Community Fellow, Planetary Health
Community Scholar
Annette is an Embodied Creativity Facilitator, Coach and Focusing Teacher at PUPA. She teaches individuals and groups, including future Focusing Teachers through her two you program as a Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute. Annette trains her students and clients to strengthen their access to their intuition—especially the intuitive knowing that whispers to us in our bodies. In learning to listen to our physical sensations, before they are emotions, images, concepts, or words, we open ourselves to creativity. Annette uses different tools to access this inner knowing, most notably Focusing. Through Focusing, we can also access our inner resources, to gain the confidence and courage to act on our new ideas.
Annette developed the PUPA process, a crossing of Gendlin’s Focusing and MIT’s Theory U to help support her students and clients as they undertake transformative change. Annette is especially passionate about working with people who want to transform themselves to change the world—to make it more sustainable and equitable. She has a special interest in climate change, and hosts Climate Circles that enable climate action and has a Substack called Silenced Signals.
She has an undergraduate degree in environmental science from the University of Waterloo and a MBA in sustainability from the Schulich School of Business. Her other work is dedicated to the dissemination of sustainability and climate change research, most notably as communications director at Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission until 2020 and now as Project Manager of BioCAM4. She enjoys gardening, rock climbing, cycling, and cooking.
Research Keywords
climate emotions; climate action; Focusing; embodiment; somatics; collective climate action
Themes | Planetary Health |
Status | Active |
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