Hi I am Chrissy.
I am NOW a Poet, Trainer Speaker and teacher.
I grew up in the care system in the UK in the 70s living in two childrens’ homes and two foster homes. Not gonna lie it was a tough thing living in homes with lots of other kids and with no parents. I left at 16 and then the life really started.
I have had a lot of fun in my life travelled, raved danced til dawn, took too many party drugs and had my son very young parenting with no blue print was the hardest but most rewarding thing to do. I found though for a number of years I struggled with awful panic attacks, depression and a diagnosis of PTSD from a difficult childhood, while I tried many things to ‘fix’ myself. Therapy, self help books, meditation alternative medicine. They all worked for a short while.
Thankfully about 5 years ago I was introduced to how life really works and the understanding of my creative health where I finally re-trusted my own wisdom and insight and I now even when life is tough (it still can be) I know everything is always working out for me. I understand that being at home is a feeling not a place, and I want you to have this gift please don’t wait!
Living the dream… Now is new is a project Kat founded in 2021 to realise her dream of helping 1 million young struggling people to thrive. It is based on the book Now is New that she started writing in 2020, realising that crazy times need our amazing creative minds! I am blessed to work alongside Kat to develop and deliver Create Your Next Steps courses and opportunities.
I also teach creative workshops in Poetry and am a published poet you can find out more by following me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Chrissy_Kelly
We have everything we need >>>right now<<< to create the new.
What we do…
Our work is focused on helping young people who are struggling to thrive create their next steps part of this is to
run groups and courses for young people.
run groups and courses for adults who work with young people and parents.
Kat can also take a small number of young people 1-2-1. A minimum of three sessions is required. Please click here to contact her.
Alongside this I personally dance a lot, laugh a lot, love to drive long journeys with the music blaring, write poems on demand commission me here… have been published and perform my Poems on demand (for money).
I have designed a life I don’t need to take a holiday from, however I love to travel. Bring on the next adventure
Out of the past, in the present, for the future…
The deets…
Chrissy Kelly BA(Hons) in Information Systems with Qualified Teacher Status (2:1) Diploma in Experiential Counselling and a certification in Wellbeing and Wisdom.
I grew up in West Sussex and Suffolk (Raver and coffee lover). I left the children’s home at 16 …….
I have been many things and had many labels and identities in my life, waitress, legal secretary, computer technician, teacher, Education Consultant, Trainer, Author, Speaker Poet and Entrepreneur, and mother.
I have run 3 successful businesses. IntuitionICT where I taught IT skills and supported small business to become more technology efficient. ReviseYourMind, where I supported young people with their wellbeing and educational skills to do well in and during exam times and years, for example Year 11 12 and 13 and at university. Now I have a business called Fabulous Thinking, where I support people healing through creativity and understanding how the human experience works.
I have spent many years in self exploration and tried many different things in my own healing journey having found peace in the Three Principles understanding. I have shared this with students at Harris Academy, Southfields Academy, Teachers at Queens Teachers and Key workers at Wandsworth Virtual School, Key workers and front line workers at. Young people on Intergenerational training.
I have also worked with the Wisdom & Wellbeing Collective team within Harris Academy, Morden on their Young Entrepreneurs Scheme together as deepening my understanding and certification with Wisdom & Wellbeing practitioner and coach, supporting their listening space initiative.
I love exploring the truth of how life really works with groups and in a variety of educational settings. I am also passionate about showing those who may have had a difficult start in life that they can access their own insight and wisdom and do not have to spend years looking outside for a “fix”, that they are not broken! I love pointing people back to accessing creativity and how sharing our stories heals us all.
Chrissy lives in South London in the diversity of the old and new London embracing both sides.