MY SERVICES
I work with individuals, communities, organisations and institutions to build our collective capacity for regeneration, on all levels.
While my work continues to evolve, I currently do this through three main areas...
3 AREAS OF WORK
PEOPLE &
COMMUNITIES
ORGANISATIONS &
COLLECTIVES
INSTITUTIONS
FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE
Fees are worked out on a needs-and-ability basis, and depend on the depth and breadth of the work.
INDIVIDUALS
Empowering Individual Change Makers
Who: Individuals, youth, community leaders, community groups, healers, activists, organisers.
Services:
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One-on-one sessions: mindfulness, wellbeing, life-purpose; effective techniques for work; developing a decolonised personal daily practice.
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Trainings: Effective communication, tools for engaging interpersonal conflict.
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Gendered work: one-on-one with men to explore, engage and work to transform patriarchal patterns and behaviour.
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Reiki healing-touch treatment: 2nd Degree Certification.
Previous work in this area:
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Founding Director of Mindfulness 1:1 sessions with students and faculty of Mahindra United World College (www.uwc.org). India.
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Facilitating men’s circles to share experiences of patriarchy and explore and dismantle roots of gendered violence. México.
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Trainings with Northern Corridor Community Volunteers Core Team: personal limitations, strengths. UK.
COMMUNITIES & COLLECTIVES
Capacity building for Resilient Communities
Who: Community organisations, NGOs, collectives, activist groups, student groups.
Services:
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Train-the-Trainer programs for: program coordinators, teachers, facilitators, interpreters & translators, empathic listeners.
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Multi-stakeholder Needs & Resource Mapping session for intersecting regional initiatives.
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Organisational framework training: clarifying Purpose, Mission, Means, Programs.
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Creating core content for outreach, networking, and launching your work.
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Guided evaluation and reflection sessions on your team's strengths, limitations, history, and harvesting tools and strengths to move forward.
Previous Work in this area:
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Maya Universe Academy: Train-the-Trainer program for teaching team in service-learning and project-based learning. Nepal.
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Creation of Next Step training program with Mosaik Support Centre for Refugees and People on the Move. Greece.
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Work with Artist Union of Kyrgyz Republic to connect and collaborate with Kyrgyz youth and thus preserve traditional, Indigenous culture, art, language and identity. Kyrgyzstan.
SYSTEMS & INSTITUTIONS
Transforming institutions for effective, liberating work
Who: Institutions of education, alternative education, social service providers, organisations.
Services
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Restructuring a company/organisation’s systems of decision-making, from hierarchical to collective; centralised to shared.
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Identifying ineffective, oppressive, sexist, racist* policies, operations and systems within an organisation/institution, and co-creating liberated, inclusive, effective alternatives. *Co-provided with BIPOC specialist in the field.
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Shifting learning pedagogies to learner-centric, effective forms of learning.
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Aligning institutional purpose with BIPOC struggles for justice and sovereignty. *Co-provided with BIPOC specialist in the field.
Previous Work in this area:
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CanopyNepal: train-the-trainer program with lead teachers to adopt leading project-based learning pedagogical frameworks. Nepal.
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Development of UWC MC Wellbeing Program: as means of re-centring UWC MC’s students, faculty and admin to their organisational vision and mission. India.
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Developing centre of Gaelic culture in Scotland; combatting Anglo-Americanisation of Gaelic culture. Scotland.
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Conceptualisation and launch of Centre of Resilience. India.