Women of Spirit Partner Members have lived their experiences, and have chosen to speak openly about them. Now qualified in the area that was previously their challenge, our Partner Members’ authenticity and empathy is unquestionable. They are highly relatable and their desire to help others learn to thrive is evident as their clients allow themselves to open up and begin their journey to a more confident and joyfully abundant life.
COACHING
MARY LUNNEN
Mary offers her services as a life coach in an intuitive, gentle, yet motivating style. She has written a number of books and contributed to many others over the years. She has developed the Dare to Blossom Rediscovery Cards and a process of creative visualisation that she uses in all her work: one-to-one on video-conferencing, and in groups with people around the world, as well as in workshops near her home in Cornwall. Mary is a lover of the dramatic coastline of Cornwall, a photographer and an artist. More details and how to contact Mary for an initial consultation can be found on her website, LinkedIn profile, or Facebook business page www.daretoblossom.co.uk
SARAH BRADLEY
I am a qualified Life Coach and a teacher with over 30 years of experience in a wide range of schools.
In my 50-odd years on the planet, I have experienced highs and lows, changes in relationships, career challenges, grief and loss, happiness, sadness, anxiety and contentment. My experiences enable me to coach with understanding, empathy and authenticity. As your coach, I won’t be giving you answers or advice. I will listen without judgement to your story and work with you to unravel confusion and find the clarity and confidence you need to take risks and develop ideas and solutions.
I offer individual Life Coaching, Workplace Coaching in executive and educational settings and Coaching to individuals and couples looking to move forward from unplanned childlessness.
CLARE HONEYFIELD
Founder of Stroud’s award-winning farmers’ market and co-founder of Gloucestershire Food Links, The Gloucestershire Association of Farmers Market, Made in Gloucestershire and The Made in Stroud Shop, Clare has worked with many hundreds of artisans overs the years, helping them to take their ideas from dreams to successful enterprises.
‘Made in Stroud’ was born in 1991 when she set up an event of makers together with a vegan café, kid’s area and a busker.
Clare currently runs The Made in Stroud shop, is a yoga teacher, coach and public speaker. She is a raving fan of Tony Robbins and recently attended his London event, ‘Unleash the Power Within’, which she describes as “life changing
www.madeinstroud.org www.sva.org.uk
BERTIE EKPERIGIN
Bertie Ekperigin is a Rapid Transformational Therapist and coach. Her passion is to help people break free from self-sabotage, bad habits and negative thinking patterns, so that they can embrace more meaningful lives. Bertie works with the subconscious mind to discover exactly why her clients have their particular blocks and where their memorised, negative emotions have come from. She then installs new empowering thoughts and beliefs, which enables them to change first their personalities – and ultimately their lives – for the better.
She is passionate about making a difference to her clients’ physical and mental wellbeing, having herself suffered from major lung surgery and anxiety. Using Rapid Transformational Therapy Bertie has overcome a debilitating fear of public speaking, and low self-esteem.
Philippa Gray and Bertie have recently joined forces and founded The Rise & Shine Academy. They work together delivering a unique cutting edge programme into the workplace to move people from anxiety to confidence, overwhelm to resilience and low self-belief to unlimited potential, enhancing wellness and improving employee engagement. Occasionally, they also work with small private groups.
www.changedforgood.net www.theriseandshineacademy.co.uk
KAREN RAMSAY-SMITH
Karen is a Transformational Coach, Mindfulness Teacher and Visibility Mentor.
Karen supports heart-centered entrepreneurs/business leaders to connect with their true selves and their core values, helping them to create their ‘bigger picture’ vision, embrace their powerful mission and become visible to share their message with the world. This in turn aligns them fully in order for them to attract the right people and opportunities into their life and work.
Karen provides accredited transformational coaching, mentoring and teaching which combines her skills of powerful coaching, mindfulness and meditation tools and techniques with strategic marketing to support anyone who feels lost or limited in their own life. She enables her clients to connect to the truth of who they really are, empowering them to trust and become aligned with their passion and mission in life and work, supporting them to carry out their true purpose mindfully and with courage and conviction.
CAROL MAY
Transformational Health Specialist and Body Empowerment Coach for Midlife Menopausal Professional Women. Carol May is a Transformational Health and Lifestyle Coach who uses a new understanding around the nature of the human experience, together with The Four Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine, to help midlife women suffering peri and post menopausal issues around weight, stress, brain fog, hot flushes, overwhelm, anxiety and sleep to feel happier, calmer, more peaceful and full of energy and vitality.
