About Me

The very thing that’s kept you going, might be the very thing that’s holding you back.

Francesca Marguerite Maximé is a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Relational Life Therapy Couples & Life Coach, and award-winning poet/author in Brooklyn, New York.

She integrates mindfulness and relational practices, Buddhist psychology, attachment styles, neuroscience research, positive neuroplasticity, Nonviolent Communication, Focusing, narrative expression and somatic “bottom-up” approaches in her private and group coaching and trainings with clients and students.

Francesca’s Journey

Francesca graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English Literature and has written two books. Rooted: A Verse Memoir was published by NYQ Books in 2012 and ReRouted: Verse for the Human Animal was published in 2013. She is the 2019 recipient of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Outstanding Student Advocacy & Service Award, as well as the 2019 first prize winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards.

Francesca’s career began in working in Fortune 500 companies in Sales and Marketing, traveling around the country addressing Bank Presidents, CEO’s, sales and marketing teams, and more. As a TV news personality, Francesca appeared on-air as a news anchor and correspondent for local, national, network and international television stations including PBS NewsHour, Bloomberg, NY1, WPIX, NBC and FOX. She interviewed countless celebrities and politicians alike (Mike Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer, Matt Damon, Blake Lively, Zoe Saldana) while reporting ‘live on scene’ from some of the most groundbreaking and transformative domestic and international stories of our time, including 9/11 and Occupy Wall Street. She also got a chance to pilot an F-16 with the Air Force Thunderbirds and pull 9 G’s, as well as fly with the Blue Angels, in addition to reporting from an aircraft carrier for Fleet Week. Experiences!

She has been mentored in mindfulness meditation practices by clinical psychologist and Insight Meditation Society co-founder and Spirit Rock Meditation Center founder Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. and has also been a mindfulness student of clinical psychologist and Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. founder Tara Brach, Ph.D. Francesca has sat in silent retreat cumulatively for several months.

Kind Words

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Carolyn C., Coaching Client

“I have been in more traditional types of therapy for the past 14 years, but Francesca’s method has been more effective for me than any others I’ve tried. I feel a deep sense of calm and trust. She has helped me integrate my plant medicine practices and weave all of my healing techniques into a beautiful blanket. ”

Sara S., Coaching Client

“Healing is not easy in the way I thought it would be but it is rigorous and connective and helps clear the mist that may be clouding you from achieving inner peace. I would definitely recommend that others work with Francesca.”

Learn more about Francesca’s personal journey

Coaching

Francesca offers coaching services to help individuals, couples, and groups to address trauma, process grief, reduce stress, and invite sustainable change and lasting transformation.
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Teaching

She teaches meditation and mindfulness to individuals, executives, nonprofit leaders and groups in New York City and online, primarily through a secular lens informed by ancient wisdom teachings.
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Consulting

Francesca’s work with executive leadership, in communities and with groups emphasizes issues pertaining to organizational, social and cultural trauma, as well as gender and racial equity.
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Rerooted Podcast

As the host of the #ReRooted Podcast podcast on the Be Here Now Network, Maximé interviews renowned neuroscientists, trauma specialists, activists, psychotherapists, and Buddhist and mindfulness meditation teachers around the issues of systemic racism and oppression, gender identity, sexual orientation, trauma, mindfulness, and sustainable wellbeing.

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