MARIE LOUISE
EMBODIED LEARNING
Speaker · Storyteller · Human Development Educator
I speak from a lifetime of curiosity about the human experience — what shapes us, what contracts us, what awakens us, and what becomes possible when we bring awareness to the life moving through us.
My stories have travelled through abuse and adversity, mental health experienced within my family, motherhood, love, loss, profound life change, creativity, spirituality, consciousness and the ongoing adventure of discovering what it means to be fully human.
These experiences haven't given me a formula for life.
They have given me an extraordinary field of inquiry.
An inquiry into how we meet what happens to us.
How experience lives through the body.
How conditioning shapes perception.
How we relate to our emotions and minds.
How consciousness changes our relationship with experience.
How creativity, movement, attention, love and play open new possibilities.
And ultimately:
What does it take for a human being to bloom — to live with greater awareness, freedom and capacity for their fullest expression?
CURIOUS · PLAYFUL · PROVOCATIVE · EXPERIENTIAL · HUMAN
My speaking isn't confined to one topic because human beings aren't.
I work with the question beneath the topic:
What is this revealing about being human — and what becomes possible when we bring awareness to it?
]— MARIE LOUISE
A Life in Process
I don't speak from the position of having arrived.
I speak from inside the process.
My life has been laboratory, playground, classroom and initiation.
The stories I share aren't there simply to tell you what happened to me. They become doorways through which we can explore what happens within all of us — physically, emotionally, psychologically, energetically and spiritually.
The invitation is not to become more like me.
It is to become more curious about you.
To notice what has shaped you.
To understand the instrument you are living through.
To discover what intelligence may already be present.
And to become increasingly available to the life that wants to be expressed through you.
Stories of Being Human
From survival to thriving
What adversity can reveal about the extraordinary adaptability of the human organism — and the difference between surviving an experience and consciously participating in what comes next.
The stories we inherit
Family, conditioning, mental health, relationships and the patterns that shape us before we have language for what is happening.
The body remembers — and communicates
An exploration of the body, emotions, nervous system and the intelligence available when we become curious about what is moving through our skin.
Consciousness & the inner world
What changes when we become aware not only of what we are experiencing, but of the awareness experiencing it.
Creativity, expression & freedom
What inhibits expression? What allows a human being to bloom? Creativity as more than making something — as participation in life itself.
Love, relationship & belonging
The people closest to us as mirrors, teachers and environments through which more of ourselves can become visible.
Spirituality & the mystery of being alive
Opening attention beyond what can be intellectually understood to intuition, energy, life force, inner guidance and the mystery of consciousness — while remaining deeply rooted in our humanity.
Play
Because development doesn't always have to be serious. Sometimes expansion begins when the organism feels safe enough to become curious, move, laugh and discover something it didn't already know.
Where Story Meets Experience
For more than 15 years, my work has explored human development through lived experience.
The inquiry that became Discover Worlds Within, Evolve Yourself® and Essence Energetics® brings together intellectual understanding with body, mind, emotions, nervous-system intelligence, energetics, consciousness and spiritual inquiry.
So I don't simply tell stories or deliver information.
I invite people to experience themselves within the conversation.
Depending on the environment, a presentation may weave storytelling with education, contemplation, interaction, breath, movement, sensory awareness, meditation, inquiry and play.
Because sometimes we understand something intellectually long before we have experienced what it means to live it.
My interest is in the meeting place between the two.
ACTIVATIONS - WORKSHOPS - PRESENTATIONS
keynote - wellness series
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Mind mastery
Understand how you navigate the nervous system and develop the capacity to utilise the mind rather than it use you.
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Wellness stimulus
Learn the ingredients necessary that provides wellness. Inclusive of thoughts, feelings, attention, environment and intention.
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Movement matters
Discover moves that move neural stressors and start to change the pathways of the body mind for wellness.
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Activations
Discover dynamic breath and meditation practices that are taking the world by storm to cultivate optimum living solutions.
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Optimum living
Open the pathways of the mind/body to information and activations that create wellness, innovation, presence and creativity.
Bring Marie Louise Into the Room
A keynote can tell a story.
A workshop can open an inquiry.
An activation can allow an idea to become an experience.
A conversation can change the way we see something we've been looking at our entire lives.
Marie Louise creates experiences shaped around the people in the room — weaving story, human development, consciousness, embodiment, education, spiritual inquiry and play into conversations that invite us to become more curious about ourselves and one another.
Not with another prescription for who we should become.
With an invitation to discover more of who we already are — and what might become possible when we give our attention to its fullest expression.
Keynotes · Conferences · Conversations · Panels · Retreats · Organisations · Facilitation · MC · Experiential Activations
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'Marie Louise has great energy which is engaging and thought provoking she delivers with such integrity and authenticity that inspires her audience She captures the keys necessary for the audience to walk away with practical tools to elevate a life of wellbeing solutions.'
Mark Aitken
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'Great facilitator love your work Marie Louise, one of 'the best workshops I have ever attended"
Judy Grant
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Not what I expected, so so much more than I expected. Marie Louise is a spectacular presenter of what I have previously had difficulty understanding - now I do not AT ALL Marie is beautiful, joyful, authentic and inspiring. - thank you, thank you for this magnificent experience.
Karen Moser
