Offering.
Working with stories, narratives, experience design, and creative and communications strategy as systems change practice for cultural transformation. Involving people in imaginings and makings of just and regenerative futures through impactful story experiences that re-pattern narratives and shift people’s beliefs about the world and their place in it.
Creative Strategy
Surfacing an organisation's core narrative and carrying it through positioning, messaging, and touchpoints that invite audiences to feel and imagine possible futures. Creative concepting, audience understanding, journey design, campaign ideation, community engagement and relationship strategy. Supporting organisations to reach strategic objectives through storytelling, communications, content and creative outputs.
Editorial Strategy
Leading, designing and producing story-led projects and story ecosystems from concept, strategic roadmapping, project management, production, to publication. Story design and curation, project and process design, and multimodal, transmedia experience design across books, magazines, short films, digital platforms and channels, events and more. Bringing a network of talented producers and creatives to realise projects.
Narrative Strategy
Demythologising the deep cultural codes, beliefs and worldviews that hold narratives in place, and experimenting with story and creative strategy to shift them away from patterns of injustice and degeneration. Inquiring into how our ways of knowing shape the systems we live in; inquiring into our onto-epistemologies as systems structures.
Process design, toolkits + style guides
Co-designing editorial processes, frameworks, tools and style guides with teams to decolonise their ways of communicating and embed a systemic paradigm. Creating the infrastructure and designing the socialisation processes.
Specialist Editing
Working with organisations and media companies to seed possible futures in their projects and communications and weed out narratives that uphold injustice and degeneration. Integrating a living systems and decolonial approach to narrative and language use.
Communications Strategy
Supporting organisations craft communication strategies that approach communications as relationship-tending. Working with communications to enable orgs’ theories of change and impact strategies, moving away from the extractive marketing paradigm towards ways of communicating that centre care. Creating communications that propel justice and cultural transformation.
Coaching & Mentoring
Accompanying junior practitioners bring regenerative and systemic thinking into their projects and ways of working. Creating a space to question, experiment, sense-make and reflect, to deepen inquiries and embed them into practice.
Writing
Collaborating with fringe publishers and projects, bringing my perspective and philosophical depth to writing on the art of noticing, the art of weaving our senses and imaginations into life, the art of being spirited away by the world, the art of being enlivened and entangled. Contributing to diverse topics through the lens of interbeing and entanglement and in my inquiring style. Learn more.
My Mycelia
I’m threaded into a network that colludes and collaborates. When a project requires it, I call upon members of this network and beyond for their talents and support.
Nico Paries
Digital designer, developer and the founder of Hey Low, a digital studio designing low-carbon websites to support those dedicated to social and environmental justice. Based in Portugal.
Sofia Sarkar
Innovation and business strategist passionate about the power that creativity has to change behaviour and create social impact. Based in Portugal. More.
Jody Daunton
Purpose-driven photographer supporting organisations with storytelling projects contributing to a better world. Based in Portugal, working across Europe. More.
Mariana Velez
Facilitator and network weaver supporting teams towards clarity of purpose, trust-based partnership and generous collaboration. Contributing to multilingual, cross-cultural and cross-sectoral projects. Based in Canada. More.
Joseph Klatt
Business strategist making complex systems more circular. Specialising in recycled materials. Director of Business Development for MAD PLASTIC and founder of Marble Plastics. Based in the USA. More.
Saskia Rysenbry
Social designer and strategist. Co-founder of the Sathyam Project, and the Curator at the School of System Change. Based in Germany, Portugal and Aotearoa New Zealand. More.
Bella Thompson
Events designer and organiser committed to the regeneration of our collective relationship with nature. Co-founder of And So We Rise, and co-producer of Land Skils Fair. Based in the UK. More.
Rebecca Stumpf
Editorial and commercial photographer with a passion for telling visual stories about the connection between humans and nature and the creative space that falls between the two. Based in the USA. More.
Dheeraj Reddy
Creative strategist operating in the fragile space between two realms, exploring the tension to create brand narratives that are at once abstract yet rooted in strategy. Based in India, though currently in Colombia. More.
Choechoe Brereton
Editor and writer who brings a rare compelling soulfulness to print, digital, social media and multimedia. Based in Australia. More.
Eglė Duleckytė
Project manager contributing to impact projects globally and making talent management kinder. Excited about impact entrepreneurship. Based in Portugal. More.
Moritz Born
Mindful marketeer crafting impactful campaigns and strategies for organisations with integrity and passion. Based in Portugal. More.