The invitation
For me, Quintessence is an invitation to make a conscious choice about how we want to live this life.
To wake up each day and choose ourselves, not at the expense of others, but by recognising that we have a responsibility to listen to what is true for us and to honour the life that is moving through us.
It’s about learning to trust our own knowing, to hear the quiet voice beneath all the noise, and to have the courage to act on what we hear.
We can spend years gathering wisdom, learning about ourselves and understanding how we work, but at some point we have to bring that knowledge into our everyday lives.
This is an invitation to invest in yourself, your relationship with yourself and your capacity to meet life with intention rather than simply moving through the motions. To take responsibility for the life you are creating, while remaining open to the life that is unfolding through you.
To trust that you don’t need to have every answer before you begin, only the willingness to listen, to respond and to take the next step when it becomes clear.
Because this life is not something we need to wait for permission to live.
It is happening now, and there is something incredibly powerful about choosing to be an active participant in it.
The fifth seat
Five women, in the fifth year of something called Quintessence.
Quintessence means the fifth essence, the spirit that lives within all things. I’ve held this space for four years, and in 2027 it turns five. Four women have already said yes, and one seat remains in the circle.
She’s the one who can feel something stirring in her. An idea, a body of work, a way of living she keeps coming back to. She may not know what it is yet. She only knows it’s there, and that it has been waiting while she held everyone and everything else.
If something in you just leaned forward, that might be you.
Which pathway do you choose?
Quintessence is held across a twelve-month commitment, with two ways to walk together. Choose the pathway that best supports the way you want to be met in the year ahead.
Five women · Twelve months · Group + individual work
Q Circle
Five women walking together for the year with me. Regular group gatherings, one-on-one time throughout the year, and a private space for connection, personal practice and reflection. A deeply intimate space to explore what is happening in your life, where what is shared in circle stays in circle.
Investment
$11,111
AUD · or $214 a week
One seat remaining
One woman · Twelve months · Three ways to walk together
Q Intimate
A private twelve-month mentoring relationship, shaped around the depth and rhythm of support you want. Choose deep weekly work, regular fortnightly support, or a monthly check-in.
01
Deep Work
Weekly · 52 sessions
For the woman who wants to go deep, meet every week and work closely with me throughout the year.
$12,222
AUD · or $235 a week
02
Walking Beside
Fortnightly · 26 sessions
For the woman who wants regular guidance and support as life unfolds, with time between sessions to live with what is emerging.
$9,999
AUD · or $192 a week
03
Check In
Monthly · 12 sessions
For the woman who wants a monthly space for reflection, accountability, perspective and reconnection with what matters.
$6,666
AUD · or $128 a week
Connection between sessions
The work doesn’t stop when our session ends. Throughout the year you’ll have five-day-a-week message connection with me, Monday to Friday, where you can drop in voice notes and messages as life unfolds. The realisations, the questions, the messy moments, the things you want to share or work through as they happen. Because sometimes the most meaningful work happens in the middle of everyday life, not just when we sit down together.
Your online offerings
Women walking the Q Circle or Deep Work receive complimentary access to any online offering I facilitate throughout the year. Walking Beside includes 50% off, and Check In includes 25% off. Collaborations are excluded. It’s another way to keep exploring, learning and connecting with the work as it unfolds.
Ask any of the women I’ve worked with what I actually do, and you’ll probably get a long pause, a laugh, maybe a hand on the heart, and then, “Fuck, I don’t know how to explain it.”
They know they’ve changed, and that part’s obvious to them and everyone around them. What they can’t explain is how.
You don’t need to have it figured out. You only need to feel the pull.
If something in you is saying yes, come and talk to me.
Begin the conversation @traceymcmahon_Quintessence 2027 · A year of coming home to yourself