Jade Barclay believes magic happens

when we connect science with soul...

...magic like epiphanies and interconnectedness and wonder and play and naps. She believes in people, and that we can have the change we want (even when change seems impossible). She believes in the transformative power of community and sharing our stories, embodying our research, and expanding our rapport.

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Jade Barclay MCAP MBA is an Australian researcher, psychotherapist and healer for CEOs, a multi-award-winning writer, and fatigue/burnout researcher in the top 2% on Academia.edu. Nominated in Forbes' Magazine's "Names You Need to Know," Jade translates research to transform lives (her methods have been adopted internationally by physicians, students and entrepreneurs). Resident psychotherapist on breakfast radio, each week Jade shares psychology and neuroscience tips for real life. Jade helps leaders understand themselves and their clients better, reconnect with their center, and shift their relationship to loss and the unknown so they can get on with putting their dent in the universe. In private practice she helps clients release unconscious patterns or family lineage entanglements behind personal and professional issues, and she teaches practical neuroscience and trauma-informed leadership to those who are in the business of changing lives.

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What started as fatigue and burnout research led Jade into the world of attachment and loss, trauma and resilience, neurodevelopment, epigenetics and family lineage. Jade’s research has been viewed in 34 countries and has been adopted by physicians, students and entrepreneurs around the world. Despite great care, great strategies and great nutrition, her personal 23-year battle with invisible illness and chronic neurological fatigue remained a medical mystery. Things only started to turn a corner when she began to zoom out and look at other factors — combining systemic constellations with the latest research and both eastern and western healing practices, exploring how the family system and the nervous system are so profoundly interconnected. Gradually she began to get a feel for how all these things work together to keep us stuck. And how awareness of them can help us change for good.

Former management consultant with over twenty years experience in the field of human development and mental health, Jade’s clients have ranged from CEOs, monks, authors and celebrities, through the Departments of Defence and Education, to strippers and street-kids. Jade integrated systemic constellations into her private practice and Masters research several years ago, and frequently works with the interrupted reaching out movement and multigenerational bonding and loss trauma. Using constellations as a research method, she explored the systemic patterns in medically unexplained fatigue in her Masters thesis, and uncovered groundbreaking multigenerational themes that could not have been revealed by conventional methods.

Jade advocates for housebound folk to be included in research about invisible illness, and for more industries and research to use a constellations approach and incorporate body-centered inquiry. As phenomenological methods, they offer a unique opportunity to reveal and explore systemic themes that would otherwise remain hidden. Scientists and epigenetics researchers are proving to the rest of the world what constellations revealed long ago -- many problems didn't originate in this generation; they are just expressed here.

Our problems cross generations.

Our inquiries, research methods
and solutions need to do the same.

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Hi there, Jade here! I accept a limited number of speaking engagements each year and offer Spoonie scholarships for most of my work. I'm always learning and collaborating on unique projects, so get it touch if you'd like to work together. I'd love to hear from you.

Want some more personal stuff? Thought so!

I'm an Aussie and an aunty and a mum (I'm doing US spelling on this site as a dare, but I can't bring myself to misspell mum). I'm a word-nerd and a movie buff and a typo-seeking synesthete. I believe there's a social healing side to video games and social media. In between naps have co-hosted breakfast radio, done stage combat and a little voice acting. I've received a bunch of scholarships, and I also got sick and dropped out of grad school three times before getting my two masters degrees back to back. I love reading, trampolines, backflips, musical comedy and frisbee... and living nestled between the ocean and the mountains <3

Everyone has an origin story

(not just superheroes).

Acknowledge the past

to upgrade the future.

Every family lineage has had tragedies and secrets, and what is hidden always finds some way to come to light. I only connected the dots between my family's hidden suffering and my own life's weirdness very recently (some of those dots were stolen generations, medical manslaughter, and convicts). Until recently many didn't know that I'm a professional sick person. Or Spoonie (Some days I'm Sporty Spice, some days I'm Spoonie Spice). Even those who did know didn't know how bad it really gets. For 23 years I've had a chronic invisible illness that includes a buffet of chronic brain inflammation, autoimmune and endocrine dysregulation and glitchy cognitive and neurological symptoms. Every day is a new adventure. It's much much better recently, but it's not uncommon for me to be bedridden for two to 18 months at a time (but I'm in pretty good creative company, with the likes of Ken Wilbur, Stevie Nicks, Florence Nightingale and Charles Darwin). But being housebound doesn't have to mean being forgotten or disengaged. Riding the chronic illness wave has guided both my spiritual and professional life.

This "curse" was actually a blessing, because...

> it got me to stop working too hard in a technology career, have time to be really present with my son (unlike the absent norm), and to start soulfully playing for a living, first freelancing, then doing the research and teaching I love so much;

> it made me choose to finally come out of the chronic-closet and actually speak up about what's going on;

> it helped me find my teachers, my soul-siblings, for whom I am eternally grateful;

> it got me to break the brave face cycle and to start listening to my body, and to start working with systems to affect symptoms;

> it helped me open, trust, and flow in life, and sparked a whole new relationship with the connected unknown.

The earth and the heart heal together.

Happiness comes not from within,
but from between.