Something woke up in me when I first heard about climate change as a young teenager. It felt less like learning a fact and more like life itself was speaking to me. Pay attention, something here matters

So I did

For nearly 20 years I followed that thread through climate, energy and systems change, from looking down microscopes and studying the economics of decarbonisation to modelling energy systems, navigating markets and imagining futures decades ahead.

I became very good at seeing the system, finding patterns, holding complexity and sensing where change wanted to happen

and then my own energy system went nope

Turns out trying to create life inside systems built around extraction, productivity and perpetual push has consequences

My burnout became an inconvenient field study. The biggest thing I learnt about change was not in a model, a strategy deck or a future scenario

you cannot create a more alive world while abandoning your own aliveness

What we create carries us with it and that changed the question for me

not simply what are we trying to create? but who are we becoming as we create it?

That is the territory I work in now

I have plenty of tools, practices, strategies and strange little treasures tucked up my tutu, but I am not here to hand you a formula and call it magic. I am here to create the conditions so safe, so playful, you can’t help but find your own.