Dr Nadine Ferris France (PhD)
Self-inquiry - coaching - wellness & stress management -creativity - leadership development - team building - communication - strategic planning -
stigma, global health HIV
stigma, global health HIV
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.
Joining retreats to support lifelong learning and openness is something I do myself and what I offer to people - the space to drop deeply into your awareness, connect with your true nature while understand how anxiety, stress and self-limiting beliefs holds you back. Self-inquiry, meditation, writing and music are all part of my offerings.
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 life, in wellbeing, health and education - stigma, self-love, health management, HIV, TB, gender, mental health, human rights, gender-based violence and more
Joining retreats to support lifelong learning and openness is something I do myself and what I offer to people - the space to drop deeply into your awareness, connect with your true nature while understand how anxiety, stress and self-limiting beliefs holds you back. Self-inquiry, meditation, writing and music are all part of my offerings.
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 life, in wellbeing, health and education - stigma, self-love, health management, HIV, TB, gender, mental health, human rights, gender-based violence and more
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So grateful for the invitation by a heroine of mine, Liz Gilbert to be a Guest on her Substack Series - Letters from Love. I continue to learn and be so humbled by what the Universe of Love has to share...... |
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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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Internal stigma and shame
Giving it back
Doing what I love - see the amazing work we do with young people and adults in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia, Cambodia 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 |
Postcard from Vietnam
November 2019
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.
"What if the world is holding its breath,
waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?"
David Whyte
waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?"
David Whyte