Fierce Power Experts

The experts working with Brita to deliver our courses and coaching programmes.

“With realisation of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.”

— Dalai Lama

Lorna Liddle

Step Into Your Power Course Facilitator

Women’s presence can be transformative, disrupting the existing structures and paving the way for a better world. It is my mission to support women to step into their authentic feminine power, which is an unstoppable force.

This is my ‘fierce’.

Throughout my life, I have held a deep admiration for women. Growing up, I watched my mother and grandmothers tirelessly weave and nurture life for their families and communities. I was drawn to emulate them and support women who faced social and economic hardships and gender inequality.

In 2004, I began a career in social work in Belfast, where I supported children and mothers in crisis. I witnessed the devastating impact that trauma, abuse, addiction, oppression, inequity, and violation had on families, and it motivated me to manage community-based programs for young caregivers and adults recovering from addiction in Scotland. Later, I worked as a supervising social worker, recruiting and training new foster carers while supporting existing ones and the children under their care.

The pandemic and other personal crises prompted me to undertake a radical review of my path of service to humanity. I trained as a life coach and transformational coach with the centerfortransformationalcoaching.com. This training provided me with a new approach to supporting people while expanding my own healing journey and exposing me to various healing modalities and ancient wisdom.

  • Over the past two decades, my journey has taken me through a path of emotional healing and personal growth. My focus has been centred on healing my heart, which has been my life's work. My daughter's arrival was the catalyst that spurred me to find my true purpose. As someone with deep mother wounds, mothering my children became a vital part of my personal healing process.

    My journey has been far from linear, marked by a continual ebb and flow of light and dark periods. I have encountered numerous crises, losses, violations, tragedies, and challenges along the way. However, each time, I learned more and more to attend to difficulties with compassion and care. I have developed the capacity to use every experience as a learning and growth opportunity and I have learned to embrace my feminine power and inspire and guide other women to do the same.

  • I hold a BA in Sociology and Social Policy, as well as a BA in Social Work. With a certificate in counselling and dual certification as a life coach and deep transformational coach, as well as training and initiations in alternative therapies, I bring a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise to support individuals and groups on their journey to personal and professional growth.

    As a Senior Member of ACCPH, my commitment to ethical practices and professional development is unwavering. I am dedicated to empowering others through a holistic approach to well-being, combining my educational background with practical coaching skills.

Rebecca Bonnici

Step Into Your Power Course Facilitator

My purpose is to support women in becoming their most authentic, whole, and vibrant selves. I know that inside each of us is a wellspring of wisdom and power. When we learn to embody our innate radiance, magic happens—we can unleash the phenomenal potential that is just waiting for us to be ready!

I believe that empowerment and transformation occur when we cultivate the dynamic conditions required. Over the past 25 years, I have honed the art of coaching clients to create new ways of being in all aspects of their lives. Creating inner safety, deeply listening to body, heart, and mind, and expressing what is most authentic is the root of personal power and aligned action. The coaching relationship creates a safe and generative container where these skills come into greater life.

As a teenager, I stumbled across a book called Gentle Birth at my local library. It contained awe-inspiring images of women birthing and the first moments after birth.  The power, vulnerability, and rawness of birth drew me in. As I worked with women I learned just how powerfully, when a woman experiences safety, attunement, and autonomy, she is empowered. Birth, as in the rest of life, doesn’t always go as planned. We may meet our edges: fear, loss, pain, and a radical identity shift. Sometimes joy can also be an edge. As a doula, I supported and coached women in this journey.

My work as a doula brought me to wanting to understand the development of attunement and communication in caregivers, children, and adults. As a speech therapist, I have found that supporting caregiver’s ability to “tune in” to their young language learners is the secret ingredient.  It creates greater joy, connection, and development! I coach caregivers on how to listen, not just to words, but to body language and their inner state, as a springboard to support communication development. Craniosacral Therapy provides an additional tool to use to support caregivers in their regulation, as well as to create more ease and spaciousness for children and adults.

  • Rebecca is a nationally licensed speech-language pathologist with a Master of Science in Communication Sciences from the University of Vermont. She is a certified Deep Transformational Coach with The Center for Transformational Coaching. She has held certification as a birth doula with Doulas of North America. Rebecca also had the opportunity to complete a special leadership training at the MIT u-lab: Leading from the Emerging Future.

    Rebecca lives in Vermont with her spouse, two children, and dog, where she provides Deep Transformational Coaching, Craniosacral Therapy, and Speech & Language Therapy. She is passionate about Whole Food Plant Based Eating, Conscious Parenting, and supporting people in living from their truest, most authentically alive selves.

Shivonne Graham

Coaching Circle for Leading Women Course Facilitator

Shivonne Graham is a co-founder and director of the charity management consultancy, Roots + Wings. She is an expert practitioner of feminist co-leadership and a fierce advocate for excellence in fundraising, communications and governance at charities of all sizes.

Shivonne has over a decade’s experience of leading charities as a Managing Director, Trustee and Chair of the Board. During this time, she pioneered a feminist approach to co-leadership, prioritising collaboration, learning and honesty above ego and personal glory. She now shares this methodology with others through the Coaching Circle for Leading Women, led in partnership with Brita.

Before founding Roots + Wings, Shivonne spent 25 years working at a variety of charities and not-for-profit organisations. She led fundraising, marketing and communications teams to success at Shelter, Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, Comic Relief, Global Radio Charities, Amref Health Africa and Global Fund for Children.

Most recently, she was Managing Director of Women for Women International – UK. Shivonne is a founding member and Director of KindFest, the world’s first entirely digital festival celebrating Kindness. She was previously a member of the Fundraising and Communications Committee at Womankind Worldwide and Chair of Trustees for Khulisa, a charity that delivers social and emotional programmes in schools, prisons and communities helping young people to thrive.

She was twice listed on Civil Society magazine’s Fundraising's 50 Most Influential list (No:17, No: 9). Shivonne holds a degree in Development and International Relations from the University of Sussex. Outside of work, Shivonne loves her dogs, her nieces, yoga, pilates and running.