Mission
Archipelago Rising helps organizations support relational wellbeing through Mars Venus Gender Intelligence education that makes relationship stress, communication patterns, emotional load, purpose, and support-seeking easier to understand and change. Through workshops, coaching, and a wide array of transformative tools and resources, participants learn practical ways to reduce stress feedback loops, get the support they need, communicate across gender differences, and successfully build relationships that are satisfying and emotionally connected. Gender intelligence and Intercultural awareness are both critical tool for navigating cultural, social, and technological change. Coaches are a necessity rather than a luxury in today’s context of constant change and complex social environments. We equip coaches, individuals and companies with knowledge and tools of transformation that acknowledge and engage human differences for the highest performance possible.
Vision
Mars Venus Coaching seeks to transform the world one relationship at a time through gender intelligence. As part of the Mars Venus Coaching movement, Archipelago Rising envisions a community of professionals and changemakers making significant material contributions to the world while maintaining happy family lives and engaging in impactful community service. We envision retreats with world-class music, festival experiences, games, and symposia that bring together the world’s greatest minds. Our goal is to provide a retreat experience and future space conducive to individual reflection, relational connection, and group activities that elevate the mind and heart by 2031. Top professionals and companies will cultivate a learning mindset, individually and across their organizations, by engaging with human differences through literature, the arts, meaningful conversation, and authentic human connection.
Expertise
Archipelago Rising (AR) is expert in cultural and social change. We transform stumbling blocks that come from underlying conflict into stepping stones of collaboration and achievement. Coaching is an essential step towards creating transformative new patterns of human activity that lead to long-term changes. Retreats take transformation to the next level. Retreating from regular life and work patterns to develop the mind is an especially necessary practice in the era of AI. In the tradition of Plutarch, we use literacy and the arts to catalyze individual and collective transformation. We specialize in multiple dimensions of human experience in order to support our client’s unique needs. Too often gender, especially, is overlooked. Professional women receive general advice that often is more suited to men and the needs created by testosterone. We create spaces that honor men and women’s particular strengths and needs. Melinda McClimans’ expertise in Mars Venus Gender Intelligence, intercultural development, coaching, research, and immersive group learning guides every activity of Archipelago Rising to help professionals and organizations transform relational stress into collaboration, wellbeing, and high-impact human connection.