Love Your Self and Your Body to Set Yourself Free
www.allshapesandsizes.solutions
WELL-BEING THERAPIES
ROSALYN PALMER
Rosalyn Palmer is an Emotional Well-being Expert with a private practice as an Award-winning therapist (Advanced Rapid Transformational Hypnotherapist) and coach. She co-hosts the radio show Girls Around Town and has a monthly newspaper column. As a bestselling author of the award-winning self-help book: ‘Reset! A Blueprint for a Better Life’ she makes emotional well-being accessible to all.
Rosalyn is now also a co-author of two Amazon No.1 bestselling self-help books: ‘Ignite Your Female Leadership’ & ‘Ignite Your Life for Women’.
A member of the National Council of Psychotherapists; General Hypnotherapy Register & Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. Formerly the MD/Founder of award-winning PR agency RPPR, Head of Marketing for an international charity and with an enviable CV from leading London agencies in the 80s and 90s, Rosalyn has grown from many challenging life experiences. This colours and tempers her writing, broadcasting and speaking. It means that she can now, with congruity, help stressed out high performing businesswomen and men to add joy to their portfolio.
ANGELIKA BREUKERS
Angelika’s purpose and passion in life is to help others reach a place of acceptance and well-being. For the past seventeen years she has helped to transform many people’s lives. She is a qualified Bowen therapist, but in recent years focuses on mentoring, workshops and speaking opportunities, enabling people to live a joyful, fulfilling life.
Helping you to move on from adversity and develop a positive mental attitude, Angelika’s programme of workshops and one-to-one sessions highlights where your negative beliefs are, how they’re holding you back, and helps you to achieve specific goals to recreate your life.
At the core of Angelika’s work is her formula to living a life free from pain or shame, and to become full of joy: Acceptance + Belief + Choice = Change
Change your story, change for life.
SUSIE ROSE
Susie is known for her work with women business owners throughout Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, supporting and empowering them to succeed.
Her other passion is her healing business, ‘Breathe Rise Shine’, mentoring women to overcome their past and the blocks and fears holding them back, so they can truly fulfil all their potential in life and in the process become more empowered, confident, peaceful, happy and be great role models for their children.
Susie is qualified in a range of holistic and mind/body modalities and uses a powerful combination of ancient energy work, essential oils and modern applied psychology to help identify and clear blocks from the past and achieve fast, effective and lasting change. She teaches the tools and principles of success and self-love, so you can be the VERY BEST version of you.
Susie also leads a team of health conscious women who want to educate themselves and others on the power of natural healing and essential oils for health and well being.
www.networkingwomen.org.uk www.susierose.co.uk www.breatheriseshine.com www.mydoterra.com/susierose
CONSULTANCY
CARIE LYNDENE
Carie has been teaching marketing and sales strategies for over 35 years. Through her online training programmes, group coaching and private consultancy, she has been intrinsic in tens of millions of pounds of goods and services moving into the marketplace.
Her flagship programme “10 Weeks To 10K Paydays” focuses on helping coaches, agency owners, consultants and professional services create a ‘High Value Client Acquisition System’ using no cost or low-cost marketing strategies both on and offline, allowing them to break free of the geographic and income limitations of only working locally and ensuring they can finally live life on their terms without wasting any more time.
Much of Carie’s work is delivered alongside Alex Patchett-Joyce (the UK’s only Psychology of Vision trainer) who partner to bring their clients cutting edge marketing and mindset coaching.
PHILIPPA GRAY
Director of The Yellow Brick Road Consultancy Ltd, Philippa is a Transformation Consultant specialising in Mind and Confidence Coaching as an
Advance Rapid Transformational Therapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist, Philippa works with groups and on a one to one basis.
With a drive and desire to bring compassion and heart into the business world and over 15 years’ experience as a Trainer, Mentor and Facilitator Philippa delivers an exclusive Total Business Transformation Blueprint, which changes hearts and minds, improves the overall well-being of teams and increases productivity within the work place.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road, it leads to Phenomenal Results!
