I am a facilitator, trainer and activist.
My passion is to equip people - whether as teams, professionals or community organisers - with the skills and inner resources to engage in the world from a place of integrity, truth and compassion. My main way of so doing is through facilitating retreats and workshops, as well as offering training programmes within organisations. My vision is shaped by the dream of a world where everybody’s needs matter; and dialogue rooted in empathy – empathic dialogue - becomes an integral part of our culture. At present, I am involved in a year-long training programme with teams working for the Church of Scotland’s most hard-pressed parishes. I also work with Bridging-the-Gap which tackles poverty in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, as well as in Papua (Indonesia) with the Planning Department of the Provincial Government. I work closely with Training for Transformation’s team of tutors in South Africa, including its founders Sally Timmel and Anne Hope. In addition, I belong to the Biodanza and Compassionate Communication teaching communities. The latest and exciting development is that a group of us, including the Iona Community and Woodbrooke Quaker College, are bringing Parker J. Palmer’s “Courage to Lead” work into the UK. We’re working together to organise several retreats facilitated by a Courage facilitator from the US. The first will be at the Abbey on the Isle of Iona, 22-28 June 2013. We hope that this will eventually lead to a facilitator’s training programme here so that this life changing process can be widely facilitated in the UK and continental Europe.
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