Co-Active Faculty

Credentials

CPCC, Other, PCC

Time Zone

North America – Mountain Standard Time (MST)

Language(s)

English

Kristen Maki

I’m a quiet rebel and I am passionate about helping people see differently. When I was 14, I took this passion literally and decided to become an Optometrist. Over time, I realized the vision I was most drawn to wasn’t about eyes – it was about insight, clarity, and living into new stories, together – and that my passion around helping people see differently runs much deeper. I love challenging social norms and supporting people & organizations to question what they think they know, especially intergenerational, gendered-role and identity beliefs around busyness, success, burnout, and wellbeing.

I have a point of view that informs my coaching and my brand, Emergent Wellbeing. I believe that true wellbeing – personal, professional, and collective – emerges when we unlearn social norms & narratives, reclaim our sovereignty, and build regenerative relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.

I believe that burnout, disconnection, and over-productivity are not individual failings but symptoms of systemic forces that prioritize output over vitality. My work challenges these forces by guiding coaches, recovering high-achievers, and changemakers to radically shift from the productivity-driven paradigm to a wellbeing-centred life.

At the heart of my approach is the belief that inner work is collective work – that healing and transformation happen not in a vacuum but in relationship with community, nature, and systemic change. I integrate social analysis, nervous system/body-mind wisdom, trauma and polyvagal-informed practices to help people disrupt the status quo and create sustainable, liberatory, emergent ways of living and working.

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