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Thea May

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✊🏼 SUSTAINABLE SPEAKING APPROACH FOR HEART-LED LEADERS
📣 Nervous-system safe | Impact Focused | Integrity Driven
🌊 Creator of Speaking Flow State

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10 years ago, I closed down my practice and risked everything on a hunch …

The catalyst?

A misaligned Client said to me ,

“Can you make it look like I care about what I’m talking about?”

The answer was a visceral and uncomfortable NO.

Not because I couldn’t. I was perfectly capable of teaching him how to perform confidence and perfect charisma.

But I will never teach anyone to lie or fake it till they make it .

The cost is too high.
Your integrity and my integrity .

In a world where AI slot makes up the majority of social media,

and politicians perform democracy while taking backhanded bribes from fossil fuel companies and pro-genocide governments,

I want to see more speaking power in the hands of people using it for good!

Because that is what changes culture.

Comment CHANNEL to listen to my free Flow Activation Channel.

Short guided meditations to increase your flow on the go. by @working_with_voice

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4 months ago

We need more speaking power in the hands of people using it for good.

People like you,
Who care deeply, empathise widely, and will do what it takes to create a sustainable and Just future.

When we access flow, we tap into our deepest intelligence, our embodied wisdom, and our greatest creativity.

I know that you are already using your voice for good.

But the cost often feels too high.
It feels too much, vulnerable, even risky.

So you hold your tongue.

Learn how to access your own flow in order to speak up for change in a way that feels sustainable.

Comment CHANNEL to listen to my free Flow Activation Channel.

Short guided meditations to increase your speaking flow on the go. by @working_with_voice

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4 months ago

Join The SHIFT.

Come to The Shift Salons >> energising, practical, and heart-rooted spaces to practise the kind of speaking that fuels movements, deepens community connection, and helps liberatory futures take root.

Where speaking flow meets community action.

This isn’t just a workshop. It’s part of a movement.
🧡 Donation based, pay-what-you-can
🧡 50% of all funds go to charities on the ground.

These facilitated sessions are my contribution to the collective effort of redistributing speaking power — out of the grip of extractive systems and harmful individuals, and into the hands and mouths of people shaping a more ethical, liberated, and sustainable future.

I want these tools in the hands of as many people who give a shit as possible.

That means:
🗨️ Activists preparing for their next march
🗨️ Campaigners drafting bold new messages
🗨️ Changemakers stepping into rooms where their values get tested
🗨️ Friends navigating political differences at the dinner table
🗨️ Anyone trying to speak from their gut without shutting down

These aren’t traditional comms trainings.
They’re community-powered practice spaces.

We are the voices we’ve been waiting for.

Comment: SALON for the link
Or go to my Bio

#WTFDoIDoChallenge #integrity #flow⁠
@foundflourish @lara_sheldrake by @working_with_voice

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a year ago

📣 Happening next week! Join us for a workshop by @working_with_voice about how to have those tricky conversations about climate change, and other difficult topics 🌍

🎟️ Comment CHAT to get the link to sign up, or find the link in our BIO! by @working_with_voice

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9 days ago

I am offering free training to community groups
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WHY?

Because I truly believe in the power

> connection
> generative conversation
> listening
> understanding

I’ve designed a training called

SOMETHING TO SAY
how to start tricky and tender conversations
about shit that matters.

A practical workshop

You’ll leave with

👉Simple tools for grounding yourself before & during a difficult conversation
👉Practical prompts and scripts you can actually use
👉A different way of thinking about conversations across difference
👉More confidence to start imperfectly

The opportunity to help shape a resource designed to support people like you.

No perfect words required.

Just something to say, and the willingness to try a different way.

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if you want the link to the @mothersriseup Workshop then drop MRU in the comments.

Please note that event is only open to people who are a good fit for that community. by @working_with_voice

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17 days ago

We live in one big modern mess.

Sending you a hug if you’re also having one of these days.

yes, I am within the system and a contributor (by default).

But I did not design the system.

I want to unsubscribe from this harmful culture.

But I also don’t want to become a monk on a hill.

Tapping out completely is not an option for me.
It doesn’t sit well with me.

But some days, that seems quite appealing. by @working_with_voice

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17 days ago

What is the conversation you’re not having? by @working_with_voice

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21 days ago

Often we don’t know how to start that chat about…

Climate change
Magrants
Billionaires

These topics are charged.
They are hard.

