a little philanthropic company with huge heart
catalysing extraordinary evolution for children and young ones
through experiences and environments for their highest expressions of their exquisite natural intelligence
An odyssey
In 2006, my departure from my full-time corporate change management career, propelled to by a deep knowing of the need for me evolve my change management profession to create positive change and wellbeing; further catalysed by my delight at the possibility of a platform for higher learning about change and evolution beyond the possibilities beyond our usual paradigms; leading me to an odyssey of change, learning and evolution of my own; going deeper into the fuller ranges and dimensions of reality, evolution, change and creativity; contining my work with leaders, boards and teams in organisations, whilst narrowing my focus to creating wellbeing and positive change; expanding to work with individuals and teams in communities, charities, social enterprises, wellbeing enterprises, with change-makers, placemakers, councils, and in schools and education; working in the UK, Europe, India, Asia, the US, Mexico and Australia, exploring and experimenting with the fusing and weaving of arts, crafts and design, evolutionary human development, communications, engagement, design and change approaches to find ways to create positive social change; now going beyond that to create extraordinary evolution in community.
That brings me to now. The journey continues - and this part, this time, is what is was all preparation for.
Now welcoming you to come with me.
'Karen is like no-one else I have ever met; she's quite simply brilliant. She is a unique blend of creativity, intuition and smarts.
Her crystal clear process took me on an amazing journey starting from a spark of an idea - and ending in a fully formed business plan. Like a spiral, Karen's questions led me deep into the core of the idea. One of the keys of the process is the visual map that she creates for each session. These maps helped me to link things together in new ways, and see new possibilities - ultimately coming up with a better concept."
D. Gosling - Director & Innovator for wellbeing for children
"In two sessions your work broke through a deep layer of palpable fear and upset, through bringing to life the beauty of water, and how it carries harmonics which play a deep role in emotions... looking through this prism of water and the analogies and metaphor your provided, allowed us to see the truth in the situation. And come up with creative ways of connecting with my children again through water.
I had the experience of just wanting to be the best version of me I can be in their eyes. A hero dad.
And so with the kindness and calmness Karen showed me and my blended family constellation, and the laser like attention to detail with a professional business hat on, she was able to diagnose, propose the path of greatest joy, and then get the post workshop feedback to fine tune for next time, all without us seeing the back of house that must take years to perfect.
It was a deep privilege and I can only bless this work as being inspired by spirit, for the pure goodness of humanity."
Benjamin - Father
"Karen is utterly unique; I know no-one else like her. Each time we meet or work together, the experience leaves me inspired. She is so giving of her knowledge, her energy and unparalleled authenticity - that I find myself, as a storyteller, short for words. Karen is a firebrand, a soul-counsellor and superlatives aside, a great person to work with."
M. Deakin - Leadership Storyteller & Communications
"I never had such an experience before. I think many peoples in India need such coaching to take out their hidden dreams and show to them. And also showing them the possibilities and way forward.”
S. Prakash - Ayurvedic Practiitoner
..'Karen's approach is creative, leftfield, technically excellent all wrapped up in great stakeholder management. She is a refreshing change from the 'formula' approach in her field.”
B. Dudman - Organisational Development
How to describe working with Karen Grace?! Imagine the most creative, boundary-less brain, inside a whole-hearted human with a deep deep curiosity and care. And then add in a large dose of systemic and organisational nouse, and relaxed confidence with the senior leaders in any organisation; Karen is brave in saying she sees the world differently and what an incredible perspective you will gain if you listen up.”
A.-King-Smith - Leadership Development
“Over 6 sessions Karen helped me strengthen my own resilience and that of my team... and most importantly have a confidence in myself to continue navigating us through the growth of my organisation. I recommend her to anyone wanting to strengthen their leadership and create resilience in their team or organisation.”
Lucy - Global Leadership Team (nda)
‘.... when Karen was recommended we jumped right into her “wellbeing workshop” where Karen helped us to understand the full range of possibilities, looking not only at health and wellbeing of each of us, but our energy and engagement in the business too. We are now well into the recommended program and are seeing fantastic results, including increased productivity and awards for Healthiest Workplace and Best Employer...
J. Hubbard - CEO
"I had some business coaching with Karen some 18 months ago - it illuminated and released the potential of the thoughts, dreams and dynamics of my business. We created a visual structure which allowed me to see my business more deeply, and from new perspectives - and I immediately saw clearly where it needed to go.
Karen facilitated clarity for the future and in our session and mapped out a visual roadmap with intentions and next steps; this vision has been coming to fruition ever since and has become my reality.
Her way of working is very magical and unique. I can honestly say that that this is the absolute best money I have ever spent in terms of life and business coaching and encourage anyone at a crossroads, looking for direction, needing to make conscious decisions and being clear about next steps to embark on, you won't be disappointed, you will be blown away."
