I support organisations, strategic partnerships, and communities to come together at moments when there is a need to change or evolve. I do this through creating events, gatherings or conferences into learning ecologies where people come together to exchange different perspectives in a collaborative way so that new collective intelligence can emerge from the diversity. This involves clarifying the purpose of why stakeholders should come together, designing the appropriate process based on the purpose, hosting in a manner that creates the conditions, offers just enough structure, yet also allows participants to create their results, and capturing the collective intelligence so that new insights or solutions can be made visible and supports follow up through new decisions and actions.

As one of the co-initiators of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversations which is a training, approach and world wide network, I offer a three day experiential training with other co-hosts that teaches a living systems paradigm in how organisations, communities, teams and individuals can operate. This provides an approach that is applicable to more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, (VUCA) contexts. It teaches people a new world view as well as methods and skills in how to work with uncertainty and complexity generatively.

In addition, I have co-created with colleagues the Living Wholeness Route Map, a systemic change process that enables individuals and teams to experience first hand inner and outer systemic change through an eight-day experience, entitled Immersions. As part of this we also offer trainings in the Art of Protection and Hosting Oneself.

A significant part of my work is in applying new forms of organising and cultures of working. Inspired by a living systems perspective , I work with strategic partnerships and organisations that are experimenting and searching on the edge for new forms of living and working. This work takes the form of Social Labs, Projects seeking innovation in policy making, reframing of bio/political regions, learning from Indigenous Practices and organisational culture change programmes.

Specifically, I offer support in defining the inquiry area, designing the process, convening multi-stakeholders and hosting collective inquiry in a context where initially the final outcomes can not be foreseen due to breaking new ground. As part of this, I support the development of core teams to act as a ‘sensory organ’ and steward the deeper purpose of the inquiry which requires helping them to develop skills of working with the unknown, process architecture, participatory methods and capturing new collective knowledge that brings insight on the next steps.

Working with complexity and ambiguity, requires personal mastery and leadership that aligns the inner condition of individuals with the external context in order to produce performance that has impact and value. I work on a one to one basis, with individuals who are either in leadership positions within organisations or who are initiating new projects or inquiries. My work is to help them navigate the complexity and ambiguity they face in their work by supporting them to look within themselves in order to find the best way forward. I ‘walk’ with my clients into their fears, desires, enthusiasm and concerns so that together we discover new insight and direction.

I also do this with teams, whether they are senior management teams, work teams or project teams. Here I support teams to become ‘corporate’, i.e. to work as one body, so that as individuals they offer their personal mastery to the greater purpose.