a shift in perception
a deepening of your practice
new questions for a new trajectory
I work with systems both big and small that are in fundamental shift and in transformation. I accompany and co-create with those who are on the edge of what we do not know and who are willing to lead, live into, and learn through, the deep changes that are being asked of us now. Transitions, transformation, this is my work.
I do this locally, globally, and online. How? By co-creating collective practice and processes to navigate times and places of chaos, crisis and regeneration. Tending the inner and outer work of our leadership, and exploring how we are complicit in the systems we want to transform. Working with living systems includes the rite of passage of hospicing what is dying whilst hosting the newness that is emerging. We find the turning points, and become the turning points.
This is artful work. It’s the work of cultivating courage. This yields new harvests, new stories. We make poetry of public policy, find beauty in the broken and carve landscapes of belonging. We are the stories we tell.
one-on-one
For Leaders on the Edge
You are a founder, systems leader, pioneer, innovator, creator and you are being called into a new phase in your leadership. You’re being stretched beyond your current capacity. You may be overwhelmed and need to pause. You’re ready to ground down deep into order to soar high.
We can call it coaching, mentoring, witnessing, collaborating, doing-some-shit-hot-work-together. Whatever works for you. But it's truly for you and focused on your quest & questions as it relates to how you are being called into your work in the world.
teams & organizations
Shifting Scale
Your organization is ready to shift into its next stage. You are at a crossroads and you wonder, where do we go from here?
Your founder or leader is leaving - or you are the one leaving the organization. There is new funding and you're being asked to grow beyond your current capacity and knowledge. The context of COVID and radical change in your context is calling you to step up to the times.
To shift scale is to work with multiple complexities - and this takes inner work, learning as a strategy, and understanding the collective context in new ways.
This work is about a core team or organization finding the new inner and outer navigations points, to grow down into your roots in order to grow up or out into the world.
Labs & communities
Hosting Systems in Transformation
It’s time to live into a new way.
Participatory gatherings for systems in transformation become "containers" where we can ask audacious questions about the things we care most deeply about. This container or
”learning ecology” brings people together to listen with many ears, access multiple intelligences, create new collective context, take risks, build practice grounds to prototype & experiment into discovering new patterns forward.
Harvesting & The Power of Story
New stories and deep patterns and invisible threads emerge from any collective process. I capture the golden threads and write them into story and narrrative as way of witnessing the power of what was said and unsaid. These “reports” amplify the knowledge in your system and are guides to future.
How and why
Our organizations, communities and countries are experiencing massive change. We can no longer depend on the practices or mindsets that got us here in the first place. The need to predict and control is no longer helpful. We need to learn how to not only survive in uncertainty and the unknown - but cultivate our fluidity, our ability to adapt and shift in this ever-changing and unpredictable environment. We need to start working differently. And we do this by being apprentices to our own curiosity, and by unfolding even more of our whole selves and whole systems.
