Through my work, I aim to encourage, support and inform the efforts of people and organisations to nurture living, learning and loving systems and communities, where kindness, compassion and justice are woven into the fabric of life. To do that, I explore the pathways that might lead us in that direction – sometimes with clients and collaborators, sometimes under my own steam – and share what I find in case it’s useful to others.
For me, social systems are complex and unpredictable landscapes, shaped by their inhabitants and their relationships, rather than complicated machines that can be engineered. That understanding runs through everything I do. It is also why this site is a garden: a smaller, more manageable system of learning and emergence, regularly tended, which might inform similarly attentive ways of engaging with the wider landscapes it reflects. This site provides a window onto my ways of working, and shares the produce I have grown as ingredients that might be used by anyone seeking to nurture a fairer, more sustainable and ultimately regenerative world.
- The garden: What I’m currently working on, and what I’m reading.
- The produce: My published writing on a range of issues, drawn from four phases of work since the 1990s.
- The practices: Ways of working with complex social systems that I have developed, and others I draw on.
- The landscapes: Where change happens, and where the practices might be put to work (under development).
- Let’s connect: How to get in touch and how we might collaborate.