TEACHING · WELLNESS · LIBERATION
This is not a workshop. This is an encounter.
She enters your space … your organization, your community, your family… and something shifts. Not because she performs expertise. Because Diane brings presence, honesty, and the particular courage it takes to go somewhere real together.
WHAT THIS IS
Body · Mind · Soul
All of it. Together.
Diane's teaching work is not wellness as performance. It is not a box to check, a speaker to book, a retreat to survive. It is BodyMind Soul work ~ de-colonizing, re-indigenizing, re-matriating. It is for everyone, wherever you are in your journey.
She thrives with people who are curious, ready to receive the lightbulb moment, and open to their own expansion. She has been called into teaching in every field she has ever worked in. She knows how to meet a room… and bring it somewhere it didn't know it could go.
WHO SHE WORKS WITH
corporate teams & departments
healthcare & helping professions
students, schools & educators
nonprofits & community groups
faith communities
families & parents
Touch, community & connection are necessary for life. Diane’s teaching never forgets that.
THE FOUNDATION
Everything is energy.
We begin there.
She practices tools for staying present, noticing and tending to our own nervous systems, and approaches to active listening and compassionate conversation. She encourages empathy, mutual respect, and the particular courage it takes to stay in the room when things get real.
In her spaces, we acknowledge that not everyone is afforded the same privilege. We acknowledge that harm happens… and we practice what to do when it does. She serves as a catalyst for personal growth, collective learning, and the pursuit of a more loving & equitable world.
Maybe you've had a handful of these conversations. Maybe you are a seasoned facilitator of this work… she invites your insights. Maybe this is your first time.
Welcome. All of you are welcome here.
Her work honors the whole person… the racialized body, the gendered body, the body that has survived, the body that is still learning it is safe.
We come as we are. We leave more ourselves.
WORKSHOPS & CIRCLES
Each offering can be adapted for your organization, community, or family. None of them are one-size-fits-all. All of them go somewhere real.
Energy Medicine
BODY · FIELD · AWARENESS
Our Bodies,
Our Cells
SOMATIC · LIBERATION
Given all the things, it can be hard to stay present. Sometimes we freeze, fight, fawn, or flee. Here we talk about the ways we can feel trapped in… or disconnected from… our bodies. Meeting ourselves where we are in that moment, we practice getting to know & love the soma.
Mind Massage
MINDFULNESS · PRESENCE
Everything is energy. Here we explore that idea, play with energy balls, discuss our energetic bodies and touchpoints, practice healing techniques. A practice of becoming more fluent in the language your being has always been speaking.
Facing Forward
CENTERING · ROOTING
Showing Up As We Are
TRANSFORMATION · JUSTICE
Not your average meditation. This is a practice of showing up in ways that invite us to slow down, lean in, listen. Wherever we are. However we can. Adaptable for any group, any setting, any level of experience.
In these listening, talking & movement trainings, we connect to our inner selves. Shine light on shadow. Practice grace and compassion. Lean into the current. Tap into trust. Play, wiggle, and laugh. Root into connection with earth, self & others. Remember your why’s.
Relationship Re-Alignment
RETURN · RECLAMATION
Your personal return to self after love's upheaval… or another difficult relationship shift… a guided passage of release, reclamation, and renewal. Through soulful conversation, ritual & grounded tools, we break the cycles that hold you… rooting you in your truth & anchoring you in a self-love so steady it guides every relationship to come.
What does it mean to show up as fully as possible… as you, as me, as us? This session fosters meaningful conversations about dismantling systemic oppression ~ white privilege, white supremacy, modern forms of violent patriarchy ~ and how to stay connected with each other even when harm happens. Vulnerable. Inspiring. Life-changing.
TOUCH OFFERINGS
Touch, community, and connection are necessary for life. These offerings bring therapeutic touch into your team, your family, your organization ~ as practice, as healing, as connection.
SELF · CARE
Touch for One
Sometimes it's just you — and that's okay, because you are more than enough. We discuss and practice therapeutic massage techniques for self-care, emotional regulation, and pain management. A love letter to the body you live in.
TEAM · CAMARADERIE
Touch for Teams
An out-of-the-box team builder. Discussion and possible practice of therapeutic massage techniques that improve communication, camaraderie, and connection. The team builder that actually builds something real.
FAMILY · CONNECTION
Touch for Families
Parents, caregivers, and family members learn to use presence, positive touch, and massage techniques to connect with children, increase relaxation, and improve communication. Practice bodily autonomy and learn positive touch skills. A love letter to your family & friends.
ONSITE · WELLNESS
Chair Massage
Onsite therapeutic chair massage for your workplace, event, or gathering. A direct, embodied reminder that the people in your organization are whole human beings who carry things in their bodies. Care made physical.
FOR WHITE & WHITE-ADJACENT FOLKS
White
People Work.
By design, white people uphold white supremacy without doing anything… without ever even naming their whiteness. Many of us have the tendency to identify with our marginalized identities (women, queer, poor, disabled, Jewish) and not pay attention to our dominant identities (cis, able-bodied, white, Christian-adjacent).
In this space, we practice understanding and tending to the special tasks and responsibilities we carry from our dominant identities ~ with particular attention to race. This doesn't mean we don't honor the marginalized pieces. Of course we do. It means that during this time, we focus on what it means to benefit from systems of racial hierarchy ~ and what we can actually do about it.
This is Body-Mind-Soul, De-Colonizing, Re-Indigenizing, Re-Matriating work. It is for everyone, wherever you are in your journey. And it requires a particular kind of courage… the willingness to stay in the room with what you find.
THE CPR REPARATIVE MODEL
Calm Yourself · Practice Humility · Repair
Created by Kira Manser, Jaymie Campbell & Shannon Crintini. Geared toward racial microaggressions but applicable for all identity difference. When you are given the gift of feedback that something you said or did has caused harm — center the experience of the person harmed, especially when they are BIPOC, trans, or otherwise subject to oppression.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
keynotes & speaking
For conferences, gatherings, and events. Diane speaks to groups of one and groups of hundreds with equal presence.
consulting & advising
Ongoing partnership with organizations ready to build cultures of genuine wellness, equity, and belonging.
workshops & seminars
Half-day, full-day, or multi-session. Custom designed for your specific organization and what it needs.
facilitation
She holds the container for your group's conversations ~ the hard ones, the generative ones, the ones that need a skilled keeper.
retreats
Immersive, multi-day experiences that take teams and communities somewhere they couldn't go in a single session.
wellness program design
For organizations ready to go beyond the ping pong table. Programs built from the body outward, rooted in what people actually need.
Ready for something
actually real?
If you want to expand your creative self, explore body and soul work, or take your organization's wellness somewhere it's never been… you've come to a good place.
Every engagement begins with a conversation about what your community actually needs. No scripts. No one-size-fits-all.
"When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abuse cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposite of nurturance and care."
bell hooks · All About Love: New Visions, 1999