How I Work

Complexity calls for deep sensing and exploration

My practice is a field of related approaches gathered around better relationship with self, with others, and with the world.

an ecosystem of practices

Each supporting sensing & exploring in complex, nuanced times

The map is a playful way to orientate into the strands of practices I employ.

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Ways of working

Five of the strands have their own page, for anyone who wants the fuller account before a conversation.

Deep Listening

Listening as an active practice: sensing what is present with all the senses and ways of listening.

Facilitation

Designing and hosting the conversations through which groups find their shared way forward.

Mediation

Supporting conflict to be more willingly welcomed, so we might flow in and out, rather than getting stuck in conflict.

Coaching

One-to-one attention for leaders and individuals navigating change, challenge and growth.

Systems Support

Building relationship infrastructure within business, government, social organisations, coalitions, and civic or community work.

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Read about my work

Some past lessons and experiences:

Public case studies link to fuller explanations, and more information

Public outline

Holding a multi-agency response through uncertainty

Coordinating community support across a region during 2020, when the usual structures weren't built for the pace things were moving at, and exhaustion was as real a risk as anything else.

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Repairing a strained partnership before rupture

A partnership that had stopped being able to disagree well. The work was to rebuild enough trust for honesty to be possible again, before the relationship broke rather than bent.

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Building a learning infrastructure around real work

Turning years of scattered insight into something a cultural and community sector could actually hold onto and use — sense-making, not just reporting.

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Often, the right approach is a blend.

I will enjoy combining these practices with you, in pursuit of a shared purpose.

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