About Catherine May
Career, Education, Place of birth are not the most defining markers of the journey that came to define me as who I am now.
Below are a few things that feel relevant to my trajectory & that are deeply informing who I am & how I move in the world.
(list non exhaustive & on-going).
Solo & fully Independent Entrepreneur in NYC.
(founder & owner of Maison May – Solo business owner for 18 years & counting)
Leadership, Self-motivation, Resilience, Creativity, Humility, Success & Failures.
New Yorker
(Arrived in the city at age 22, straight from Provence, France)
Adaptation, Fast thinking, Agility, Awareness
Single Motherhood
(Raised solo 2 boys who are now young men – while running 2 businesses in NYC)
Humility, Dedication, Endurance, Selflessness, Integrity, Individuation rather than individualism.
Anchored Spirituality
14 years of steady, regular & deep work initially in therapy & then integrating other modalities while continuing the exploration & strengthening Self Leadership, individuation & emotional autonomy.
Shadow Work, Humility, Honesty, Endurance, Managing crisis & discomfort, Transformation, Individuation, Courage
Trilingual
French – Mother tongue
English – 2nd Mother tongue…
Spanish – for the love of it- understand it fluently. Speak reasonably
Connection, Emotional fluency & elasticity, Humility
Certifications & Trainings
Certified Professional Coach CPC (Leadership That Works)
Internal Family System (Year Long Training with Guthrie Sayers)
BreathWork Facilitator (Breath Liberation Society)
« .. Catherine’s ability to listen, and I mean really listen, and offer insight is powerful and life changing however you have to be ready to do the work .. »
S.B. – NYC
Recent Trainings
Living Intentionally With Mortality, Martha Crawford
Original Voice, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Somatic Abolitionism, Resmaa Menakem
ProcessedWork, Andy Mindell
Relational Mindfulness, Nina Simon – Deborah Eden Tull
Breathwork Facilitation, Breath Liberation Society
Internal Family Systems, Guthrie Sayen
Group Coaching, Group Coaching HQ
Healing Trauma Program, Jeffrey Rutstein
Non Violent Communication
Dream Workshop, Martha Crawford
Inspiration
Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
Crisis Contemplation, Barbara Holmes
Wolf Milk, Chthonic Memory in the Deep Wild Martin Shaw
Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
Sitting in the Fire, Andy Mindell
In conversation with Tami Simon, John Welwood