About

Facilitator, coach, ceremonialist

I help people and teams to cultivate grace-full endings and transitions in the service of better beginnings and greater aliveness.

Through facilitation, coaching and grief tending.

I think of facilitation as easing the flow of energy, creativity and commitment within a group, whether that’s an organisational strategy workshop, a conference or a grief ritual.

In my organisational work, I facilitate workshops, trainings, retreats and journeys to help teams navigate transitions and end things well (including transformation programmes, successions, redundancies, project closures, loss of income, or the closure of organisation itself).

I’ve worked across the civil society ecosystem: UK and international governments, local governments, funders and charities. Previous clients include Doughnut Economics Action Lab, MAIA, Thirty Percy, The National Lottery Community Fund, NCVO, The Children’s Society, London Borough of Camden and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Read about my approach to organisational life in my popular post, A regenerative organisational design primer.

Systemic change requires deep collaboration. I’m an Associate with Moral Imaginations and Koreo. I’m part of the ecosystem of the following collectives: The Decelerator (better organisational endings), GreaterThan (horizontal organising), Transformational Governance and New Ways (anti-racist, equitable organisations).

As a 1:1 coach, I support people through endings and transitions through reconnecting with their intuition.

As a ceremonialist and grief tender, I facilitate collective experiences that honour transitions and endings with grace, and witness and tend to our grief. Check out Events for upcoming grief circles and rituals, or get in touch for bespoke ceremonies and celebratory gatherings.

I’m the Co-founder of Foregather. We help women to cultivate creative energy through practices of remembering.

I’m also a writer and speaker.

My personal newsletter, This Might Resonate, has 900+ subscribers and contains updates about work and events, my facilitation and organisational change writing, and culture recommendations. I also publish GriefSick, a project that explores and bears witness to chronic illness grief.

I frequently guest on podcasts and panels and love to talk about how honouring transitions, endings and grief brings us better beginnings, and the importance of connecting with creative energy.

I’m a certified coach and have completed some wonderful trainings to deepen my facilitation and coaching practices (see trainings, influences and accountability below).


I live in South Devon, UK, where you’ll find me resting, hosting seasonal and land-based gatherings or in the seaside sauna.

 

“I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transforming events take place.” 

— Quaker Mystic Rufus Jones (1863–1948)

 

Training, influences and accountability

I’m devoted to daily meditation, somatic, movement, nature and energy practices that help me to stay resourced and present in my facilitation, coaching and ceremonial work.

I’m a Certified coach with MOE Foundation. The certification is recognised by Association for Coaching; I adhere to their Global Code of Ethics. I have 200+ coaching hours, 250+ training hours and monthly coaching supervision with an Accredited Master Coaching Supervisor. I am working towards my ICF ACC credential (qualifying in 2026).

I trained in grief tending with Francis Weller and completed Apprenticing to Grief with Grief Tending in Community, returning the next year to support-facilitate the training. I participate in a quarterly grief tending community of practice.

Friends, teachers, lineages and inspirations: adrienne maree brown, Amahra Spence, Amy and Arnold Mindell,
Brian Stout, Carolyn Hillyer, The Decelerator, Elizabeth Oldfield, Francis Weller, Harrison Owen, Joanna Macy,
MAIA, Malidoma Somé, Margaret Wheatley, Martín Prechtel, Moral Imaginations, Nicholas Janni, Otto Scharmer, Phoebe Tickell, Priya Parker, Riane Eisler, Dr Robert Kegan, Richard D. Bartlett, Sobonfu Somé, Sonja Blignaut, Sophy Banks, Sophie Strand.

My behaviour change, strategy, service design and imagination backgrounds, and a decade’s worth of experience
in adapting to life with chronic illness through regenerative practices.