What is your body telling you? A workshop to support you thrive through change.
As we enter 2025, the polycrises and uncertainties of our world continue to take their toll on us, our work, and our communities.
For values-driven entrepreneurs and changemakers the impact of these realities can be overwhelming, and dysregulating, moving us out of sync with our intuition. It’s tempting to bypass or numb our discomfort in our bodies now, yet our body holds wisdom on what we might need.
Join our virtual workshop if you’re looking for new tools to move forward with clarity and confidence.
“What is Your Body Telling You?” is a 2-hour workshop facilitated by Shilbee Dhalla-Kim (Passion Coach) and Thu Nguyen (Somatic Leadership Coach). In this workshop, you will learn how to reconnect with your inner wisdom by listening to your body signals.
What you will learn:
Somatic Practice: Practice Medical Qi Gong techniques are effective ways to reconnect with your body so that you can take an embodied approach (mind-body-spirit) to tune into your wisdom and power. Medical Qi Gong is branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine that works with the Qi, or energy of the body to identify stuckness and then through movement, breath and sound transmute and transform into more flow - not just at they physical level but emotional, mental, relational and systemic levels.
Passion-Based Tools: Practice listening, mirroring, and identifying the "heat" of what currently matters to you. Passion practice is the art of transmuting and transforming emotional energy into personal, interpersonal, and systemic changes that are harmonious and effective.
What you will experience:
• A non-judgemental space to pause and reflect with like-minded values-driven entrepreneurs
• Resetting your body’s nervous system to feel more rested and grounded
• Clarifying what you need and want to inspire intentional action
Ultimately, you will leave the workshop restoring trust in yourself and reconnected with your inner knowing.
Who will facilitate this workshop:
Shilbee Dhalla-Kim and Thu Nguyen are both experienced coaches who support entrepreneurs and changemakers navigate uncertainty and finding clarity through somatic leadership and passion tools.
Shilbee Dhalla-Kim (she/her) is a passion coach, facilitator and teacher dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in clarifying their passions to better align with their current purpose. With a deep understanding of entrepreneurship, innovation, and social impact, she supports founders and leaders in navigating the complexities of building mission-driven ventures.
Shilbee is a part-time instructor at McMaster University, where she provides tools to support learners explore and harness their passion. She also specializes in strategic planning facilitation for social purpose organizations, guiding them in clarifying their vision and aligning with values-aligned priorities. Previously, she facilitated monthly team-building sessions for government leaders, strengthening team collaboration and cohesion.
Her career spans roles in entrepreneurship and social innovation, including serving as Social Enterprise Manager at the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto, Manager at the Centre for Social Innovation in Regent Park, and Workstream Manager for Entrepreneurship Policy at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship.
Thu Nguyen (she/her) is a somatic leadership coach, facilitator, and serial entrepreneur that helps people going through personal and professional collapse (burn out, stress, trauma) and navigate uncertainty with clarity. Thu blends powerful somatic and nervous system regulation practices (TRE, Medical Qi Gong, Meditation) and leadership coaching (PCC, CPCC, CRTC).
Thu’s own transformative journey has been shaped by both her professional challenges and personal struggles. With 20 years of experience in the tech industry and a multi-time founder, she is familiar with the high pressures of working in VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environments as well as the deep grief, emotional and relational fallout of startup failures. After facing her own health crises—cancer, chronic illness, and burnouts—Thu made a shift from the tech world into creating a sanctuary at Nusqool for people experiencing collapse to learn how to listen to their body. She helps people transform adversity into opportunity, and loss into purpose.
What other participants have shared about their experience of the workshop
"I attended the "What is your body telling you" workshop and it was a wonderful mix of powerful storytelling, grounding activities, inspiration, and connection. Highly recommend for folks new to this topic as well as more seasoned folks looking to re-spark or re-ignite passionate action in a grounded way."
"Living in the internet age, our psyches are flooded by the structural injustices and pain of the world - often in the arenas our ventures and projects are endeavoring to address. We live in the age of what Swiss Sociologist Jennifer Walter calls 'The strategic exploitation of cognitive limits,' where we are overloaded. Shilbee Dhalla-Kim and Thu Nguyen so deeply crafted and held a space where I could access and find DEEP grounding in the wisdom in my own body - the only place I can ever truly feel safe. They did this through guiding an intimate group of values-driven entrepreneurs in somatic experience, passion frameworks and collective experiences where we supported each other in a gently guided process."