You can have all the insight in the world and still not know how to embody what you learn.
What your team actually walks away with:
Participants gain:
- A clear understanding of why self-awareness alone doesn't prevent burnout — with the neuroscience that explains why, not just that it's true
- An introduction to interoception — the body-based self-awareness most wellness programs miss entirely — and how to develop it as a daily skill
- The Integrated Root™ Mind-Body-Earth framework as a shared organizational language for sustainable wellbeing
- A live somatic grounding practice they can use before a difficult meeting, before bed, or any time they notice the gap
- The experience of having actually shifted something in the room — not just learned about shifting it
Recently Presented At Berkshire Community College
Signature Keynotes
From Awareness to Wellbeing | Why We Know More About Wellness Than Ever — And Still Feel Burned Out
The neuroscience of why self-awareness alone doesn't prevent burnout — and what body-based practice offers that cognitive wellness work alone cannot. Includes a live somatic practice participants can use immediately and take back to their teams.
Formats: 40-60 minute keynote · 90-minute keynote with workshop · Half-day
Ideal for: Leadership conferences · Corporate wellness days · HR and people teams · Women's professional networks
BOTH/AND: DEI & BELONGING | A Somatic Approach to Belonging, Difference, and Why Inclusion Commitments Don't Always Become Inclusive Behavior
Most DEI training changes what people think. This changes what people do — because it works at the level where behavior actually originates.
The nervous system doesn't pause to check whether its responses are politically correct. It fires first. And no amount of cognitive DEI work changes what happens in the half-second before the mind catches up.
Both/And addresses that half-second — giving leaders a nervous system framework for understanding why inclusion commitments don't translate into inclusive behavior, and what actually shifts things where behavior originates.
People need to feel safe enough to admit they are uncomfortable around difference. That honesty is the prerequisite for genuine belonging. Both/And creates the conditions where it becomes possible.
Formats: 60-minute keynote · 90-minute keynote with workshop · Half-day intensive
Ideal for: Corporate DEI days · Leadership retreats · ERG programming · HR and people teams · Women's leadership conferences
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About Brooke
Brooke Marie Bridges is a somatic CBT coach, vitalist herbalist, keynote speaker, certified nutrition coach, and author with Transatlantic Literary Agency working on her debut nonfiction entitled Wild Healing: Wildcrafting for Self-Care. She is the founder of Unearthing Wellness and creator of The Integrated Root™ Mind-Body-Earth framework.
She spent six years at Soul Fire Farm in roles including seed keeper, CSA manager, and lead facilitator of Uprooting Racism trainings. She has been speaking with Minding Your Mind for over 8 years - working with over 150 organizations across North America.
She has keynoted for Ellevate Network, presented at Berkshire Community College and Miss Porter's School, has done a workplace climate workshop series with The District Attorney's Office, and has a confirmed week-long residency at North Branch Nature Center in Vermont in November 2026.
She holds certifications in somatic CBT, emotional and social intelligence (UC Davis), conflict transformation (Emory), mindfulness, and the science of wellbeing for teens (Yale), with seven years of DBT practice as both recipient and facilitator.