2024 Wellness and Leadership productions

One-one coaching for women navigating life changes and chapters.…the change we want, and the changes imposed upon us as a part of our lived humanity!
Within a life coach paradigm, explore your constant, yet ever changing relationship to yourself, to “adulting”, to your career, parents, partner, kids and spirituality.  Contact Gwen to book a free 20 minute consult and see if this is the compassionate care, coaching, and support you're seeking.​
Gwen is a Reiki Master | Usui Reiki Ryoho.
​Sessions are an hour long. Payment is $85 CAN or with love infused food! Training inquiries welcome!
Third Sunday of each month @ 2pm Eastern online - save the dates!
Feb 18, Mar 17, Apr 21, May 19, June 16 
The practice of cultivating a safe and inclusive space for all of our bits.

It is a Reiki inspired hour of nurturing only, where we will both be and do together, anchoring into the energy frequency of Love. 

Where we cultivate love infused routine and rituals of both 
  • Mindfulness to increase window of tolerance ("watchtower"*)
  • Moving, breathing to access our physiological systems ("smoke detector"*) *Bessel A. van der Kolk

Musician Wellness and Leadership

1-1 Coaching | Cohort Coaching 
Flute Tapestry
​All things Flute & Piccolo
more about Flute Tapestry
2 + videos/week for 12 weeks April 15 - July1. Weekly Mental Skills, Mindfulness, Music videos from Carolyn Christie and Gwen! Weekly Flute Fundamentals videos from William Bennett, Beynon,  Bouriakov, Pahud, Porter on wind, sound, harmonics, fingers, tongue, lips, dynamics, colours, vibrato and more! Plus videos, charts, documents, created by Gwen for the Pender Island Flute Retreat 2009-2021. $125 CAN
Musician Wellness and Leadership cohort coaching circles meet once/month on Monday's @ 2pm Eastern.  Jan 15, Feb 12, Mar 11, Apr 15, May 13, June 17, 2024 $189 CAN
We collectively hold safe space to explore the constant, yet ever changing relationship to Music & ourselves throughout our career and life chapters!  ​ More topics may be found here
We are in a constant, yet ever changing relationship to music, your instrument, to yourself, to our roles and responsibilities within organizations,  associations, on stage, in teaching studio and in our homes.

Want to find more ease within these relationships? Book a series of 6 coaching sessions (30 - 60 minutes each) to unpack and  explore what you want, what is getting in your way. Discern next steps for your musician's life with someone who has decades of experience, mistakes, and moments of mastery in the biz. If you have capacity for worksheets, I have soooo many!

I follow ICF Code of Ethics and provide a confidential and safe space to mindfully look, change, create a courageous plan of action, while treating yourself with compassion during After Action Report! 
Gwen Klassen is a Certified Life Coach (ILCT), facilitator, Reiki Master, an accomplished classical musician (Master of Music; Northwestern University), employed by the Calgary Phil as a performing artist, and by the University of Calgary as a Sessional Instructor. Gwen is also contracted independently as a Wellness and Leadership Coach/Facilitator, and has extensive administrative experience as the Founder and Director of the highly successful and original Pender Island Flute Retreat Inc 2009-2021. The integrative, nuanced, paradoxical wisdom gathered from all Gwen’s experiences, expertise and education is the foundation of her performing, teaching and coaching career.

All things Flute and Piccolo

Flute/Picc Consultations - in person, recorded and online
MWL Workshops & Flute/PIcc Masterclass Combination for your studio
Performance Coaching for a specific goal or performance are all available
email Gwen
This is a great option for those not in Calgary - send me a recording and I'll listen to it, organize feedback, documents, tools etc before our scheduled FaceTime. We go through it all together in real time!
Here is a video with more information

Students can add on private lessons to the in person weekend if they wish.
Coaching is different than consulting/teaching in that I do not offer advice! You are competent and capable! I listen, ask questions, and hold space as an ally so you may create a plan, evaluate it, and change it when needs be.