Dear community Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about quiet leadership. The kind of leadership that helps people feel more connected to themselves, each other and the wider system around them. The kind of leadership where people eventually say..."We did it ourselves.” Something I adored supporting when I ran big teams. But then I look at the noise of Instagram, leaders peddling fear and division to create a following, and a world feeling more oppressed, from increasing food prices to...
6 days ago • 2 min read
Dear amazing community. Can you help share this? Grief Tenders for Liberation | 17 June 12pm-4pm | Camden Town 30 spaces available! A gathering for activists, social justice campaigners and overwhelmed hearts. I'm partnering with a group of amazing facilitators for a one-off event that will ground you, bring us into community and give us more collective energy. We want to help support you during this time of seismic trauma, in community. We're running it on a donation basis to keep it...
16 days ago • 1 min read
Dear community I took a long break from writing to find my compass again. I realised I had lost my boundaries due to grief. Grief of what I expected, of my ancestors, of the world. Grief of how I have harmed others and others have harmed me. (How I harmed others is right edgy one) Triggered, like many, by the pyramid of cards falling after Trump’s actions this last 18 months. I have found my way back to my compass. It feels like a building, structurally sound, covered in moss. So clear. Like...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Dear community I long for a just community.I long for tough conversations held with love and connection.I long for us working together for a better future, for ourselves and for generations to come.I long for a society where ancestral wisdom is welcomed everywhere. Where queer is normal.Where we take on our unlearning and grow together.Where we can sit in difficult conversations with loving awareness. A place where we loosen the grip of money, and hold a vision of something new. I feel a...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear community, I keep hearing about grief and sadness, but also courage and love. I keep hearing about many of us going back to old patterns we thought we had already worked through. I keep seeing this in sectoral meetings too. So what is it like to be you right now in a world of turmoil? I would love to know. Email me. For me, here is what it is like beyond the square Zoom screen. I am working through my ancestral trauma, wanting to me the final iteration of the violence of the past and not...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Dear community Thank you for all the beautiful conversations this week during one-to-ones and PROJECT 10⁹. PROJECT 10⁹ will be going to locations this spring and summer. Aberdeen on 9 August, Green Earth Awakening on 11 September, and Bristol with a date to be confirmed. 💖🌱👇🏾 Grief, knowledge and the courage to stay open We are all consuming more grief. The grief of humanity. Personal grief of things happening at home. The cruelty we are witnessing around the world. What I am noticing is that...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Dear community I’ve sometimes shied away from talking about racism. Perhaps just to get through the day. Perhaps telling myself it’s not there. Perhaps knowing it is there, and choosing to ignore it. I’ve definitely felt awkward writing about it at times. Many of you will remember that I used to run anti-racism programmes focused on power, privilege, and inclusion. I stopped because it felt like hurt was meeting hurt, again and again. Or performative reporting being celebrated. I still roll...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Dear community, Che Guevara once said, when asked, “What is the most important quality of a true revolutionary?” “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” After a really deep and at times angered conversation with someone close to me, I realised something uncomfortable. I can harm the people closest to me without being fully conscious. Why? Because...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Dear community members I feel we're losing spaces where we can take off our armour >> it feels like we have to have more armour on right now? What does a space look like where you can take off your armour for an hour? Not somewhere just to rant, but somewhere you change your state and emotions. You know that feeling when you leave a conversation with the capacity to do and be more? When I've left such spaces I carry much more empathy and send less blunt emails! 🤣 Here's the public spaces we...
3 months ago • 1 min read
