Change and Movement facilitation
Coaching, Training, Workshops
English and French
Trust Your Body - Move Your Mind
"MOVEMENT represents the principle of flux and CHANGE: it is the flow through which a society -and people- channel its energy for RENEWAL and TRANSFORMATION" Parker J. Palmer
What we do / How you can support you
Individual growth, Team Embodied Learning & Development, Team cohesion /connection, Leadership/Peer support circle
Embodied Agility, Well-being & Move
Let's boost my professional and personal life!
What is moving in my career or my life right now ?
What is NOT moving and I would like to change ?
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." Unknown.
FOCUS: Personalized Learning&Development to support you in yoru desire for change and growth
For WHOM: Leaders, futures leaders, all people who want to move on and drive their life.
Let's boost and re-charge
my team !
What is moving right now in my team?
What is NOT noving in my team and would like to change?
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I might not remember. Involve me and I'll understand." Albert Einstein
FOCUS: Embodied learning and Team Cohesion : Self-Awareneness, Agility, Engagement, Trust, Leadership, Creativity, Focus, Art of saying No and YES space, Collective Intelligence
For WHOM: Teams in organization which work and move together, Start-up hubs, Management schools, Leadership programs
Let's Move & Connect! Let's trust our body and learn !
How to re-connect with my body? my feelings? and explore that mindful movement can be resourceful and a powerful lab of life?
"All knowledge until it is in the body is still a rumor" Papua Proverb
FOCUS: Embodied learning Body language, Emotional Intelligence, Connection, Re-charge, Being yourself, Freedom, Active Meditation, Sense of Belongings
For WHOM: All human beings breathing and moving who want to be free in motion
Our mission
Trust your Body - Move your Mind
Support you in your desire to LEARN, GROW and CHANGE
Support you to MOVE YOUR MIND
Trusting and Boosting your body language, emotional intelligence and relational agility
Being a support for change, Creating bonds between people.
Supporting leaders and all people who want to grow and drive their life
AWENE
Purpose and Sense
AWEN means the flow in celtic, when both your body and your mind are in a full open state to connect with yourself, others and your environment,
a magic moment of openness, receptiveness, grounding, security, creativity, wholeness and aliveness.
AWENE : AWEN + E = Embodied Cognition and Emotions to bring this powerful intelligence we all have: listening and trusting our body sensations, feelings, emotions that stimulate our brain and make us vibrate and moving. This energy that allows us to be ourselves authentically.
Who we are
Géraldine Mercier, founder of Awene
grounded by a network of peers and consultants
Géraldine Mercier Ph.D.
Founder of Awene, PhD in Biology
Certified HEC* Executive coach, individual and teamChange and movement facilitator
My drive: Being a support for change. Creating bonds between people.
My passion: the power of movement and life, what makes us human, free and engaged
Specialized in embodied cognition, I combine a unique set of HEC Executive Coaching practice (pragmatic and multi-tools) as well as body, emotional and relational intelligence Movement practice to:
(1) support and coach people with the desire to move, change and grow personally and career wise(2) boost soft human skills, team cohesion and development in organizations
(3) lead well-being and development workshops as a lab life exploration.
Language : French and English
Deeply human, pragmatic, grounded, empathetic and sometimes challenging for the purpose of making progress, my coaching and facilitation style are aligned with AWENE's values: Authenticity, Trust, Autonomy, Structure/Fondation, Change, Action/Movement, Connection, Exploration, Motivation, Self-improvement
* HEC Paris is #3 worldwide in Executive Education, Financial Times rankings 2019
Background :
20 years of business experience in Life Sciences
My Motto: Learning by doing
20 yrs of business experience in Life Sciences and innovation in Healthcare (Oncology, neuroscience) with significant professional career changes :
Starting my journey with a PhD in Biology, then 5 years in entrepreneurship as an innovation consultant and business developer in biotech start-ups followed by 10 years in a pharmaceutical industry group in Corporate strategic support functions.
On the paper, yes : Research/Innovation Consultant /Business Development/Risk Management/Finance could sound very different.
In my mind and my heart, the same drivers :
(1) Being a support and booster for change
(2) Creating bonds between people and bridges between cross-functional area.
" It seems impossible, until it is done " Nelson Mandela
Grounded by a network of coachs and consultants
Collaboration for a better collective intelligence
My 20 years of my rich and diverse business background as well as my need for connection and belongings allowed me to built a robust and trustful network.
For specific purpose and needs, I work with my peers of certified coachs (HEC Alumni) , consultants in diverse areas (Agile culture, Design Thinking, Intuition, Co-Development, Conflict Resolution) as well as embodied movement teachers (Member of International Conscious Movement Teacher Association) to create workshops that fit your needs and objectives.
My Executive HEC coaching certification practice requires deep personal development including psychology-based personal work as well as continuous supervision with peers and experts.
" If you want to go faster go alone, if you want to go further go together"
African Proverb
