My diverse business and professional experiences have given me a range of skills that I bring to my individual and group coaching practice as a certified Heart of Business practitioner.
First up, I have over ten years experience practicing as an accredited practitioner in a healing modality called The JourneyTM, which, I’m happy to say, is closely aligned with the healing techniques used at Heart of Business. Over the years, I have helped hundreds of clients reconnect with their own experience of Source, to release and let go of the stored pain that leads to physical, emotional and mental imbalances, to access their own inner resources, let go of past patterns that no longer serve them, and to find forgiveness and healing for past issues so they can fully experience the liberation and lightness that I believe is our birthright.
This healing work can be applied to so many areas of your life, but one area I have specialized in, because it is something I personally love, has been creativity, particularly dance. Before my children were born, I developed a small group workshop called Dancing Freedom, which I ran with my husband, a yoga teacher. We created a powerful experience that helped people let go of the stuckness and baggage they felt about loving their bodies and really letting their bodies move freely through dance expression.
I also have a professional background in public participation, community engagement and environmental sustainability arising from my Bachelor degree in Environmental Science, with an emphasis in social policy and development. The boring side of my work in this area was research and report writing. The fun side was working with groups, facilitating workshops, developing creative visioning scripts, listening to people, and empowering communities to make a difference.
I worked with Wendy Sarkissian, Australia’s foremost practitioner in community engagement, who was constantly pushing the envelope to make the industry more grassroots, more equitable, more empowering, more sustainable. I co-authored a book with Wendy and colleagues, published by EarthScan, UK in 2009, which shares some of the varied and creative approaches to engaging groups that we used. It’s called Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability.
As a Heart of Business practitioner, I’m passionate about helping you get your head and heart around money, marketing and sales, and to really shine in your chosen profession, because I believe that it’s about more than business. It’s about life purpose, vocation and alignment with the divine. With the right tools and awareness, your business can be a powerful vehicle for supporting personal growth and spiritual alignment. And if you choose, it can also support spiritual awakening, social justice and environmental sustainability in the world at large. That, to me, is worth striving for.
All right, that’s the big vision. What about the personal stuff? Well, I live with my husband and two kiddies under five in a rural area near Byron Bay, on the East coast of Australia. That’s why I’ve got a funny accent.J I’m fairly tech-savvy, so if there are buttons or wires or websites involved, I can usually figure out how to make it work. I like to dance and sing and consider both to be spiritual practice. I’m not quite as talented at sitting on a meditation cushion, but I do love to find the divine in everything. My “one day” thing: One day, I’d like to make some funky, groovy, downright danceable spiritual music… when I work out how to play my keyboard!