Speaking & Workshops

Your audience will leave different.
That’s the point.

A lot of keynotes inform. Fewer change anything. The distinction tends to come down to whether the speaker is transmitting content or transmitting something they actually live — and whether the audience experiences something in the room rather than just absorbing ideas about it.

Somatic work, by its nature, happens in the body.

So does a talk that works.

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BACKGROUND

Twenty years on stages and in rooms across six continents.

I have spoken at conferences, delivered keynotes to leadership groups, run experiential workshops for health practitioners, taught in university settings, and facilitated community programmes in contexts where the participants had very little in common except the bodies they were living in.

My work in Kenya produced programmes that crossed community lines most people assumed were uncrossable. The key wasn’t rhetoric — it was giving people a shared physical experience first. The body is a more democratic starting point than almost anything else.

That’s the principle that runs through all my speaking work. I’m not trying to convince audiences of anything. I’m trying to give them a direct experience of something — and then the framework to understand what just happened.

CONTEXTS I HAVE WORKED IN

Corporate leadership
Health practitioners
Community organisations
Conferences
University settings
Retreats
Cross-cultural and international engagements

THE FOUR CORE TALKS

Adaptable to keynote, workshop, or retreat format.

01 The Body at Work

How somatic intelligence shapes leadership, team culture, and organisational resilience — and what it costs when organisations treat wellbeing as a performance problem rather than a somatic one.

Suitable for: leadership teams, HR conferences, executive retreats.

02 Trauma Is Not What You Think

A clinically grounded, accessible introduction to what trauma actually is — not the extreme version, but the ordinary accumulation of experiences the nervous system couldn’t fully process at the time. And what to do about it.

Suitable for: practitioners, health conferences, community organisations.

03 What the Body Knows

A keynote on somatic intelligence as a practical resource — not as a wellness concept but as a survival skill in high-pressure, high-uncertainty contexts. For anyone navigating complexity who wants to do it with more of themselves available.

Suitable for: general audiences, festival and conference keynotes.

04 Embodied Leadership

The difference between leading from managed anxiety and leading from genuine authority — and the somatic practices that close that gap. Grounded in twenty years of working with leaders who are performing well and exhausted by it.

Suitable for: leadership development programmes, executive coaching groups.

FORMATS

From a 45-minute keynote to a three-day retreat.

Keynote (45-75 minutes)

A single cohesive talk with experiential elements woven in. Not a lecture — a shared event.
Audience members leave having experienced something, not just heard about it.

Workshop (half-day or full-day)

Deeper engagement with the material, more space for practice and reflection. Works particularly well for practitioner groups, leadership teams, and organisational communities.

Retreat (two to three days)

For groups who want to genuinely integrate the work rather than introduce it. Retreats include somatic practice, group constellation work, movement, and plenty of unstructured time. These are transformative in a different register to workshops.

Practitioner training

Training for psychologists, counsellors, coaches, and allied health professionals who want to integrate somatic approaches into their existing practice. Available by enquiry — please get in touch to discuss what would suit your context.

Cross-cultural and international engagements

I am particularly interested in contexts where cultural difference is alive in the room — where the question of how bodies in different settings carry different histories has genuine stakes. I have experience working across East Africa, South Asia, and Europe.

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