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...
22 days agoย โขย 2 min read
Dear community Thank you for all the beautiful conversations this week during one-to-ones and PROJECT 10โน. PROJECT 10โน 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. ๐๐ฑ๐๐พ 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...
26 days agoย โขย 3 min read
Dear community Iโve sometimes shied away from talking about racism. Perhaps just to get through the day. Perhaps telling myself itโs not there. Perhaps knowing it is there, and choosing to ignore it. Iโve 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...
about 1 month agoย โขย 2 min read
Dear community, Che Guevara once said, when asked, โWhat is the most important quality of a true revolutionary?โ โAt 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.โ 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...
about 1 month agoย โขย 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! ๐คฃ Here's the public spaces we...
about 1 month agoย โขย 1 min read
Dear amazing community, A couple of event announcements. Send me a โhell yeahโ and let me know which one youโd like to attend. ๐ฑ 12 February, 7.30pm GMT - Men in Social Impact Focusing on our second wave of purpose and identity. A space to deepen ourselves and consciously buck the trend of the ridiculous damage men are doing globally. It will be deep, spirited and playful. ๐๐พโ๏ธ 19 February, 2pm GMT - One:One Recalibration Session I have space for one deep-dive coaching session on the 19...
about 2 months agoย โขย 1 min read
Dear community Last weekend I experienced a deep meditation and visualisation with my mentor over a three-hour period. I connected with my dad, who, as many of you know, passed in 2009. I spoke about how much I respected his tenacity to keep going, to study and work, and his deep thirst for knowledge. His choice to place education over religion as our way out of inner-city Birmingham. How much I loved that he studied Persian, and how I wish right now we could sit together and talk about...
about 2 months agoย โขย 2 min read
Dear community Many of the people I speak to are questioning their purpose and identity. We are entering a second wave of our purpose and mission, where what we did, what we believed and what patterns we held in the past may not be the solution of the future. As the world may feel daunting, we have a choice. We can continue to be in winter and survive or we can nurture the seeds of the future. In so many parts of the world we are in moments of crisis, and in our personal lives, we may also be...
2 months agoย โขย 1 min read
Dear community Three big concepts in this prompt as I am full of that neurodiverse energy of everything, everywhere, all at once.. I want to gift you 90 minutes to unpack them, as if I serve you, you can serve your community Deep Coaching Session - https://calendly.com/mo-belonging-people/coaching You are not your thoughts, feelings or body The critical skill for all of us, especially those working in social impact and justice, is this... Sitting with the knowing that... We are not our...
2 months agoย โขย 4 min read
