Amanda Comstock is a consultant, coach, experiential educator/facilitator, and poet/artist/dancer. In her work, Amanda’s approach sources from multiple ways of knowing including lived experience, connection with the natural world, art-making, writing and embodied (somatic) movement research. As owner of Empowered Learning by Design, LLC, she supports organizations and individuals in developing creative thinking, holistic teamwork and sustainable strategy and learning development. , Her expertise is on leadership, belonging and culture, team dynamics and sustainability.

She holds a Master’s in Science in Positive Organizational Development (MSPOD) from Case Western Reserve University and undergraduate degree from McGill University in English and Eastern Religion (2004). She is a Somatic Movement Educator (rSME), trained in the School for Body-Mind Centering® (2018). Her training took place in multiple international environments; in addition to learning the BMC® Methods, she also learned about culturally-specific approaches to the body.

Amanda has developed and/or facilitated programs in a variety of traditional and non-traditional educational contexts for the past 20 years. She is currently developing a program entitled “The Organizational Body”.

Professional Memberships:

International Organizational Development Association (IODA)

Organizational Development Network (ODN)

Body-Mind Centering Association (BMCA)

International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine