What is WomenLikeMe?
WomenLikeMe is a pay-to-belong community where we value the learning that comes from life experiences, explanations, sharing and connecting.
The community is centered around two aspects;
- While using the internet from the comfort of your home, you get to meet and have deliberate conversations with other like-minded women.
- Participating in the WomenLikeMe program and applying it to your daily life. This program is a roadmap that has you acting clearly, confidently and congruently with your inner-knowing.
What is the promise of WomenLikeMe?
To gain the skills to lead a happy family and a life you love.
How Does the Program Work?
This is a revolving program with 13 topics. Each fortnight there is an article to read on the topic we are exploring. Plus there are a series of practices (actions) to choose from. You are supported by daily Jolt emails and the Forum for asking questions.
What is the WomenLikeMe Program All About?
It is a rigorous program that teaches in 13 key areas of your life.
The program does way more than a book or a class. It is about Do-ing; questioning, taking stock, applying yourself, and creating your own results.
It is a practical program, geared to cause changes in your life at a practical level.
It takes you further than just gaining an intellectual understanding of the distinctions. It assists you to bridge the gap between knowing and doing.
The WomenLikeMe explanation gives you the words and language to put together what you intuitively already know.
Why is this so important?
Once you have this language you can act decisively and with clarity on the things that have been confusing you, the things that you just couldn’t put your finger on.
Clear, concise action comes from clarity of thought.
The WomenLikeMe program is offered to you through an online community so you don’t have to do it on your own.
In the warmth and love of the WomenLikeMe community you keep moving forward.
What are the 13 Topics that Make Up the WomenLikeMe Program?
- Learning from Our Experiences
- The Structures Explanation of Reality
- Who am I?
- Being in Integrity
- Time and Completion
- ME – a Prosperous Structure
- How We create Our Family and Relationships through Conversation
- Community our most useful Resource
- Context is King; How to use it powerfully
- Learning How to Do things Differently
- Playing Team with the Family and in Relationships
- Love Languages that Serve the Family and Relationships
- Causing a Family and Relationships I Desire
What is the Investment?
Your investment is $90 per month which works out to be $3 per day, much the same as your daily Starbucks. See it as an investment in keeping your heart and mind healthy.
Payment is made monthly via Paypal, using your Credit Card. You can cancel your membership at any time.
Why can’t I have all this good stuff for free?
Many things are free. With the existence of the Internet, you can have as much information as you wish for free and we are no exception in being willing to make our knowledge freely available to you.
You will find it here on Wilmas Blog, sign up and you will receive an email every time I publish a new post.
You will find it here where the WomenLikeMe Program is explained.
By the way, you do already have access to this information, it may be sitting on your bookshelf and it certainly hangs out at your library and on the Internet. But is it making a difference to you?
How do I bridge the gap between Knowing and Doing?
You probably already 'know' enough; even if it does not feel like it.
However no amount of ‘knowing’ on its own actually gets you across the chasm to effective doing. If it did, you and many other people would already be there.
The bridge to get you from knowing to doing rests on four foundation stones:
1. You having a commitment to be in action.
2. A supportive community such as WomenLikeMe.
3. A path to follow such as the WomenLikeMe program.
4. You taking daily small steps.
For many of you, what is missing is a supportive context (friends egging us on) from which to act, to try things out and talk through our real issues as they come up.
There are no free lunches; everything is an exchange of some sort or another. For 'knowing' to make a difference, it has to involve an exchange.
To do things differently, it takes an investment on your part, an investment in the form of a commitment and an investment of your time and money.
What does my Commitment to WomenLikeMe ask of me?
You get to choose how much time you put into the program. Having said that, WomenLikeMe is a daily program, the practice and actions you do will be part of your daily life. This will take no extra time but it will take lots of extra 'being aware' of yourself. Interestingly, once we become more aware, time is freed up.
WomenLikeMe will be something that you think about every day and the website a place you visit often as you learn from and keep in touch with your WomenLikeMe friends.
What we suggest is that you put one evening aside each week or spread it out, but think of it as investing three hours minimum to read the Text and Forum dialogs and do the Practices.
Having said what the minimum time investment is; this is a BIG program with lots to offer that can really stretch you.
If time is not an issue you can spend as much time as you like. Like any practical learning, such as dancing or training to play sport, the more you practice the better you become.
What Happens when I Sign Up?
Day 1; after you have completed the PayPal form and paid $90 with your Credit Card, you receive a Welcome email with your logon details and you have instant access to the site.
Day 2; you receive the Getting Started email where the familiarization steps are explained.
Day 3; you receive the Introduction eBook, which introduces you to the core concepts of WomenLikeMe.
After that you receive the Daily Jolt emails that support and encourage you.
