,” it’s WHOLEWORK for a whole new era of leadership.

Imagine something new

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Imagine something new ~

Let’s make imagination playful again.

We are living through an age of crisis — ecological, cultural, and spiritual. But crisis is not only collapse; it’s also portal. In my practice, we are all about cultivating the imagination required to lead ourselves and others through the portal of crisis into a more generous reality.

Playful imagination opens the channels for novel solutions to arise.

This kind of play is not escapism, it’s capacity expanding — so that a world enraptured with apocalypse cannot colonize the dreams and callings set on our hearts by what is beyond us: ancestors, living ecosystems, the sacred, and more-than-human kin.

This kind of play allows us to stay with ourselves in a turbulent world, and with the strangeness of keeping the window of possibility open longer — to not collapse in relief at the first answer that arrives, which is often only a micro-move from where we were.

To be safe enough to play, is to be safe enough to hang in the unknown, the uncomfortable and with the unseen.

And, this kind of play attunes us to imagination — and that fuels true HOPE: vision with expectancy for that vision not only being possible, but already here. ALREADY HERE. Not over there in some utopia, but here in the now. It’s a practice to EXPAND our range of perception to see what others are not yet able to see.

The approach

The approach of my practice is rooted in presence.

I’m not a therapist or a coach. My work has for 20 years been closer to the tradition of spiritual direction — and is evolving into modeling “Power-With,” egalitarian leadership.

This spirituality is not lofty spirituality — there’s more soil, breath, and ancestors involved. We’re not here to transcend any human mess, and the spirituality of this practice is not at all about performance.

We cuss, we’re hungry for truth, and make sure the ground is there when we get delulu.

Presence is the most spiritual thing, more than regalia and ritual, and that’s our aim. Everything in my practice requires cultivation: presence, silence, attention on what matters, contemplation, practice, PLAY!

"Meg has this incredible ability to light the way–– but walk beside you. Even with her deep well of experience and knowledge, she's a fierce advocate of peer-to-peercompanionship. She never places herself above others or uses her authority to dominate the room. As a result, working with her is an opening experience in which you are invited to confront yourself, your inner knowing, and your own truth. In short: she has helped me.... help myself... to uncover myself! 

I have worked with Meg in groups and individually 1:1. In every container, she holds strong and thoughtful boundaries, yet shows up as a relatable, full human. She is funny, loving, honest, and direct. I have been particularly impressed with her ability to meet the diverse needs of a group within a single class. She can hold someone's trauma at the same time that she can hold someone else's spark of inspiration. She does it all with immense integrity and grace. Meg is a real-deal wise woman, and this world is lucky to have her."

— Gabrielle Wildheart

We Walk The Way Together

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Frequently asked questions

  • An ancient. cross-cultural practice that within our modern context is situated between clinical therapy and coaching. It’s what I would call, “presencing.” All subject matters are welcome, it’s all about the approach. We do not dig or seek to understand the origin of a trauma, nor do we strategize towards thriving. We experience ourselves being witnessed, being in and with the body. being invited into more present awareness, and even PLAY into the edges — all of which naturally brings healing, expansion and integration.

  • A real need in the current western content is for there to be spaces of mutual authority among peers. These spaces need facilitation for there to be potency, but facilitators only hold about 10-15% more power than other participants, just enough to acknowledge the great responsibility of managing the energy of the group, facilitating repair when there are ruptures or misunderstandings, and holding potency in the direction / intention of the gathering, while also holding flexibility for the direction the group is in need of going, and holding active awareness of the agreements of the group — including time keeping, pace, whether there’s cross-talk, etc.

    Peer based work has been progressively eliminated over time, and/or moved into institutions that require specific affiliation or belief to have membership — and even those groups have been breaking down over the last 50-80 years. This has corresponded with pervasive loneliness and a breakdown in knowing that we all belong here and are worthy.

    We need people who are willing to step forward and lead a return to community that isn’t built on “power over,” but rather is TRULY built through “power with.”

    I don’t have all the answers, but I have been a student of Indigenous circle work. peer mentorship and egalitarian authority models for over 25 years. A lot has become shareable about this experiential research, and is the basis of both working with me 1:1, in groups I hold and the tone in which the frameworks that make up the programs in the school are built and facilitated.

  • There are two pathways for 1:1 work:

    Project Accelerator Labs and Advisory Partnerships.

    You can find more HERE

    If you’re curious about working with me 1:1, let’s talk about the pathways and details in a discovery call.

  • It really depends on how ready you are to both interact with others and transform.

    COMMUNITAS Chant Gathering is a great place to start, and introduces the tone and tempo of my work.

    If you’re ready to go a bit deeper, the offerings in The Lab may be a good fit.

    All new folks seeking to walk beside me in 1:1 work or in group work are met with in a compatibility and discovery call. If you would like to set a call up with me, click HERE.

Still have questions? Reach out!