Hola, soy María y me encantaría acompañarte en tu camino hacia el autodescubrimiento y una expresión personal más encarnada.
Let me tell you a secret. I used to be a shy, subdued, people-pleaser, and in constant need of validation. Now, after a long journey of healing, questioning, unlearning and relearning, I am a confident, unrestrained, clear-thinking, authentic speaker.
No estoy aquí para darte un plan de acción sobre cómo estar más anclada y ser más auténtica en tu expresión y comunicación. Solo tú puedes encontrar tu propia voz. Pero lo que puedo hacer es proporcionarte herramientas de exploración para encontrar tu propio camino hacia una expresión personal encarnada y en cualquier idioma (incluyendo los idiomas no nativos) en el que quieras expresarte.
Authentic self-expression became very important in my life when I realised how performative my expression was, how much I was seeking to fit it and how unseen I felt.
Being authentic means that you act in ways that show your true self and how you feel. I had to learn who my true self actually was because my expression had been so influenced by the need to be a nice girl, quiet, never rocking the boat, pleasing and accommodating others that I really didn’t know who I was. I only knew there was a disconnection between who I felt I was and how I expressed myself.
As a result, the belonging that I was so desperately seeking was unfulfilled. People didn’t know who I really was so they couldn’t relate to me.
With time, therapy, coaching and other means, I discovered who I truly was and how to express it.
I discovered how to feel grounded and safe enough to express myself wholeheartedly.
La autenticidad es una necesidad de supervivencia. –Gabor Maté
I am a poetry therapy practitioner, writer and educator. My work centres around the therapeutic use of language and poetry for self-discovery and grounded and embodied self-expression.
My trauma-informed approach combines experiential learning (embodied cognition) with neuroeducation, mindfulness, creative writing and poetry therapy.
Embodied cognition advocates that understanding involves acting with a physical body in an environment in which that body is immersed. Embodied bilingual (multilingual) language proposes that the way the body interacts with its environment influences the way a person thinks or creates mental images.[1]
Neuroeducation studies the activities that occur in the brain when individuals learn and apply this knowledge to improve the learning process. [2] Many studies argue that mindfulness practises are beneficial in the learning context.
Creative writing, like poetry, has a significant impact on the emotional connection the student develops with the language itself and helps increase their vocabulary and understanding the language rhythm and intonation.
La metáfora se materializa en el lenguaje. – Dennis Potter
how can I serve you?
I work with Spanish language learners, multilingual seekers and language educators. I offer 1:1 coaching, group sessions, retreats, self-paced language courses, training for language teachers…
Click here to have a look at the different ways we can work together.
who am I?
I am a deep thinker, language lover and very interested in how the mind works, including authentic self-expression and poetry.
I call Spain and Ireland home. Spanish is my mother tongue, and English is the language I currently express myself better in, but they don’t tell the whole story, and certainly, they don’t exist in different boxes.
I am an introverted, multi-passionate person, and I panic whenever I have to give my “elevator pitch”. I am a human, and as such, who I am and what I do, do not fit in a box nor are static. But for clarity and connection’s sake, I work with languages, mostly Spanish. I write multilingual poetry and essays. I love dancing, moving my body and being in nature.
educación relevante
• Enseñanza sensible al trauma, ofrecida por la consultora educativa Ryhan Nadji (2022).
• Conciencia intercultural, HSE, Irlanda (2022).
• Entender trauma y apoyar las necesidades de la gente que escapa de la guerra y/o la persecución", webinar dado por Jennifer Hayes, Departamento de Psicología, HSE, Irlanda (2022).
• Poetry Therapy Practitioner by iaPoetry (2023).
• Formación de aprendizaje emocional basado en el pensamiento por Instituto Cervantes (2017).
• Transformando los negocios, la sociedad y uno mismo con u.Lab (en línea, MIT X, 2016)
• Examinadora DELE y SIELE por Instituto Cervantes (2014, 2016)
• Diploma de Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera por Instituto Cervantes (2011)
• Masters en Artes Escénicas por Universidad de Burgos. (2008)
• Licenciatura en Humanidades (Lenguas Aplicadas) por Universidad de Burgos (2005).
Investigación informal y formación en aprendizaje corporizado/experiencial, lingüística integracional, identidad, multiculturalismo y multilingüismo, escritura creativa.
