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Meet the Facilitators from our Lottery funded online Community Project
Imale (they/them) is the founder of Nlovu Sensual Wellness, created to nurture deep connections— within ourselves and with others. An integrative therapist, Imale blends academic, experiential, and traditional practices to offer LGBTQIA+ affirmative care, welcoming clients exploring kink, non-monogamy, and alternative relationships. With a background in sexual health and advocacy, Imale supports those reconciling faith, identity, and sexuality. Nlovu embodies Imale's mission to help individuals reclaim pleasure, embrace desires, and live without shame, offering a space for self-acceptance, growth, and spiritual awakening through mindful practices and authentic self-expression. Find them in the Workshop Library offering 'Tantric Tea', and at instagram @nlovusensual and at www.mafuta.co.uk
Saskia (they/she) is a speech and language therapist based in Cape Town, South Africa. One of their main focuses is gender affirming voice and communication therapy, in which they assist clients who experience dysphoria in relation to their voice and communication style, find their true and authentic voice. Broadly speaking, the therapy falls under masculinising, feminising, or neutralising. Saskia also provides neurodiversity affirming communication therapy, and in many cases, the two therapies go hand in hand. Being nonbinary herself, and having been diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, they have valuable lived experience in these areas. Due to the shortage of gender affirming services around the world, Saskia has recently launched an online gender affirming voice coaching service, open to anyone worldwide, in English. It is important to Saskia that everyone, everywhere has access to gender affirming services. Additionally, Saskia is able to keep their fees relatively low due to the favorable exchange rate, making their services more affordable for international clients. Saskia is passionate about being accessible to the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as to the professional gender affirming community, and they welcome anyone who would like to find out more about gender affirming voice services to get in touch. Saskia's workshop is Finding Your Authentic Voice and can be found in the workshop library, and they can be contacted at www.slspeechtherapy.com and on instagram @_genderaffirming_voicecoach_
Mookaite Jasper (they / them) is a non-binary yoga teacher based in Middlesbrough, where they run a social enterprise called Queer Yoga North C.I.C. They are passionate about sharing the tools of yoga for mental health, using their own lived experiences to inform their work in the LGBTQIA+ community. They also deliver Proud Allies training for Curious Arts and Northern Pride. Connect @queeryoganorth and www.queeryoganorth.com
Ali Hendry (she/her) is a Certified Holistic Relationship Coach and Educator. She helps LGBTQ+ women and non-binary folk to transform their love lives into authentic and joyful connections. Ali is a Relationship Columnist for DIVA Magazine and host of The Relationship Room on podDIVA and Instagram. She is Course Director of a Certified Relationship Coach Diploma, TEDx speaker (Survivor’s Guide to Jealousy), and Relationship Educator for inclusive dating app WAX. www.alihendry.co.uk | @alihendrycoaching
Sam (he/him) is a Brighton-based, trans, disabled, neurodivergent facilitator with a background in youth work, LGBTQ+ inclusion training and fundraising/comms. Sam has worked across several LGBTQ+ charities in London and currently works for Allsorts Youth Project in Brighton. Sam also volunteers providing advocacy support for people in detention. Sam draws upon his own lived experiences as a chronically ill/disabled person as well as his background supporting LGBTQ+ communities to inform workshops on self-advocacy; supporting fellow queer/trans/disabled folks to better understand and advocate for their needs. Sam also delivers freelance LGBTQ+ inclusion training and consultancy. For more information or requests for future work contact keanoceansam@gmail.com.
Caroline Hire (Caz – she/her) is a functional medicine health coach, EFT practitioner and yoga teacher, specialising in helping people to transform their health, energy and happiness through understanding and prioritising their own needs, preferences and physiology. ​ She loves to teach people how to use EFT (tapping) on themselves, having personally found the benefit of being able to process and reframe intense emotions, thoughts, feelings and beliefs for greater peace of mind. Find her at: Caroline Hire, Health & Energy Coach https://www.comehometohappiness.com/ https://www.instagram.com/comehometohappiness/
Yolanda (they/them) is a Somatic Intimacy Coach and Sexological Bodyworker, their work is about creating a more alive and connected relationship to your body. Instagram and Substack @softsentience
Helen Jane Campbell (she/her) is a coach for creative people and the author of Founders, Freelancers & Rebels. An EMCC accredited coach, she previously led a successful career in PR, and loves supporting founders and freelancers as well as larger organisations. Helen's proudly part of the LGBTQ+ community and co-founded and co-ran the first Pride in Hay-on-Wye. She's passionate about authenticity – nobody's faking it to make it on her watch. www.forcreativepeople.com
Maria (she/her) has been teaching tarot, spiritual and personal development for over a decade. She is also, more recently, a qualified Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist. A London-born Cypriot, she takes an intersectional approach and aims to create safe and affirmative spaces. Her instagram is @adventures_in_marialand
Zanni (they/them) is an artist who works with the body and movement to explore possibilities, transformation, choice, multiplicity. They are passionate about exploring the body and movement through a queer and trans lens - queering up the body and reclaiming the potential and possibilities of dissident bodies, celebrating their imaginative and revolutionary superpowers. They search for connection through tapping into sensory and physical experiencing, foregrounding the body and movement as anchors for accessing these radical powers. They see dance and movement as creating spaces for exploring and practicing ways of being, ways of relating, ways of approaching life, ways of being in space; for creating alternatives to the normative structures and systems of power. Spaces for practicing presence; practicing play and curiosity; practicing dissidence, disrupting and imagining. Their instagram is @zannii_ct and their website ishttps://zanni-ct.squarespace.com/
I’m Moon (they/them), a queer, neurodiverse creative with over 10 years of personal movement practice and 3 years of teaching experience as a qualified yoga teacher. I’m also a qualified Mental Health First Aider and currently work in social housing, where my approach is rooted in trauma-informed care. For me, movement isn’t about doing things perfectly—it’s about letting go, surrendering, and finding freedom in the body. I’m passionate about holding affirming spaces where queer community can explore connection, expression, and joy through movement. Moon's instagram is @_movewithmoon_
Keith (he/they) graduated in 2019 with a degree in Social Work and has spent most of his career in the third sector, supporting people’s wellbeing. He currently works with trans young people and their loved ones, providing a listening ear and practical information. He has also worked for his family’s training business and has contributed to their resources about caring for transgender patients. He currently runs an LGBTQ+ book club in his spare time.
Hazel is a 25 year old music teacher with a background in supporting students with additional needs and helping musicians overcome difficulties with anxiety when performing. Since coming out as a trans woman she has studied voice feminization with a focus on maintaining a consistent sound while singing and when addressing large groups of people and delivers instruction with a focus on making sure that a voice which can stand up to the stress of being used at higher volumes and in different settings is achieved. Hazel offers free group voice training sessions based in Hastings, and paid 1:1 sessions online and in person. She makes a point of keeping prices as low as possible and maintains a donation pool to help pay for lessons for those who wouldn't be able to access tuition otherwise. Hazel started teaching trans voice with the goal of making something accessible for those unable to pay for coaching or access training on the NHS. If you are interested in voice coaching with Hazel email Hazelorawe@gmail.com for more details.