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Now

A /now page, for sharing what I’m currently focusing on.
Updated 15th July 2024.

At an event I attended recently, David Robinson of The Relationships Project posed the question, what are we doing next week, in the coming year, and what’s our direction for the next 5 years? So for me:

  • This week – continue developing facilitation skills training for people doing co-production in public services (not training facilitators, but distilling the values and skills that you might need if you work in a public service and have to gather people together to do meaningful engagement, citizen involvement, and/or co-production).
  • This coming year – expand my facilitation practice into explicit team dynamics and conflict transformation areas (beyond the business as usual stuff, I want to do more untangling of the weeds under the surface when things aren’t quite so straightforward). I’m putting this intention out into the Universe, and inviting the possibilities!
  • The next 5 years – I don’t know what shape this is going to take yet, but I want to look into grief work in organisational change (whenever there is a change, even a positive one, we have to let go of something to make space for the new; I believe we need to attend to this process of letting go and grieving).

I also have a permanent and ongoing fascination with how we can measure relationships and culture change (in an ethical and affirming way, obvs). I collect my occasional thoughts on the blog under the “Measurement” tag.


On my reading shelf – about dying and grief (both on a personal and collective level):

  • Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief (Cindy Milstein)
  • The Grieving Brain (Mary-Frances O’Connor)
  • Option B (Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant)
  • You Are Not Alone (Cariad Lloyd)
  • Modern Loss (Rebecca Soffer & Gabrielle Birkner)
  • Ashes To Admin (Evie King)
  • The Silly Thing (Esther Ramsay-Jones)
  • Being Mortal (Atul Gawande)
  • Stiff (Mary Roach)
  • Grave (Allison C. Meier)
  • On Death and Dying (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
  • Necessary Losses (Judith Viorst)
  • Living your Dying (Stanley Keleman)
  • The Smell of Rain on Dust (Martin Prechtel)
  • Geometry of Grief (Michael Frame)
  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow (Francis Weller)
  • With the End in Mind (Kathryn Mannix)
  • Tending Grief (Camille Sapara Barton)

I have long been interested in end-of-life doula training. I may well explore this more concretely in the coming years. In the meantime I’m very open to conversations about all of the above!