Phil Gabranth · Speaking & workshops
Give your audience
something to
practice.
Talks and workshops across bodywork, philosophy, business, and creative practice. Draw on Phil’s experience building Stoic Bodywork and Norse Panda—and leave with a question, a new perspective, or something useful to try.
Speaking engagements from $1,000 USD.
Keynotes · Talk + workshop · Full-day programs
A conversation that continues
Make room for insight.
Give it a next step.
Phil brings together hands-on bodywork, Shaolin training, business ownership, writing, and a long-running exploration of philosophy. The emphasis is on ideas people can question, connect to their own lives, and put into practice.
See a familiar pattern.
Invite participants to notice the assumptions and habits they bring to a situation that matters to them.
Consider another response.
Use practical questions and examples to explore what is within their influence and what they want to approach differently.
Choose something to try.
Give the conversation a place in everyday life through a reflection prompt, a small experiment, or a deliberate next action.
Speaking topics
A wide range.
A practical thread.
Bodywork. Philosophy. Business. Books. The subjects connect through a shared question: how do we turn what we learn into something we can use?
Choose a topic below or bring a question that crosses disciplines. Phil will shape the session around your audience, the setting, and the conversation you want to open.
01 / Explore
Body, attention & practice
From the treatment room and training floor to the way we pay attention every day.
Fascia, movement & listening to the body
A practitioner’s perspective on the relationships between tension, movement, daily habits, and body awareness. Phil draws on his work at Stoic Bodywork to explain how he approaches the person behind a physical complaint.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forWellness events, movement communities, and practitioner groups.
What people can take with themBetter questions to ask about movement, habitual patterns, and the way you care for your body.
Meditation you can actually practice
Explore meditation, mindfulness, and breath awareness through Phil’s teaching experience and his own practice. Look at common expectations, what it means to pay attention, and how to build a practice that fits ordinary life.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forRetreats, community groups, and teams curious about attention and presence.
What people can take with themA simple reflection and attention practice to try, observe, and adapt.
Shaolin, Qi Gong & everyday discipline
What does training teach beyond technique? Drawing on his Shaolin and Qi Gong background, Phil explores repetition, patience, embodied attention, and the relationship between discipline and self-awareness.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forMartial arts communities, retreats, and audiences interested in personal practice.
What people can take with themA way to turn a chosen principle into a repeatable daily practice.
The biofield: body, mind & spirit
An open conversation about energy work, embodied experience, and the language we use to describe them. Phil shares his working models while distinguishing personal experience, spiritual tradition, and scientific evidence.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forHolistic wellness communities, retreats, and curious audiences ready for thoughtful questions.
What people can take with themA clearer way to explore unfamiliar ideas and evaluate the claims made around them.
02 / Explore
Philosophy, meaning & change
Question the story, examine the pattern, and choose what you want to practice next.
Manifestation as Statecraft
Bring imagination, perception, self-concept, and deliberate action into the same conversation. Phil connects the Statecraft framework with practical philosophy and Stoic questions about responsibility, ethics, and what is within our influence.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forPersonal development events, creative communities, and retreats.
What people can take with themTurn an intention into a small experiment, with a way to reflect on what actually happens.
Chaos, creation, order & letting go
Use Phil’s four-part cycle—chaos, creation, order, and destruction—as a lens for change. Explore when to make room for possibility, build something new, give it structure, or release what has stopped serving its purpose.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forEntrepreneurs, creative teams, and people navigating a transition.
What people can take with themA map of what to explore, build, stabilize, or let go of in a current project or situation.
Words, symbols & the stories we live by
Explore how language, archetypes, and symbolic systems give shape to a question. Drawing on Etymological Tarot and his writing, Phil uses words and images as starting points for reflection, interpretation, and another perspective.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forArts and literary groups, tarot communities, and reflective workshops.
What people can take with themPractice separating a symbol or observation from the meaning you bring to it.
03 / Explore
Business, creativity & making things
Lessons from running a hands-on practice and a company built around original work.
Build a business people recommend
A candid look at service, trust, standards, and the decisions behind a business built through relationships. Phil draws on Stoic Bodywork, Norse Panda, and his background in business advisement to discuss offers, pricing, capacity, and the customer experience.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forSmall-business owners, independent practitioners, and entrepreneur groups.
