Marion Miller
Australia's Leading Personal & Professional Life Coach.
MBSR Mindfulness Teacher, & 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 coaching in a studio in Glen Iris and support leaders, professionals and practitioners with personal and professional development.
I provide Mindfulness for Practitioners CPD courses to support them in holding space, connecting to more deeply and leading therapeutic and growth journeys. I am the founder of The Eco Retreat a collaborative project with community workshops and retreats in urban Melbourne and regional Victoria.
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My specialty is helping people develop mindfulness, creativity and leadership potential using evidence-based strategies and east/west wisdom traditions. I am passionate about awakening to an open, authentic, creative and purposeful path.
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I believe humans are intrinsically resourceful, imaginative, and generative, with the right conditions we can rise to the big challenges of our time and reclaim our place and purpose is the larger web of life.
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
• Dharma Teacher Training with Insight Meditation Institute Australia, 2025 on-going.
• Environmental Champion Program, Stonnington Council and Port Phillip Ecocentre.
• Advanced Eco-Therapy, International Ecopsychology Society Certified, Dr. Geoff Berry
• Mindful Self-Compassion Core Skills Training with Christopher Germer, PhD. & Kathleen Cator
• Mindful Leadership and Compassion Masterclass with Emiliana Simon Thomas PhD
• The Art of Individuation: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, Centre of Applied Jungian Studies
• 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
• Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) with Simon d'Orsogna
• Competent Crew with The Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron
• Mental Health First Aider Accreditation Certificate
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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 The Victorian and Federal Government, Corporations and NFP organisations in the technology, finance, education, legal, engineering, creative arts, health and wellbeing sector.
• 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 was also involved in co-facilitating a yearlong Educational leadership wellbeing pilot research program with 12 Victorian schools called the Principal Wellbeing Program with Smiling Mind and funded by Work Safe.
• I helped develop and facilitate an 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 studio artist and painter featuring 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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Mentor & Supervisor:
Subhana Barzaghi - Senior Insight Teacher and Zen Roshi, PACFA Supervisor.
Arian Young - Former Tibetan nun, Grief Ritualist and Psychotherapist.
The late Dr. Simonne Jameson PhD - Psychoanalyst trained with Carl Jung and art critic.
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Memberships & Accreditations
• Current licenced 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 Council 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 farmer from King Island, and have always had a deep connection to nature. Both 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 when I was 24, I immersed myself in mindfulness meditation and the eastern wisdom traditions she introduced me to in my early 20s. Coaching solidified my creative potential and confidence to grow in the direction of my dreams and contribute to making a better world, step by step.
Life has been an adventure with travel, sailing and wilderness exploration to silent Insight meditation retreats, east/west spirituality and creative practice as an artist fortify me. Reconnecting with my ancestry, supporting my four daughters, husband’s leadership journey and community, have shaped my commitment to a balanced, creative and purpose-driven life.
I'm a cosmic explorer, who embodies interbeing, earthly wisdom, big mind and heart to navigate the complexity of life in this modern era. I love guiding clients in discovering their creative potential for deeper relationships, and purpose through mindful living, leadership and community.
