About Me

Life - ‘The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become’ - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

40 years ago I was born with both jewish and islamic names, a commitment to common ground.

30 years ago I left 4 siblings and a one-bed council flat for a boarding school, traversing very different worlds.

20 years ago I was diagnosed with my third and most life-changing chronic illness. An ecological alarm clock.

10 years ago I realised that the future is here, it’s what we live now - and that the hardest but most important change almost always starts at home.

Work - ‘Work is love made visible - Khalil Gibran’

I started my working life as a theatre-director, partnering with brilliant playwrights, actors and communities to explore how our perceptions shape us.

I went on to support social leadership development - working with civic leaders, international human rights defenders, politicians, social entrepreneurs, pioneering educators and young people. I see leadership as a craft not a birthright.

Now I focus on supporting the deeper roots of transformation (cognitive, embodied, systemic) aiming to find the change that is already happening and to help people to help themselves, their communities and our wider systems - preferably in that order.

Training - ‘you cannot step twice in the same river’ - Heraclitus

I’m certified in Coaching (Association for Coaching) and Systemic Constellations (Jenny Mackewn), I’m an accredited Sourcework & Moneywork Practitioner, and I’m a long-term Diploma Student of Psychotherapy and Facilitation (ProcessWork UK).

I also have 20+ years practical experience across social change, a Level 4 Certificate in Advanced Personal Training and Nutrition (Active IQ), and an MFA in Theatre Directing (Birkbeck College and Drama Centre).