Heart Centered and Experiential
Workshops & Keynotes
That Will Improve Personal and Professional Performance
Heart Centered and Experiential
Workshops & Keynotes
That Will Improve Personal and Professional Performance
Grace shares her thoughts on the importance of our relationship with ourselves
Grace provides in depth and experiential workshops on diversity, gender and autheniticy for corporations, medical and therapist groups and college undergrad and grad classes. Her experience in the corporate world and as a mental health counselor and psychoeducation facilitator brings a unique set of experience to work with and motivate varied groups on varied topics.
Grace is happy to create workshops and training for your needs that will stimulate, motivate and educate your groups These customized events are generally experiential and will engage a highly participative audience. If interested, contact Grace with your thoughts and needs.
Grace's experience in facilitating groups has helped her become an excellent panel and group leader guiding deep conversations.
The issue of diversity and inclusion has always been with us, but it has not been in the headlines each and every day as it seems to be now. It is real, not fake news, that the past administration and some media outlets are sowing the seeds of division and fear on a daily basis. It becomes confusing and hard to hear and deal with this in our daily lives.
This workshop will help provide tools to each attendee, via primarily experiential exercises, to help them better understand their attitudes regarding their boundaries, biases, fears, and learn to better communicate to those who may seem different than themselves in one or many ways, even though they may well know that all humans have the same basic needs and are very much just other people like us.
Personal growth is directly related to everyone’s bottom line.
The best kept secret in the business world
Is that both employees and employers always…..yes, always have the same goal for their bottom line.
Each is working to
increase their shareholder’s value.
For each party to be successful and increase productivity of the organization, there must be an understanding and relationship between them that focuses on who each party’s shareholders are and how their value can grow.
In this workshop Grace can help your teams gain new experiences:
•Grace helps management and employees learn to hear and speak for each other’s needs and wants
•The employees will learn that the company does “walk the talk” about caring about the employees
•Everyone can learn that being authentic is accepted and leads to improved performance for all
•Authenticity and inspiration take many forms, travel many paths, and are often accompanied with fears that must be and can be overcome
•We are all the same…Each of us is unique.
•We all, we each have our own bottom lines, and no one can mind read what they are.
•We are all better when we encourage, support and enable each other to strive for their own bottom lines
This session will provide the attendees an opportunity to both understand their own personal views about the cultural norms of a strict binary model of sex and gender, along with the new understanding that this model is not an accurate description of the way we really are.
Gender variance, transgender, and non-binary people have existed throughout history, but more recently, more people are “coming out” and coming to self-acceptance of their true nature regarding their gender identity to live their lives as they see themselves.
This is true in the general population and on college campuses, and is no longer an isolated event.
This session will be an interactive session that will offer both cognitive and emotional views of the gender variant experience along with an overview of how we try to simplify these complex subjects – or rather – ways of being, in order to work with these populations in a more caring and compassionate, and understanding manner.
When I use the word magic here, I am not talking about slight of hand or optical illusions. I am talking about that special quality that each of us has. That special quality is your "Magic." Some of us are unaware of it, some of us take it for granted, but again, we each have our magic. This is an interactive and experiential presentation to help us become aware and even inspired by our own magic and encourages you to inspire magic in others.
The “Old Normal” is Forever Gone!
We all must define the new world of Relationships, Work, and Joy.
It will become a new lifestyle of being productive in all aspects of our lives
The Limited Virtue of Virtual
Zoom is TRIAGE to a Society’s Isolation Trauma
Zoom is a BANDAID
This is a highlyinteractive and experiential workshop/discussion for teams that are back from the isolation of the recent past. It includes personal and group discussions of their experiences of the past two years which may have had the following challenges
•Covid Pandemic
•Hate & Division as political forces
•Social Change – Equality - BLM; anti trans laws
•Psych Wars – Misinformation & Disinformation
•Gun Violence - Mass Killings - Policing Reform
•Obstructionist Politics
•Fear for Safety – present and future
•Climate Change
•Economic Issues
•Insurrection
•Quarantine – Masks – Isolation – Vaccines and anti-vaxers
•Grief and Losses
"I attended the showcase and meant to contact you right away...
I just wanted to comment on how impressed I was with your presentation. Not only the content but the delivery. Since I’ve been in the business for so many years it takes a lot for a speaker to grab my attention the way you did."
.....Margo Chevers, Accountability Coach at Red Carpet Coaching
"Thank you, Grace, for guest lecturing in my graduate counseling psychology course on working with sexual and gender minorities. I was moved by your courageous journey towards authenticity and your perspectives on the important role of an informed and liberating approach to counseling individuals and families exploring issues surrounding gender varience. Your captivating presentation was a highlight for my students providing both inspiration and concrete guidance and perspective. Thank you for your wisdom and inspiration!”
Robin R. Chalfin, LICSW June 2019
Your presentation at GSA was a big hit! Thanks so much for staying to be a part of it. I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed having you. :)
I think the most powerful idea that has come out of our coaching session is that bringing our curiosity, listening skills, and wholehearted acceptance to our roles is the framework. Beyond that, if we can foster an atmosphere of openness, modeling our understanding that the whole is greater than the sum of our "parts", we can all grow together in different ways and create a unique group of belonging.
Have a wonderful weekend and THANKS for everything!!
Anita Masterson, LICSW
Program Coordinator/Social Worker
Alternative Education Program
Advisor to the Gay/Straight Alliance
Wachusett Regional High School
Grace Stevens is a long time friend of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) community and an IFS practitioner. Grace was part of the Plenary session of our 2016 IFS Annual Conference in Providence, RI. Grace joined 5 other presenters and spoke movingly and poignantly to the audience of about 350 people on this years' theme "All Parts are Welcome? Examining the Exiles in Our Culture and in Us." The plenary session provided an exploration for attendees in how we all are simultaneously capable of feeling marginalized while possibly marginalizing others knowingly or unknowingly.
Grace shared much of her biography during her segment of the presentation--about 20 minutes in length--and provided a glimpse into her more recent transgender experience, both with regard to her transition process as well as her experience with friends, family, and our culture. Her presentation was absolutely magnificent, and was received with a standing ovation from a crowd who was deeply moved.
Grace is a very clear speaker, her transitions are seamless and perfectly timed, her use of multimedia technology is highly proficient and very well conceived, and her style is very clear, unassuming, and filled with anecdotes that are humorous, hopeful, and insightful.
I have the highest regard for Grace's public presentation acumen and it was our great fortune to have her join us at this years conference.
It's very clear that she works hard in preparation for her presentation. Grace works well with our conference planners, and she is gracious throughout.
Jon Schwartz, M. Ed.
Executive Director
The Center for Self Leadership
Grace agreed to come and present on transgender issues as well as on the topic of living an authentic life. Grace first presented a few years ago, and because she was so well received by the students, I have invited her back each year since. Like in most undergraduate courses, at the end of the semester, I ask the students to write an evaluation of the course and to rate each guest speaker. Without exception, Grace has been rated the top speaker out of ten that I have each semester. For example, the students have described her as "inspirational", "caring", "authentic", "funny", "engaging", "astute", "insightful", and "terrific".
Based on what I have observed, Ms. Stevens seems to be a natural at public speaking, and appears to easily connect with her audience. She treats each student with respect and dignity and she responds token the most outrageous question with warmth and thoughtfulness
Philip Brown, LICSW
Adjuct Faculty, Tufts University
Teaching Associate, Harvard Medical School
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