About

“Don’t worry if you feel you can only do one tiny good thing in one small corner of the world. Just be a Buddha body in that one place” Thich Nhat Hanh.

Dr Alice MacKinnon (PhD) – She/Her – is an emotion coach, professional supervisor, author and mindful movement practitioner who helps people and professionals flourish from the inside out.

She coaches and mentors through her private and community-based practices. Both practices are inclusive and welcoming. Evidence-Based Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT or Clinical Tapping) is central to this work and Alice is an Accredited Practitioner with Evidence-Based EFT.

Alice is also a professional supervisor for businesses and organisations involved in the helping sectors.

She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Association for Energy Psychology (ACEP).

Alice is a qualified and experienced qigong, yoga and fitness instructor and hosts in-person group sessions on the Northern Gold Coast. Many of her pre-recorded sessions are also freely available on YouTube. Alice also teaches a live, online qigong class on Fridays at 10am Queensland time.

Alice’s work focuses on taking worthy ideas like mindfulness and wellbeing and helping people embody them in dynamic, hands-on ways so they are go-to practices in the real-time rough and tumble of daily life at home and work, in family and community.

Alice is a practitioner of meditation, yoga, qigong, surfing, fitness, and journaling – these are the foundations of her own flourishing life.

In 2023, Alice together with her wife Jennifer Jefferies (internationally renowned speaker and naturopath) created the documentary film “Taking Off: Tales of Older Women Who Surf” which is freely available online at takingoffdoco.com

Alice has written and published five books:

• “Wellbeing on a Budget: The Inner Ninja Handbook” (2024)
• “Becoming a Stillness Ninja: Reflections on Resilience, Recovery and Love” (2023)
• “Surfing as a Dance: How One Woman Found Grace In and Out of the Water” (2018)
• “the dharma of surfing: wisdom from the water for life” (2016)
• “Expanding Green Strategies: Creating Change Through Negotiation” (2009)

Alice’s formal qualifications include a PhD in Adult Education (UTS), Masters of Applied Science in Social Ecology (UWS), Graduate Diploma of Education (UNSW), Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (UTS). She is also an accredited Evidence Based Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Practitioner, and certified yoga, qigong and fitness instructor.

She is also delighted mum, grandmother, sister and aunty. She is hugely grateful for this big, beautiful, roller-coaster of a life.