“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage"― Brené Brown
Nadine Ferris France
Self-inquiry - Coaching - Creativity & leadership development -
Team building & communication - Strategic planning & values
Stress management, Wellness Geek - Global health
Self-inquiry - Coaching - Creativity & leadership development -
Team building & communication - Strategic planning & values
Stress management, Wellness Geek - Global health
you have a choice how you live your life
I believe we can all live authentic, creative and meaningful lives. We can grow from whatever cards life deals us and we can live from a place of love. It takes courage and an open mind. This is what drives everything I do.
In the world of health & development, lives matter. Sound decisions and plans can mean the difference in people getting access to life-saving medications, living long and healthy lives free from stigma and discrimination or getting a good education. Sound decisions and plans come from leaders, teams and groups of people who have a clear and shared vision, teams who work well together based on trust, who communicate well, who respect each other and who have tools to help them challenge limiting beliefs.
I work with individuals, groups, organisations and networks to help them achieve their goals and be the best version of themselves they can be. I provide support in the stuff of live, in health and education - health management, HIV, TB, gender, mental health, human rights, gender-based violence and more
In the world of health & development, lives matter. Sound decisions and plans can mean the difference in people getting access to life-saving medications, living long and healthy lives free from stigma and discrimination or getting a good education. Sound decisions and plans come from leaders, teams and groups of people who have a clear and shared vision, teams who work well together based on trust, who communicate well, who respect each other and who have tools to help them challenge limiting beliefs.
I work with individuals, groups, organisations and networks to help them achieve their goals and be the best version of themselves they can be. I provide support in the stuff of live, in health and education - health management, HIV, TB, gender, mental health, human rights, gender-based violence and more
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I had the honour of sharing my own personal and professional journey from self-stigma to self-worth & self-love. I talk about my experience of self-stigma related to divorce, HIV, sex-work, gender-based violence and being human. Also offer a step-by-step experience to question your own thinking using Inquiry-based Stress Reduction (The Work of Bryon Katie) |
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SELF-STIGMA AND SHAME
Giving it back
Doing what I love - see the amazing work we do with leaders in the HIV movement in Zimbabwe and Vietnam. Get in touch if you would like to help - www.beyondstigma.org
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Women's Empowerment Programme - Leadership, creativity, innovation with African Women Educators
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Postcard - The World As We Know It
November 2022 
This week has been a rollarcoaster and I feel that I have understood something more of the world that we live in, and compelled to share.
After much planning and preparation, we were all set to travel to Zimbabwe this week and work with our amazing friends there in Africaid Zvandiri and a group of phenomenal young people living with HIV - we have been working together for the past eight months delivering a programme half online and half in-person on self-stigma and shame - I would never have believed that it was possible to work like this online. This makes me excited as I see that the future of develoment looks very different to the past. When we talk about building capacity, empowerment and sustainability - COVID-19 has forced us to meet these three head on and find innovative, creative and feasible solutions that work - amazing right! So as we prepare for travelling this week two things happen that make it impossible. Read the whole article here |
Postcard from Pakistan
June 2019 What an incredible life this is! That is how I feel most of the time. When I was in my late teens, I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I grew up. All I knew was that it had to be something with people, travel and languages. Little did I know that nearly 30 years later, I would be still living my dream, but not in any way I could have imagined back then.
This week I have been travelling the length and breath of Pakistan working on gender-based violence. Read the whole article here |
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Do you ever want to ‘Press Pause’ on your life? If so, this seven-day retreat is for you. Carefully crafted for those who are working hard and find little time to look after themselves, this retreat offers an opportunity to focus deeply on mind, body and spirit and come away feeling not only rejuvenated, but also taking tools with you for ongoing self-care.
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Postcard from Vietnam
November 2019 
Privilege of working in Vietnam for one week developing a new approach to working on self-stigma and shame with the most vulnerable groups in society – sex workers, people living with HIV, transgender people, drug users and men who have sex with men - often called 'social evils'. Putting our creative minds and hearts together, we have a plan to produce a series of videos, a toolkit and a measurement scale during 2020.
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain