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...
10 days 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...
26 days 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...
28 days 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Dear community So I did my usual meditation this morning. I put a colander on my head, stuck a whisk in the air, and asked the universe a question... Today’s question was: What’s a big challenge in society?” I’m kidding about the first bit (colander and whisk). Although next time Eli asks me one of his endless “Why?” questions, I will genuinely hand him a colander and whisk. 🤣 But I did ask the question... seriously. And the answer that came up was:Men. Not all men. But men. I gulp a little...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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...
about 2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 months ago • 1 min read
