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Alison Canavan
Alison Canavan helps organizations reduce stress and burnout with practical mindfulness and well-being tools. A mental health and workplace well-being speaker, she trained at UCLA's Semel Institute and is the award-winning author of Minding Mum.
Alison Canavan is a mindfulness teacher, transformational coach, and author who helps organizations manage stress, burnout, and overwhelm. She speaks on mental health, resilience, and 360-degree well-being, giving teams practical tools to work well under pressure.
Alison trained as a Mindfulness Facilitator at UCLA's Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior and is a Master NLP Practitioner and HeartMath facilitator. She is the author of the award-winning Minding Mum: It's Time to Take Care of You, and USA Today named her one of the top eight transformational coaches in the US in 2021.
Before coaching, Alison spent more than 20 years as an international fashion model while dealing privately with depression, anxiety, and addiction. She rebuilt her health using meditation, breathwork, coherence training, nutrition, and mindset techniques, and now teaches those same tools to leaders and teams, helping them spot the habits that drive stress and change them in small, sustainable steps.
Audiences leave with techniques they can use straight away, including breathwork, vagus nerve exercises, and coherence practices, along with her H.E.A.R.T framework for setting boundaries, managing time, and making decisions from their values. Her sessions mix short exercises with discussion, so teams practice the tools in the room.
Book Alison to give your people practical, science-informed tools for managing stress and protecting their well-being at work and at home.
Topics, sessions and talks
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.
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, helping you make better decisions and become less reactive, less stressed, and more content. For organizations, 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.
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frequently asked questions
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Alison Canavan structures her sessions around interactive exercises and her H.E.A.R.T framework, which she customizes for each client, weaving in breathwork, vagus nerve activation, and coherence practices so audiences practice each tool in the room.
Alison Canavan's sessions cover mindfulness and presence, the H.E.A.R.T framework for stress, boundaries, and values-based living, and 360-degree well-being across mental health, sleep, and stress management. She trained as a Mindfulness Facilitator at UCLA's Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior and is the award-winning author of Minding Mum.
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