Use art and creative expression to help all of us coexist more fully, peacefully, and meaningfully - with each other, and with the planet.
Fight stigma, discrimination, and systemic injustice through deep, vulnerable, and honest communication.
I work with civil society organisations, non-profits, and socially oriented businesses to:
🔵 Provide tools and materials that build caring relationships with audiences.
🟢 Create content that touches hearts and opens minds.
🟡 Challenge toxic practices in mainstream communications, campaigning and media work.
🟢 Nourish creative practices rooted in consent and respect.
🟡 Redistribute attention to where it's most needed.
🟢 Create opportunities for creators from marginalised communities to earn income and advance their careers.
🔵 Create opportunities for systemically silenced group to have their voices heard.
🟢 Develop communications frameworks that prioritize the well-being of creators and audiences
🟢 Love & care
The foundation for peace, happiness, and fulfillment. I believe we are naturally loving and caring creatures, but live in oppressive systems that condition us to fear those who are different from us. To achieve a better togetherness, we must let go of this conditioning, and become our most loving, caring selves.
🔵 Respect & humility
Boundaries are sacred - and, every now and then, inevitably crossed. Conflict and discomfort are inherent parts of growth. Let's stay open and trusting, learn, and do better next time.
🟡 Honesty & directness
We're all people. There's no need to pretend. We get further when we say what we mean.
🟢 Playfulness & humor
Good things happen when we stop taking ourselves too seriously. Humor makes hardships easier to bear.
Creators, movements and practices that inspire and shape my work, in no particular order (but occasionally with links):
The sheer beauty of being alive
Transcendental meditation
Adrienne Maree Brown
Viktor Frankl
Ego death
Eric Berne
Emilian Walter
Dirk Slater