But NOT talking about them doesn’t make them go away.

They just sit in the air like a bad smell.
A relational stink between you and ..

😩 Your old-time bestie
😩 Your Nan
😩 Your colleague or boss
😩 Parents at the school gate
😩 Your brother or sister

We don’t need to all think the same (that’s madness),

But we do need better ways of having ‘these’ conversations.

Without staring fights,
Without destroying relationships,
Without pretending that we're ‘chill’ about this,

That’s why I have started a Partnership-Workshop series

Called ‘SOMETHING TO SAY’
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How To Start Tricky & Tender Convos
With The People You Love
About Sh*t That Effects
All of us

I will be partnering with community groups to share these tools and scripts.

Training is Free to all established community groups.

🌱 Your local climate action group
📚 Your book club
🧶 Your Knit & Natter club
💚 Your local Green Party community
👩🏻‍🍼 Your Parent & Toddler group

I truly believe that the more we are able to talk about ‘these’ things,
the less divided society will become.

Invite me to do the 1hr workshop online.

👉 Drop me SAY SOMETHING
👉 To chat about bringing these tools into your community this year. by @working_with_voice

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22 days ago

Say something….

The bystander can be as harmful as the perpetrator.

So often, you don’t say something because you don’t know how to.

It’s not a lack of care or a lack of empathy.

It’s an intense discomfort with and fear of conflict.

It holds you back from starting a conversation with that long-standing friend who simply doesn’t get climate change.

It holds you back from starting a conversation with that parent at the school gate who casually says racist and harmful things.

It holds you back from raising questions about some of the conversations in your book group.

You care deeply.
You have something you want to say.

All you need is a bridge into how to start that conversation.

this is not about becoming an activist.
It is about being able to talk about difficult things.
And bring tender subjects that affect us all into every day conversation conversations.

If you think your community members would like these tools, then let me know in the comments below. by @working_with_voice

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23 days ago

Things I could never... !!

I aim to never contribute to putting more speaking influence in the hands of power-hungry, extractive, and harmful places, people, or orgs.

WE ARE NOT IN BIZ-AS-USUAL.
IT NEEDS A NEW VOICE! 🔥💪🏻⚖️

We need to hear different voices.

Voices that lead with empathy.
Voices that call out harm.
Voices that invite dialogue.
Voices that centre the marginalised.
Voices that hold trauma tenderly.
Voices that advocate for other not like them.

This is THE NEW SOUND OF BUSINESS.

I want to hear that on stages, in board rooms, in funding convos, in meetings, in emails, on dm’s, in the comments...

👉 Comment NEW VOICE for the link to my free regular guided meditations to connect and your own inner New Voice of Business.
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Thanks @foundflourish & @lara_sheldrake for the inspirational nudge to do this post by @working_with_voice

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a month ago

Raising the next generation in a climate vulnerable context is not normal.

helping your child go back to school in a context and curriculum that is going to teach them stuff that is not useful in climate collapse is not normal.

Feeling unusual, anxious, angry well parenting is actually normal, but not about climate change and viable features for all.

These accounts have really helped me and here’s why

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🟠 @mothersriseup 👉 an incredible WhatsApp based community full of mothers and parents who deeply care about the climate and raising the next generation.

Amazing for a daily or regular conversation or touchstone in community

🟠 @mother_pukka 👉 inspirational mum and campaigner around flexible working for Mums and some great info for your feminist debates #flexappeal

🟠 @dadshiftuk 👉 great campaign organisation and community campaigning for better parental leave for Dads and non-biological parents.

🟠 @pregnant_then_screwed 👉 incredible campaign organisation around women’s rights for maternity and work related issues.

In all of these faces, I have found other parents who deeply care about systemic issues and how they intersect with parenting and raising the next generation.

Please share below how you are managing to hold these pieces and what is helping you so we can learn from and support each other. by @working_with_voice

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a month ago

The way we communicate can create space for each other's input.

From my conversation with Emma Alston

Our conversation touched on several powerful themes connected to overcoming speaking thresholds connected to using your voice for good.

➡ From voice-rehabilitation to identity, through to the power in menopausal women, and joy.

She shares practical ways to co-create through how you communicate, active listening, and becoming more securely connected with yourself, especially after traumatic experiences.

👉 Follow @thathumanthread for more podcast clips and info.

👉 Hosted by Thea May from @working_with_voice by @working_with_voice

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