E. Jackman - Founder of Conscious Chocolate
"Thank you for your listening, creativity and knowledge all in a realm of authenticity and potency. What I got out of our sessions was the opportunity to create new out of chaos; to create future out of things that were ending; to give a new meaning to ambition.”
A. Jonas - Pilates Specialist & Studio Owner and Mother
“Karen is a joy to work with. A high spirit and drive are allied to a thoughtful planned approach and she is always looking for more. More aspects, more avenues and especially more marketing directions. She worked on a wellbeing project with me and I would have never got it up and running without her.”B. Curless - Entrepreneur
My odyssey
My reason for being here is to cataylse higher evolution through creativityl arts, crafts and design.
In 2006, my departure from my full-time corporate change management career, propelled to by a deep knowing of the need for me evolve my change management profession to create positive change and wellbeing; further catalysed by my delight at the possibility of a platform for higher learning about change and evolution beyond the possibilities beyond our usual paradigms; leading me to an odyssey of change, learning and evolution of my own; going deeper into the fuller ranges and dimensions of reality, evolution, change and creativity; contining my work with leaders, boards and teams in organisations, whilst narrowing my focus to creating wellbeing and positive change; expanding to work with individuals and teams in communities, charities, social enterprises, wellbeing enterprises, with change-makers, placemakers, councils, and in schools and education; working in the UK, Europe, India, Asia, the US, Mexico and Australia, exploring and experimenting with the fusing and weaving of arts, crafts and design, evolutionary human development, communications, engagement, design and change approaches to find ways to create positive social change; now going beyond that to create extraordinary evolution in community.
That brings me to now. The journey continues - and this part, this time, is what is was all preparation for.
Now welcoming you to come with me.
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Extrardinary evolution is our natural way. As part of nature, we are part of cycles, snd this cycle is one of a phenomenal evolution as human beings.
Evolutionary possibilities is here to assist with
My reason for being here is to care for the earthkeepers; those living in harmony with the principles of nature, as nature; rooted in indigenous ways and connected to the natural evolutionary process of these times.
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Irreplaceable infrastructure
incorporating a 33 year long professioanal journey of inquiry, research, exploration and experimentation in the many aspects of evolving community.
My professional journey has involved evolving communities in direct and indirect ways;
from being right at the heart of community with people in families, community members, neighbourhoods and in their livelihoods; through my time in communities as part of community projects, consultation and engagement, partnerships and events; as part of my work assisting enterprises, organisations and institutions set up to serve, support and sustain community.
My work with those organisations has also been internal; developing the capacity and capability to better serve and support communities; assiting them with board and leadership advisory, leadership development, organisational change management and evolutionary change approaches, strategic planning, prioritisation, ways of working, problem solving, confllict resolution, service design and development; social innovation;
career has involved working with community organisations, enterprises and institutions work internally with leaders and their teams, with ways of working, processes, projects and programmes, strategic planning, prioritisation and portfolio management of budgets, resources and priorities; assisting with partnership development aand partnership project design and development, as part of that, tending to the capacity to receive. Many communiuty organisations have benefitted from my evolutioanry change management approach, with a tending to the practical and organisational aspects of change within community organisations and out in community; whilst tending with great care, the human dimensions of change, connection to place and relationship to nature as essential part of the picture.
My work with commercial organisatons started off
My work has also involved working directly with Heads and teachers inschools, universities, learning and educatioinal enteprises, serving local learning and development needs in communities; and tending to the responsibilities to contribute to community locally and as an important aspect of development for children and the young. My work since 2014 has increasingly moved towards evolutionary learning, beyond institutions and into community.
My love of tending to the elderley in communiuuty continues; after being seeded in my early years in St Winifred's school choir, where we were reguarly transportted to care homes to sing for them; in more recent years, intergenerational projects are deeply important to me; knowing that our communities need to bring elders and elderly more closely into community, as the social norm is for them to become more islated, less included and engaged.
My work in evolving community health since 2006 is now evolving even further; reaching beyond institutional provision, into the heart of community; as with everything, moving towards relocalisation and decentralisation; and the reconnection to indigenous ways as a source of great wisdom for our community life today and in the future.
My fascination in envirionmental psychology and the affect of our built environment on human behaviour and development has had me naturally seek out places with traditional and evolutionary community design in the built environment; with my ongoing inquiry into biophillic and evolutionary design thinking; and in my career, has led me to work on projects involving an evolutionary garden city design project, urban planning and develoipment events, placemaking, community engagement for developments and partnership development for a heritage garden project; 6 years of working on residetnail network connectivity had me out visiting a multititude of communities and nerighbourhoods; and community partnership projects took me to even more places in the UK and India, took me to even more communities and nrighbourhoods; seeing all the many ways in which people live; and seeing the many challenges we face as a collective; with the many amazing possibilities for evolutionary places also.
My natural gift for connecting to the experience, shinest through my work in all aspects of evolving community. What is it like to be part of this community? And how can we evolve it for the highest good of people, place and planet? This and it's counterpart 'belonging' are centrepoints in my work, that bring me deep joy to tend to; at a heart level and admittedly, are where you'll find me getting happily geeky about too.
