Dear amazing connections, We've been running Rise in Our Roots up north with community leaders for nearly a year! And we’re now bringing a special two-hour session to London! 🌱 If you’re up for discussing some of the struggles facing leadership in the UK and overseas, while also experiencing some of the energising and opening processes at the heart of Rise in Our Roots, I’d love to see you there! ✨ All in person. No AI. No Zoom. Proper human connection and sharing of energy. 📅 24 September |...
7 days ago • 1 min read
Dear community When I first started therapy, when Eli was about four, it was partly because I'd realised that when I was activated, I would either go silent or get angry. I started therapy and coaching in tandem because I wanted to both heal and act. I wonder how many of us recognise that pattern? I was reminded of this when Eli and I went to see the latest Spiderman film, where Dr Banner carried so much shame about hulking out. He tried to suppress his rage with a device, which felt like our...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Dear community I was supporting the welfare tent at Medicine Festival last week, and I noticed a pattern among some of the people who came into the space. Many of the women who sought support named quite directly that they were overwhelmed, lonely or needed some support. A number of the men arrived differently. They’d wander in making jokes. Or say they were “just checking the place out.” I’d give them a cup of tea. They’d stay. And then, once they’d relaxed, something would shift. The jokes...
17 days ago • 2 min read
Dear community I'm looking to meet more men working in social impact and justice. Not for dating. 😄 I'm looking for men who are: • Step into their tender masculinity• Become better role models for their families, communities and workplaces• Apologise and repair when they get it wrong• Unlearn behaviours that no longer serve them• Keep learning, laughing and growing I believe changing our living systems starts with changing ourselves. That's why I'm bringing together another cohort of Men in...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear community There's a song at the end of this prompt that felt deeply true for me this weekend. We are nature.🌵🐝🌋 It reminded me that if we're going to change our world, for ourselves and future generations, perhaps we need to move more like nature itself. Nature doesn't seem to require central control. Nature relies on relationships, communication, feedback and adaptation. Nature also holds love and rage, and expresses both when it is under threat. I'm becoming less convinced that the...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear amazing community After an impromptu night wild camping with Eli and some friends, I realised a few things. South Asians don't traditionally camp. 🤣 Or perhaps more accurately, many of us don't.! And there is a deeper story behind that. A few years ago, I invited some South Asian parents to go camping with me. One replied: "We spent generations moving out of tents." That stayed with me. My parents and grandparents would have lived through the upheaval of Partition and would have started...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Dear amazing community, I'm relaunching Men in Social Impact. After 10 months of learning, experimenting and growing alongside a group of incredible men, I'm excited to launch the next six-month cohort! Men have spoken about feeling less alone, making difficult decisions with greater confidence, improving important relationships at home and work, reconnecting with a deeper sense of purpose, and showing up for everyone with more compassion. We support each other to be better role models, tell...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Dear amazing community Across coaching conversations, men's work, community leadership and mobilisation spaces, I'm noticing similar themes emerge. Whether we're talking about personal challenges, leadership, belonging or social change, people are asking many of the same questions: 🌱 How do I find agency? 🌱 How do I navigate uncertainty? 🌱 How do I stay open-hearted in difficult times? 🌱 How do I cultivate community when the world feels fragmented? One-to-one sessions Uncertainty can leave us...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Dear community Community member news Zaira is running an online session to hold our collective justice grief 9 June - When the world breaks our heart Katy Murray is counteracting the dystopian world we have with micro-doses of Joy - RESIST Alex Martins and Lorriann Robinson have launched a new podcast - Give or Take As humans, do we seek to be part of something bigger than ourselves? Bear with me.... As I work through a process... A bigger story, a wider community, a longer lineage? For most...
3 months ago • 2 min read
