“The amazing reality of things is my everyday discovery.
(…) Just to hear the wind pass is worth being born.”
With an easy smile and bright eyes, I believe that life is much more than what we think and can see. During my life, I went along paths (not always planned) of search and encounter, rooting and change, error and success. I am a woman “in a rush”, constantly learning how to integrate more consciously work, parenting, love and self-care.
With Mindfulness, I found a way of living (all) life with more calm, greater presence and depth. It is through sharing what I believe, learn and experience that I found myself and I marvel. With me. With others. With life.
My inspirations
Healthcare and Well being
Contributing to a better quality of life for people has been a very present motivation throughout my journey, although the way I do so has changed over time.
I began with a very technical and scientific approach, with my degree in Pharmacy and the 20 years that followed in the pharmaceutical industry. It was also there, within organizations, that I began to better understand the complexity of what we call health and well-being: it depends not only on the body, nor only on the person, but also on the way we work, relate, decide and live.
Over the years, I have broadened this perspective, moving increasingly closer to human behavior and the emotional and relational dimensions of health. Today, what interests me is precisely this intersection between science, health, well-being and real life, seeking to understand the person within the context in which they live and work.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness has come into my life, out of curiosity and necessity. The tools I knew before were sold out during a challenging period filled with change, big (self) demand, and physical, mental and emotional exhaustion.
With the practice of Mindfulness, life went on with all that is part of it, but I learned to see and experience it differently. Observing, welcoming, breathing, living!
Over time, I realized that Mindfulness was not just something I practised. It gradually entered parenting, relationships and work (especially leadership), helping me to pause before reacting, gain perspective, look with greater kindness and choose with more intention.
Today it remains one of the foundations of how I live and work: a practice I return to continually and that I like to bring into the spaces I create with others.
Learning and facilitation
From a very early age, almost intuitively, I had a tendency to create spaces for conversation. I liked listening, understanding the different sides of a story and, often, I ended up being the person others sat down with to talk, think or simply try to better understand what they were going through.
For many years, I would not have called it facilitation. It was simply a natural way of being with others. Over time, that curiosity about people and relationships also found a place in my professional life and became a very important part of my work.
I genuinely enjoy learning, studying, discovering new perspectives, experimenting, asking questions and exploring answers. I especially enjoy sharing what I am learning and observing what happens when that learning stops being just knowledge and begins to have meaning for each person.
“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little!”
