Emily Carr is a Learning Experience Designer, All-Purpose Educator, Author & Fitness Trainer based on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
☆ I am trained as a doctor of poetry, I self-identify as a joyous revolutionary arts educator and your best fitness friend, and I specialize in jolting folks into imaginative leaps and physical feats they didn’t know they had inside them.
☆ I have worn a lot of hats (usually simultaneously!), and in my diverse career this is the thorough-line: figuring out what arts and educational organizations need to translate their BIG DREAMS into resilient, fiscally-responsible realities, and then putting systems, structures, people, and processes in place to make that happen.
☆ From my work building two brand-new Creative Writing programs from scratch, to developing storytelling and wellness programming for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, to designing family fitness bootcamps and poetry slam workshops for GIRLS, Inc., to coaching individuals in the transformative power of storytelling and strength training—my goal has always been to help others find the sweet spot where work and play are one.
☆ Because when work is play, and play is work: we thrive, at home and at work.
When we infuse work with play, we are happier, healthier, more confident, and more productive.
When we approach work as playful and play as productive, we are more likely to learn from our failures, value the process as much as the product, and take the kinds of creative risks that lead to cognitive breakthroughs.
☆ Let me help you and your team reach those conclusions too!
Flagship Project
Flagship Project
HOW I HELP YOU grow an environment of wellbeing, lifelong learning, creative risk-taking, and skill development.
I support you to:
🎯 INCREASE ROI, productivity, efficiency, retention, and satisfaction by making learning programs FUN, interactive, and learner-centric.
🎯 CONNECT teams in deep and meaningful ways by creating psychologically safe learning spaces in which diverse participants can build the camaraderie, trust and empathy that is the foundation of effective cross-functional teamwork.
🎯 PROMOTE a healthy, vibrant culture in which every voice is heard, every contribution is valued, and every individual is connected by to the organizational mission via the power of storytelling.
🎯 IMPROVE performance outcomes by aligning individual values and experiences with organizational objectives and values.
🎯 TRAIN individual to tap into their intrinsic motivation to learn, become self-directed learners, and learn from their work (vs. making learning more work).
🎯 CREATE an environment in which team members feel comfortable discussing their challenges, seeking support, and learning as much from their failures as their successes.
🎯 INSPIRE team members to generally bust through whatever limiting belief isn’t serving them so that they can more fully claim their authenticity and wholeness.
☆ What are some of my accomplishments?
In my 10+ years’ experience, I excel at working with diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership, subject matter experts, peers, and clients on projects that involve:
Designing and managing hybrid and in-person curricula for diverse audiences.
Developing, administering, and assessing employee and student recruitment and onboarding programs.
Utilizing assessment data to drive changes in curriculum.
Implementing protocols and procedures to create learning environments in which everyone, regardless of background, ability, experience, and identification, feels brave and can learn and grow at their highest level.
☆ What makes me so unique as a learning experience designer?
I've worn a lot of hats, all of which help to create innovative opportunities for learning and development and which make me an expert at working outside my expertise, learning on the job, taking creative risks, learning as much from my failures as my successes, and inspiring others to do the same!
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MICRO ELEARNING
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Let’s work together!
I can’t wait to hear from you!
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Let’s chat about your event, project, curriculum, or question! The first 15 minutes is on me. I look forward to speaking with you!
Complimentary.
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I craft FUN, MOTIVATING, EXPERIENTIAL, HOLISITIC learner-centric curricula that teach participants HOW to learn, as they transition to self-directed learners and create their own conscious creative communities.
I’ve designed a K-8 music curricula for a Quaker school in North Carolina; a graduate-level, hybrid (part in-person and part online) Creative Writing curriculum for a start-up campus of a state school in Oregon ; an undergraduate, interdisciplinary Creative Writing curriculum for a liberal arts college in Florida; and a digital storytelling and mindfulness curriculum for a medical school in Illinois.
I’m an expert at collaborating with diverse stakeholders, working outside my expertise, and designing resilient and adaptable curricula and would love to help you design a learning community in which everyone, regardless of background, ability, or experience, leaves feeling stronger, happier, and more confident.
Project based starting at $150 per hour.
Packages available upon request.
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I bring 25+ years of experience coaching fitness and 15+ years as a certified Les Mills International coach. I self-identify as your best fitness friend. I specialize in HIIT, cross-training, circuit training, mixed martial arts, strength training, core, flexibility and mobility and have coached around the world, at YMCA’s, boutique fitness clubs, yoga studios, corporate gyms in the Silicon Valley, art museums, public libraries, local nonprofits, private homes, and most recently online.
My coaching style is approachable and motivational, equal parts information and inspiration.
My goal is to inspire each participant to find their own internal motivation to incorporate fitness into the foundation of a healthy lifestyle that includes diet, rest, exercise, relaxation, and creativity.
I am available for personal training, group personal training, and group fitness in-person and online.
Hourly starting at $100 per hour.
Packages available upon request.
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All of my writing workshops are designed to reconnect folks with parts of themselves they have forgotten how to remember—or left out in order to fit in.
Recent workshops include Family as Fodder, Telling Other People’s Stories, Moth-style Storytelling (5-12 minutes, true, performed live), Digital Storytelling (5 minutes or less, true, incorporating text, image, and sound), Photopoetry Recess (photography + poetry), Creative Flow (yoga + writing), and HIIT for the Heart: Writing & Resilience (in which we train our hearts like athletes do, because the heart is a muscle, too).
I’ve led workshops in-person and online, for colleges, libraries, middle schools, museums, yoga studios, public parks, energy ball companies, banking conferences, medical schools, medical conferences, and MORE!
Former participant Deborah Marini reports that: “Whenever my friends and family asked me about Emily’s workshop, excitedly I expressed what a wonderful experience. It made me realize that anyone can be a poet.
This class has changed my life forever. I constantly think about spark words and phrases. The way I look at the world and art pieces are very different than before I started this adventure. Today, I purchased two new journals, and colored pens and pencils, so that I can write new work wherever life takes me. I can't wait to see what I write in these journals.
Emily Carr is an amazing instructor and person. The class format was amazing. She was so patient and encouraging. I loved working with her and am hopeful that our journey will continue.”
I am on a mission to reconnect everyone—YOU—with the artist you forgot you had inside you. (We all have one—she might write a poem, bake a loaf of bread, compose a symphony, make a child or a day—regardless, we all have one!)
Hourly starting at $100/ hour.
Packages available upon request.