"Melanie Williams de Amaya has the truest north of anyone I've ever met."
- Teresa Klebert
Hello there. I'm Melanie Williams de Amaya. Author, Poet, Lover of Life.
In decades of service working with marginalised people, many of whom are non-verbal communicators and/or require physical support to engage in life and community, I have fine-tuned skills of connection, communication and facilitation to work with people in an embodied and empowered manner.
I harness the tension that exists between the facilitator and receiver of support to embody dignity and respect, to hear the unspoken, and to re-equate the balance of power in relationships. Working as a Behaviour Support Practitioner with people with significant disability and complex behaviours I came to honour the way in which emotion and purpose is embodied and behaviourally expressed.
I have taken these skills and knowings and blended those with thousands of hours experience leading face to face and online language training, to develop a framework that harnesses the embodied and relational aspects of mind and language learning and ethics living.
I have previously presented at the Embodiment Conference 2020 in the Leadership & Business channel. I look forward to sharing your embodied ethics journey!