I have been initiating, facilitating and participating in creative, collaborative inquiries in different contexts for the past decade, including University of Edinburgh, University of Bristol, CANI-net, and Stillpoint Spaces London. The intention is an integration of creative and relational processes and academic rigour. Work is reflexive and outputs act as fleeting representations of the change processes that take place within and between collaborators or participants.
Writing as inquiry is the method I use most and in conjunction with other practices. I also explore using theories and practices from psychoanalysis, art, fiction, movement, music and psychodrama.
I offer one-off workshops and regular series to support processes of relational change through creative, collaboration, suitable for counsellors and psychotherapists, educators, social makers, artists and anyone curious to explore conscious and unconscious dynamics in a relational context. To explore what is appropriate to your context, contact me for a conversation.
Collaboratively cultivating a shared Imaginarium, a gathering of artists, writers and psychotherapists discover and explore a shared dreamscape, revealing unconscious themes and affective resonances, which subtly demarcate our entangled subjectivities and the society we are (in). Work is in progress.
This CANI-Net writing, making and moving retreat offered a multimodal exploration of co-presence and interconnection with a view to regenerating ourselves and our relation to the world around us. Academic paper in press with Qualitative Inquiry
This collaboration with Graham Barton at University of the Arts London (UAL) uses sonic objects to explore interdependence. Workshop has been shared at UNESCO Week of Sound (2023) and ECQI in Helsinki (2024). Academic paper in progress.
My PhD thesis doubled as an Auto-fictional novel, bringing a deeper recognition of the imaginal, speculative zone for sense-making and how mental structures are mediated by contemporary culture. Currently editing for publication.
An online writing collaboration exploring how to find a sense of intimacy and co-presence while distant and isolated from other humans during the Covid 19 pandemic.
A series of conversations with researchers in the Creative-Relational network, hosted through the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at University of Edinburgh, with the aim of sustaining feelings of connection and purpose with others working in the Covid 19 Pandemic
A collaboration of words and imagery and sound, with images by artist Seth Oliver and musical overlaying by Maff Scott/The Egg.
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