What people can take with themIdentify one part of your offer or customer experience to make clearer, more consistent, or more useful.
From an idea to something real
Books, courses, fictional worlds, and custom-made objects all begin with an idea that needs form. Phil draws on writing, independent publishing, CAD design, and 3D printing to explore constraints, iteration, finishing, and the choices that make a project your own.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forWriters, makers, creative teams, and independent publishers.
What people can take with themDefine the next concrete version of an idea and the decisions needed to build it.
Working with AI without outsourcing your judgment
A working business owner’s perspective on using AI for research, organization, and creative production. Explore clear instructions, useful delegation, checking the output, and keeping responsibility and taste with the person doing the work.
Audience & takeaway
A good fit forSmall-business owners, creators, and teams exploring practical AI workflows.
What people can take with themOutline one useful workflow with a clear task, source material, review step, and human decision.
Have a different conversation in mind?
These are starting points. A keynote, facilitated discussion, or workshop can connect several themes around what matters to your group.
Talk through your event ↗Choose the format
One event.
The right amount of depth.
Start a conversation.
A focused talk with time for audience questions. A fit for conferences, community events, and retreat programs.
From $1,000
USD professional fee · Up to 90 minutes total, including Q&A.
Ask about a keynote ↗Work with the ideas.
Pair a talk with facilitated reflection and practical exercises that bring the framework into participants’ own situations.
Tailored quote
Up to 3 hours of programming during one event day.
Plan a combined session ↗Make space to practice.
A deeper facilitated program with room for discussion, guided exercises, and an individual plan for continued practice.
Tailored quote
Typically 5–6 hours of programming, plus breaks and lunch.
Discuss a full day ↗Engagements start at $1,000 USD. Every format includes an organizer preparation call and agreed audience-specific tailoring. Travel and lodging, when needed, are quoted separately. Final scope, fee, and event arrangements are confirmed before booking.
Meet the speaker
Phil Gabranth
Bodywork practitioner.
Business owner.
Author and course creator.
Experience across body, business, and philosophy.
Phil owns Stoic Bodywork in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, founded Norse Panda, and created Manifestation Statecraft. His work spans therapeutic bodywork, practical philosophy, independent publishing, Etymological Tarot, courses, and creative problem-solving.
Drawing on his experience in business, bodywork, and Shaolin training, Phil explores how people meet change, question their assumptions, and act with greater intention. His style is candid, curious, and grounded in application.
His background also includes business advisement, CAD design, and 3D printing. Across the treatment room, the page, and the workshop, he is interested in how ideas become something people can actually work with.
Explore the free course foundation ↗For event organizers
A few useful
details.
Who are these sessions for?
Wellness and practitioner communities, retreats, business groups, writers, makers, and teams. Each session is tailored to the audience. You can book a specific subject or a conversation that connects several areas of Phil’s work.
What does the starting fee include?
The $1,000 USD starting professional fee covers one keynote or talk with Q&A, up to 90 minutes total, an organizer preparation call, and audience-specific examples. The final proposal confirms the scope, date, fee, and any travel expenses.
Can we book an entire event day?
Yes. A full-day workshop typically includes 5–6 hours of facilitated programming, with breaks and lunch scheduled separately. Talk-and-workshop combinations and full-day programs receive a tailored quote based on the agreed scope.
Where can Phil speak?
Phil is based in the Philadelphia area and is available for local and traveling engagements, subject to schedule. Travel and lodging, when needed, are quoted separately and agreed with the organizer before booking.
Do attendees need to have taken the course?
No. Sessions are designed to stand on their own. The $99 Manifestation Statecraft course is an optional way to continue exploring the framework afterward. Course access for an entire group can be discussed separately.
Can the event be recorded or livestreamed?
Include your recording, livestream, or replay plans in the inquiry so the intended use can be agreed in advance.
How interactive are the workshops?
Workshops can combine discussion, guided reflection, and simple attention or embodiment exercises. Activities and accessibility needs are discussed with the organizer, and participation in exercises is optional. Sessions are educational and do not include individual clinical treatment.
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