Alison Canavan is an acclaimed international speaker, wellness coach, and mindfulness advocate, inspiring audiences worldwide with her powerful message of energy management, personal growth, and well-being. As a former international model, she has graced the world’s most prominent runways and magazines, but her journey beyond the spotlight truly captivates hearts and minds.
Alison’s life took unexpected turns, leading her through mental health struggles and addictions. These challenges catalyzed her remarkable transformation and ultimate purpose – to empower others to live life to the fullest. Alison believes that energy is the currency of the future. She teaches that the most important currency to drive growth isn’t a financial measure. It’s the capitalization of your personal energy and that of the people you surround yourself with.
Alison has been named one of the top 8 transformational coaches in the US by USA Today for 2021. She specializes in managing change, stress, burnout & overwhelm. She helps companies support their workforce transitioning back into the corporate office and finding work/life balance. Her focus is on 360 health and well-being, with mental health, including depression and anxiety, being at the forefront and focus of her work. Alison is a UCLA trained Mindfulness Facilitator from The Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, a Master NLP Practitioner, a HeartMath facilitator, a Nutritional coach, a Raw Foods Master, and an award-winning author of Minding Mum – It’s Time to Take Care of You – the world’s first 360 self-care book for mums focusing on Mums health and wellbeing post birth.
Alison’s workshops and talks include incredible tools for transforming and understanding people’s daily struggles, which include chronic stress (responsible for 90% of disease), anxiety, depression, and addiction in all forms, from sugar to alcohol, co-dependency, and more– helping people to become more aware of what’s driving their habits. Her heart-led business and 360 approach to wellbeing is innovative, inclusive, and accessible to all.
As a meditation teacher, she understands the power of a daily mindful approach to living. She believes that to create peace in our lives, we must carve out time for self-care, go within, and create space to heal, learn, and grow.
Alison has worked with thousands of clients in her private practice and, for over a decade, has been teaching about The Power of Gratitude on stages across the world and how it can create incredible perception and paradigm shifts in your life. Through her life-changing 5-minute journal, Alison offers an innovative way to experience real change in a short time every day.
She spoke at The Mindful Life Conference in Washington in April 2017. She has lectured at Trinity College in Ireland on the Motherhood and Mental Health module. In June 2014, she chaired and spoke at the first-ever Barnardos Parental Mental Health Conference in Ireland at Croke Park. She delivers talks on stress in the workplace to CEOs and business leaders worldwide and has become a highly sought-after motivational speaker and contributor to the wellness space. Some of her previous clients include YouTube, Plancorp, Vista, MedStar Health, Bank of Ireland, Allianz, Deloitte, City National Bank, Moxifit, Aegis Living, Google, Barnardos, Deutsche Telekom, AllBright, Coinbase, Vitality, Paypal and Bristol Myers Squibb.
Alison was scheduled to present ways to practice self-care via mindfulness. Unbeknownst to her, her audience was a multigenerational mixture of skeptics and receptive team members who are analysts by trade. She completely engaged the audience through her use of media, team exercises and animated narrative. Even months after the event, team members are still talking about her successful event and using the diaries that she created to further instill the principles of mindfulness. In fact, a few have suggested that they wished that she would come back on a regular basis! We highly recommend her, especially to gain tools to better insulate employees from burnout, COVID weariness and, above all, fear!
Alison was scheduled to present ways to practice self-care via mindfulness. Unbeknownst to her, her audience was a multigenerational mixture of skeptics and receptive team members who are analysts by trade. She completely engaged the audience through her use of media, team exercises and animated narrative. Even months after the event, team members are still talking about her successful event and using the diaries that she created to further instill the principles of mindfulness. In fact, a few have suggested that they wished that she would come back on a regular basis! We highly recommend her, especially to gain tools to better insulate employees from burnout, COVID weariness and, above all, fear!