welcome

I grew up in Belfast through times of profound change, trauma and violence, and have worked for over thirty six years in N. Ireland and later throughout the island of Ireland, as well as in South Africa, Sri Lanka, Scandanavia, the Netherlands and Germany.

My roots are in sensory, fun, and musical experience as a refuge from oppression, and in community, women’s and adult education, community development and research, parent support, human rights and children’s rights, project leadership, and contributing to bring innovations to tough challenges here. This included being part of setting up two organisations dedicated to embodied trauma healing, well being, societal transformation and human rights.

I have worked in international teams dedicated to individual and collective trauma healing, and learned about my own survival patterns in depth with others. I bring my own lived experience as well as professional learning to all the work I offer. I am grateful to have learned from failures, suffering, pain and losses as thresholds of deeper transformation, as well as from successes.

“Vulnerability is the ever-present and abiding undercurrent of our natural state. To run from vulnerability is to run from the essence of our nature; the attempt to be invulnerable is the vain attempt to become something we are not" -  from the essay, VULNERABILITY in David Whyte, Consolations