Amy Lister, with fellow Work That Reconnects (WTR) facilitator Simone Hanchet, co-founded Spiral Centre, an online learning institute dedicated to making the WTR practices accessible to people everywhere. Spiral Centre offers individual coaching and group facilitation so more people can experience their full agency, creative power, compassion, joy, courage, and active hope at this time of multiple complex social and ecological crises.
Spiral Centre works with leaders in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, as well as with activists, caregivers, educators, and young people. The diverse identities, contexts, circumstances and lived experiences embodied in Spiral Centre’s learning community offers unique beauty, wisdom and opportunities to unlearn harmful beliefs and patterns and co-create life-sustaining ways of working, living, and being together on Earth.
Since 2009, with their background in education and organization development, Amy has run a successful leadership coaching and facilitation business serving clients across the globe. As a coach, she supports people to explore and integrate pivotal transition experiences in life and work so they can courageously live in alignment with their values while expanding their capacity to care for self and for the planet.
Amy also recently studied art therapy at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and now, in their private practice, offers online psychotherapy and art therapy services to caregivers, other individuals, children and families. Amy is filled with gratitude for the opportunity to connect and collaborate with amazing people bringing unique strengths together to collectively navigate and process the challenges that arise in today’s world in supported, constructive ways. She revels in the inspiration that Nature offers to nourish the soul and sustain the ceaseless creative process of sacred living.
When they are not working, Amy is singing, dancing, creating, engaging in community building, social outreach and ecologically-focused initiatives and spending time outdoors with their family.
Why I am called to facilitate the Work
I am called to do this work because it is at the intersection of what the world needs most right now and where my gifts lie making it the best form of service for my head, hands, heart and soul to engage in for the sake of the planet and all living beings – past, present and future.
How I see the Work serving the Great Turning
I see it serving people as a map and a toolkit with a set of practices, processes and pathways to assist in moving through the grief and pain in our world, tapping into new and ancient perspectives, to move forward with hope and action that supports us all as a planet people in greater harmony with the more-than-human-beings!
Audiences I work with
Professionally:
As a psychotherapist and art therapist, I work with individuals, caregivers & families navigating transitions across the lifespan offering psychotherapy and art therapy services.
As a leadership coach, I support individuals, leaders and teams to experience themselves, and each other, as being the best they can be for themselves, their families, their communities, and the planet.
Personally:
I am a parent of two school aged children, a caregiver to my parents with changing health conditions and needs, and I am a community builder and outreach volunteer. I volunteer on a committee that sponsors and supports the resettlement process of refugees and newcomers in Canada, I co-Captain a community food drive for people in need of food supports in Toronto, Canada and am actively involved in the activities of my school-aged children.
All photos shared here are credited to: Marina Dempster Photography
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