Dr. Emma J Coddington Brown is an ocean nomad, raised in Bulls, Aotearoa, by Alison & Nigel and a large extended whanau, Rangitikei River, Mt Tongariro & Ruahines. She has spent the last 27 years living and training, professoring and creating, healing and learning with wise folks in the Islands & Pacific Ocean (VASA), Nth and Sth America, Africa (sp. Kenya, Morrocco, and South Africa), and a wee bit in Europe (Italy & Ireland). The question that has called her through this life: How do the forces of stress AND love organize our bodies, relationships, organizations and communities? Once a neuroscience-physiology researcher and teacher in traditional (elite) universities, she is now called to work with people through movement, therapeutic practices and creative imagination and form. In private 1:1 sessions and group journeys, Emma listens to the field and people's needs - and flexibly combines inquirys with color, culture, geeky neuroscience stuff, somatic movements, paint & canvas. Our approach is akin to weaving - assisting each of you to find the foundations and patterns of your own unique ways of being. Develop practices that invite you to listen and discern your inner wisdom & compass, and therefore how to dance and shuffle in right relationship - with honor, discernment and integrity. Emma commits to holding each of your diverse sense of agency and sovereignty as paramount and attends to co-created agreements by which we gather in a group and enjoy. The intention is to hold a safe space in which we can all bravely show up. This does not promise that we will be comfy all the time - but it does commit to each of your intentions and growth at the same time as attending to community coherence. In workshops and painting journey's, each of you will have a very private experience, that (if you choose to share) can be witnessed by those in the room with you - amplifying the 'ahah' realizations that emerge when painting in layers (as we do). In group, you are invited to deepen your capacity to witness - learning how to better notice and listen to each other, and being fully witnessed ourselves - we are practicing ways of being in relationship and community. This approach has changed her/their own life and that of countless beings around the world. Emma brings home her skills, knowledge, and practices as an atypical Neuroscientist, Psychosomatic Practitioner (The Resilience Toolkit® ), Shamanic practices, Guided Drawing®, and Intentional Creativity® Practitioner & Teacher (iMusea University). Emma has more than 30 years of experience curating shared and brave spaces for learning & personal work in groups. She began as a non-traditional scientist working to decolonize neuroscience, physiology and biology classrooms. The most recent iteration of these brave spaces has been in offerings to 1:1 private sessions, group journeys like this one (Waiata Home), and cultural coaching (mostly to science institutions and schools). Typically, Emma prefers to collaborate with other facilitators when offering group journeys in Nth America - this time home she will be on her own supported by her mum, Ali Russell, brothers Patrick & James, father Nigel, and all the aunties and uncles, cuzzies & chosen whanau. She offers a powerful combination of approach + system + framework, offering tangible creative practices that reignite your spirit and energies. While acknowledging and honoring the diverse lived experiences and ways our bodies are influenced by the world around us.