What people say about working with me
Appreciation for Communication and/or Conflict trainings
"I now feel like I have practical skills when I encounter conflict. What was crucially important that I gained from this workshop is an understanding of the importance of grounding and being available/aware of my embodied experience to support my ability to be present. I really appreciate practice in facilitating conversation when there’s polarization, and then the self-care of processing afterwards."
"I particularly appreciated the care and skill you gifted the group in landing, providing shared experience and bonding to create trust which gave all of the exercises a wonderful depth despite the brevity of the course."
"The conversation about working with polarised issues, using the NVC process to move through these and then practising in the role plays - guessing & naming feelings was demonstrably a powerful way to show empathy in the role play - people had different feelings and sometimes about the same need / meaning"
“Ceri's teaching really works for me because she always gives the energy of being authentic and grounded, and there's room for joy as well as mourning.”
“Love practise time, the slides were a big help and very clear. Loved hearing about invisible power as this was a brand new concept for me”
“This was one of the best courses I have attended.”
“I love your delivery and facilitation of the NVC approach, with your authentic presence it makes it all so easy to connect to the content and the group.”
“That was AMAZING! Thank you - met needs for clarity, connection, understanding, learning, belonging, exploration...the list goes on.”
“I’ve done other workshops addressing equality, diversity, inclusion, racism and privilege, but what made this one stand out – and, I think, made it effective – was regularly returning to our somatic and emotional responses and seeing these as important sources of information. I have sometimes felt frozen and afraid of ‘getting it wrong’ when approaching privilege from a cerebral place and the focus on my body helped me to begin to understand a different way of doing this work. “
Appreciation for mediations
“Thank god we are talking again!”
“I appreciate being supported to have a voice and to hear from other people. I feel refreshed by this process. I think we can move forward now.”
“I feel relief and hopeful, and deeply touched by the consideration of the feelings and needs of everyone, following what happened in the group. Much appreciation and thankful to everyone for their participation and action”
“Many thanks again for your work with us. I felt much more safe navigating the difficult history with you present. Your reflections and pacing were really helpful.”
Appreciation for Grief work
“I wanted to share that I have had lots of memories of our workshop together over the past days. I'm really affected by the use of body and sound and so grateful to be able to bring those parts of me. “
“The ritual was incredibly tender and sweetly held. I really laughed a lot when we were warming up. It’s genius the way you bring so many different possibilities and help us to move through them. I really connected with myself and others.”
“There are so many truly horrendous things happening in the world, it was good to actually acknowledge that, with other people and then feel that also people still come together to eat and people still share so much, we are humanity.”
Bringing people together
Ceri is really great at bringing people together and creating an easy space for people to be their authentic selves, that embraces all their emotions. It is a real talent.
Ceri has a particular way of bringing people together and creating experiences that somehow reflect her way of being…something of quirkiness and emergence and containing multitudes…rich and hard to predict. That’s how I see it anyway. Not always comfortable for me but very nourishing ultimately
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