I love conversation. I also love silence. They work beautifully together and speaking and workshops can hold both.

For me, when we are together, it should feel relaxed. A space where we can simply be ourselves. You as you. Me as me. And whatever wants to emerge is allowed to do so, naturally.

I’ve spoken publicly for many years. In workshops, at events, presenting and in leadership settings. I like to sense the room, to feel the audience, and to build a genuine energetic connection.

Today, speaking for me, is about presence.

One of my greatest teachers once told me not to plan too much. Not to think too hard about what I’m going to say. But to be in the room and let what comes to you, come to you. To be comfortable with silence, to take time to think and to simply be nobody other than myself.

Since learning that, everything changed.

Now it feels as though something greater moves through me when I speak. The words don’t come from effort, but from listening. From trust. From allowing what wants to be shared to arrive in its own time.

That’s the space I speak from now.