As an integral health & wellbeing coach, yoga therapy teacher and anthropologist, I bring a holistic lens into my work with coaching clients. I understand how important it is to customize a strategy to suit your unique needs and context.
I have experience working with high performing staff and leaders who work in high-pressure environments and want to maximize their impact as well as supporting clients who are navigating challenging transitions (empty nesting, divorce, personal or professional loss, retirement) or wish to grow their capacity for more zest, joy and inspiration.
In addition to serving professionally as a wellbeing scientist and researcher, I am trained by the Anthropedia Institute, which offers an interdisciplinary evidence-based curriculum drawing on nutrition, naturopathy, neuroscience, art & culture, psychology, and coaching skills to support the whole person.
Before the intake session, you will complete a character strength assessment and intake form to clarify your vision and perceived catalysts/barriers to achieving optimal wellbeing. Then book a free 30 minute coaching session with Deirdre to discuss your assessment results and recommended coaching pathway with action steps.
Every session will involve centering in the body before we go into co-active dialogue. The practices will vary between challenging your neural plasticity and improving your proprioception through “body awakening” exercises to incorporating biofeedback through measuring heart rate variability to helping your nervous system “rest and digest” and recover from adrenal fatigue through deep-breathing or vibro-acoustic therapy.
The co-active coaching method provides a framework of accountability for generating change. The mutual support of the coaching partnership creates focus and discipline, helping you to identify and measure your actions and learning. It is both an ethos and a methodology for living with a sense of authenticity and purpose.
As an applied anthropologist who studies and practices wellbeing science, I will share the latest evidence based research on pro-social support tools, mindfulness techniques and stress busting rituals to enhance both individual flourishing and workplace team performance and engagement.
Presentations can be customized to fit your unique context and needs, and organized into time frames that range from an hour to two days.
Bring me to your workplace, conference or retreat or organize a local gathering at Fernwood Botanical Garden in Michigan where I serve as Director of Wellbeing Programs.
Experience the benefits of boosting your “presentee-ism” and that of your colleagues with 30 minute mindfulness meditations offered during the work day. Benefits include greater focus, creativity, attention and connection. *Certified through Mindful Leader
Beyond one’s training and skills, inspiring leaders need a capacity for compassion and emotional/relational intelligence that they model in their everyday presence. *Certified through Stanford’s Compassionate Leadership Program
Enhance your creativity, focus, engagement, absorption, and sense of pleasure in work and everyday life.
For those of us who approach work as a calling, it is important to find ways to sustain meaning and purpose in our work.
Strengthen inter-personal relationships and cohesion through appreciative inquiry, attentive listening, psychological safety, and narrative techniques.
Understanding the deeper sources of conflict (unconscious bias, dysfunctional power dynamics, disconnection from mission, addictive versus creative work practices), repairing harm, and restoring a sense of authentic engagement
Embrace topics around death and dying, self-care and living within boundaries, deepen a mindfulness practice, find support in circle.
Mindfulness in Nature (for kids or adults)
