Keynote Speaker & Peak Performance Expert
Lucie Charping is the creator of The FlowMind Method™ and a specialist in stress mastery, self-regulation, and peak performance. Working with Olympians, world champions, and leaders, she helps people perform at their best when it matters most.
Her talks don't just inform. They create lasting shifts in how people think, feel, and respond under pressure.
"In their world, focus is the difference between life or death. In ours — it's the difference between life happening to you and you creating it."
— Lucie Charping
The Feel
Is Real.
The Why
Is a Lie.
Interactive, science-backed keynote experiences that transform stress into focus, pressure into performance, and challenge into growth.
David Torrence
Olympian · World Record Holder
Bolota Asmerom
Olympian
Curt Bartholomew
10× World Champion · Canopy Pilot
Jeannie Bartholomew
World Champion · Freestyle Canopy Pilot
Will Roger Peterson
Founding Member · Burning Man Project
Naomi Batzer
Professional Rugby Player
Alex Waters
Professional Racing Driver
About Lucie
She didn't just study stress mastery.
She survived it.
In 2012, a catastrophic injury triggered brain stem dysfunction, functional neurological disorders, facial paralysis, and trigeminal neuralgia — known as the suicide disease. Her options were lifelong medication or high-risk brain surgery.
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She chose neither.
She rebuilt her nervous system from the inside out — no drugs, no surgery — and in doing so, developed the methodology that now helps elite athletes, leaders, and performers do what most believe is impossible: master their stress response in real time.
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For over 25 years, Lucie has coached at the intersection of applied neuroscience, embodiment, and trance training. Her audiences don't leave with notes. They leave different.
Credentials & Context
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Creator of The FlowMind Method™ — Say Yes to Stress™, Micro-Dosing Flow™, and FlowMind Hypnosis™
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Author,Micro-Dosing Flow: Say Yes to Stress
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25+ years coaching elite athletes, Olympians, and world champions
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FlowMind Method Certification Programme — training practitioners internationally
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Conference speaker: HypnoThoughts Live (world's largest hypnotherapy conference, returning 2026), Irish Hypnotherapy Conference, Canadian Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy, and international wellness & performance events
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Keynote formats: 45 min, 60 min, 90 min with live demonstration, and 2-hour deep-dive for practitioner and academic audiences
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Workshop and half-day intensive formats available
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Based in Hawaii · Available to travel internationally
What They Say
People Who've Been In The Room...
Patrick Martin Derby Hypnotherapy UK
I recently attended a workshop with Lucie Charping at the Irish Hypnotherapy Conference and found it to be one of the most informative and valuable training experiences I’ve had. Lucie is exceptionally knowledgeable, professional, and passionate about her work, and her ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and practical way was outstanding. The workshop was engaging, insightful, and full of techniques and ideas that I could immediately apply in practice. Lucie creates a supportive learning environment and shares her expertise generously, making the experience enjoyable for both new and experienced hypnotherapists alike. I look forward to attending more of her workshops and courses. I would highly recommend Lucie Charping to anyone looking to deepen their knowledge and skills in hypnotherapy.
Mary Lyons
Enthralled! Lucie spoke with confidence and clarity, I was so impressed with her and her story. The biggest takeaway from Lucie's talk was that there is hope and I can heal. I would absolutely recommend Lucie as a speaker. she spoke with speed and gave the audience great information and value in the short time alloted. It was thoroughly enjoyable. I bought Lucie Charpings book and find it fascinating, looking forward to the audio book next.
Michelle Brooks Stricker
I recently attended Lucie's presentation at the Irish Hypnotherapy Conference in Dublin. Lucie is a natural speaker, a bubbly, vibrant, inspiring woman. Honestly her presentation was up in the top 5 of the 50 ish during the 3 day conference. The combination of scientific understanding, humour, Lucie's personal story, reframing of stress, trauma and emotion, created a lecture that was moving and stimulating. This girl truly knows her stuff!
Curt Bartholomew, now 10× World Champion Canopy Pilot, on training his nervous system with The FlowMind Method™ — at speeds where focus is the difference between life and death.
Signature Talks
What Lucie Speaks On
Signature Keynote
The Feel Is Real. The Why Is a Lie.
We've all felt something that wasn't real. A surge of dread before a conversation that turned out fine. A racing heart when you were completely safe. The body reacts before the mind decides. The alarm fires before the threat is confirmed. And the story the brain tells about why you feel that way? It's often completely wrong.
Using live neuroscience demonstrations and the story of free solo climber Alex Honnold, Lucie reveals why your nervous system responds to threats that don't exist — and gives audiences the tools to change that response in the moment. Audiences experience the shift firsthand through live hypnotic and somatic demonstrations.
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Audiences leave able to:
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Understand why emotion is a prediction, not a fact
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Interrupt the fear trance in real time
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Access focus and flow under pressure
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Apply the NeuroQuantum Shift™ mechanism immediately
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60–90 min · Keynote with live demonstration · All audiences
Keynote
From Fear to Flow
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Most people fight anxiety. They push against it, suppress it, breathe through it, talk themselves out of it. And it comes back — because they never changed the prediction that created it.
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Using a visceral audience demonstration — she becomes your anxiety, you fight, you say yes, the fight stops — she proves in thirty seconds what takes most people years of therapy to understand: anxiety isn't an emotion to be managed. It's a misfiring threat prediction that can be overridden in real time.
