Whole Heart Consulting
Transforming the systems that care for others
Whole Heart Consulting
Our Vision
The people holding our systems together are carrying too much.
Helping professionals are often expected to absorb impossible workloads, respond to constant urgency, and remain emotionally available—without adequate space to recover, reflect, or reconnect with themselves.
The result is more than individual burnout. It affects retention, leadership, collaboration, morale, and the quality of care an organization can provide.
The Whole Heart Method™
Our Purpose
Whole Heart Consulting helps organizations understand the human patterns beneath these challenges and develop practical, relational, trauma-informed responses.
This work creates breathing space for the people who care for others—and supports organizations in building cultures where care can be sustained.
4 Pillars of Possiblity
A Whole-System Approach to Sustainable Care
Every organization has different people, pressures, and priorities. Engagements are designed around your organization’s needs using four interconnected pillars.
Pillar One: Consulting
Listen. Clarify. Design. Sustain.
Consulting is the foundation of our organizational work.
We partner with leaders to understand what employees are carrying, identify the patterns contributing to burnout and disconnection, and develop strategies that fit the realities of the organization.
Consulting engagements may include:
- Leadership and stakeholder listening sessions
- Organizational wellness assessments
- Burnout and workforce-sustainability strategy
- Culture-of-care development
- Program and training design
- Retreat and community-wellness planning
- Implementation guidance
- Ongoing advisory support
The goal is not to add another wellness initiative. It is to help your organization make meaningful, sustainable changes in how people are supported.
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Pillar Two: Workshops
Turn insight into shared practice.
Interactive workshops give teams space to pause, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and practice more sustainable ways of working together.
Workshop topics may include:
- Understanding burnout beyond self-care
- Over-responsibility in helping systems
- Boundaries without disconnection
- Nervous-system-informed leadership
- Self-compassion and sustainable performance
- Moving from self-abandonment to self-loyalty
- Supporting the people who hold care systems together
Workshops can be offered as stand-alone experiences or incorporated into a larger consulting engagement.
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Pillar Three: Speaking
Conversations that help people feel seen—and invite change.
Marci Warren offers warm, engaging presentations that bring together professional experience, trauma-informed insight, personal reflection, and practical tools.
Speaking topics explore the emotional realities of helping work while offering a more humane vision of leadership, resilience, and organizational care.
Available for:
- Keynotes
- Conferences
- Leadership gatherings
- Professional associations
- Panels
- Staff-development events
- Organizational retreats
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Pillar Four: Coaching
Support for the people leading and carrying the work.
Coaching provides a confidential, non-clinical space for helping professionals and leaders to reflect, clarify priorities, strengthen boundaries, and make values-aligned decisions.
Coaching may be incorporated into an organizational engagement for:
- Executives and organizational leaders
- Clinical and program directors
- Managers and supervisors
- Emerging leaders
- Teams navigating transition or sustained pressure
Individual coaching is also available for helping professionals seeking support outside an organizational partnership.
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