About My Work

I am a science of wellbeing communicator, campaigner and group facilitator.

Wellbeing means feeling healthy and happy; it is a state of flourishing. My work has two intertwined threads: holding spaces for people to come together to learn about and experience aspects of wellbeing and communicating the science of wellbeing to support wider social change towards a wellbeing focused society.

I provide evidence-based frameworks and embodied, practical tools that people can apply to their lives. I deliver this through events, workshops, training, keynotes, campaigns, communications and movement building.

The inner work of personal development, self-expression, and therapy is important for our wellbeing. Inner work can support us in understanding and becoming comfortable with our thoughts, feelings, and emotions, as well as accepting who we are. To flourish, we must get intimate with the full spectrum of our emotions, which is why my work encompasses ways to cultivate joy and feel grief.

Yet wellbeing is more than just a journey of the self; no person is an island. We can’t look at our wellbeing without examining the systems we are part of. Humans are social animals, and our wellbeing depends on our connections and surroundings. This includes our close relationships, the culture and norms in our social networks, the broader communities and societies we are part of, our connection to the natural world, and the built environment. This is one reason why working in groups can be meaningful and powerful.

I am inspired to do this work because of my personal experience of burnout, trauma and mental health issues, my profound spiritual connection with the natural world and my political conviction that it is necessary and possible for us to build sustainable social and economic systems that prioritise human flourishing and work in harmony and reciprocity with all life on earth.

I believe there is a more connected and meaningful way for us to live together, and that we can find our way there collectively. The path to collective liberation is the path to wellbeing.

I offer ways to get closer to a feeling of aliveness, wholeness and connection, closer to what it means to be human. I have been described as a ‘feeling leader’.

  • I have led meaningful group experiences, events, workshops, rituals and transformational spaces for nine years.

  • I have offered mental resilience, leadership training and keynote speaking to organisations for six years.

  • My campaign and movement-building work spans two decades and has focused on wellbeing, happiness, nature and climate for the past five years.

I aim to inspire people through storytelling, creativity and vulnerability. Currents of improvisation and playfulness run through everything I do. The artistic sides of our nature are our superpowers, and we thrive when we bring them into all arenas of life.

In much of life, our passions, emotions and creativity are siloed away from the more ‘serious’ business of work or politics. Yet, what could be more serious and worthy than the very things that make us who we are? We need more bards in the boardroom and more playfulness in parliament to help us build systems that reflect the brilliance and complexity of being human.

Themes I am exploring: Joy, Play, Wellbeing, Happiness, Resilience, Leadership, Mindfulness, Community, Compassion, Creativity, Imagination, Sound, Vocals, Improvisation, Embodiment, Dance, Ecstatic Experience, Festival, Celebration, Pleasure, Deep Rest, Grief, Longing, Belonging, Becoming Indigenous, Decolonisation, Deenclosurisation, Ecopsychology, Folk Culture, Myth, Tradition, Nature Connection, Seasonal Wisdom, the Wheel of the Year, Englishness.

My Background

I see myself as a bridge between worlds; a fun fact about me is that I have previously worked in Parliament as a researcher and speechwriter for an MP, and as an interactive, immersive theatre performer.

As a Senior Trainer and Speaker with the learning and development company Mycelium, I have delivered wellbeing training and keynotes at world-leading companies, including Sky, Facebook, and Google, as well as to the NHS and leading universities. I have delivered work at various cultural organisations and festivals, including Glastonbury Festival, Medicine Festival, Theatre Delicatessen, Togetherness, Morning Gloryville, Sunday Assembly, Alter Ego, Colourfest and Into The Wild.

A sense of belonging and feeling part of something bigger than ourselves is central to our wellbeing. This is why building movements, creating community, being a good citizen of the world and exploring what it means to take pride in being English are key enquiries in my work.

My change-making and movement-building work includes training as a community organiser with Citizens UK and helping to build the Living Wage Foundation by harnessing the collective power of a broad group of people with shared values. This campaign led directly to the introduction of the UK Living Wage for people over 25, and gave 6 million people a pay rise. I currently lead the outreach and communications strategy for Action for Happiness, a UK charity and a global movement of over 600,000 people who believe human happiness is the ultimate good and should be the aim of organised society. AfH members are committed to taking action in their local communities to help build a happier, kinder world.

Evidence shows that connection to and access to nature supports good wellbeing. There is also a link between higher wellbeing and prosocial and proenvironmental behaviour. I feel a deep personal spiritual connection to nature and have been living my life in a way that aligns with the cycle of the seasons since discovering the work of Glennie Kindred in 2014. I have been involved in climate campaigning all my adult life, including with Extinction Rebellion. Since 2022, I have been organising micro solidarity between friends, supporting each other to face the reality of the climate challenge and finding ways to take action in our lives.

I have been involved in DIY (do-it-yourself) culture for over two decades. DIY is non-commercial and not-for-profit community based activity. It may look like organising parties, shows, gatherings, fundraisers and activism, taking over spaces and making your own culture, all pulled together on a shoestring budget wherever and however you want with your friends and community.

I am an advisor to Mycelium Space, a community coworking and events space in Frome, that promotes six foundational areas: Embodiment, Friendship & Collaboration, Joy and Gratitude, Wellbeing & Resilience, Focus & Performance and Creativity & Innovation.

I regularly practice Collaborative Vocal Improvisation, which is stepping into the void of possibility and making sound up on the spot in front of other people. It is scary and brilliant.

I am certified as a group facilitator by Authentic Revolution’s Authentic Leadership program. I have completed Mycelium’s Mixed Mental Arts Group Facilitator Program twice. I have completed an Apprenticeship to Grief Tending. I am also trained in sound healing and group sound facilitation.

I have studied, researched and experienced many modalities across the science of wellbeing. My work stands on the shoulders of giants, drawing on a wide range of influences to whom I am greatly indebted and ever thankful. My event listings include a selection of researchers, thinkers and teachers relevant to each session.

Influential trainings and teachers who have helped shape my path as a facilitator and workshop leader include:

Joy and The Body; Aisha Paris Smith (2023)

Wheel of Consent; Adam Wilder (2023)

Healthy Human Culture; Sophy Banks (2022)

Internal Family Systems; Everett Considine (2022)

Authentic Revolution Authentic Leadership Facilitator Training; Sara Ness (2022)

Intermediate Collaborative Vocal Improvisation; Briony Greenhill (2022)

Apprenticing to Grief; Sophy Banks and Jeremey Thres (2021)

Peace, Power and Purpose; Tom Fortes Mayer (2021)

Awakening the Wild Woman; Gaia Harvey Jackson and Alana Bloom (2021)

Stressbuster: Emotional Release; Natalie Ford and Ruth Biddlecombe (2019)

Mindfulness and Compassion for Healthy Living; Lokadhi Lloyd (2019)

Mixed Mental Arts Trainer Program; Mycelium (2018 & 2020)

Co-Creating New Paradigm Relationships; Araminta Barbour (2018)

Mindfulness-Based Resilience; Robert Mitchell (2018)

The Warren Creative Residency; Alana Bloom and Daniel Hernandez (2018)

African Women Resistance Leaders: Political and Spiritual; Michelle Yaa Asantewa (2018)

Yoga of Sound (Sound Healing); Thomas Owen Keirnan (Sounds of Light), Pavan Ji (Hanuman Project) and Madeleine Bachan Kaur (2017)

Elaine Yonge (2016)

Deep Flow; Clara Gomez Santos and Robert Silber (2015)

Immersive Performance & Devising; The Lab Collective (2015)

Community Organising Training; Citizens UK (2013)