About Nadia Chaney
Since 2002 I have facilitated well over 2000 international events, workshops, and trainings. I am known for my ability to clarify and simplify complex concepts, my ability to work with participant resistance and challenging dynamics, as well as my creative and bold arts-based designs. I am also known for my powerful diversity, inclusion and participatory practices. I love to bring meaningful play to groups that are interested in creating powerful outcomes.
I am a professional poet, performer and lyricist with a strong interest in musical improvisation, automatic drawing and authentic movement. I bring these all to my training and facilitation practices in an authentic and magnetic style, rich with imagination and humour.
I hold a Master’s degree in Education, with a focus on Imaginative Education and the use of metaphor in group leadership, and well as a diploma in Dialogue and Negotiation, and an advanced post-grad certificate in Expressive Art Therapy. My current research is in Time and Temporality in group process. I have been fortunate to study and work alongside some of the world’s most cutting edge teachers, professors, trainers, artists and facilitators.
I am a queer, first generation, middle class, cis-gendered woman of Indian descent. I acknowledge that Canada sits on the ancestral and unfairly colonized territories of many Indigenous nations, who are the traditional stewards of its land and resources. I am a grateful settler and visitor here.
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