When I am holding people and processes in spaces that orient towards justice and liberation, my job as a facilitator is to make this work easier, clearer, and deeper. It is not to dictate your journey and it is not to teach you anything. My job is to create the conditions for you to find your own answers, arrive at your own destination - and to do this in service of a world of possibilities. My unique gifts as a facilitator are the care and attention I give to the relationships in the room, the humanity of the people who shape it, and the values that ground us in it. I hold the vision that gathers us and I anchor our gathering in the responsibility that it takes to practice it into existence. I bring laughter and light-heartedness as well as my fiery passion for life. I bring my lived experience and political lineage to my facilitation toolkit and I practice Unconditional Positive Regard as part of my philosophy and pedagogy. Last but not least, please know that as your facilitator, I’m in the mystery of life with you and on the learning journey alongside you.

I design and develop curricular programmes and containers of learning in which you’ll probably learn something, if you’re willing. My learning design and pedagogy are careful to embed the values and principles that make learning so important in the first place. Whether this relates to the logistical preparation of the learning environment or the before and after of the learning experience itself - all of these considerations across time and space are part of the learning journeys that we will embark on. As a designer, my job is to hold my responsibility and express my creativity in attending to the purpose, process, and people that make the magic of learning not only possible, but pleasurable. I am not interested in the kind of learning that promotes the false narrative that we are somehow deficient or inferior. My job is not to treat people as passive recipients of information, but rather active participants in their own discovery. I’m interested in lifelong, transformative learning that is decolonial, anti-capitalist, and subject-centred. I’m interested in learning that is both useful and contextualised for the student’s understanding of themselves, others, and their place in the world. Learning is a precious resource and a risky adventure that is deeply personal and also relational. My pedagogical lineage includes Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Ken Robinson, Carl Rogers, adrienne maree brown, Parker Palmer, and Jenn McCabe.

I deliver workshops, trainings, and educational experiences that teach the principles and practices of justice and liberation, at micro and macro scales. As a trainer, one of my jobs is to present and transfer knowledge in an accessible and digestible way. I pay attention to all the opportunities I can use to stimulate critical thinking and reflection on the topic by bringing my own perspective, praxis, and provocations. My goal as a trainer is not to be the gatekeeper to knowledge, but rather, to share information that opens up possibility for the learner to apply what they know, question what they hear, or build on what they learn. One of my gifts as a trainer is my ability to take complex concepts and paradigms and share them in easy-to-understand and engaging ways while bringing them to life by making them relevant to our everyday lived experiences. Another gift I bring is being able to make emotionally heavy topics light and playful as there is always room for some fun, joy, and laughter in my sessions. Finally, I cherish so much the opportunity to teach something of value in the world, especially when it nourishes and nurtures the long arc of justice through time and lineage. And so, I will always go the extra mile to achieve my commitment of making sure the learning really does stick in a galvanising, and memorable way.

Working as a consultant involves a range of skillsets depending on the organisational challenge or change process at play. This can differ from team to team, project to project, or sector to sector. There are so many contexts, ecologies, and dynamics that shape the nature of the task at hand. My job as a consultant is to primarily learn and understand what the purpose, problem, process, and/or people can tell us about what the rightsized solution might be. My job is then to guide leaders and support stakeholders in navigating their way through change - sometimes as a coach and sometimes as a critical friend. What you’ll experience with my consultation is my commitment to a quality of relationship that is honest and freeing, that can holds us through the stormy waters of uncertainty or oppression. You’ll experience my ability to actively, deeply, and empathically listen to what you share on the surface and what is going on for you underneath, described by many as a superpower skill of mine. Being a consultant is not an easy job when one loves what they do as much as I do. I hold my boundaries of being a consultant as a complicated yet sacred dance of what is my responsibility and what is your responsibility, what is our accountability and what is the collective accountability of the organisation, and what is within our capacity to change and transform in this moment with these people.

Collective Liberation

How might we collectively transform the conditions that perpetuate injustice into cultures of liberation?

• Responsibility and Accountability

• Collective liberation

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Anti-oppression

How might we dismantle tools of oppression?

• Prejudice, Power, and Privilege

• Equity and Inclusion

Movement Building

How might we move together towards futures of justice and visions of liberation?

• Movement ecology

• Movement lifecycles

My pedagogy

Student-centered

Critical thinking

Experiential and Participatory

Inquiry-based

Emergent