Now
What I'm working on
Currently
Writing GriefSick, a newsletter that explores and bears witness to chronic illness grief (subscribe here), and making a zine with Navigating the Wilderness
Designing and facilitating a grief circle with Rūta Žemčugovaitė
As an Associate of Koreo, coaching staff members of an organisation that is closing down, supporting them with their feelings of loss, and to explore what’s next for them professionally
Supporting MAIA with designing and implementing their organisational Infrastructures of Care, as a majority disabled/ chronically ill organisation
Co-facilitating a 3-day Culture + Collaboration retreat for the Funders Initiative for Civil Society team (with Gemma Drake)
Coaching 1-2 clients at a time and connecting monthly with my coaching supervisor to deepen my practice
Supporting clients in an ad hoc, advisory capacity (book a session here)
Writing my personal newsletter, This Might Resonate (subscribe here)
Collaborating as an Associate with Moral Imaginations, Koreo, hello brave and Kaleidoscope Health and Care
Collaborating as part of the ecosystem of the following collectives: GreaterThan, The Decelerator, Transformational Governance, FF Studio and Bright Harbour
Participating in Communities of Practice: Grief tending (hosted by Grief Tending in Community), The Decelerator, Trauma-informed Collaboration (hosted by GreaterThan), Stories of Practice (hosted by Community Rituals), Microsolidarity Network (hosted by The Hum), Emergent and Regenerative Design and Tranformational Governance, funded by Lankelly Chase
Participating in the fortnightly writing club I founded, find out more and sign up.
Previously
September 2023 - January 2024: training in grief tending with Francis Weller in Entering the Healing Ground: Grief Ritual Leadership Training
Training in Grief Tending in Community with Apprenticing to Grief, 2023
Exploring good organisational endings, as part of Stewarding Loss
Co-designing a progamme, Camden Imagines, for imagination-led personal and organisational transformation with Camden Council, as part of my Associate role with Moral Imaginations
With hello brave, supporting a mental health and racial justice charity to redesign their decision-making processes and build greater psychological safety
Supporting the hello brave team with an operating model prototyping programme for Home-Start UK
Supporting Doughnut Economics Action Lab with their operating model and decision-making practices
Leading the first half of Patterns for Change, a project funded by Lloyds Bank Foundation and the National Lottery Community Fund, to define radically better organisational design in the UK non profit sector (the wonderful Tayo Medupin led the second half)
Supporting the Centre for Digital Public Services in Wales with their strategy development, as part of my work with ff.studio
Designing and running an 18-month design capability-building programme with the United Nations Development Programme in Armenia
Laying the foundations for user-centred policy design at The Department for Education, a project which led to my inclusion in A Day is Not Enough, a book about women influencing design for social good
Designing behaviour change products for over 1 million people with Public Health England, leading to my selection for WPP's Government & Public Sector Practice leadership development programme (2013/2014).
Questions that hold my attention
How can I support chronically ill people in their grief?
What are the conditions needed for relational repair?
What is the essence of creativity?
What does a regenerative organisation look like?
Big dreams
Start a venture with other chronically ill and disabled people. “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” (Buckminster Fuller)
Write an auto-theory memoir and a book about complexity-informed organisational design
Live by the sea.
Last updated March 2024. Inspired by Derek Sivers.