Testimonials
“Wow! One day, and I feel cleansed, clear, grounded and ready to make things happen again. Incredible.”
Vancouver Coastal Health Vice President, Root and Rise Leadership Retreat
“I look at this art and something moves inside me. Its like something is waking up. And it feels good. Really good.” “Christine’s art is like watching music.”
“Christine’s coaching and facilitation has transformed our systems, our networks, and ourselves as individuals. Over 2 years, Christine facilitated our national growth, working with team dynamics, conflict resolution, allyship, collaborative leadership, storytelling and restoration as evaluation, and somatic exercises to promote generative dialogue, celebration, and resilience among front-line harm reduction participants.
The impact of Christine’s sessions has resulted in national team’s ability to find strategic and innovative pathways forward in the face of complex inter-organizational dynamics, as well as a sense of cohesion and connection among our members and workshop participants contributing to heart-centered, whole person regard and resilience that enables people to keep moving forward in their work through times of both chaos and celebration. “
Courtney P, Manager, National Harm Reduction Peer Network.
“I was deeply inspired by Christine’s “Inner Work” of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion workshop this morning. Thank you for an incredibly mind-opening and moving experience that awakened parts of me I didn’t know were there. I would be honored to stay connected for inspiration as I grow in my journey of becoming an ally!” Ravi B, Limitless Allyship Workshop Participant.
I found in Christine’s Tools for Change course this beautiful delving into the praxis and practical realities of the work with a clear invitation to understand them at an energetic and spiritual level. I felt like my synapses were firing in all directions. I felt so enlivened, engaging in the type of deep, juicy dialogue that I crave alongside other practioners. To me it felt like getting to live in a new paradigm of my work and practice. I left so inspired. I came to the end of every session invigorated and curious, and able to invite more of my being, my mind, my heart, body and spirit into my facilitation work, beautifully guided and facilitated. “
Natty Abadiir, International Anti-Racism Facilitator
“Christine is a strong Ally and a co-facilitator with whom I have worked for last 4 years , it is rare to come across a white facilitator who can work authentically and be in synchronicity with an experienced racialized facilitator . She has done deep work on her race privilege and is creative, funny, open, compassionate and willing to take a deep dive into equity work . She’s especially gifted with body embodiment guidance which transcends all boundaries.”
Priti Gami Shah, International Educator/ Facilitator/ Justice , Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Trainer
“I’ve been in leadership and development symposiums around the world, and Christine was the best. She clearly connected the roots of complex systems with the branches of how they really show up, and shared real tools for how to work with them, so we can do the same. Simply the best.”
Assar Ziir, MOSAIC Leadership Training
“My personal experience receiving coaching from Christine has been enriching. It has allowed me to better understand my role, purpose, and personal leadership style in community harm reduction that will serve me throughout my career. Christine coaches with deep capacity for collaboration and creativity with her responsiveness to the emerging needs of everyone she works with. Christine attunes to the structural undercurrents behind stuck points, and skillfully facilitates discussions that generate innovative transformation.”
Katherine, National Program Manager.
“Field Shift shone a light on the invisible elements of group work that are often felt but not explored. Christine brings deep experience and skill in facilitation, and provides a space for everyone to speak to and experience the unexplainable. This work has encouraged me to expand my senses in service of better dialogue and inclusive outcomes.” Virginia Cullen, CAO Municipality of Whistler
“I’ve attended hundreds of diversity workshops. Christine’s was different. I felt the shifts as they happened inside me. It was physical, something I hadn’t tapped into before, a conscious awareness. And it feels great, more real and so much more clear.” Kelly Markus
Diversity Engagement Workshop for United Way BC Staff Retreat.
“Christine Spinder is a master practitioner crafting beautiful ways forward in these challenging times. She is both visionary and grounded, an all too rare combination. Scratch and you will find more treasures, from her stunning intuition, brilliant innovative strategy, and collaboration-heightening facilitation, to her national spokesperson fluency, iconic textile art and passionate sharing from her decades of somatic embodiment cultivation. Christine lives out loud, and she is dedicated to supporting emergence of what’s best in us, individually and collectively.” Kate Sutherland, Co-Founding Partner, Emerge Collab