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.
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!
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.
Lindy Thomson, BCH, RCH
Lucie presented The Feel is Real, The Why is a lie at The Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy. My students loved it. They loved Lucie's energy and her knowledge. Many asked if she would be back. "The feel is real, the why is a lie," that statement is so powerful. I would absolutely recommend her as a speaker. If you ever have a chance to hear Lucie speak, do it.
Robin Popowich Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and educator
Lucie presented her Micro-Dosing Flow to grads and students of the Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy. Lucie's engaging personality and charming charisma combined with her knowledge and personal story made her presentation memorable. "The feeling is real, the why is a lie" was a powerful takeaway, aside from her personal story of overcoming incredibly challenging obstacles. Having Lucie speak was a rare gift, we would 100% recommend and hope she'll be able to do it again! The Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy highly recommends not just Lucie and her presentation but everyone should read her book.
Conference Delegate
Very positive indeed! Lucie's presence and a genuine desire to help others made her presentation distinctive and memorable. She is a really inspiring person and delivers to the audience with confident purpose. My friend and I turned to eachother and said “wow” this girl herself has something special. The message, the inspiration, one of my favourite sessions of the entire weekend. Highly recommend her as a speaker. The audience were in total agreement. Lucie was generous with her time and I found her a warm approachable person. She freely spoke to people after her event
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.
Your heart races before your mind decides why. The alarm fires before the threat is even confirmed. And the story your brain tells about that feeling? Usually a lie.
Lucie puts this on full display — live. Through applied human performance science and the story of free solo climber Alex Honnold, she shows audiences why their nervous system reacts to threats that aren't there, then rewires the response in real time, on stage, in front of them.
This isn't theory. It's a live hypnotic and somatic demonstration audiences feel happen to their own bodies.
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Audiences walk away able to:
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See emotion as 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 mechanism of memory reconsolidation — immediately
60-90min · Keynote with live demonstration · All audiences
Keynote
From Fear to Flow​
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Most people fight anxiety — push against it, suppress it, breathe through it, talk themselves out of it. It comes back anyway. They never changed the prediction that created it.
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What they're calling fear isn't fear at all. Fear responds to a real, present threat. What they're living in is anxiety — a prediction running on a loop. You have to snap out of the fear trance it puts you in.
Lucie proves this in thirty seconds, live. She becomes your anxiety. You fight it. You say yes instead. The fight stops.
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Audiences walk away able to:
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Override anxiety — usable immediately, in any high-pressure situation
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Tell the real difference between fear and anxiety
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See why suppression and compartmentalization have a ceiling
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Use Say Yes to Stress™ as a daily technique, not a concept
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Snap from a fear trance into a flow state, on command
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45–60 min · Keynote with live demo · Leaders, athletes, healthcare, general audiences
Keynote
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, guaranteed. She focused, said yes, and dropped in. When it was over, the dentist said: "You are a very strong lady." Lucie said: "I just know how to micro-dose flow."
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She lives with trigeminal neuralgia — aptly named the suicide disease. This wasn't a party trick. It was survival.
Flow isn't a lucky accident reserved for peak moments. It's trainable — accessible in doses, eyes open, mid-competition, mid-pain, mid-crisis. Most people wait for flow to happen to them. This talk teaches them to make it happen on demand.
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Lucie delivers the neuroscience and the protocol for a nervous system that finds reward in challenge — and resets from stress, fast.
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Audiences walk away able to:
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See why flow and self-hypnosis are the same state, reached differently
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Trigger Micro-Dosing Flow™ — practical, immediate, trainable
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Understand how chronic stress and pain patterns get rewired
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Run a self-directed protocol — no therapist, no quiet room, no ideal conditions required
60 min · Keynote · Wellness, performance, pain management
Keynote
All In — What Elite Performers Know About Commitment
There's a moment every athlete, coach, and leader knows — where hesitation costs everything, where the gap between committed and uncommitted is the difference between execution and collapse. Sometimes between life and death.
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Most training prepares the body for that moment. Almost none of it prepares the nervous system. All In was built for elite action sports professionals — 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 science of full commitment: what blocks it, what trains it, 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 walk away able to:
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Name what neurologically blocks full commitment under pressure
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Switch focus in high-consequence, real-time situations
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Tell trained decisiveness apart from reckless abandon — and build the former
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Enter peak state on demand, not by accident
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. Those frameworks aren't wrong — they're 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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Lucie reveals the missing mechanism: the prediction machine running underneath every athletic decision, emotional response, and moment of execution or collapse. Through live demonstrations, world champion case studies, and her own recovery from a catastrophic neurological injury, she 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 walk away able to:
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Use Say Yes to Stress™ — conscious prediction override, in real time
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Trigger Micro-Dosing Flow™ — focus and challenge response on demand
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Switch focus mid-competition and mid-crisis
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Understand why talented athletes choke — and retrain it
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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