Deirdre is the owner of Spore Studios: Intentional Life Design, and the former Director of Wellbeing and Joy in Practice at Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Deirdre has been coaching and creating custom wellbeing programs for professional caregivers (educator, healthcare and humanitarian workers) as well as private clients for over a decade. She has been a core faculty member in organizational change leadership at Western Michigan Univ. and a lead researcher on international wellbeing projects designed to support social change-makers for The Wellbeing Project (Paris) and Kellogg Institute at the Univ. of Notre Dame.
Locally she owned one of the first yoga studios, Yogaglow of Three Oaks, Mi. for ten years and created the Mindfulness in Nature and Art Summer Camp for children at Fernwood Botanical Garden over the Covid-19 Pandemic. She still offers seasonal contemplative retreats at Fernwood.
She loves Summers in SW Michigan with family and friends and Winters abroad in India, South Africa and Argentina with Global Health Honors students for SIT Study Abroad.
Hire Deirdre for your next brown bag, workshop or conference and begin the process of building a wellbeing culture.
For human-centered workplaces. Try the weekly movement and mindfulness sessions, coaching and a social-emotional resiliency curriculum.
Unplug, restore and expand your sensory awareness through slow movement, forest bathing, yoga nidra, mandala-making and meditation.
