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KAREN GILLES-REID: creator & facilitator of warrior heart heals® & mindfulness life coach
Firstly, Karen is grateful to all the teachers who supported her mindful learning, both professional and personal, which helped her create Warrior Heart Holistic Emotional Affiliate Limbic Solutions (Warrior Heart HEALS®); promoting emotional resilience, creativity and connection with self and others. In her capacity as the Proprietor of Warrior Heart Wellbeing Services, Karen enthusiastically facilitates Warrior Heart HEALS® for individual adults, couples and paired friends, and delivers Warrior Heart HEALS® workshops; online and F2F.
Karen is also proud to be the editor of Warrior Heart Drum Therapy Program, which she has facilitated at wellbeing conferences and workshops, in collaboration with the author of the program, Jeffery Reid (Mindful/Somatic Psychotherapist/School Counsellor); amidst New South Wales as well as Victoria (Australia). For over a decade, Karen collaborated with Jeffery Reid in the NSW Department of Education, whilst employed as a Specialist Behaviour Teacher and also as an Assistant Principal Behaviour (Relieving),
Karen has also delivered behaviour management workshops at Regional Behaviour Conferences in NSW, as well as behavioural consultation, support and professional development for Guidance personnel, Principals, Executive Staff, Classroom Teachers as well as Teacher Aides. Karen often imbued her behavioural support within schools, with the inherent expressive wisdom of the creative arts; utilising song, drawing, movement, and role play. Her own creative voice is very much alive; evident in her Surrealistic Naive artwork, and the songs she writes, which are often inspired by her Mindfulness Meditation practice, established in 1998.
In addition, Karen has authored Mindful Behaviour Management in the Preschool Years; published, promoted and purchased via the Teacher Training Australia (TTA) website; click to view https://www.tta.edu.au/courses/474504 Karen's passion for Mindfulness as a catalyst for emotional resilience is also evident in her mindful Warrior Heart HEALS® workshops; participants testify to her warm, inspiring, and empowering facilitation, which enhances emotional reilience, creativity and connection for others.
Qualifications:
Master of Special Education - Newcastle University 2002
Graduate Diploma of Psychology - Monash University 2019
Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Behavioural) - Newcastle University 2001
Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) - Macquarie University 1994
Mindfulness Life Coaching Certification - Transformation Services 2020
Yin Yoga Teacher Training - 2022
Professional Association & Memberships:
Australian Teacher Education Association - Professional Membership
Australian Association for Cognitive & Behavioural Therapy - Professional Membership
jeffery reid - mindful/somatic psychotherapist
Jeffery acts in a support role for Warrior Heart HEALS® workshops facilitated by Karen. He is a Graduate of the Hakomi Method, a gentle yet powerful psychotherapy modality, which is somatically oriented and utilises mindfulness as the central vehicle for healing. Jeffery is also the author of Warrior Heart Drum Therapy Program and has over 20 years’ experience as a School Counsellor; click to view https://www.amazon.com.au/Warrior-Heart-Drum-Therapy-Program-ebook/dp/B01FP80IA8 He has extensive experience implementing a wide range of individually tailored wellbeing supports, and mindfulness-based therapy for students from Preschool to Year 12, located in Sydney's Inner West as well as rural/remote settings. Jeffery is passionate about equity and provides student wellbeing consultation for parents, Executive Staff and Classroom Teachers. He effectively identifies individual learning support needs of students, through the implementation of a wide range of psychometric assessments. He has extensive experience facilitating experiential workshops in mindfulness, and has provided nuanced professional development, related to effective support for indigenous students. Jeffery has facilitated professional training for School Counsellors, Classroom Teachers and allied health personnel at workshops, and wellbeing conferences across Australia, including NSW, SA, VIC, QLD and TAS.
Professional Memberships:
School Counselling & Psychology Association of New South Wales, Australia
National Education and Standards Authority (NESA): Registered Teacher