Talks and Workshops

I speak to organisations, healthcare teams, community groups and conferences about what is actually going on between the brain and the body when people are stressed, burnt out, anxious or in pain.

Sessions are grounded in research and in clinical practice, and always include something people can use afterwards rather than only something to think about.

My background and PhD are in medical education and I now train other therapists, so the teaching is pitched to the room: a physiotherapy audience and a community group get very different versions of the same material.

For organisations and teams

Wellbeing days, training sessions, staff development. These work best when the aim is understanding rather than exhortation: people tend not to act on advice about self-care until they understand what their nervous system is doing and why.

Sessions can be built around your team's specific pressures, or drawn from topics I teach regularly:

burnout and compassion fatigue: how they develop and what actually interrupts them
stress, anxiety and overwhelm: what is happening, and practical ways to work with it
PTSD: recognising it, and how people get help
the hesitation to ask for help, and what makes it easier
myths and stigma around mental health
survival states: fight, flight and freeze, and how people move out of them
mindfulness and meditation, and what the evidence does and does not show

For conferences and community events

I speak on trauma, chronic pain, and the mind-body connection, to professional and general audiences. Recent examples include a case presentation at the BWRT® Congress, teaching the stress and pain cycle to physiotherapists, and introducing a mind-body perspective on chronic pain in healthcare education.

Where it fits, I include something of my own experience of mental and physical health, because a room usually listens differently when the person at the front is not speaking from outside the subject.

You can see the full list of talks and press.

Practical details

In person across the UK and Ireland, and internationally by arrangement
Online anywhere
Formats from a short talk to a half-day workshop
Content adapted to your audience and your time
Fees depend on format, travel and preparation; tell me what you have in mind and I will give you a figure

Get in touch

Tell me who your audience is, roughly what you are hoping they take away, and when you are thinking of. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.