OTHER PROJECTS
Outside of my core work as a celebrant and communications consultant, there are a number of other ways I strive to deepen conversations and help change prevailing narratives.
RITES FOR GIRLS
For thousands of years, across many traditional societies, elders have been initiating the young as they transition from child to adult. This is something that we have all but lost in the UK. Rites for Girls CIC was founded to reclaim this important time of life and support our teens to feel ready for adulthood.
As a Non-Exec Director and Board Chair, I help create a sustainable framework for the Founder and Management Team to fulfil their mission of training and supporting women to work with girls.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
As an independent, post graduate researcher I am seeking to understand the impact and value of marking the many milestones we experience with ceremony and ritual. My current focus is on the many transitions that present themselves during the menstrual lifecycle, from menarche (first period) to menopause.
I am a member of the Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) Research Centre at Dundee University and the Menstruation Research Network at the University of St. Andrew’s.
My work is informed by the Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions (MMT) theory as set out by Professor Divya Jindal-Snape (2016) which acknowledges that we each encounter more than one transition at any one time and we experience these in relationship with others who are, in turn, living through their own transitions.
My first published contributions are due very soon!
RETREATS
From time to time, I host one-day and residential retreats for individuals and organisations to create dedicated and nurturing time to pause and consider how best to make a meaningful difference in our lives and work.
ADVOCACY
I have just launched a Substack as a space to extend my advocacy. I will be asking the kind of questions I believe have the power to help change the way we think, talk and feel about our lives and work. In particular, I’m interested in the part ceremony and ritual have in making our experiences more meaningful. The name of publication is THE GOSSIP which in itself subverts something we think we understand – to reveal a truth long since hidden and in so doing, break a spell that the modern status-quo would have us perpetuate. Ultimately reclaiming the term closer to its original meaning which is far from the devisive and judgemental chatter that it has since come to represent.