Vie Portland
Trainer
Speaker
Mentor
Author
Encouraging your self-confidence
to blossom into
the best version of you.
When I am asked why I do what I do,
I tell them it's because people asked me to.
When people saw me perform, they asked me to teach them; when they saw me dance at vintage events, they asked me to teach them.
When people saw how my teaching helped people feel better about themselves, they asked me to teach them.
That's the way it's been since the very beginning; with people seeing me doing something and then asking me to teach, educate and share my work.
I always say that my academic work and life experiences have all come together as a gift to enable me to help people blossom.
I have a background in psychology, counselling, childcare and education, and I also use my life experiences of overcoming adversity to being who I am today.
I love to work with people of all ages to help them see how wonderful they are - just as they are.
Trainer
Along with her in-depth knowledge of her subject matter, Vie employs the Training 4 Influence methods to ensure that her training is delivered in a way that inspires, is relevant, enables learning, and exceeds training objectives.
Her current courses are:
Building a Positive and Inclusive Workplace: Cultivating Happiness, Kindness, and Confidence.
Empowering Wraparound Care: Encouraging Happiness, Kindness, Confidence, and Inclusion.
Confident Students: It’s all in the teaching.
Speaker
Vie has extensive public speaking experience, which includes charity events, women’s groups, networking groups, motivational events, and many other speaking engagements.
Her Keynote Subjects are -
- Overcoming trauma and adversity
- Living with disabilities/hidden disabilities.
- Encouraging confidence in women.
- Raising confident children and young people.
- Inclusion.
- Creating happier, kinder work environments.
Author
Vie has written three inclusive children’s picture books, collaborations in business books, book for teens, and a short story, as well as collating stories from the EB community, along with a positive, and personal, growth book for adults called "La Vie est Belle"
Vie loves doing book readings - The young reader sessions are fun, vibrant, often loud and silly, and full of love, incorporating some of the self esteem and confidence work she does in her workshops and talks.
With "La Vie" she combines readings with empowerment exercises; understandably, this story sometimes causes tears but people always leave smiling.
Mentor
Vie uses a vast range of credentials, including her psychology degree, counselling qualifications, additional educational achievements, and her trauma-informed lived experience.
Vie works with each client as an individual, because, just as we are all individuals, so are our needs.
Encouragement.
Motivation.
Trauma-informed.
Inclusive.
