Move forward without the fight
When conversations break down, what do you do?
You often face a choice: Do you try and calm the flames or do you escalate and add fuel to the fire?
Both are ways to try to meet your needs, but the problem is, choosing either path usually leaves someone hurt and everyone feeling like they didn’t get what they needed.
When conversations break down, what do you do?
Rather than choosing a side, adding fuel to the fire or feeling stuck keeping the peace, we provide tools and support to turn conflict into collaboration. We help you navigate tough conversations and find common ground.
We work with workplaces, individuals and couples & constellations seeking new ways forward. We also offer group workshops as an affordable way to start improving your relationships.
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Workplaces
We help your team build emotional awareness and develop strategies for managing conflict. Effective communication is key to strong relationships, and our approach ensures your team can stay connected and collaborate, especially during tough times.
If you notice some voices aren’t being heard, you see divisions forming or your workplace is going through structural changes, we help support team cohesion and build community.
We offer short, mid, and long-term consultancy, including communication workshops and conflict resolution tailored to your workplace needs. Prices start from $300 per hour
Individuals
We help you uncover your core values and drivers, so you can navigate conflicts, tough decisions and those moments when you feel stuck. If you’re seeking clarity in your life, to untangle what truly matters to you, set healthy boundaries, and communicate your needs effectively, we’re here to support you. Let’s work together to help you live more aligned with what feels like a “heck yes.” Prices start from $120 per hour
Couples and Constellations
We help you and those you’re in relationships with, improve communication and strengthen how you connect with each other. Whether you’re facing conflict, feeling stuck, or seeking neutral guidance to maintain a healthy dynamic, we’re here to support you. We also assist people transitioning into a different phase of a relationship - be that a relocation, a change within the relationship, family circumstances or dynamic, or a change in relationship style. Prices start from $160 per hour
We also offer mediated conversations
Mediated conversations provide a neutral third party to guide and support productive dialogue. They help you engage with each other before, during, and after any rupture in the relationship, offering new ways to listen, communicate, and co-create new agreements for moving forward. Prices start at $160 per hour
Upcoming in person workshops
Listening to hear
21 September,
12 - 3pm, Wellington
$89
In this afternoon workshop we will explore some foundational assumptions of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to support connecting to needs - our own or those of others - beyond words.
You will explore a mix of concepts and practice during the workshop, and walk away with tools you can start to apply in your daily life.
Asking for what we need
12 October,
12 - 3pm, Wellington
$89
In this afternoon workshop we will apply tools and concepts from Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to learn making different types of requests, and practice asking for what we really want.
You will explore how to stay in dialogue even when it gets tricky, and how to remain in connection to yourself and others.
Saying no without guilt
9 November,
12 - 3pm, Wellington
$89
In this afternoon workshop we will apply foundational concepts rooted in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), to have a stronger relationship with our “no”.
You will explore what it means to say “no”, and what we are saying “yes” to when we do that.
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Coaching feels like an extravagant expense. What am I going to get from investing in it?We get it. Investing in coaching is something we don’t take lightly either. In our experience, coaching is a positive investment long-term in the relationship with yourself, and others in your life. We often find your investment returns back to you in terms of better communication, more connection in your relationships, as well as your increasing your energy, time and joy.
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Do you offer payment plans?Yes. If you’d like to discuss a payment plan, get in touch with us.
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How do I know that Hearth will be the right fit for me?Meet us! We offer different ways for you to meet us to find out how we work, and how it feels to work with us. Book a free exploratory call or come along to one of our workshops. If we aren’t the right fit after this, we can recommend others who we feel will be
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How often are sessions and how many will I need?Get in touch with us to get a full description of al our packages. You can also book a free, no-obligation chat. Of course, we are always open to scheduling your sessions in a way that works for you - we know how busy life can be!
Kind words
“You teach in such an inspiring way: one that breaks down the barrier of student & teacher. It was refreshing to hear that you too are living and playing with this human life, that together, we all share”
Holly, Wellington
“I loved the ebb and flow of Anna and Helen's workshop. They created a warm, open-hearted space for self enquiry with NVC and mindfulness, as well as time for group learning and sharing. I look forward to the next”
Nicky, Wellington workshop participant
“Anna and Helen's workshop on building healthy relationships really filled me with so many insights about myself, about my growth, my views, the stories I tell myself... and how to make sense out of them”
Dani, Wellington workshop participant
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Anna is a facilitator with over two decades experience working with groups and communities in Europe, Aotearoa, and globally online. She has led communication and conflict management workshops for groups ranging from social leaders to Early Childhood teachers.
Anna has also done research into conflict, communication and belonging. She is passionate about finding ways to sit together at the table and stay until solutions are found. Anna is a needs-based communication trainer, affiliated with the Needs-Based Coaching Institute, and Neufeld Institute Poland. Outside of work, she is a mother of three, wife, daughter, sister and friend.
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Helen Williams
Helen has been a lifelong student of mindfulness, meditation and communication. Her passion is to support people to understand themselves, their relationships, and the way they interact and engage with the world.
A former lawyer, Helen has been facilitating private, and workplace mediation and mindfulness trainings in New Zealand for the past decade. She has studied Compassionate Inquiry Method (a trauma-informed coaching approach) with Gabor Mate, is an accredited mediator and a professional member of Resolution Institute NZ.