Words for Healing Experiences
Inspiring author visits, family events and wellbeing talks for schools, libraries, bookshops, visitor attractions, festivals and community organisations.
Children • Families • Adults • Corporate • Education
Choose from a range of experiences
🐾 Meet Poppy & the Author
📚 The Healing Power of Stories
✍️ Therapeutic Journalling Workshop
🧠 Understanding Neurodiversity
💛 The Power of Words for Healing
🎤 Inspirational Keynote
WHO I SPEAK FOR
- Schools, colleges, youth groups & universities
- Parents & carers
- Corporate wellbeing programmes
- Charities & support organisations
- Conferences, retreats & community events
Each talk is thoughtfully adapted to the audience, creating a meaningful and engaging experience.
WHAT AUDIENCES GAIN
Audiences leave with:
- A deeper understanding of how words shape their inner world
- Tools to support emotional healing and self-expression
- Greater compassion for themselves and others
- Practical ways to improve communication
- A renewed sense of connection and perspective
SPEAKING OPTIONS
Michelle offers:
- Keynote talks (30–60 minutes)
- Workshops (interactive, reflective sessions)
- School & college sessions
- Virtual or in-person events
- Optional book signing and Q&A
Talks can be tailored to suit your audience and event goals.
Popular Topics
Families & Children
- Meet Poppy & the Author
- Poppy’s Miracle Story Experience
- Reading Together
- Kindness & Resilience
- Creative Storytelling
Education
- Author Visits
- Reading for Wellbeing
- Neurodiversity
- Creative Writing
- Building Confidence
Adults
- The Healing Power of Stories (Bibliotherapy)
- Therapeutic Journalling
- Writing Through Life’s Challenges
- The Power of Words
- Neurodiversity in Everyday Life
- Finding Your Voice
Organisations
- Employee Wellbeing
- Inclusive Workplaces
- Neurodiversity
- Resilience
- Communication
ABOUT MICHELLE
Michelle Foulia is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker and founder of Words for Healing. She creates memorable experiences that combine storytelling, wellbeing and meaningful conversation for children, families, educators and organisations.
Her work is shaped by her own lived experiences of neurodivergence, foster care, trauma, healing, and transformation, alongside training in therapeutic modalities including clinical hypnotherapy, counselling skills, animal-assisted therapy, life coaching, positive psychology, and bibliotherapy.
Michelle has a unique ability to gently hold space for difficult emotions while guiding people towards insight, understanding, and change.
She is the author of Poppy’s Miracle, a children’s book and journal for children with ADHD, and co author of Embracing the Extraordinary for parents of neurodivergent childrren.
In 2023, she won second place in a national competition by the Severis Museum in Cyprus for her story Ottoman Inkwell in her native Greek language and which has been published into a children’s book by the museum.
She is also the winner of many awards for previous businesses including more recently the UK StartUp Award, Start Up for Good (for Wales) for her work coaching teenage entrepreneurs, and finalist for the Woman Who Achieves Special Recognition Award.