My work with individuals has tended to matters closest to heaet ans home; one's own wellbeing and resilience, matters of home, family and community; and livelihood, in a way that sustains and enables people to offer their gifts to community.
My work in evolving community ; adults and children; in business, community and in private; is all, ultimately contributing to the world in which children are growing up in; each interaction, experience, encounter - shaping them and their realities, perspectives and ways of behaving.
The future for our children is now in our hands. It is our choices, actions and inactions, that determine how this goes; what future do we want for our children and future generations?
It is our collective responsibility now, to tend to changes and transitions in the worlds where we belong.
There is much for us to do. Our time is now. Let's give this the best we've got.
"Karen is utterly unique; I know no-one else like her. Each time we meet or work together, the experience leaves me inspired. She is so giving of her knowledge, her energy and unparalleled authenticity - that I find myself, as a storyteller, short for words. Karen is a firebrand, a soul-counsellor and superlatives aside, a great person to work with."
M. Deakin - Leadership Storyteller & Communications
"I never had such an experience before. I think many peoples in India need such coaching to take out their hidden dreams and show to them. And also showing them the possibilities and way forward.”
S. Prakash - Ayurvedic Practiitoner
..'Karen's approach is creative, leftfield, technically excellent all wrapped up in great stakeholder management. She is a refreshing change from the 'formula' approach in her field.”
B. Dudman - Organisational Development
How to describe working with Karen Grace?! Imagine the most creative, boundary-less brain, inside a whole-hearted human with a deep deep curiosity and care. And then add in a large dose of systemic and organisational nouse, and relaxed confidence with the senior leaders in any organisation; Karen is brave in saying she sees the world differently and what an incredible perspective you will gain if you listen up.”
A.-King-Smith - Leadership Development
'Karen is like no-one else I have ever met; she's quite simply brilliant. She is a unique blend of creativity, intuition and smarts.
Her crystal clear process took me on an amazing journey starting from a spark of an idea - and ending in a fully formed business plan. Like a spiral, Karen's questions led me deep into the core of the idea. One of the keys of the process is the visual map that she creates for each session. These maps helped me to link things together in new ways, and see new possibilities - ultimately coming up with a better concept."
D. Gosling - Director
“Over 6 sessions Karen helped me strengthen my own resilience and that of my team... and most importantly have a confidence in myself to continue navigating us through the growth of my organisation. I recommend her to anyone wanting to strengthen their leadership and create resilience in their team or organisation.”
Lucy - Global Leadership Team (nda)
"I had some business coaching with Karen some 18 months ago - it illuminated and released the potential of the thoughts, dreams and dynamics of my business. We created a visual structure which allowed me to see my business more deeply, and from new perspectives - and I immediately saw clearly where it needed to go.
Karen facilitated clarity for the future and in our session and mapped out a visual roadmap with intentions and next steps; this vision has been coming to fruition ever since and has become my reality.
Her way of working is very magical and unique. I can honestly say that that this is the absolute best money I have ever spent in terms of life and business coaching and encourage anyone at a crossroads, looking for direction, needing to make conscious decisions and being clear about next steps to embark on, you won't be disappointed, you will be blown away."
E. Jackman - Founder of Conscious Chocolate
"Thank you for your listening, creativity and knowledge all in a realm of authenticity and potency. What I got out of our sessions was the opportunity to create new out of chaos; to create future out of things that were ending; to give a new meaning to ambition.”
A. Jonas - Pilates Specialist & Studio Owner and Mother
"In two sessions your work broke through a deep layer of palpable fear and upset, through bringing to life the beauty of water, and how it carries harmonics which play a deep role in emotions... looking through this prism of water and the analogies and metaphor your provided, allowed us to see the truth in the situation. And come up with creative ways of connecting with my children again through water.
I had the experience of just wanting to be the best version of me I can be in their eyes. A hero dad.
And so with the kindness and calmness Karen showed me and my blended family constellation, and the laser like attention to detail with a professional business hat on, she was able to diagnose, propose the path of greatest joy, and then get the post workshop feedback to fine tune for next time, all without us seeing the back of house that must take years to perfect.
It was a deep privilege and I can only bless this work as being inspired by spirit, for the pure goodness of humanity."
Benjamin - Father
‘.... when Karen was recommended we jumped right into her “wellbeing workshop” where Karen helped us to understand the full range of possibilities, looking not only at health and wellbeing of each of us, but our energy and engagement in the business too. We are now well into the recommended program and are seeing fantastic results, including increased productivity and awards for Healthiest Workplace and Best Employer...
J. Hubbard - CEO
“Karen is a joy to work with. A high spirit and drive are allied to a thoughtful planned approach and she is always looking for more. More aspects, more avenues and especially more marketing directions. She worked on a wellbeing project with me and I would have never got it up and running without her.”B. Curless - Entrepreneur
