Melanie DewBerry is a thought-provoking speaker who challenges us reach new levels of inner truth.
When Melanie speaks, people listen.
Her Indigenous elders named her, Chante Peta Wiyan, which means “Fire Heart Woman”
She brings that Heart of Fire with her elder wisdom to the stage.
The holder of Wisdom, Belonging and Evolution, she is rooted in long held wisdom of her indigenous roots.
Her words plant seed for thought and interaction.
As an international keynote speaker, Melanie has spoken at TEDxTalks (watch her speaking in Vancouver here), universities, corporate and non profit retreats and women events, to name a few.
She takes the time to learn about your organization and event to create a conversation that will have deep meaning and applicability for your attendees.
Inherit in her talks is laughter with deep learning, storytelling and connection with audience that transforms how attendees see themselves, others their work, career or vocation.
Attendees leave richer in spirit and joyous from laughter
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When Melanie takes the stage, you can count on a thought provoking conversation that challenges listeners to new levels of inner truth. She opens her audience’s access to innate wisdom, compassion and sense of belonging Her organic humor brings ease to the audience, allowing them to hold and absorb high level conversations with lightness.
Her content sticks long after her presentation, bringing both personal and professional relevance.
Places Melanie Has Spoken
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Micro Activism with Omari Williams
“Talking about the Power of Naming with Melanie DewBerry”
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast
“Belonging and what it is to fully be YOU with Melanie DewBerry”
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A Sample of Keynote Offerings
Melanie is a masterful interactive speaker, who evokes audiences to the relevance of their own wisdom, integrity, and courage.
Melanie’s indigenous wisdom is rooted in the here and now. Practical and applicable, she walks people into the shared experience of belonging to one another. She allows people’s personal experiences to speak to them directly.
It is with good reason that we avoid speaking up even when know not doing so makes us complicit in harm. The word confrontation brings up images of battle, slay or be slayed. Our concerns of being misunderstood, the other being defensive are worthy. How do we approach these difficult yet necessary conversation? We have to be brave with our own vulnerability. And we seek to root oneself and other in betterment that a desire to uproot, change or destroy.
Who are you? If you move beyond your talents, skills, vocation and roles for your identity who is at your core? Can you hear and cultivate your own wisdom, allowing it to lead you; even lead you away from the dominant societal ways? If you wriggle out of all the identities that others have foisted on you, who is left? These are the central questions Melanie poses, as together, you’ll explore your soul’s yearning to be known. Naming is attending to the natural evolution states that every being has available to them. Evolution matures, refines, and calls you into becoming the someone you have always been, again and again.
Oh, the love word. It conjures up frightening touchy-feely images; held over from the days when it was said that emotions didn’t belong at the work place. Like emotions, love has been deemed inappropriate at work. Love is the seed that germinates maturity, emotional intelligence, facing and integrating change. Love is integrity building. Love is the maker of resiliency, compassion and fortitude. This Keynote is designed to demys-tify the fear of love in the workplace, giving down-to-earth love based practices to integrate love in your business. Love, we can do this.
Imagine there are words that, when spoken, draw you closer to people and deepen your relationships. Words that pry apart those reasons that keep you separate and, over time, give you an experience of oneness that you’ve read about. Imagine that you could have this experience over and over again – a series of unbroken experiences that give you inner peace that is shared by you with everyone and everything you touched.
It’s a tall order that only a language comprised of words that have a high resonance to the soul, that reveal the beauty of you, that speak truth and love can answer. Sacred Words have been in our presence for hundreds of years but until now we’ve reserved these words for religious purposes only.
If you are at all suspect that words can create more peace, connection and love, then consider the language of violence; even subtle violence like the language of indifference. This keynote will leave you with a high resonant language that will give you deeper connections, a path for diffi-cult conversations and an eye into the humanity of all.
We’ve been taught that being tough, hard is the path to getting it done. That being hard means you’ve won. And, the practice of this discipline will get you what you want and where you to be.
But what is the cost in being hard and or tough? What more is available to executives, employers, and the everyday person?
Let’s give being softer the option it deserves. Softening has never been a skill for the weak. It’s takes the courage & strength to allow oneself to be seen and to accurately see another. In softening we invite belonging instead of proving. Becoming takes root and evolution endures.