Speaking

For more than forty years, my work taught me how to speak to a room, how to listen to a room, and how to create the space for a conversation to unfold.

That experience grew through years of nursing, counselling, education, pastoral leadership, retreat facilitation and speaking. Today I bring it as an author, storyteller and speaker — exploring the lives of women, the histories we inherit, questions of spirit and belonging, and the wisdom we gather along the way.

I don’t speak to give people all the answers. I speak to tell stories, open conversations and leave people with questions worth carrying home.

I love gatherings where a story opens the conversation and people feel part of what is unfolding — not simply an audience listening to one.

My speaking can be shaped around the gathering, with themes including:

• The women history almost forgot Stories from the margins of history and why lives that were rarely recorded still matter.
• What we inherit Family stories, ancestry, belonging and the threads carried from one generation to another.
• Heart, mind and soul What happens when we learn to listen to all three — and where wisdom might be found between them.
• The stories that whisper Finding our voice, trusting the questions that keep returning, and recognising the stories asking to be told.
• When life asks us to step into the unknown The unexpected chapters of life — and the wisdom, courage and possibility we sometimes discover when the map we were following no longer fits.