Leadership. Re-imagined.
Workshops, retreats, training
and consulting
for you or your team.
What if…
This is the work of Embodied Leadership Lab!
I invite you to join me.
workshops
Informative, inspiring and interactive presentations for your group, organization or business
Are you looking for an affordable, practical and engaging online or in-person workshop for your next professional development day, networking event, board meeting or community call? I’d love to join you!
Hosting me for a workshop is a bite-size, yet effective, way of either beginning or deepening the embodied leadership journey – for you and the people you serve.
Whether online or in person, my workshops are dynamic, interactive and inspiring. Typical timing is 1.5 – 2.5 hours each.
Current topics include:
TRAINING retreats
Spacious, restorative professional development with big, lasting impact
One of the most powerful ways of learning group facilitation is to to be immersed in it! For this reason, retreats are my preferred way of offering training. (I also offer more modular TRAINING SESSIONS.)
In addition to providing an ideal setting for experiential learning, retreats offer an invitation to pause, ground, and reconnect—with yourself, with others, and what truly matters. Whether gathering in a beautiful natural setting or meeting online from afar, these immersive experiences create the environment needed for real transformation. Through embodied leadership practices, meaningful dialogue, and time for reflection, each retreat becomes not only a powerful opportunity for learning and skill-building, but also a catalyst for renewal, insight, and lasting change.
My signature training retreats
I currently offer three signature training retreats designed to help you and your team cultivate the three pillars of embodied leadership.
Inner Landscapes of Leadership
Deepening awareness as the foundation for grounded, compassionate facilitation.
This retreat focuses on cultivating embodied self-awareness and attunement — learning to sense, regulate, and respond with flexibility so you can lead from grounded presence rather than overwhelm.
Blueprints for Connection
Building the structures and rhythms that help groups feel safe enough, engaged, and alive.
Explore the art and practice of group architecture and discover how intentional, trauma-informed facilitation design creates an ecosystem of meaningful engagement, collaboration, and belonging.
Pathways to Embodied Leadership
Translating insight into action that uplifts, empowers, and transforms.
Through experiential practices and collaborative exploration, you will learn how to facilitate in a way that navigates challenges, embodies integrity, and takes courageous steps toward meaningful change.
In-person retreats
Multi-day in-person professional development retreats (in beautiful natural settings!) are one of my favourite ways of exploring the gifts of embodied leadership. Why? Because the rhythm of a retreat naturally supports us in slowing down, opening up, attuning to our inner world, and connecting with others. When we step away from our usual routines, new possibilities emerge. This precious spaciousness is fertile ground for inspiration, awareness, growth, perspective-taking, skill-building and change-making.
I favour locations with big windows, access to the natural world, and delicious healthy food. Overnight and day-time-only options are available. In person retreats typically consist of a series of six to ten sessions over two or three days.
Online retreats
I also offer my signature retreats online! These are delivered as full-day (or three-quarter-day) intensives just like in-person retreats, using Zoom. Same topics, same skills, same opportunities for interactive learning and community sharing, but in a more affordable and geographically flexible package.
In-person and online retreats include:
- innovate, practical, empowering guidance and teachings
- gentle yet effective embodiment practices
- invaluable and inspiring community connection
- high quality handouts / guidebooks
- a custom designed skill-building card deck
BOOK A RETREAT
Ready to transform the way you and your team facilitate groups?
TRAINING SESSIONS
Same impact, more modular package
As amazing and transformative as the training retreat experience is, sometimes it’s challenging to coordinate concentrated time for your people (staff, students, colleagues, members or teams). Because of this, I also offer the content of my signature training retreats in a more modular, bitesize format.
Weekly, bi-weekly or even monthly
Training sessions typically consist of a series of six to ten 2-hour sessions, either condensed over a single week, or spread out over a longer span. I can accommodate a range of options – including weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, weekdays, weekends, evenings or daytimes – to fit your timezone and availability.
If you are interested in training sessions rather than retreats, we’ll find a schedule that works for you. Please note that due to travel considerations (and my rural location!), I am able to offer more options and flexibility online than in-person.
CONSULTING
Custom workshops, retreats, training and program design
Whether you are looking for a nuanced introduction to embodied-leadership-style group facilitation, a deep dive into a specific component, or some support making a culture shift for your staff, students, membership, group or team, I can create a custom designed experience just for you.
From half day to multi-day, online or in person, weekly or retreat style, I will work with you to meet your specific needs, budget and timing.
Some recent projects include:
- a custom 9-week group facilitation training program for a peer support organization adding group support to their long-time 1-1 offerings
- bi-annual professional development training retreats for the management team of a community service organization
- assessment and redesign of weekly staff check-ins for a community empowerment organization
- a series of retreats and training sessions for an organization looking to shift away from a culture of burnout and overwhelm
- a series of half-day professional development training retreats for staff of an education centre to build resource in challenging times
- an interactive workshop on building aware and welcoming classes for yoga and meditation teachers
- an interactive workshop on creating nervous-system-friendly meetings for a service organization
- design and delivery of a series of workshops for a community support organization on facilitating safer spaces
Real time, face to face
Because group facilitation is an interactive art, all of my offerings are interactive too. No pre-recorded content, or stacks of replays to get lost in, just lots of real-time support and connection!
I deliver my programs both locally and globally, in beautiful sunlight rooms, or from the convenience of your home or office via Zoom.
From my heart to yours
I am passionate about living and working from a place of deep awareness, integrity, authenticity and embodiment. I believe that the way we show up (for ourselves, others, and the world around us) changes everything.
When we work together, I practice what I teach – not perfectly, but with my whole heart! (You can read more about my experience and training HERE.)
My work is:
TRAUMA-SENSITIVE
NERVOUS-SYSTEM-AWARE
POLYVAGAL-INFORMED
Small, personal, and made with love
Like a cozy neighbourhood café, a favourite yoga studio, or local farmers market, all my offerings are small and personal by design — which provides opportunities for individual attention, space to evoke the wisdom of the group, and lots of on-the-fly customization to keep it real and relevant.
My offerings are a space where your presence is honoured, your story is invited, and you are welcome as your whole, authentic, messy, capable, radiant, ready/not ready self!
A valuable add-on to your existing qualifications and expertisE
My training is not about WHAT you share in your classes, meetings, sessions, groups or retreats, (you’re already brilliant at that!)…
But HOW you share it and the engagement it creates.
The WAY you facilitate a group determines how effective, resonant and meaningful the experience is for your students, staff, clients or colleagues.
Why work with me?
- Build confidence, capacity and resilience
- Deepen your impact
- Learn to work in a way that aligns more authentically with your way of being in the world
- Experience less burnout, exhaustion or overwhelm
- Watch your students, staff, clients or team members become more engaged, committed and inspired
Ready to transform the way you and your team facilitate groups?
Whether it feels more like a dream, an emerging idea or a concrete plan, I’d love to hear about it!
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“Bringing Heidi in to work with the staff was one of the wisest decisions I have made in my career.”
LAURIE St. AMOUR
Executive Director of a Children’s Centre, Canada