Co-creating
hopeful, sustainable
futures
(What does this mean?)
I work in three spaces: communicating science, strategic foresight, and democratising futures.
People know me as a consultant, facilitator, trainer, educator, storyteller, artist, futurer, imaginer, and researcher.
And I am interested in how we communicate complexity, navigate uncertainty, see around corners, and move from abstract ideas toward practical action.
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Professional practice
Communication training and consulting for science, research and R&D
Helping scientists, researchers and technical experts shape and deliver their messages clearly for different audiences. In universities, research organisations and industry across Europe. [More→]
Strategic foresight and facilitated futures workshops for research-led organisations and teams
Using futures thinking, foresight processes, and facilitated workshops to help groups see past their instinctive assumptions to anticipate risks, opportunities, and possibilities. And then act on what they find. [More→]
Participatory processes and place-based experiences for cities, communities, and hopeful futures
Designing participatory processes, interactive workshops, and embodied, multi-sensory, place-based experiences that start conversations, engage humans, and help to democratise futures. [More→]
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Here are some of the organisations I’ve worked with in my professional practice:
Creative practice
Walking, sense-making, and strong sustainability
Designing place-based walks that connect people with themselves, others, and place. Leading a feet-first rebellion for people who want to stop sleep-walking through life. Initiatives that celebrate urban walks. [More→]
Telling wise, wonder-filled, and witty tales
Oral storytelling performances for adult audiences in English, drawing on myths, legends, folktales, traditional stories, and occasionally weaving them together with true and almost-true tales. [More→]
Liminal spaces and impermanent art
Working with found objects to create impermanent art. Observing how it changes. Occasionally taking others on the journey with me. [More→]
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Recent reflections
Mobility changes perception, changes “the future”?
The ways we move through a city influence what we notice, what we care about, and ultimately what kinds of futures we think are possible there.
Futures facilitators as midwives and death doulas: witnessing disappearance
What skills do futurers and futures facilitators need to help people process almost-certain loss? As I am writing this, the concept of a “midwife for death” or a “death doula” keeps coming to mind: depending on the kind of futures facilitation we do, is it necessary for us to learn how to assist in process of both “birthing new ideas” and assisting in the process of allowing old ideas – and attachments – to die?