My name is Camille —

I’m a DEI Educator, Somatic Practitioner, and Discomfort Maven.

I facilitate uncomfortable conversations, so your organization can address the true impact of DEI on the real bodies you serve and employ.

DEI isn’t about ‘ right or wrong’.

DEI isn’t about ‘ right or wrong’.

We’ve been taught that ‘biases are bad’ but we all have them.

Let’s normalize this shared human condition, right now.

Biases are how our brains work AND we can learn how to laugh at them, instead of judging ourselves, or pretending they don’t exist and don’t impact how our world functions.

Piling on guilt and shame doesn’t help us produce change individually or as a collective. It just adds constriction and barriers to our lives, relationships, work, and profit margins.

What helps produce growth-oriented change?

Moving out of the constriction of judgement…

… and into the expansion of curiosity.

Get on my mailing list and I’ll send you an introduction to the ABC’s of DEI that will help break open that ‘good or bad’ binary.

A question I hear a lot is:

Why can’t we just focus on our similarities?

I get it. Our similarities are really comfortable. They are familiar and safe to us. But ignoring and suppressing our differences isn't inclusion; that's assimilation.

It's natural to fear difference; to reflexively perceive it as a threat simply because it is unfamiliar.

We can assume that truly listening to opposing or unfamiliar perspectives might make us lose our own beliefs or force us to agree with something we don't actually support. Fear underlies so much of our defensiveness toward difference, and stunts a lot of organizations from long term success.

As Yoda once said: “Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.”

My approach to DEI is not about…

Saying the "right" thing to appease someone else, or trying to change someone's mind.

It’s about growing our capacity to express our differences and receive the differences of others

Relevance

Stay relevant to the real bodies we’re serving.

Retention

Foster happy, committed, proud employees and members.

Revenue

Increase profits. Expand on latent opportunity from within.

Resonance

Develop staying power in an increasingly diverse world.

Ready to go further?

Dive in:

Is there a current event deeply impacting your employees or consumer base? Hire me for…

Facilitated Discussions

Is it time to bring the ABCs of DEI to your people?
Hire me for…

Foundational Lectures

Want to get your team’s hands “in the mud” and learn collaboratively?

Interactive Workshops

You can also hire me for

1 on 1 Coaching

People have said to me…

“ I’ve never cried and laughed so much during a DEI workshop”, and

“ Oh my god, I was expecting to be preached at, but this was the exact opposite. ”

DEI takes space, time, energy and nuance

Otherwise it’s not real talk

and it’s not real inclusion.

A debate is an argument we enter into with the intent of winning. A conversation is an exchange of perspectives and experiences.

Most of us are well equipped and practiced at having debates. But very few of us are prepared for or experienced with having a conversation. Let’s change that.