Space juggling
Expanding my entrepreneurial act—new balls, no drops.
Hi everyone,
Before we dive in, I feel compelled to divulge that I was pity-passed in juggling class at circus school—which yes, is a real place, that yes, I attended for five years before heading on tour with Cirque du Soleil. Still haw hawed my way through writing that title though. Couldn't stop me.
Anyway.
Today’s update marks an important milestone in a 2.5-year process of micro-shifts in my personal and professional direction, some clearer than others.
There’s that David Whyte quote about the best evidence you’re on your own path being that it disappears, and you can’t see where you’re going.
Real. Can confirm.
Do you remember that post from last April (it’s fine if you don’t), where I pulled back the curtain on my process of evolving my business in a new direction? I mentioned the 3-6 year arc of implementation gradually revealing itself through dreams, morning pages, and random flashes throughout my workday.
Well, in the year since, many of those projects have reached important stages of clarification and completion. And while many are still half-baked, the continued cooking process involves looping you all into the shifts taking place moving forward.
So huzzah, here they are:
SpaceUnknown
If you’ve been here a while, you’ve heard me allude to my desire to carve out space again for my artistic identity as more than a side hobby.
It’s hilarious to me that I was surprised by this two and a half years ago.
I was a full-time professional artist for three times as long as my coaching practice has existed, so I’m not sure why I expected that part of me, arguably the wildest, most disobedient side of me, to just… chill in the backseat? Or like, share an office with this put-together coach side of me? Mental.
Anyways, this part of me needs it’s own dedicated space.
Complete, uninhibited space to express herself without being constantly straightjacketed at risk of crossing one of the ethical boundaries of my coach self, or forced to tiptoe around what I choose to share lest a client accidentally learn more about me than they’re comfortable with.
I tried reconciling this tension with painstaking informed consent disclaimers around personal shares, but they felt like an awkwardly placed band-aid.
So from now on, SpaceUnknown will exclusively house my personal writing. This may include present-tense process articulations, artistic weirdness, and niche interest rambling. Or not. Honestly, I’m not sure what expression will emerge once unburdened from my coaching role expectations. It’s been a while.
All educational content, including workshops, will migrate over to the newsletters of my new companies, Silent Opening and Clear Vessel (more on what to expect from each below).
My only ask is that all past, current, and prospective clients make a conscious choice about whether they stay or go.
EITHER
Unsubscribe — If your preference is to keep me in my “coach-box”, honour that and head over to Silent Opening instead. No judgment whatsoever. I totally get it. I have a high capacity to hold my own practitioners’ humanity alongside the role they play in my life and I still prefer to know less about their personal lives too. It helps me focus on the work I’m bringing in.
Stay and commit — Meaning, if you’re curious about my personal life and what I get up to outside the coaching room, great. You’re welcome here. And if something I share makes you uncomfortable or creates weirdness in our work together, you agree to take full responsibility for bringing those feelings into session to be worked through. That’s the deal. I’m not going to caretake you.
Silent Opening
For the past six years, my depth coaching practice has operated under my own name, Antonia Dolhaine.
Last year, it became clear that making space for my return to an fully expressed artistic practice would require complete separation between the coaching work and the artwork.
I want my name back for the latter.
For now, nothing is changing about my coaching practice except for the name housing it. But there are plans in motion for it to evolve into a boutique multi-practitioner transformation studio within the next 2-3 years.
I’m still in the process of fleshing out the new Silent Opening website, which is currently a digital husk with generic placeholder copy articulating my current offers.
My old coaching site, antoniadolhaine.com, is now a sassy temporary (re)directory.
I’m in the process of hiring and/or briefing web designers for three separate sites (Silent Opening, Clear Vessel, and Antonia Dolhaine)—a laborious and costly process.
But whatever. I like things that look nice and work, and I’ve decided that in my 6th year of business, I’m over DIY-ing all my web shit on Squarespace.
While the site builds and rebuilds chug along over the next several months, you can reach out to me about working together at:
https://www.silentopening.com/apply-now
Clear Vessel
… is a 4-month initiation for visionary creatives devoted to activating a humanity that no longer needs saving from itself.
It is also a transformational ecosystem for creatives in an advanced stage of their personal and relational development, currently in co-creation by myself and fellow baddie slash business partner Klara.
It is also a podcast and a newsletter (both in development), with expansion plans for the next 5 years and beyond.
The waitlist opens for applications Fall 2026 with an official start in February 2027.
V1 of the website is already live at:
and you can find us on IG here:
www.instagram.com/clear.vessel
Because we are creating this space for our equals in actualisation rather than those a few steps behind us (very recently clarified), Klara and I will both be sharing our respective processes in great detail.
So the same ask applies here as with SpaceUnknown.
If you want to keep separation between the practitioners and the people, don’t sign up.
But if you can handle us as full humans and as facilitators without projecting your own shit all over us, by all means, hop in. We’d love to have you.
Moving forward…
Over the next month or two, I’ll be including reminders of this transition in upcoming emails before formally closing it out. So if you need time to sit with where you want to land across these spaces, you’ve got it.
If you’ve been a paid subscriber and want to continue supporting my work in that way, I won’t stop you. Genuinely, thank you. It means a lot.
And if you’d prefer to downgrade to free for now, no hard feelings at all. The invitation to support remains open whenever it feels right.
More to follow in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, stay exquisite :)
— Antonia