Reclaiming
Wholeness at Work:
Positive Psychology, Indigenous Wisdom and Wellbeing

What if the key to a thriving, resilient workplace isn’t policies or perks—but a deep understanding of human needs and the systems that shape them?

This session offers a fresh lens on Maslow’s hierarchy, enriched by Indigenous worldviews, as a roadmap to authentic leadership, engagement, and trust. This is more than a conversation about culture and rewards—it’s a strategic invitation to evolve, together.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Recognize how conventional workplace strategies may unintentionally drive disengagement and erode mental health.
Notice and name fear responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn and flock), shifting from judgement to understanding.
Explore how psychology and Indigenous wisdom form a roadmap toward wellbeing for individuals and organizations.
Reframe people and business strategy through a new lens: seeing more clearly, responding more consciously, and designing environments where people can be whole.

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Speaking Topics

Engage your team with insights on fear, culture, and leadership.
Blended and customized programs are available to organizations.

Fear at Work

Explore how insecurity shapes behavior and culture, and ways to rebuild trust.

Relational Wellbeing

Emotional presence and communication to strengthen workplace connections.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Recognize how fear manifests in workplace behaviour and decision-making
Understand the neuroscience of threat and safety.
Identify defensive responses and patterns.
Create conditions that reduce fear and build psychological safety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Redefine 'mental health' to relational health, inclusive of mind, body, emotions, and being.
Learn and embody presence techniques for navigating strong emotions.
Understand forums of relational health: individual, interpersonal, institutional, and integral.

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Keynote

Engaging insights that challenge thinking and inspire action
(45-60 minutes)

Presentation

Customized content for the audience context with greater Q&A opportunity
(45-90 minutes)

Workshop

Interactive sessions with group exploration, case study and application
(2-4 hours)

Virtual sessions for distributed and remote audiences. Presentation or workshop style.

Webinar

Let's discuss how a keynote, presentation or workshop can support your team's growth and transformation.
Clients often prefer a combination approach to integrate learning and with direct application to the workplace.

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In the spirit of respect and truth, I honour and acknowledge that I live and work within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.