Philippa and Bertie Ekperigin have recently joined forces and founded The Rise & Shine Academy. They work together delivering a unique cutting edge programme into the workplace to move people from anxiety to confidence, overwhelm to resilience and low self-belief to unlimited potential, enhancing wellness and improving employee engagement. Occasionally, they also work with small private groups.
www.theyellowbrickroadconsultancy.com www.theriseandshineacademy.co.uk
HOLISTIC THERAPIES
JUDITH HUMPHREYS
I am utterly passionate about reflexology and other holistic therapies – anything that can make someone feel fantastic after a treatment. I was drawn towards holistic therapies and started my training at the Cotswold Academy. In 2014, I gained my ITEC Level Three in reflexology and then went on to qualify in Swedish massage, Indian head massage, and Hopi ear candling. Following my training, I continued to build up experience working in a spa and various salons, before deciding to start my own business. I love learning and developing my skills and regularly attend training courses to keep up with new treatments and products.
www.judithhumphreys.co.uk
CHRIS RAMSBOTTOM PAMPLING
The Amethyst Centre in Coventry is a complementary therapy and training centre, set up in 2015 after Chris recovered from nearly dying in 2012. She regards this enterprise as payback for being allowed to live at that time. The Centre has 3 treatment rooms and a training room available to hire, and the place is open to anyone and everyone, not just therapists, their clients or potential clients. The Centre offers all sorts of therapies, from Reiki to reflexology, from spiritual healing to physiotherapy, from aromatherapy to counselling. What is on offer depends on what therapist has booked a room on that day.
SANDRA K CLARKE
Sandra Kanfer Clarke has spent more than twenty-five years in healthcare research and learned that the future for our health lies in prevention. She is passionate about educating people to help them make the right choices for themselves and their families. She simultaneously worked in marketing and branding and her business background and experiences in both employment, freelance and self-employment led her to research different types of income streams that are compatible with a quality lifestyle.
Realising that you need confidence to embrace your vision to then take the steps you need to achieve your best life, Sandra now runs health and wellness programmes consisting of workshops, one-on-one coaching providing people with all-round, holistic health support as well as vision and confidence building workshops.
www.smadar.co.uk www.smadarhealth.usana.com
CHARITIES
CHARLIE MITCHELL
Charlie Mitchell brings her 15 years experience in supporting mainly women with leadership development and her own tragic personal experience that has given her resilience she didn’t know she had. She has co-created a unique programme called The Art of Leading Hopefully. It is an opportunity to develop solutions together that we haven’t even thought of yet.
Charlie set up the social enterprise ‘Creating Space For You’ (CIC) in 2010, running leadership development and coaching support for staff, volunteers and trustees, offering subsidised places to organisations who would not otherwise be able to afford it, working with over three hundred organisations in the last eight years and providing over £160,000 of workforce development to the sector.
For further details, including a free online course and Facebook community that is exploring the ‘LoveCreateHeal’ process please visit:
www.charliemitchell.co.uk www.creatingspace4u.net
SIAN DAVIES
Following the death of her husband, Sian’s personal journey to peace has seen her reinvent herself. A new career, a new partner, a new home, a new life!
Sian is an award-winning Colour Analyst and Personal Stylist with House of Colour and believes that striving to be the very best version of you, both mentally and physically, is empowering. As her self-esteem and confidence grew she felt more able to deal with life. Sian now helps her clients realise their true potential through colour and style, believing that everyone deserves their own personal stylist.
www.houseofcolour.co.uk/siandavies
OTHER
JENNA ASHWORTH
Jenna coordinates organisational leadership projects and has a history of working with disadvantaged youth. Jenna volunteered in South East Asia for 12-weeks empowering women and children to realise their potential as leaders. Jenna graduated in 2016 with an MA in Childhood and Youth Studies and is returning to her studies this year to research the inter-generational transmission of resilience as a result of grooming (PhD).
In contributing to academia Jenna intends to use her professional and personal experiences to improve the way those who have experienced trauma are perceived, understood, and approached. With this she intends to overcome her fear of public speaking and take to the stage to support others in the face of adversity. Find her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenna-ashworth-802b87ab/
NARTAN ROSE
A lover of the magic of storytelling, Nartan is an audiobook producer, working with handpicked authors writing self-development, motivational, memoir and business material. Writing a book takes hard work and commitment, and creating an audiobook is just the same. There are many elements involved and Nartan is present every step of the way to guide, advise, work alongside and cheer you on to bring your audiobook project to its brilliant fruition and create something you’re really proud of.
A great audiobook will facilitate you to reach a wider audience, build your profile, generate additional revenue and promote your business. And essentially, an audiobook is good company…wherever you are audiobooks let you listen to someone speaking to you and only you, about deep and painful and wonderful and inspirational things. They are a powerful portal to celebrate our connectedness and spread messages of empowerment and personal development.
If you are thinking of embarking on your audiobook project, have an informal chat with Nartan. Find her on LinkedIn Listen to samples of her work on her website +44 74877 95404 Buy the audiobook: The Art of Reading People
