About

Facilitator, coach,
grief tender

I help people and teams to collaborate regeneratively,
and cultivate graceful transitions and endings.

Through facilitation, coaching and grief tending.

I dream of profound healing between people and land, where all beings are enlivened by creativity, reciprocity and dignity.

Regenerative collaboration and grief tending are two ways I help groups to practice these liberated futures. Both require good facilitation: easing the flow of energy, creativity and commitment within a room.

I’m an experienced facilitator, with 15 years of hosting all manner of gatherings, from strategy processes and organisational culture workshops and retreats, to grief rituals and bespoke ceremonies that honour transitions and endings.
Read more about my facilitation practice.

In my organisational work, I facilitate regenerative processes, trainings and gatherings (workshops, away days, retreats) to help teams align and grow. My focus is culture and collaboration, strategy and stewarding graceful endings.
Read more about my approach in my popular post, A regenerative organisational design primer.

I’ve worked across the civil society ecosystem for 15 years: 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.

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

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

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

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, contains updates about work and events, my facilitation and organisational design 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 give talks about regenerative collaboration, transitions, endings, grief tending and chronic illness grief.

I have an English Literature degree from the University of Oxford and I’m a certified coach (see further trainings below).
I live in South Devon, UK, where you’ll find me resting, hosting 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 a Certified coach with MOE Foundation, 2020. Certification recognised by Association for Coaching. I adhere
to their Global Code of Ethics. I have 150+ coaching hours and monthly coaching supervision with an accredited Master Coaching Supervisor, and am working towards my ICF ACC credential (qualifying in 2026).

In 2023 I trained in grief tending with Francis Weller and completed Apprenticing to Grief, returning the next
year to support-facilitate the immersive learning journey. I participate in a 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, Joanna Macy, Harrison Owen, Francis Weller,
MAIA, Malidoma Somé, Margaret Wheatley, Martín Prechtel, Moral Imaginations, 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, my values, and a decade’s worth
of experience in adapting to life with chronic illness through regenerative and complexity-informed practices.

Questions I’m exploring

  • How might we regularly tend to our grief, to support our becoming more fully alive?

  • What could better endings look like for organisations?

  • How might I cultivate presence to deepen my facilitation and coaching practices?

  • What does it mean to be a "person of place"? How might I feel kinship with my bioregion?

  • What does radical care look like? How might I ask for and receive care?