Start Lean
Partnering with teams to cultivate cultures of
courage, joy and belonging.
On an adjacent quest, working with leaders to unlock their full potential for power, pleasure and impact.
I'm a TEDx speaker, recognized as a Top 40 Under 40, and I had the privilege of being a guest on Oprah Winfrey's show.
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Our Services:
I have a luscious basket of dates, and while they have different expressions of how I package and offer them, and.. they all come from the same essence: courage, pleasure, belonging, liberation, and the wild untamed expression.
With purpose-driven teams to cultivate a culture of liberation, joy & belonging. I truly facilitate for function: from leadership development, trust & team building, to leading through change, visioning and hearing all the voices. And.. my unique magic is relational learning journeys to do the inner work and cultural transformation, unpack supremacy characteristics, unravel the somatic cultural burdens, embody, cultivate and practice a culture that's a microcosm of the world we desire. My toolbox includes: the LEGO® Serious Play® method, trauma-informed facilitation, riveting storytelling, somatic tools, ancestors’ wisdom, sensing the field, humour and pure love for this work, hope and belief in our significance, “smallness”, beauties, pains and wonder.
With founders, executives, and creatives to weave the wild, aliveness, the erotic, and pleasure into their being, leadership, and impact. Let's face it, the world needs more untamed, sexually healed, integrated, and liberated leaders. And as Audre Lorde puts it in The Uses of the Erotic: "Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world-". When the erotic is too edgy for organizations, I’ve called it Courageous Leadership. I’ve led group programs and worked 1:1 with over 100 leaders to unlock their full potential for power, pleasure & impact.
Ancestral Lineage Healing
As a practitioner-in-training, I'm weaving a "new" layer to cultural repair through working with leader's lineages, the cultural harms, and the medicines needed from and for their lines, and reconnecting, bringing forth and embodying the gifts & blessings from their ancestors.
(Stay in touch, I’ll need practicum clients soon!!)
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Hi! Welcome!
I’m Amal Alhuwayshil (she/هِيَ)
Over a decade of holding space, speaking on stages, facilitating, guiding somatic practices, and organizational and community leadership. I have worked with over 100 leaders, executives, entrepreneurs and creatives in a 1:1 coaching capacity. I've held teams and facilitated a deepening of trust & connection, a softening and deep self-awareness, an embodied unpacking of colonial, patriarchal and white supremacist characteristics in their lives, work and team culture. I've delivered keynotes that ruptured hearts, opened minds, and created a catalyst for inspiration into how they live, work and lead.
I’m a queer, cisgender woman from West Asia, colonially known as the Middle East. Born and raised in what is now called Saudi Arabia, I come from ancestors who were farmers, known as the people of the palm tree. I’m shaped by generational relationships to land, water, and community, carried forward through both memory and movement. I now live, work, and play on the unceded, unsurrendered, and occupied lands of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people, in a city known as the Nation’s Capital, Ottawa.
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.
I'm in devotion to my own healing, teaching and overcoming religious, societal and political oppression. I'm in devotion to decolonizing my work and my body, healing ancestral lines, embodying my lineage gifts, weaving community, becoming, & unfolding into my liberation. I do it for me, for you, for us.
Let's have a heart-to-heart:
I knew I wanted to be a "public speaker" when I was 19, at a time when I was still in Saudi Arabia, in a fixed marriage, covered head to toe, and my voice was considered forbidden to be heard in public. I took the stage for the first time in 2016 and have been public speaking internationally ever since. My largest audience to date was 2500+ in 2019. My inspiring story, resilience and courage always inspire my audience to live and lead outside the lines, become agents of change, advocate for what tugs at their heart, share their unique gifts and weave their voice into our collective liberation.
I still have vivid memories of when I spent over two years in court fighting for divorce, where I met women who were oppressed, defeated by the system, and some had no one to stand up for them. I and other women had marks on our bodies, and those marks were brushed off and not even acknowledged. This is when I found my calling - this is when I knew that I needed to stand up for women’s rights. Over the years, this became human rights and justice, and now this feels like earth-loving: standing in and for the land, the animals, the humans, the seen and the unseen.
I truly believe that as we untame and heal our bodies, as we connect with our ancestors and do the repair work needed there, we can transform our organizations, heal the systems that tamed us in the first place, heal the world, and birth new systems and ways of being.
Harnessing my expertise in somatic and trauma-informed practices as well as my work in EDI, I help my clients unlock their full potential for power, pleasure, and impact so they live and lead wholeheartedly in their untamed self-expression.
On any given day, you can find me dancing, gardening in the summer and ice skating in the winter, writing my book "Leading for Liberation", procrastinating by reading other books, or planning my next dinner party.