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From the neuroscience of survival circuits to the exact mechanism that flips stress into focused performance, this talk doesn't just explain the path from fear to flow — it takes the audience there.
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Audiences leave with:
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The anxiety override — usable immediately, in any high-pressure situation
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An understanding of why suppression and compartmentalisation have a ceiling — and what's underneath it
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Say Yes to Stress™ as a practical daily tool, not a concept
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The neurological difference between a fear trance and a flow state — and how to move between them
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45–60 min · Keynote with live demo. Leaders, athletes, healthcare, general audiences
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Micro-Dosing Flow — Neurohacking Stress & Pain
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There Lucie was — in a dentist's chair in Thailand, being told the drill was going to the nerve, extreme pain was inevitable. She focused, said yes, and dropped in. When it was over the dentist looked at her and said: "You are a very strong lady." Lucie said: "I just know how to micro-dose flow."
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For someone who lives with trigeminal neuralgia — aptly named the suicide disease — this wasn't a party trick. It was survival.
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Flow isn't a lucky accident reserved for peak moments. It's a trainable neurological state — and you can learn to access it in doses, eyes open, mid-competition, mid-pain, mid-crisis. Most people wait for flow to happen to them. This talk teaches you to make it happen.
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Rooted in 25+ years coaching Olympians, world champions, and people rebuilding their lives from the inside out, Micro-Dosing Flow delivers the neuroscience and the practical protocol for a nervous system that finds reward in challenge — and resets from any stress state fast.
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Audiences leave with:
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The neuroscience of flow and self-hypnosis — and why they're the same state reached differently
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Micro-Dosing Flow™ triggers — practical, immediate, and trainable
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An understanding of how chronic stress and pain patterns are rewired over time
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A self-directed protocol that works without a therapist, a quiet room, or ideal conditions
60 min · Keynote · Wellness, performance, pain management
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All In — What Elite Performers Know About Commitment
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There's a moment every athlete, coach, and leader knows. The moment where hesitation would cost everything. Where the gap between committed and uncommitted is the difference between execution and collapse — and sometimes between life and death.
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Most training prepares people for the physical demands of that moment. Almost none of it prepares the nervous system. All In is a raw, high-energy talk built originally for elite action sports professionals — the people for whom focus isn't a performance metric, it's a survival requirement.
Drawing on case studies from world champion canopy pilots, extreme athletes, and high-stakes leaders, Lucie maps the neuroscience of full commitment: what blocks it, what trains it, and what the brain actually needs to go all in when it matters.
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The central insight: hesitation isn't a character flaw. It's a nervous system state. And nervous system states can be trained.
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Audiences leave with:
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An understanding of what neurologically blocks full commitment under pressure
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Focus switching tools that work in high-consequence, real-time situations
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The difference between trained decisiveness and reckless abandon — and how to build the former
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A protocol for entering peak state on demand, not by accident
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45–60 min · Keynote · Action sports, leadership, coaching professionals
Sports Keynote
Not Tougher. Sharper. — The New Science of Athletic Edge
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​The sports world has spent decades building mental toughness. Grit. Resilience. The Five C's. And those frameworks aren't wrong — they're just incomplete. They describe what elite performers do. They don't explain how the brain produces it, or how to train it at the source.
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In this paradigm-shifting keynote, Lucie reveals the missing mechanism: the prediction machine running underneath every athletic decision, emotional response, and moment of execution or collapse. Using live demonstrations, world champion case studies, and her own extraordinary recovery from a catastrophic neurological injury, Lucie shows why the athletes who win at the highest level aren't the ones who push hardest — they're the ones whose systems are calibrated with precision.
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Mental toughness gets you to the edge. Nervous system mastery keeps you exactly where you need to be: a bee's dick back from it.
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Audiences leave with:
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Say Yes to Stress™ — conscious prediction override in real time
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Micro-Dosing Flow™ — trainable focus and challenge response on demand
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Real-time focus switching tools that work mid-competition and mid-crisis
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A new understanding of why talented athletes choke — and how to retrain it
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60–90 min · Keynote with live demo · Elite athletes, coaches, sports organisations, high-performance leadership
How Lucie Works
Every format is experiential,
not just informational.
​How Lucie Works​
Lucie doesn't deliver slideshow lectures. Through live demonstrations, audience participation, and practical tools, people experience firsthand how stress, focus, emotion, and performance can shift in real time.
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Audiences don't just learn about the science—they feel it, test it, and leave with tools they can immediately apply in everyday life, leadership, health, and performance.
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The room shifts. That's the point.
Keynote — 45 to 120 minutes
Full signature talk with live hypnosis and somatic demonstrations. Suitable for conferences, summits, and large-format events. Audience participation built in. Leaves the room changed, not just informed.
Panel & Podcast Guest
Lucie brings the Applied Human Performance Science of stress, flow, and peak performance to high-level conversations. Comfortable with both specialist and mainstream audiences. Available for in-person and remote appearances.
Half-Day Workshop
Deeper application of FlowMind principles with group exercises, live coaching, and practical tools. Ideal for leadership teams, performance groups, and practitioner training days. Theory and practice in equal measure.
Corporate & Team Programme
Custom multi-session engagement for organisations wanting lasting change in performance culture. Built around The FlowMind Method™. Applied, measurable, and far from wellness theatre.
Book Lucie
Ready to bring something real to your event?
Lucie speaks at conferences, summits, leadership events, and performance-focused gatherings internationally. Enquiries for keynotes, workshops, and custom programmes welcome.
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