Alison Canavan has been recognized as one of the top 8 transformational coaches in the US for 2021 by USA Today. She specializes in managing change, stress, burnout, and overwhelm. Her expertise is helping companies support their workforce as they transition back into the corporate office and find a healthy work-life balance.
Alison focuses on 360-degree health and wellbeing, with a particular emphasis on mental health, including depression and anxiety. Alison is a trained Mindfulness Facilitator from UCLA's Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is also a Master NLP Practitioner, HeartMath facilitator, Nutritional coach, Raw Foods Master, and an award-winning author of "Minding Mum – It's Time to Take Care of You." This book is the world's first 360-degree self-care guide for mothers, focusing on their health and well-being after giving birth.
In her workshops and talks, Alison provides valuable tools for understanding and transforming daily struggles, such as chronic stress (which is responsible for 90% of diseases), anxiety, depression, and various forms of addiction. She helps individuals become more aware of the underlying drivers of their habits.
Alison's heart-led business and a 360-degree approach to well-being is innovative, inclusive, and accessible to all. As a meditation teacher, she recognizes the power of a daily mindful approach to living. She believes creating peace in our lives requires carving out time for self-care, introspection, and personal growth.
Alison's professional career began at the age of 15 as one of the world's top fashion models. She spent over 20 years travelling the world and walking the runway for renowned designers. During this time, she also faced personal battles with depression, anxiety, and addictions. Alison successfully transformed her life using simple yet powerful tools like meditation, mindfulness, movement, coherence training, breathwork, nutrition, and mindset techniques. She has dedicated decades to studying, training, and working in these fields.
Alison contributes to podcasts, newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio shows worldwide. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Sunday Independent, Mindful magazine, Spirit and Destiny, The Daily Mail, and many more.
The Art of Inspirational Living is a H.E.A.R.T-based program designed by Alison to address modern challenges such as stress, boundaries, focus, resilience, time management, values, mindfulness, and coherence. This comprehensive approach promotes a healthy, happy, and successful life tailored to each individual. Alison customizes the H.E.A.R.T technique for every client, fostering a balanced lifestyle. She has guided health coaches, CFOs, CEOs, and others in reducing stress, adopting better habits, and enhancing their understanding of health and wellbeing. Attendees will learn to align with their values, live mindfully, make better decisions, take inspired actions, set boundaries, and value their time.
As a mindfulness teacher, Alison believes that awareness in all areas of our lives creates space for change. Until we fully accept who and where we are in this moment, we can’t take steps on the path to where we would like to be. Bringing mindfulness gently into all areas of your life helps to bring trained awareness to the forefront, empowering you to make better decisions and become less reactive, less stressed and more content. For organizations, this results in less stressed and more content individuals lead to a healthier company and greater growth. Alison shares key tools and starting points for people to focus on the mantra, 'Small changes done consistently bring about lasting differences in our lives’. This session includes mindful tips on gratitude, sleep, and stress management.
Alison's presentation delves into the power of mindfulness, awareness, and intuition to create positive change in our personal and professional lives. She introduces tools and techniques to tap into our potential and true intuition, featuring fun, interactive exercises and mindfulness practices that foster true presence. Alison emphasizes the importance of asking the right questions to find the answers within ourselves. By embarking on a journey of self-discovery, we can become more resilient, focused, and confident, enhancing our roles as partners, friends, coworkers, and leaders. Attendees will learn exercises to activate the vagus nerve, mindset and mindfulness techniques, and coherence practices.
