Kelsay Elizabeth Myers
Transformational Speaker, Coach & Personal Empowerment Guide
Helping visionaries embody their stories, reclaim their voice and become who they are!
Speaking
Blending the arts, psychological practices and embodied wisdom, Kelsay leads audiences on journeys of self-discovery that awaken inner truths and unlock authentic self-expression to bring about personal and social change.
Over the past 14 years, Kelsay has worked with artists, therapists, entrepreneurs and spiritual guides, offering profound insights into how they can embody their stories, so they can live a life of passion, purpose and fulfillment. Whether on stage, in intimate circles or across virtual platforms, she holds spaces that are both expansive and grounded—meeting people where they are at and calling them into who they are becoming.
Kelsay is an award-winning author and Expressive Arts Practitioner working along the edges of the mythic self, trauma resolution and compassionate change. She offers cutting edge transformational programs through her online business, Dialogical Persona Healing Arts, to help clients dance, define and dream their future, so they can have more confidence, trust and personal power in life.
Why Book Kelsay?
Interactive Experiences — Kelsay doesn’t just talk, she engages the audience and invites them into their own experience, so they can feel, envision and have greater awareness of what is happening in their own bodies on multiple levels.
Embodied Storytelling — As a writer, teacher and mixed media artist, Kelsay understands the impact of stories, visual props and authentic performance techniques to make research and lecture content more compelling and absorbable for a general audience.
Strong Container — As a trauma-informed coach and facilitator, Kelsay is highly skilled in tracking groups, holding space, adjusting content or pacing in the moment, and creating intimate dialogues regardless of audience size.
Deep Presence — Kelsay stays present in the moment and does not read from a script, so she can actively co-create what is happening with her audiences.
Transformational Content — Kelsay designs her speaking experiences to not only be inspirational, but transformational. She leaves audiences with greater insights, creative approaches and tools for navigating their personal, professional and spiritual growth.
These speaking topics are what Kelsay is most passionate about, and they can be customized for your audience.
Embodying Stories
Stories are interwoven into our experience of life: they are how we come to know ourselves and to know others, and they are also how others come to know us in turn. Joan Didion said: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
We also tell ourselves stories in order to express what needs to be shared. Rather than suppressing, bypassing or turning away from what is real and present, our emotions, thoughts and values are a part of what it means to be human. Only in allowing ourselves to hold all of these and connect them in our bodies can we become free to express all of ourselves with new stories that move us into a future we want to belong to.
Kelsay has adapted this talk and interactive workshop for a wide range of audiences, including how to bring more creativity into entrepreneurship, become more courageous and embodied leaders, give shape to grief, or embody your own magic.
In each talk, she makes sure to provide:
Practices for reconnecting with creative expression through attunement, presence and centering
Self-inquiries and expressive arts exercises for the audience to continue their exploration after the talk
A model for how to be strong and vulnerable in sharing personal stories for larger social change
You can download the FREE companion PDF to this talk here to continue the practices on your own!
Creating Roots: Healing Ancestral Trauma through Objects, the Body and Persona
This talk is about the unique power each of us has to create and rebuild our roots, even if they have been severed or cutoff through trauma, abuse, neglect and betrayal. Kelsay explores the intricacies of identity construction and what it means to be human in a disconnected and AI saturated world. She focuses on the interplay of objects, persona and “the mythic self” and engages with theoretical frameworks such as dialogical self theory to examine personal symbols to illustrate the complex emotional states tied to memory, identity and personal history. By intertwining narrative elements with psychological concepts, this talk highlights the profound impact of both personal and cultural narratives on self-representation and identity formation.
Kelsay has given this talk for American literature, cultural theory, arts in society, and creative writing classes in higher education, at academic conferences and in transnational adoption communities. She especially loves adapting it for specific identity groups like the adoption constellation, LGBTQIA+, women, Asian American and communities of color.
In each talk, she makes sure to provide:
Practices to stay in an open, receptive and curious place and allow time to play with different personas
Tools to ground and center these parts, so they emerge in a safe and gentle way
How to clarify and embody what you stand for in the world and what ground you stand on
Dina Grant, Co-founder & Business Development Director of Marin Living Magazine
“The best at what she does.”
Bara Sapir, CEO/Founder & Coach at City Test Prep in San Francisco and New York
“A trailblazer in her field, Kelsay is inspiring creative souls to live their best lives!”
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