Meet Che
I am passionate about helping others, and have spent the last 15 years working as a Wellness coach and Professional trainer. I believe that everyone’s experience, including mine, is unique and valid.
My special interest areas are:
Wellness – specifically Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and The Meridian System, and Gender Diversity – including the science, and cultural and historical contexts of Intersex, Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Fluid identities.
Based in the Forest of Dean, I balance my work with time in nature, my family and friends, music festivals, meditation retreats, and travelling around the World experiencing other cultures.
The Road To Now
Many threads led to here…
I have always cared about others and love seeing people happy. At University I studied Psychology to understand people and the ‘science of emotion’, graduating with 1st Class BSc honours degree in 1999.
I then spent 15 years in the Corporate World, witnessing and experiencing firsthand the symptoms of Workplace Stress. This prompted me to retrain as an independent Stress Management coach and trainer.
I have been working in Health and Wellness since 2007. I now run two businesses with a Wellness focus, and will be publishing a Wellness book in 2025 – in order to reach and help more people (to help themselves).
Che’s Portfolio 2025
Now fully booked for 1:1 work, I am available for Corporate keynotes and training, and Wellness Consultancy. The next group training and retreats programme will be available from Autumn 2025.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
An engaging and compelling speaker on the topics of Workplace Wellness and Gender Diversity, I have delivered numerous Keynotes over the past couple of years.
I approach difficult topics with lightness, and humour as appropriate, to deliver memorable and revelation-ary talks. See reviews below.
Examples include:
- Deconstructing Binary Gender, and Understanding All The Labels
- Comparing Cultural, Spiritual and Religious approaches to Gender
- Why Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Matter At Work
- How TCM Principles Can Restore Workplace Harmony
- Navigating The Meridian System to Strategically Improve Wellness
CORPORATE TRAINER
I have a knack for taking complex topics and breaking them down into smaller digestible chunks.
All of my various Corporate Management roles, from graduating Leeds University in 1999, through to going fully freelance in 2017, included training people in complex topics.
I began the transition to freelance in 2011, and have delivered training to numerous clients and organisations over the past decade, to individuals, teams, and whole organisation rollouts.
Visit View from a Dove HERE for talk and training options.
My specialities are Stress Management (plus wider Workplace Wellness), and Gender Diversity (plus Diversity, Equality and Inclusion).
WELLNESS CONSULTANT
I am available for Wellness Consultancy for organisations, and also offer Practitioner Training – in Stress, Emotion, and Energy Management, plus in my proprietary system for understanding the Meridian System:
–> The Four Functions Framework (see below).
There is ongoing support for organisations and practitioners via my online community. Individuals wishing to improve their own health and wellness using TCM principles are also welcome to join.
Pre-recorded videos, guest experts, and live Q&A sessions, are just some of the resources available, providing an invaluable guide to TCM and The Meridian System, and to wider Holistic Health and Wellness.
For more information, click HERE.
PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Well…. almost! The book is written anyway!!
Right now I am in the process of speaking with publishers, and am aiming to publish this year, one way or another, however flows and feels right.
Meaning that my new book The Four Functions Framework (see below) will be in print and AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE in 2025!
I am building an online community for people interested to explore this approach for their own personal health and wellness, or with their clients (if they are an otherwise qualified practitioner).
There will be in-person training events and retreats from Autumn 2025 onwards.
To be added to the mailing list, and for early access, click HERE.
Current Businesses:
Offers health and wellness services, including coaching in stress management, group retreats, and practitioner training.
Provides talks, keynotes, and training solutions to other organisations in both Workplace Wellness, and Diversity, Equality & Inclusion.
Companies Worked With:
The Four Functions Framework
For Understanding, Remembering and Working With
THE MERIDIAN SYSTEM
The Meridian System in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is over 2,500 years old, and is like a treasure map for human health and wellness. Yet initially it can feel impenetrable.
The numerous acupoints are (mainly) located along Meridian Lines, which are in turn housed within the fascia – an inner web-like ‘skin’, that wraps over all of our muscles, organs, bones, tendons, ligaments and other soft tissue.
Having spent years studying the Meridian System, I developed a proprietary way of explaining it, that offers a new way in through the complexity.
It enables students of TCM to quickly and easily locate and name the main Meridians, and the key points along them, and how they relate to each other.
The first workshop for practitioners in May 2024 was a sell out, with glowing follow up feedback, and reports of improved client outcomes. The attendees all encouraged me to ‘write the book’.
So I set to work writing the first draft in 4 days of solid writing in a secluded clifftop cabin in Devon, and then ran that past an esteemed professor in the field of TCM, who thought it was a novel approach, and well worth pursuing.
‘We’ are now on draft three (!!), and I am incredibly grateful for his support, and that of all my other reviewers. I have everything crossed for a happy publishing experience.
Watch this space!!! To get updates on book progress, and the associated The Four Functions Framework online community, click HERE.
Work Life Balance
Che’s WHYS and wherefores
I have been EMBRACING MY UNIQUENESS more and more as I approach my Chiron Return (I turn 49 in 2025) – owning being Spiritual, Neurodivergent (AuDHD), Queer A.F (I’m an ambiamorous, gender-fluid, panromantic, demisexual), and an avid Heavy Metal fan. I enjoy dancing a very fine line (if I do say so myself!) between Yin and Yang – and encouraging others to do the same. 🙂
Prioritising PERSONAL PASSION AND JOY, I spend time in nature, with my dog, on solo retreats and family holidays, and at festivals with friends – as it is during these times I recharge, and get re-inspired. Whilst I love my work, I definitely work to live, and love my life, and those I share it with.
Through bringing Harmony to others, I hope to help co-create a World that prioritises KINDNESS AND INCLUSIVITY, following in the footsteps of Christ, and honouring the true essence of all ancient Spiritual and Religious traditions – i.e. to do to others as we would have done to ourself. On my watch, we leave no one behind, for home is a much nicer place when everyone is gathered there.
Interested to have Che on your Vod/Podcast?!
I always enjoy speaking about my special interest areas:
Traditional Chinese Medicine and The Meridian System, plus general Health and Wellness
Gender Diversity – what it’s all about, the Science and History, Cultural differences and overlaps with Belief
Having been on a number of podcasts and talk shows in 2024, and with more lined up for 2025, I am happy to receive invitations to join thought provoking discussions.
Complete request form HERE.
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Contact Che
You can get in contact via the Cosmic Teapot website for personal wellness, or View From A Dove website for workplace training and Keynotes
Alternatively get in contact via my BlueSky, Instagram, or LinkedIn.
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