I’m Amal Alhuwayshil (she/هِيَ)

 

I’m a queer, cisgender woman from West Asia, colonially known as the Middle East. Born & raised in what is now called Saudi Arabia, I come from ancestors who were farmers & entrepreneurs, known as the people of the palm tree.

 

I’m able-bodied with an invisible disability, Western-educated, and I speak four colonizer languages: Arabic, English, Spanish, and French. These intersections of identity, migration, education, and language shape how I move through the world, how I’m perceived, and what I hold with me in every space I enter. They, and beyond them, also inform the work I do in this world.

 

Over 10 years of holding space, speaking on stages, facilitating,  guiding somatic practices, and community leadership.
After graduating from UBC’s Faculty of Management, I founded "I’m All Courage" in 2019, pursued a 650-hour trauma-informed somatic coaching certification centred on love, pleasure and liberation, and returned to UBC for their Equity, Diversity and Inclusion program. I work at the intersection of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, pleasure activism, and embodiment. 

 

Through storytelling, somatic coaching, training and facilitation, we lay the foundational inner work for liberation and empower leaders to build cultures of courage, belonging & wellbeing. I also offer 1:1 and group programs - and have coached over 100 women and non-binary leaders, rising and established, to unlock their full potential for power, pleasure and impact. These spaces bridge the personal and the political, the intimate and the systemic, offering room for both grief and joy, regulation and resistance, ache and liberation.
 

I'm a TEDx speaker, was recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 when I had just turned 30, featured on Nasdaq as a Woman Leader to Watch, and had the privilege of being a guest on Oprah Winfrey's show.
 

On any given day, you can find me tending to my garden in the summer, skating in the winter, writing, dancing & dreaming around the dinner table in all the seasons