“You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Workshops and courses draw from the following topics and utilise a range of the following teachings and tools. They are grounded in mindfulness and tailored specifically to meet the needs of your team or group. They can be delivered in full or half day workshop style or in the form of a course which runs over several weeks, either online or in person. Regular ongoing sessions are also available.

Please feel welcome to reach out to discuss your needs.

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The topics we explore:

  • Understanding stress and anxiety
  • The science of mind and the nature of thought
  • Working with human emotions
  • Building a picture of what wholistic wellbeing means for us
  • Cultivating balance
  • How our values inform and guide us
  • Effective communication

The tools we use:

  • Mindfulness
  • Meditation
  • Breathwork
  • Mindful Self Compassion
  • Gratitude
  • Inquiry & Reflection
  • Yoga

Mindfulness can support us in:

  • Cultivating presence
  • Supporting mental resilience, clarity and focus
  • Reducing stress and anxiety
  • Supporting rest and sleep quality
  • Reducing reactivity & promoting healthy communication
  • Unhooking from limiting beliefs & unhelpful behaviour patterns
  • Meaningful relating with ourselves, others & experience
  • Cultivating more joy & ease
  • Showing up more fully for our lives

Self Compassion can support us in:

  • Cultivating resilience and courage
  • Nurturing self efficacy and a healthy relationship with self
  • Rewiring patterns of negative self talk & destructive behaviour

“Compassion is always the result of understanding & understanding is born out of looking deeply”.
-Thich Naht Hanh

Contact

Please feel welcome to make contact to discuss organising a workshop or course to support the wellbeing of your group or team.

I run courses and workshops grounded in mindfulness and self compassion for youth in community and school settings, for educators and teaching teams and for teams in the corporate space.  I have a passion for connecting teachings and practices to science and sharing and exploring them in ways that are relatable, authentic and accessible to all. I also enjoy bringing creative, experiential and interactive components to my sessions. I endeavour to create spaces of connection and exploration that are warm, friendly and supportive, encourage openness, curiosity and courage and equip participants with knowledge, insight and practical tools that they can utilise to support them in their daily lives.

Kelly’s kind nature and ability to relate to the audiences she speaks to, has always drawn great response from audiences, and she leaves people with a sense that they have been genuinely cared for.

Lorietta Bahr

Sustainability Advisor NZ
Kelly is clearly passionate about what she does and her style is really unique. She connects with her audience in a way that I can only describe as soulful.

Aimee Stewart

Executive Assistant to Managing Director, Marketing Director & Finance Director Lion New Zealand
Kelly is passionate, knowledgeable, heartfelt and immensely kind in her offerings as a teacher and facilitator of meditation, mindfulness and self-compassion. In my work as teacher trainer she is my go to person for anything meditation. I highly highly recommend her work.

Neal Ghoshal

Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training

Kelly’s expertise was essential in running mentoring and wellbeing sessions with a broad range of our organisation’s supporters. I’ve enjoyed collaborating with and seeking Kelly’s contribution to programme development, she is wise and intelligent helping designers and colleagues make sense of the raw data and create appropriate solutions.

Tony Yuretich

Senior Schools Manager Graeme Dingle Foundation

We couldn’t recommend Kelly more highly. She has presented multiple times to our team on the topic of mindfulness, visioning and wellbeing. We love that Kelly presents in a way that is really accessible and realistic – and not at all preachy! She gives really practical and achievable advice which clearly engages our team and leaves them feeling confident that they can go out and make small changes right away. Kelly’s sessions are a really important and tangible part of how we support our team and create a healthy work environment.

Damien McDowell

Business Leader Wynyard Pavillion

Kelly ran a course for a group of teachers over several weeks and the affect it had rippled throughout the Preschool community from teachers to children and parents. Kelly is a gentle yet passionate mindfulness coach.  Her energy is contagious and I instantly felt grounded in her class. Kelly’s approach is very reflective, she listens and makes everyone around her feel heard and valued.

Katrina Brewer

Head Teacher / Managent Team Wānaka Preschool

Kelly’s passion for young people, creativity and peace has added to the curriculum and structure of our programmes benefiting our young people. Our schools were crying out for support with their stressed charges and Kelly soon had mindfulness sessions imbedded, not only in the school programmes she ran, but throughout Aotearoa. Kelly is calm and supportive, whether one on one or in groups, leaving rangatahi feeling valued as individuals.

Tony Yuretich

Senior Schools Manager Graeme Dingle Foundation

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