Marion Miller
Australia's Leading Personal & Professional Life Coach.
MBSR Mindfulness Teacher, Creative Arts & Ecotherapist.
​As a certified professional coach, I work with individuals near me to provide life-changing guidance. I have more than 20 years experience working in private practice, and facilitating in workplaces and the community. I'm an ICF Credentialed Coach, licensed PACFA counsellor and a certified MBSR/MBCT Mindfulness teacher and Ecotherapist with a holistic approach to personal and professional growth.
I'm a Senior Consultant for Converge international a leading organisation providing counselling and coaching for employees, managers and leaders across Australia. I also offer private practice and small group coaching in a studio in Glen Iris, Mindfulness PD course and retreats for practitioners, leadership professionals and parents.
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My specialty is helping clients develop their mindfulness, creativity and leadership potential using evidence-based strategies and east/west wisdom traditions. I am passionate about helping people reclaim their time and energy to build an authentic, creative and purposeful path.
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I'm a systems thinker with an authentic mindfulness centred, dynamic and creative, jungian approach. I believe we are intrinsically resourceful, imaginative, adaptive and generative, with the right conditions we can rise to the big challenges and reclaim our time and energy and create more purposeful lives.
Education and Training
​• Bachelor of Counselling (Coaching), Australian Colleague of Applied Psychology (ACAP)
• MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) and MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy), MTIA
• Advanced Eco-Therapy, International Ecopsychology Society Certified, Dr. Geoff Berry
• Mindful Self-Compassion Core Skills Training with Christopher Germer, PhD. & Kathleen Cator.
• The Art of Individuation: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, Centre of Applied Jungian Studies
• Introduction to Eco-psychology two day workshop with David Talamo, Wilderness Reflections L.A.
• Art Therapy Course for Counsellors with Helen McWilliam Gestalt Therapy.
• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness two day training with David Trevelen PhD.
• Trauma Informed Practice in Education with Smiling Mind.
• Competent Crew with The Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron.
• Mental Health First Aider Accreditation Certificate.
• Mindful Leadership and Compassion Masterclass with Emiliana Simon Thomas PhD.
• Environmental Champion Program, Stonnington Council and Port Phillip Ecocentre.
• Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) with Simon d'Orsogna.​​
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Professional Projects
• Mindfulness in the Park in collaboration with Boroondarra council and Victoria Walks was a pilot project located at Anderson Park throughout June-July 2022 and is now permanently on the Victoria Walks website.
• Stonnington Environmental Champion 2022. Developing an urban eco-retreat and ecotherapy practice at The Eco Retreat.
• Counselling and Coaching Services for employees at the following organisations YWCA, DET, Bunnings, Hodylandco, Merrihealth, Australian Environmental Auditors, ASRC, Lort Smith Animal Hospital and Sportsgirl.
• 2019 - 2021 MBSR 8-week mindfulness training followed by weekly group mindfulness sessions and individual counselling and coaching sessions for Bueno Systems.
• 2020 I delivered a series of 20 Leadership Wellbeing workshops to The Supreme Court of Victoria online during lockdown.
• In 2019 I delivered a series of 15 Leadership Wellbeing workshops to Target HQ. I provided coaching videos and articles for their internal community wellbeing publication.
• In 2018 I was on the Coles HQ Internal Coaching Panel and provided mindfulness workshops for staff.
• I self published my first book The Mindfulness Workbook: An 8-week guide to being present in 2016.
• I work as a facilitator in the education sector providing wellbeing and leadership coaching for the DET. I was also involved in facilitating a yearlong leadership wellbeing pilot called the Principal Wellbeing Program Smiling Mind and Work Safe program.
• I helped develop and facilitate Early learning leadership and wellbeing program for the DET with Smiling Mind.
• I co-developed a four year mental health and wellbeing strategy and implementation framework for William Angliss Institute in 2023
• Nature Calling Ecotherapy Training Retreat Manager and facilitator, 2024.
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Writing & Creative Projects
• I am a painter and feature some of my artworks in the website gallery.
• In 2014 I created a yearlong street photography series that took me from the streets of Melbourne to Manhattan, NYC.
• In 2015-16 I project managed several creative productions in the fashion industry including editorials, catwalk & film.
• In 2014 I volunteered for Prahran Mission in the Jenny Bannister Fashion Retrospective fundraiser event.
• In 2015 I did freelance writing for Elements; an independent fashion magazine based in NYC.
• I write and record my own meditations and am a featured mindfulness teacher on the Insight Timer app.
• I self published my first book The Mindfulness Workbook: An 8-week guide to being present in 2016.
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Memberships & Accreditations
• Current member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
• Psychology for a Safe Environment (PSC)
• Environmental Leaders Action Network (ELAN)
• International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited coaching training (ACAP)
• Current member of the Stonnington Climate Emergency Advisory Committee
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Humans who have inspired my work:
• Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Gabrielle Roth
• Trungpa Rinpoche
• Carl Jung
• Joanna Macy
My Founding Story​
I was born in Tasmania and raised by a German immigrant mother and a farmer from King Island, and have always had a deep connection to nature and the land. Both my parents worked hard on the land and in business and instilled these values in me early on. After learning how to navigate generational trauma and the loss of my mother, I immersed myself in mindfulness and meditation, developing a passion for curiosity, creativity and learning. Coaching solidified my creative potential to grow in the direction of my wildest dreams and contribute to making a better world for myself, step by step. Mindfulness and counselling has helped me process my past and be more present for this journey we call life. Life experiences, from travel, wilderness and sailing adventures to silent "Vipassana" retreats and my creative practice as an artist resource me. Reconnecting with my ancestry, parenting four daughters, and supporting my husband’s leadership journey, have shaped my commitment to a balanced, creative and purpose-driven life. I'm a big visionary, who likes to think outside convention and across culture and time scale, bringing earthly wisdom, and a fresh perspectives to the complexity of this modern era. Today, I love guiding clients in discovering purpose, creativity, deeper relationships and self-awareness through mindful living and leadership.