Selected Work
A few situations I have been trusted to hold.
These are a few of the situations I've been trusted to hold — most of my work is confidential by its nature, please treat these examples as representative rather than exhaustive. Further detail can be provided in proposal documents and scoping conversations.
Some of my work is named in full, with the client's agreement. Some is anonymised — the circumstances are true, with identifying detail removed. Personally sensitive and commercially sensitive work is entirely private, as standard. If you're wondering which category your own situation would fall into, that's something we always decide during the scoping meeting, and nothing is shared or spoken about without consent - however sometimes there is mutual agreement upon completion that the work was valuable enough that others can learn from it and in those cases it is a gift gratefully received when the client allows a case study to be produced.
Holding a multi-agency response through uncertainty
Trusted in a time of significant chaos to put relationships at the centre and focus on creating conditions for collaboration to happen more naturally
Systems
Convening a landscape-recovery partnership
Trusted with an important decision, and learnt a lot about the process along the way
Relational field
Repairing a strained partnership before rupture
Trusted during an upsetting time to bring empathy and listening to a major organisation to avoid the resignation of key staff members and board members.
Repair
Building a learning infrastructure around real work
Trusted with building capacity and focussing on how the stories a place holds can bring people from very very different backgrounds together in an area experiencing a high number of newly arrived communities.
Learning
Discovered Stories Shared Communities
Over two years in Cumbria, Art of Hosting training across the voluntary sector through the Discovered Stories Shared Communities project — work that later seeded hosting practice into NHS networks in the North East and North Cumbria.
LearningIf your situation rhymes with one of these, write to me.
Facilitation · Mediation · Coaching · Working with me — the practical detail