Founder of Unstitution and an inspiration strategist, I hold the inherent tensions of hard science and messy humanness. Embracing a partial witnessing orientation, I share 30+ years of integrative transdisciplinary transcontextual experience. Engaging and researching widely to nourish what's unfolding, I bring ideas and concepts to ground in ways that might relate, resonate and inspire meaningfully.
Unstitution is patterned as a collaborative commons, supporting living-learning lab initiatives, addressing entangled systemic meta-poly-perma realities. Together, through deep ongoing inquiry, we're uncovering life-affirming ways of working and living, reframing most everything:
💥 Diagnosing recursive life-diminishing patterns
💥 Co-cultivating enabling contexts and field conditions
💥 Unblocking portals that might allow transformative phase shift birth
Working from the interstitial space between sectors, disciplines, networks, cultures, generations, genders - all the artificial divides - we're illuminating deep-rooted domination-oppression patterns and barriers that insidiously persist despite good intentions. Life diminishing patterns, spanning hundreds of years and accelerated through industrialized modernity have become hard-wired. Deep subject!
Working and co-learning with people anywhere in the world, we're re-patterning as we live into an unknowable future, guided by some hard red lines. Uncomfortable questions routinely bypassed for all kinds of reasons keep us on transitional treadmills that prevent real transformation and block expression and life-affirming regenerative functions.
Living in the world as it is and wading between wor(l)ds, letting go of the degenerative, dysfunctional ways we've been imprinted, Inviting us all to unstitutionalize what fails to serve life, asking:
💥 What is ours to STOP DOING?
💥 What is ours to DO VERY DIFFERENTLY?
💥 What is NOT OURS to drive, (en)force and grip?
Honouring gifts differing, we bring and let go of experience, skills, framing/scaffolding, methodologies and tools - attuning to contexts and cultures. We cherish what has always been, trampled by dominator patterns and buried and invisibilized under layers, that became normalized - the way it is.
We were never separate, yet the experience and harms of separateness are very real!
Wading through deep shi(f)t, this work is reflective, retrospective, present-centred, facing one another and forward-facing - humbling ongoing (un)learning for all.
Our regularly updated Unstitution articles published on Medium are fractal-like glimpses into the unstitutional ethos. Co-catalytic springboards, they invite deeper excavation, integrative learning and meta-relational attunement. They reflect a sample of the ways we’re co-adapting and contributing.
