You don't have to do this on your own!
Being an acupuncturist can be a lonely business. We are all more isolated since Covid came along and there are still not enough opportunities for live human-to-human peer support for practitioners.
Mastermind Groups are a close-knit cohort of like-minded practitioners who know each other, support each other, challenge each other and hold each other to account. They provide the motivation to raise your sights beyond the day-to-day running of your practice, set real goals for personal and business growth and support you in achieving them.
Naava Carman has been running Fertility Support Training Mastermind Groups since 2019. The graduates of these groups have redefined how they work as practitioners and achieved huge personal growth and business success.
What is the Mastermind process?
There are a number of ways of describing mastermind groups, but we like this description from The Success Alliance:
"Mastermind groups offer a combination of brainstorming, education, peer accountability and support in a group setting to sharpen your business and personal skills. Members challenge each other to set strong goals, and more importantly, to accomplish them.
"Through a mastermind group process, first you create a goal, then design a plan to achieve it.
"The group helps you with creative ideas and wise decisions-making. Then, as you begin to implement your plan, you bring both success stories and problems to the group. Success stories are applauded (loudly!), and problem are solved through peer brainstorming and collective, creative thinking.
"The group requires commitment, confidentiality, willingness to both give and receive advice and ideas, and support each other with total honesty, respect and compassion. Mastermind group members act as catalysts for growth, devil’s advocates and supportive colleagues. This is the essence and value of mastermind groups."
The Mastermind process is not like formal teaching and there are no right or wrong answers. The idea is to challenge and support you with exercises, discussions and inspirational materials, which you can take away and use to build your practice. However, being part of a Fertility Support Training Mastermind Group also gives you access to Naava Carman (Rising Stars, Expert & Leaders groups) or Hannah Pearn (Foundations for Growth group) as clinical and business mentors to help you answer questions you may come across.
Scroll down this page to find out which Mastermind Group would be right for you.
Which Mastermind Group is right for you?
Foundations for Growth
This group is for practitioners who are still getting established, or have an established practice but are struggling to grow. The syllabus will cover both business skills and clinical skills and the group will act as a sounding board for business development and complex cases.
Rising Stars
Now entering its fourth year and with a track record of success, the Rising Stars Mastermind programme is designed to help practitioners who want to take their practice from "getting by" to sustainable growth and abundance, but are lacking the focus and direction they need.
Experts
This group is for practitioners who have completed the Rising Stars Mastermind programme or a similar process of personal and business development and are looking for peer support as they implement their plans for expansion, passive income and everything else up to world domination!
Leaders
The Leaders Mastermind is an exclusive group for practitioners who are ready to step-up and achieve public recognition as leaders in their field. This is a 6 month rather than 12 month programme designed for those who are ready and able to move forward quickly.
Foundations
for Growth
➙ Are you feeling dispirited with gaps in your work diary and uncertainty around income?
➙ Are you clear on how to grow your business or in which direction to take it?
➙ Would you like support and development for your acupuncture clinical practice and skills?
➙ Would you like a trusted place to take complex case histories and discuss patient progress?
Being a part of a mastermind group allows you the time and space to brainstorm ideas, get feedback and help with decision making.
One of the hardest things about being an acupuncturist is that you are continually working on your own and relying on your own motivation to move yourself forward. For some this means it is east to lose focus, go off track and give up on new ideas. This Mastermind Group will help you move to a full practice, a long waiting list and a steady income.
You may be just starting out on the acupuncture road or have been in practice for several years. And whilst you love your job it may be that you feel stuck or lost with how you make a living and how you maintain your passion and enthusiasm for your clinic. It’s hard to know where to go for support from both a business and a clinical perspective and so this is where the Mastermind group can help.
The group will meet online every two weeks to provide a space for support, inspiration and, most importantly, accountability.
Key features:
➙ Four practitioners meeting online every month
➙ Course covers clinical and business skills
➙ 12 month commitment
➙ £175 per month, or £1,925 for the year
➙ Facilitated by Hannah Pearn
“You will enjoy the experience and grow as a person and entrepreneur. It will push you outside of your comfort zone and offers lots of opportunities for self-reflections and self-development. You will clearly see how you can get in the way of your own progress but you will be provided with the means to resolve this.”
Foundations for Growth 2022
“If you want to increase your income and grow your business, and are thinking about applying for the Foundations for Growth Mastermind, I would say stop thinking about it and just do it, you won't regret it!”
Foundations for Growth 2022
Syllabus includes
- Case studies
- Learning medical history-taking skills
- Putting together a treatment plan for patients
- Looking at your ideal client and how to find them
- Looking at your business values and goals
- Setting weekly, monthly and yearly business plans
- Utilising technical and online organisation and planning tools, de-cluttering phones/computers and our minds in order to streamline our ability to be productive
- Creating efficient paperwork and systems processes
- Communication around boundaries
- How to use Mailchimp
- Content creation
- How to build your tribe
- Instagram and Canva tutorials
- Overcoming limiting beliefs and fears
- Mapping and streamlining finances
Foundations for Growth
Register Your Interest
Please fill out the form below to be invited for interview.
Rising Stars
➙ Do you constantly feel like you need more clients, but have no idea what to do about this in a sustainable way?
