Gifts and Story
Facing a life-shattering crisis at 19 years old, Melody grew determined to find inner freedom and dove into a deep journey of inner healing. She immersed herself in practices for healing trauma, cultivating conscious embodiment, relating compassionately, and building community. She has courageously transmuted the pain from a myriad of traumatic experiences and health crises into a quality of character and depth of presence that is both an inspiration to witness and a catalyst for others’ healing journey. With an enduring commitment to meeting life with an open heart, she has traversed the depths of shame, powerlessness, anger, terror and depression. Embracing adversity as gateways for greater love, she has developed a profound compassion for humanity.
For 20 years Melody has worked in the fields of Compassionate Communication, Social Services, Relationship Counseling, and Therapeutic Bodywork. She has cultivated a depth of embodied awareness and integrated wisdom that shines through in her work supporting harmony within individuals, couples, and groups. Melody has an intuitive way of illuminating unresolved trauma beneath people’s pain/conflict, and encouraging compassionate empowerment. She embraces people with love, sees their divinity and believes in their gifts.
Melody Lucian embodies the essence of compassion and offers her gifts with love. People experience the grace of her empathic heart and find peace in her presence. Melody is an inspiration in how she lives with integrity and moves through life from the heart.
Education & Professional Background
Melody has a degree in Intercultural Psychology and Expressive Arts from Naropa University, is a Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer, Somatic Counselor, and a Certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.
Her training includes: Adult Attachment Couples Work, Life Purpose Coaching, Pre and Perinatal Psychology, Expressive Arts Therapies, Contact Improvisation, Somatic Trauma Release, Mediation, Sociocracy, Restorative Justice, “The Work” of Byron Katie, Non-duality, and Meditation.
Professionally she has collaborated in developing various innovative non-profit programs for youth including a residential home for teen girls, a restorative justice program, a girls self-empowerment program, and social change projects in high schools. As a Counselor she has done domestic violence awareness groups in schools, family mediation, and Somatic Counseling for individuals and couples.
As a Nonviolent Communication Trainer she has facilitated trainings in schools with parents, teachers and children, held staff trainings for organizations, offered workshops at festivals, spoken at conferences, and led numerous community courses.
As a Community Facilitator she has led: visioning and decision-making meetings for intentional communities, interpersonal mediation for Non-profit leadership teams, and workshops for women’s empowerment programs in Canada, USA, Mexico and Ecuador. She has also given workshops at the “FIC Intentional Communities Conference”, and sessions at the “Global Summit: Women, Power, Money & Politics.”
