bringing huge heart, deep care and infinite creativity

to creating evolutionary environments and experiences

for children as sacred seeds of the future

 

inspired by Mac Macartney, oraclegirl.org the ancient Mother Yew &

Amate trees, the mountains of Amatlan, Mexico

People know me as someone who brings creativity, playfulness and meaning; seeing the connectedness of all things; and who has a perspective different to the norm.

My way of nature is to challenge the status quo, presence realities, and convey messages of truth and wisdom; to be opened hearted and caring; a creator by nature - making things that are useful, beautiful and therapeutic, curating boundless adventures and odysseys of learning, and innovating with the highest of ideals are my ways of creating; without doing, my natural way catalyses movement forward; clears energy and facilitates flow..

Making my to a brighter future has been my way of finding my way to higher ground in life; it was art, singing, music, sewing, craft and making spaces that got me through a very diffifult beginning in life.

In my work in change mansgement and facilitation, people knew me as having 'a creative leftfield approach' that was tehcnically sound, whilst departing from the usual norms; a natural creator, it makes sense that my approach to change and learning will be creative!

With a strong value for people being invovled and consenusal in the change that happens, and to do it with love and care, it meant a natural progression towards participative processes for change and away from the top-down culture of change management.

The gradual integration of my creativity with change now brings great tools and approaches that we can use together to make our way to a brigther future, thorugh these times of great change and co-creating a new time on earth.

A growing discomfort with traditional approaches to centralised humanitarianism and system-led community development led to a natural evolution to move towards localised, sovereign communities with the essence and purity of humanitarianism, led by love, guided by nature; arriving at this point of a living process surfacing what is presencing and moving with a flow of 'source' through a creative process of 'making' to see what is beckoning from nature as needing to be in movement or materialisation. 

In jyotish astrology, a saturn period is gruelling in adult life; and there is a reliance on the tools and support from earlier in life, for people to make their way through; for me, it was straight in from conception to an 18-year saturn period; very rare, apparently; my mayan profile is 'I endure in order to reflect' and it seems this has been my chosen path; to gather the gold from 30 years of recovery and regeneration, research and action research and professional work with children and in service of children since 1992.

Working with a multi-disciplinary team of a leading architect, london city planner and development project broker in 2013 on a design proposal for a new garden city; a dawning realisation of the commercial priorities in traditional placemaking and planning, above the wellbeing and highest evolution of people and nature; cataylsing a turning point, marking my departure from mainstream projects and practices; gathering what was useful, to assist with a democratic, earth-centred approach to placemaking with sovereign, natured-based communities

The gold from this visit to a children's project in Ahmdebhad, in partnership the National Institute of Design (India) and British Council Fellows was the experience of a deeper, more harmonious way to approach change; with an invitation to 'see purely through the eyes of love'; with no desire or movement to 'change' anything; to be fully present 'with what is' and follow that which arises in awareness, that beckons for change; an unusual experience in 'design for change' circles!

Livelihoods for children was an interesting inquiry as to how to assist children who need to work, to do so in the best way possible for them.

Being part of UnBox was profoundly inspiring and rich by way of cross-pollination of practice and ideas for social change in communities through design.

At 3am on 21 December 2021, a flow of writing came through for a funding application for a children's village; a safe haven for children in these times and the highest level of evolutionary environment possible; for them to develop as natural beings in connection with nature; restoring full harmony and coherence with the natural order.

A one year maternity cover contract gave me a deep dive into community research, needs and developing projects with charities, social enterprises, community groups and schools to meet the needs of their children and young people through partnerships with businesses operating in their local area; including Sussex, London, Manchester and Mumbai.

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