➙ Do you lack confidence in your ability to manage a patient through the ups and downs of their conditions? (Without questioning your worth as a practitioner!)
➙ Do you always feel you don't have enough time for taking care of yourself, your clients and doing social media?
➙ Are you surviving rather than thriving?
➙ Most of all, do you wish you had the support of a mentor or a like-minded group of colleagues to walk you through efficient, effective and profitable practice and patient management?
I am on the look out for practitioners who are ready to rise to the challenge of being Rising Stars. This Group is proving particularly popular and I will launch a new Rising Stars Group once I have a group of four practitioners I feel are ready and will coalesce as a Mastermind Group
In 2019 I launched the Rising Stars Mastermind programme to bring together practitioners who wanted to take their business from doing OK, to bringing in lots of money, opportunities, growth and abundance.
In the Rising Stars Group we build the infrastructure for growth, establishing productive daily working practices, and investing in each participant's unique skill set and setting up the right mindset to be ready to step into a financially abundant practice with a rich seam of clients and a waiting list. In addition, every month I share a new skill or challenge to add to the participants' knowledge base.
From previous years' experience, here's what you can expect if you join the Rising Stars:
- You will experience transformative personal and professional growth through which your businesses will grow and develop.
- You will established close working relationships with your fellow participants as accountability partners.
- You will be able to lean on me through The Growth Partnership Facebook Group and with a personal one-to-one session when you most need it.
- Most importantly, your will feel re-inspired by your work which will allow you to take your practices to new heights.
Business and personal growth go hand-in-hand, and sometimes in order to move forward we must look at our mindset in the form of our own limitations and inner talk, which may be holding us back from success.
A vital part of the work we will be doing is supporting each other through any challenges the mastermind process unearths. We will use this opportunity to rise to these challenges and move past our limiting thought patterns and feelings of being stuck in life.
Key features:
➙ Four practitioners meeting online once a month
➙ Course is focused on business skills and development
➙ 12 month commitment
➙ £250 per month, or £2,750 for the year
➙ Facilitated by Naava Carman
“I have grown in business and personal development. I am earning double the amount of when I started and know this is only the beginning. You made me believe anything is possible.”
Rising Stars 2023
“This Mastermind will help you develop your business to make processes seamless, encourage new business (if thats what you need), and keep you sane and able to maintain boundaries...but be prepared to work hard!”
Rising Stars 2022
“I am so surprised by the fact that my biggest achievements have been in my own personal growth. I'm an entirely different person to who I was at the beginning of the year, and I know that this had to happen in order for me to be a good entrepreneur.”
Rising Stars 2023
Syllabus includes
- Utilising technical and online organisation and planning tools, de-cluttering phones/computers and our minds in order to streamline our ability to be productive
- Day and month organisation, planning and scheduling in order to continually move forward in your business
- Creating a business map
- Systems processes and streamlining
- Content creation and collaboration
- Instagram and Canva tutorials
- Overcoming limiting beliefs and fears, especially around money
- Mapping and streamlining finances Identifying loss making work and loss leaders
- Managing your business progress; making hard decisions
- Goal creation Identifying loss and loss leaders
- Managing your business progress; making hard decisions
- Goal creation
In addition, I am always careful to leave room for interesting ideas, thoughts, suggestions and concepts to arise. In a mastermind you need to be flexible enough to go with the flow of inspiration, whilst holding boundaries strong enough to facilitate learning and growth.
Rising Stars
Register Your Interest
Please fill out the form below to be invited for interview.
Expert Mastermind Group
➙ Are you ready to take your successful business to the next level?
➙ Are you ready to create and launch a passive income project?
➙ Are you looking to move from abundance to ease?
➙ Would you like support and challenge from a small group of your peers?
To join the Expert Group you will need to be:
➙ Familiar with personal development
➙ Highly motivated
➙ Confident but stuck
➙ Have a flexible mindset
➙ Enjoy a challenge
➙ Willing to step into your power and embrace visibility
➙ £350 per month, or £3,850 for the year
“I never thought that making £100,000 as an Acupuncturist would be possible and I definitely would not be here had I not met and worked with you.”
Experts 2022
“The mastermind experience seems to be an unusual one in this field. It’s a mutually supportive, non-competitive group that feels like it genuinely tackles the blend of business and personal development in an open, honest and collaborative way. This has been so valuable for me, especially in an industry where so many of us work in isolation”
Experts 2022
Membership of this exclusive group is only open to a small number of practitioners who have a demonstrable track record.
Most participants in the Expert Group are personally invited by Naava, but if you would like to express an interest and discuss joining the Group with Naava then please fill in the form below.
Leaders Mastermind Group
➙ Do you have a thriving practice but want to take your income to the next level?
➙ Would you like to be publicly recognised for the work you are doing?
➙ Do you struggle with self-image and confidence outside of your treatment room?
➙ Can you see clearly in others what they need to do, but have issues implementing change and self-care yourself?
➙ Would you like support and challenge from a small group of your peers?
The Leaders Mastermind Group is for those who are ready and able to move forward quickly. It is 6 months rather than 12 months and membership of this group is subject to a number of conditions regarding the size of your business and the personal development work you have undertaken.
The price to join this Mastermind Group is £500 per month.
If you would like to apply to be considered for the Leaders Mastermind Group then please fill in the form below.
