Living Stories

I give talks and lead conversations on ecology, people and change. The form is experiential. We sit together, preferably outdoors or around something like a fire, and the story is built in the room, with the people who are there.

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The Indigenous thinker Tyson Yunkaporta calls it yarning: knowledge shared through living conversation, where the story grows between people instead of being delivered ready-made. I have made that form my own, with full acknowledgment of where it comes from.

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The stories come from lived life. A decade on the front lines of European climate and cultural movements. Years of building and facilitating movements across Europe, and everything that taught me about courage, groups, endurance and what actually moves people. And what it means to lose the ground, and to find it again.

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At the center stands the relationship between humans and nature, and everything that lives in the space between: body, community, work, culture, and the stories we organise our lives by.

The themes move where the conversation needs to, but tend to circle around: how change actually happens, in people and in movements. Ecological identity and belonging on a living planet. Courage and risk, and what the body knows about both. The stories we live inside, and how they can be told alive again.

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For organisations I also hold a distinct strand: developing transformative and regenerative ways of working, for Norwegian and international organisations. Here depth psychology and organisational psychology meet, and the question is how working life can be built to strengthen people and living systems rather than standing in their way. 

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Formats:

Conversation evenings and talks, from small circles to larger rooms. Experiential workshops for groups and organisations, preferably outdoors. Contributions at festivals, gatherings and professional days. Everything is adapted to the place and the people.

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Practical:

Get in touch with a little about the occasion, the place and the group. Rates under Working Together.