My hosting practice revolves around creating the conditions for belonging during gatherings, no matter how brief or extended. I am interested in what it means to develop a sense of ritualised and reciprocal relationship within the places we live and love — and how this can so often happen through the act of sharing a good meal together (and then sharing the washing up)!

Through eight years of experience in hospitality in my teens and early twenties, and now four years of experience in hosting gatherings, I am continually developing an approach to hosting that weaves together mutual care, placemaking, and a curiosity around what it means to serve people and place.

I host and co-ordinate The Convivial, which involves opening and closing sessions, cooking and serving meals, and hosting discussions. Recently, I enjoyed the role of host and logistics lead on a Schumacher Wild residency in Cornwall, UK, during which I liaised between kitchen, lecturers, students and venue to invite and embed a shared responsibility for tending to place.

I am available to work with organisations and groups in developing retreats, residencies and away-days which centre belonging, care and place.

My teaching practice engages with the history of how humans have imagined themselves in the world and what it means to live well in the world today. My approach centres inquiry as a way into the human imaginary. In my courses, I create space for a ‘convivial truth’ (after Illich) to emerge, through inter- and intra-personal dialogic process and phenomenological sensing and reflection.

I hold a BA in Social Anthropology and Arabic and an MA in Poetics of Imagination. I have also trained in Healthy Human Culture, the Capacity Lens, trauma theory and trauma-informed practice. I am currently studying Ritual and Religion in Prehistory through Oxford Lifelong Learning, and am applying for a PhD in human geography. My research spans anthropology, mytho-poetics, posthumanism, trauma theory and psychology, and theology and sacred place.

Through my work at The Convivial, I am currently teaching a winter course in Underworld mythologies, as well as place-based inquiries (Poetics of Place and Encountering Water) through phenomenology, posthumanism, poetics and ritual. I am available to teach students up to MA level, and my preference is always to engage with landscape as part of the teaching.

My facilitation practice focuses on creating imaginative spaces for collective inquiry. I am endlessly curious about what it means to dream together, feel together, and be curious together. I strongly believe that entering into shared and ritualised spaces of inquiry and tender risk-taking can aid in shifting beyond binary thinking and help us create space in our bodies for paradoxical and co-existing stories — a critical practice for our times.

I am a neurodivergent and trauma-informed facilitator, and I am always looking to deepen these parts of my practice. Most recently, I have been exploring somatic and phenomenological facilitation and collective storytelling, as well as what it means to re-entangle ourselves with the world around us as a process for re-enchantment in the context of polycrisis.

I facilitate in-person group explorations via The Convivial in Penryn, and am a slow facilitator through my work at The Slow Work Garden. Previously, I worked as a community facilitator at the Fish Factory Arts Space in Penryn.

I am available to help you design and facilitate group or individual experiences for organisation days, retreats and residencies.