Imposter Syndrome: Do You Have It? Step out of survival and into the life you were born to create by finally seeing the belief that’s been running the show…
Over five modules you will move through:
There is a growing conversation in psychology and DEI circles about whether ‘imposter syndrome’ puts the burden of a systemic problem onto the individual. I agree with that critique, and we address it directly in the course. For many people, particularly those from marginalised communities, the feeling of not belonging is a rational response to environments that were not built for them.
This course holds both layers: the inner work of unlearning our stories, and the outer work of naming the systems that created them. We do not do one without the other.
👑 You have achieved things you are proud of, and still find it hard to fully own them.
👑 You work harder than most people around you because some part of you does not quite believe you are enough.
👑 You have been managing the fraud feeling for years: white-knuckling it, over-preparing, staying quiet in rooms where you should be speaking.
👑 You are ready to stop managing it and start actually understanding it.
👑 You are a creative, a coach, an entrepreneur, an artist, a professional… someone who is building something that matters and has been held back by your own story for long enough.
If you have ever thought any version of those sentences, you are not alone. And more importantly: these thoughts are not your truth…
Imposter syndrome is one of the most common and least talked-about experiences among high achievers, creatives, and people from marginalised communities. It shapes what we apply for, what we charge, what we say in the room, and how we experience the thing once we get it…
It looks like overworking, over-preparing, discounting praise, shrinking from opportunities…
It feels like waiting to be found out that we are a mistaken Zygote (an anomaly, a mistake)…
And the reason it is so hard to shift is that most of us have been trying to manage it, and hide it rather than understand it. Working harder… Fixing ourseles… Waiting until we feel ready…
This course takes a different approach entirely… one that uses the principles of alchemy…
For two years I danced with one of the most respected contemporary dance companies in the world. And for almost the entire two years, I believed it was a mistake: that I was not as competent as everyone else in the company. That eventually I would be found out.
I was not new to this feeling. I had been carrying the not-belonging story since childhood. Beginning professional dance training at 25, years later than most of my peers, made it a hundred times louder.
What I did not understand then, and what I now know with absolute certainty is the feeling was not the truth… it was the behaviours that came from the belief I had that crystallised it… because energy flows where your attention goes.
In 2014, a breakup that became a breakdown brought me to the work of Alchemy and that is where everything changed because I finally began to see the beliefs that had been running the show.
I created this course because I know what it costs to stay in survival mode and story… and I know what it takes to get out of it. And I know that the world genuinely misses out when brilliant, creative people stay small because of a story that was never true in the first place.
Ella is the author of Journal to JOY, a certified Rolfing practitioner, TRE and Wheel of Consent facilitator, and the founder of the Maya Gandaia coaching platform. She has over 20 years of experience in dance and performance, has performed at the Olympics Opening Ceremony and Sadler’s Wells, and has worked with 900+ women and non-binary people across her career.
Of mixed Nigerian and white British heritage, with 20+ years in movement, 10+ years as a coach, I draw from ancestral and land traditions, embodied movement and bodywork practices.
(Check out my training and lineage above)
I acknowledge my privileges, honour the cultures these practices come from, and share with you not as an authority, but someone transformed by these teachings.
