Cultivating non-competitive and collective spaces that nourish practitioners and expands the possibilities for preferred movement, radical alliances and creative risk.

I’m a teacher, writer, and consultant who comes to practice with an approach influenced by narrative therapy, decolonial, feminist, and non-extractive worldviews.

As a Narrative Therapist, I worked alongside people and communities affected by violence, trauma and displacement for 20 years across different countries, cultures and languages. Despite the attempts of oppressive systems to silence and divide communities, people continue to circulate stories of solidarity, refusal, dignity and creative survival. Those are the voices I wish to  be in relationship with when exploring projects through a trauma/justice-informed lens.

Emerging from these practice contexts and a passion for reviewing practice to discover what can create further access and ease for people in their co-research endeavours, I’ve been developing our multi-storied bodies practices, an approach to enquiry that invites us to move beyond single-storied bodies and into practices of collective consultation that hold power, care, justice, and possibility at the centre.

Back in 2013, I first encountered filmmaking as a collaborator and protagonist on a hybrid documentary project. I was compelled, in responding to the many ethical, power and discourse related questions, to start translating ideas from my therapeutic approach into ways to accompany the complex and relational processes involved in the life of a film. It was through this project that I realised the membrane between worlds is thin. Therapy and cinema, I found, are "sister sides of skin," both intensely interested in the politics, ethics and histories of co-constructing stories. Both believing in the power of gathering to share and witness stories that move us beyond from what we thought we could know, imagine or sense.

This cross-pollination is now the foundation of my daily work with artists, collectives, and researchers across different cultural contexts, all involved in projects that seek to bring about radical cracks and shifts within oppressive societal structures. Far from a finished project, you can find me these days designing spaces dedicated to doing the practice together - figuring out together the 'architectures of unlearning,' and being part of co-creating alternative, just, and multi-storied futures.