The Messy Temple - A Gathering Within
Kula
You already know what's true. Kula builds the steadiness to live from it.
A live online gathering for women who are ready to stop doing this work alone.
8 places only · Begins September, 2026
It is Tuesday afternoon.
Someone asks you something, and you say yes before you have checked whether you mean it. The word is out of your mouth before your body registers what just happened.
Later, you replay it. You felt the no. You said yes anyway.
This is not a knowledge problem. You have done the work. You understand the patterns. You can name them, trace them, and explain them to someone else.
And still. The moment arrives, and you override yourself.
That is a capacity problem. And it does not shift in solitude.
They unlock in the presence of other people.
A live online gathering. 8 women. 6 sessions across two months.
Not a course. Not a program where you are fixed.
A container where you bring yourself, the group holds you, and you hold others in return.
That is what Kula is.
"We are coming together as a powerful collective to actualise our visions. Not by working harder. By building capacity, in ourselves and in each other. It is my absolute privilege to be part of that with you."
-Nicol Heard
SESSIONS 1&2
Honest Inventory
You stop building from who you think you should be and start from where you actually are. What you want. What are you afraid of? What you have been too busy performing to admit out loud.
SESSIONS 3&4
The Practice of Receiving
You put down the job of managing everything. The outcomes, the perceptions, what people think. You practice letting something land without deflecting it, fixing it, or immediately giving something back.
SESSIONS 5&6
Internal Authority
You stop editing yourself before you speak. You stop waiting for everyone to agree before you back yourself. Your inside and your outside start to match.
If something in you just exhaled reading this, keep reading.
You have done years of inner work and you are still abandoning yourself at the moment it counts.
You give easily. Receiving is harder than you let on.
You do your best thinking alongside others, not in isolation, and you have not had a container that matches the depth of the work you are ready to do.
You are done working on this alone.
Six gatherings. Two months. Eight people, maximum.
We meet six times across two months. Part mentoring from me, part sharing, part intentional practice together.
Between our gatherings, you have unlimited access to meet with the circle. I will create opportunities to expand our work in between, so this is not six separate events but one continuous becoming.
6
Live gatherings
Beginning 5 September 2026
8
People maximum
No one lost in the crowd
∞
Between sessions
The circle stays open always
100%
Confidential
What happens here belongs here
Session Times:
Session 1 Saturday 5 September 2026 9:00am AEST
Session 2 Saturday 12 September 2026 9:00am AEST
Session 3 Saturday 26 September 2026 9:00am AEST
Session 4 Saturday 3 October 2026 9:00am AEST
Session 5 Saturday 17 October 2026 9:00am AEDT
Session 6 Saturday 24 October 2026 9:00am AEDT
90 minutes each. Online via Zoom. Replays available for 90 days.
Victoria daylight saving begins Sunday 4 October. Sessions 5 and 6 are AEDT. If you are interstate or international, check the time carefully
Testimonials
8 places. Begins 5 September.
$497 AUD · Online via Zoom · Replays included.
Frequently Asked Questions
This work is trauma-informed. It is not trauma therapy. For women who have done foundational work and are ready to build capacity.
Replays are available for 90 days. The live sessions are where the relational work happens. Replays mean you can stay inside the container even through harder weeks.
Most programs are built around shared learning or accountability. Kula is built around witnessed embodied practice. You are not here to share insights. You are here to practice holding yourself honestly while being held by others doing the same.
8 women maximum. Not a marketing line. The structural cap. Small enough that going quiet is noticed, with care rather than pressure.
Some women take what they build here and move forward on their own. Some find deeper work is calling and move into 1:1 intensive work with Nic. The path beyond Kula is yours.
P.S. That Tuesday afternoon moment, where you knew and spoke anyway, is not a character flaw. It is a capacity gap. That is what Kula closes. 8 places. Begins 5 September. First session 5 September
©2026. All rights reserved.
Nicol Heard.
On Wadawurrung Country, stretching from the Great Dividing Range in the north to the southern coast and from the Werribee River in the east to the Surf Coast in the west, we honour the Traditional Custodians of this land, the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our deepest respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging, and acknowledge their enduring connection to the land, waters, and community. We also celebrate the rich stories, culture, and traditions of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders who live and work on this land.