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I am a scholar-practitioner in the world of social change and global leadership development. I help organizations apply a systems perspective to build sustainable communities around the globe. Using collaborative, interactive (and dare I say fun?) facilitative tools, I help design programs and services that thrive in balance with their members, the broader global community, and the environment.
My background consists of multi-sector and international experiences in higher education, governance, leadership development, and social impact. Combined with a love for wandering, I have built a career across sixty countries and five continents.
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INSPIRING A SHARED VISION
My vision is to lead transformative change towards a more conscious and just society. By modelling mindfulness, creativity and compassion across complex and changing environments, I aim to connect adult learners to their untapped passions and unlimited potentials as global leaders.
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My mission is to create learning communities which embrace intersectional, interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches in which everyone can holistically and authentically flourish as engaged citizens.
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LEADERSHIP
Leadership can be a form of ‘other-centeredness’ when conducted with integrity, generosity and the wellbeing of the collective in mind. Leaders ‘walk the walk’ of best practices, build trust-based relationships and inspire a shared vision.
INNOVATION
Innovation implies not only advancement but metamorphosis. Innovation occurs at the ‘sweet spot’ between discovery and utility, creativity and collaboration. I want to apply the principles of innovation not only to my research but also to my personal development. I will let my learning change me and be receptive to wisdom and inspiration in every form.
INTERSECTIONALITY
Working with a mindful and reflective approach, intersectionality seeks out, listens to and internalizes experiences outside one’s own. I recognize personal and political paradigms of power and use a critical approach to name and change the tides of oppression.
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FACILITATION
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MY APPROACH
Collaboration is key to collective agency and empowerment. It’s a basis for effectiveness, a crucial means of embodying our values, and it can bring forth emergent and creative qualities that alone we could barely imagine. Collaboration is not only a root of social transformation, but it also provides a vital context for individual transformation, enabling us to share and live out our deepest values.
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I offer Liberating Structures and other creative and collaborative facilitation sessions to help you to draw out the best in yourself and others, build trust-based relationships, strengthen teams with shared values – and get things done!
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Favourite Themes and Techniques
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Design Thinking & Liberatory Design
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Lean Start-up Methodologies
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The Circle Way
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The Work that Reconnects
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Somatic Experiencing
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Mindfulness-based and reflective approaches
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Creating frameworks for deep reflection, analysis, and the sharing of experience;
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Discovering, inventing, and unleashing local solutions to chronic problems.
ARTS-BASED CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
​How can we draw on the power of the heart, the fire of the imagination, and the dynamism of the body to empower social change through our creativity?
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Forum Theatre – a rich and full narrative form that enables groups to explore issues, and to look for transformative opportunities and points of intervention within their own lives.
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Image Theatre – a set of simple forms that enable groups to hold meaningful and exploratory conversations. It is a highly participative approach that supports rich inclusivity and is able to meet diverse needs and communication styles.
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Nature Connection -- exploring deep ecology as a forum for connecting with our work, our world and ourselves.
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