Claire Coney Speaker | PHSCE & Lifestyle & New Speakers & Well-being & Mental Health & Body Image

Claire Coney

Nutrition for Health and Well-being

Claire is passionate about health and well-being. Her mission is to help others to become healthier and enjoy life without illness.

When talking to students she highlights how things that may be important to them like skin condition, exercise capability, weight management, mental health and hormonal changes can be helped by choosing the right foods. Then using case examples to explain how the body works to embed the connection between a food type and body condition.

Claire also challenges social media communication with real life examples of foods and situations. She engages with the audience to elicit questions and debate.

A particular topic of debate is junk food, what is it and why it is harmful. Claire provides examples e.g. quavers and refers to credible research to explain the risks of eating too many of these foods.

Some students ask questions in the group and others approach Claire afterwards or via Instagram to ask more personal questions. Either way, the students feel able to ask for advice.

Claire is a mum of 2 boys aged 21 and 23, whose family is sporty and enjoys good food, including cake :)

Testimonials from Teachers

"Claire has today delivered a fantastic session for our sixth form around nutrition. We asked Claire to tailor previous presentations to focus around how students could maintain a balanced and healthy diet whilst living on a student budget, which she did brilliantly! Claire's passion for making healthy food choices really shone through and have inspired our students to carefully consider the foods they consume. Claire gave lots of examples of the small changes students can make in their diet to have a big impact on their overall health and nourishment. She also discussed the link between good physical health through nutrition and good mental health. We highly recommend Claire."

– Mrs I Birch, Assistant Headteacher, Hawarden High School, Flintshire

"The session were professionally delivered and presented with handouts for my learners. Your interaction with the learners was great and that made them feel that they could ask questions and take part in the session. I felt the session was geared at the right level for my learners and relevant to the lives now and in the future."

– Ruth Hood, Progress Coach, College Cambria, Flintshire

“Claire fully engages with her audience inspiring students to healthier eating and lifestyle choices, giving valuable advice about health and well-being and making simple changes to diets and nutrition. Claire is a passionate narrator and knows her subject well, she has an outstanding knowledge in her area of expertise. Claire tailors her talks and presentations to suit her audience and uses excellent facial expressions and eye contact to engage with her audience. She communicates her ideas effectively and enthusiastically by speaking clearly with an engaging pace and tone of voice, so that her ideas are fully understood by the participants in her audience. Claire uses engaging visuals and slides and allows her audience time to reflect on her ideas giving them time to interact with her, by asking questions, discussing and exploring ideas about the topics that have been presented.”

– Louise Skinner, Teacher and Head of Languages Assistant Director of Learning for Languages, Literacy and Communication, St David’s High School, Cheshire.