We are better at evolving
than we think we are.
While it’s useful to have good strategy and familiar approaches, another vital skill is the ability to generate forward motion through uncertainty.
Diversify your theories and methods.
Scholars can be detached from practice, and practitioners can be resistant to challenging the theories that make them feel most proficient. We can become closed off, hooking our leadership, our change, or our facilitation to assumptions so thoroughly embedded, we can’t see clearly. Instead of attaching to a particular method or theory, let’s be wayfinders together.
Engage
tensions.
I was a practitioner before going further into doctoral studies and realizing I’d been throwing around terms – systems change, participatory leadership, paradigm shift – without knowing that I didn’t truly understand what they meant. Without deep understanding, we can’t open up to the kind of nuance, distinctions, and frictions that surface entirely new terrain.
Move beyond groupthink.
Once we realize how much we don’t know, we can navigate uncertainty. The a-ha! moment of knowing how much we don’t know launches us beyond instinctual groupthink, baggage, assumptions, and biases. Only a handful of people need to make that shift for it to ripple throughout a collective, like the first few brave humans on a dance floor.
Integrate theory and practice
for fresh perspectives.
Organizations & Clients
From local invigoration to international organizations, I work with experienced practitioners in process design, systems change and equity, visual facilitation, and coaching.
I draw from a diverse array of theoretical frameworks and methods for facilitating equitable change, from the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, the Art of Hosting, Deep Democracy, Interplay, Outcome Mapping, and Developmental Evaluation.
Addressing equity and power is central to the work of gathering and collaborating.
Writing, Publications & Conversations
On Participatory and Transformative Leadership, Social Change, Transdisciplinarity & Creative Futures.
Collaborations & Affiliations
Collaborator, The Outside
Consulting Editor, World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research
Associate, Taos Institute
Associate, Centre for Postnormal Policy Studies
Associate, New Stories