Can I have a look inside WomenLikeMe?
Good question, as I’m sure you are as curious as we are by nature.
However, we will not let you into WomenLikeMe as it is a private community and our privacy contributes to our freedom to act and express ourselves.
You can get a feel for what is going on by observing the commenting dialog on Wilmas Blog.
Is this a Spiritual Journey?
Yes and no; I am personally not into things that are so esoteric that I still don't know what to do in daily life. So spiritual doesn't mean just using words and meditating while still fumbling along from day to day.
But Yes; the explanations are based on spiritual beliefs that come from spiritual sources. Spiritual meaning sources which acknowledge God, love, oneness and that we are all children of God who are meant to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous.
In the end we are more than flesh and bones but we are not attached to any particular belief system.
How to be Great with each other in the WomenLikeMe Community?
To be great, we have agreements that allow us to play and perform at our best and let us know what is expected of each other.
We don't have to say 'yes' to everything, it's okay to say 'no'.
Remember to be gentle on ourselves.
Because words make a difference; we agree to speak only with good intention.
We keep our promises and if we can't we let people know.
We are open to receiving other people's contributions to us.
We don't have to agree however we respect other's point of view.
We agree to respect each others personal issues with confidentiality.
We have fun learning together.
Why Does each Topic take Two Weeks?
While there is not a lot of reading for each topic the reading is the tip of the iceberg. The depth of the program comes from observing how it impacts your life, talking through the implications, discovering what is invisible to you and implementing it. There are no short cuts here, this program does take time.
What Happens if I Miss a Week or Two?
No problem, you can do that topic when it comes around again. This is not a linear program that you learn once and move on. The order you do it in is not critical, so missing weeks is also not critical. All of the material is always available so you can go back and read past weeks.
Why is this a Revolving Program?
It is not linear, there is no where to get. It is a resource that you work with on your terms. You can start any where and you start when you are ready.
When you join you receive The Introduction eBook which covers the underlying principles of WomenLikeMe. That provides you with the language and the principles that are all you need to get started and dive in.
Do I Need to Spend Hours Sitting at my PC?
No, this is not one of those programs where you read pages and pages of text.
WomenLikeMe is all about Do-ing, its specifically designed so that you spend very little time sitting at your PC. All you need to do is print off the weekly topics and choose your weekly practice.
The only real computer time required is when you are sharing on the Forums. If that is new to you, John, our technical support will be only too happy to step you through it.
Can I Do it With a Friend?
Yes absolutely, this is our recommendation. We have found that those who have got the most out of the program have done it with their friends. This gives the added opportunity of talking through the material and giving each other support. There are ideas presented that will challenge your existing assumptions about yourself and family. It is useful to be able to talk these through not only within WomenLikeMe but in person with someone who knows you well.
You are welcome to share the material with your spouse and family, in fact we want you to.
How Long Does it Take to Complete the Program?
There is nothing to complete. It takes 6 months to cover all the 13 topics, but then you may well want to do it again. WomenLikeMe is about developing sustainable habits for life and that takes time. Second time around, the material will have a new light, as you will have arrived at a new place with different issues.
What If I'm Not Up with All this Online Stuff?
You won't be alone in that. For all of us there was a time when we did not know about cyberspace stuff. We will teach you how to do it. The Getting Started section steps you through how it all works and help is only an email away. John our technical support is available to answer all your questions and he is patient. Learning to be confident with the internet is one of the benefits of belonging to WomenLikeMe.
Is there a Man Involved?
Yes. John Channings Wilma's life partner and co-writes the program material. He looks after all the technical issues and you will hear from him whenever you have technical questions or ask for help with using the website.
Ever asked Yourself "Is there another way to do this?"
By directing this question to every part of our lives and using the WomenLikeMe material we begin to unlock the ‘how to’ that leads to a life we can fully choose, embrace and celebrate.
What are the Benefits of Joining?
- Be supported, stop going it alone
- Enjoy sharing with like-minded women
- The opportunity to do things differently
- Journey from confusion to clarity
- Learn how to ask great questions
- Come up with your own answers
- Create daily habits that work for you
- Become skilled at leading your family
Ready to Become a Women Like Me?
The WomenLikeMe online community is not for everyone, but if you answer 'YES' to the following then we encourage you to take the next step and become a part of this community of dynamic women.
Here's what you'll need to join...
- You’re willing to ask questions of yourself and the world around you.
- You are committed to investing in yourself, and spending USD$3 a day on your WomenLikeMe Community membership.
- You have a minimum of 3 hours a week to dedicate to this program, to absorb the new material, to put the learning into practice and to participate in your community
- You have a desire to gain the skills to lead your family to happiness.
