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When things feel stuck, you can turn them around.

If conflict, overwhelm, or disconnection keep pulling you into reactions you don’t choose, there’s another way through. Learn to meet life’s hardest moments with steadiness instead of struggle — and reconnect with what truly matters to you.

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"If you've tried communication training but you still find yourself freezing, shutting down or reacting under stress, you may need Somatic Therapy

Who I help

You know what you want to say. But when pressure builds or conflict flares, something else takes over — you freeze, shut down, snap, or withdraw. Afterward you’re left feeling disconnected, misunderstood, and far from the person you mean to be.

This isn’t a flaw in you. These reactions are old survival patterns, wired in long ago and often held in the body before you ever have words for them. Some you can see. Many you can’t — yet they shape how you communicate, how you connect, and how much of life feels like scarcity rather than enough.

The work here is about loosening those patterns at the root, so your reactions no longer run the show. As they soften, something opens: clearer communication, deeper connection, and a felt sense of liberation — moving from *what’s bothering you* toward *what matters to you*.

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How this works

After a lifetime of counselling, coaching, mentoring, and facilitating, I’ve come to see that thriving through hard times rests on three things: releasing the patterns that limit us, settling an over-activated nervous system, and growing real emotional resilience.

I help people who are carrying stress, complexity, and conflict find their way to something lighter and freer. Together we gently unwind the reactive patterns — including inherited ones held in the body — that keep you stuck in scarcity and disconnection. What emerges is resilience: the capacity to stay present, communicate honestly, and feel genuinely connected, even under pressure.

This pathway runs through the body, because that’s where these patterns live and where lasting change takes hold.
 
This work draws on Nonviolent Communication, and Feldenkrais, and  decades of practical, body-based approaches for unwinding stuck patterns and turning reactivity into resilience.

Autumn Retreat

This is a gathering for folk to deepen kinship, village build and share ritual that nourishes the body mind system on many levels. Numbers are always limited.

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Private
Mentoring

For the moments when stress and communication challenges feel like too much. Discover a new way of being with yourself and others that builds steadiness and rebuilds connection — at home and at work — through these colourful, unpredictable times.

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People & Organisations

Your people's wellbeing is everything. I work with teams to meet stress and conflict skilfully and co-operatively, transforming reactive friction into a culture of care, honest communication, and genuine collaboration.

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Wise
Moves

A way of letting the body inform the mind. Reconnect with yourself and your surroundings to bring body, mind, emotion, and psyche back into balance — the ground from which resilience grows.

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“Out beyond the ideas of right or wrong there is a field, I will meet you there.”

Effective
Communication
Courageous
Conversations
Workplace
Productivity
Authentic &
Productive Relationships
A Culture
Of Care
Enhanced
Interpersonal Skills
Increase
Profitability
Connection &
Collaboration
Improved Body-Mind
Synergy
Increased
Staff Retention
Grounded
Decision Making
Sustainable
Practices

What my clients have to say

"Susie’s empathy for others, and the passion for what she does, shines through her whole being."
"Her way and presence of delivering NVC, not as a head based training but embodying it as a lived alternative for a more beautiful world, was and is a blessing to witness."
"Her voice is so calming and she has that clarity and calmness you need when you can't see the wood for the trees."
"It is a real privilege and blessing to the country to have someone like her be a cornerstone of and for the Auckland and New Zealand NVC community."
"Susie has a talent for comprehending body-mind-spirit connection."
"I so loved your silent presence while I shared, it was palpable. I loved your contribution and care, the way you hold complexity with harmony."
"Susie speaks the language of Angels. This language speaks deeply to the heart of what really matters - what it is to be human and how we can companion ourselves with kindness, compassion and aroha."
"Susie's gentle guiding helps us to accept and embrace all the many aspects of ourselves that we struggle to face and in doing so brings us into a peaceful intimate understanding of just how magnificent we really are."
"I am deeply grateful for Susie's generosity of spirit in sharing her gifts and language with me."
"I really wished every person I knew in pain or suffering could meet and experience Susie Spiller. Her work is profound and you are lucky if you can get to work with her."
"I have tapped into a whole new part of my body’s eco-system that I’ve been numbing with my mind. I’ve also come to see and own my over-reactions to people or events that have distressed me."
"I now have a procedure that calms my nervous system and helps me to give empathy to myself in tough situations. I have never had access to this before and it really is life-changing."

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021 770 107

susie@wisecommunication.nz

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