Questions and insights from my practice
I use this space to record and grapple with some of the challenges, revelations, contradictions and possibilities I encounter in my work.
Resisting the culture of wilful forgetting
On the story of ‘peace’ being told about the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza and how the culture of forgetting, erasure and rewriting distorts our sense of reality.
Notes on exhaustion
Why exhaustion is an appropriate response to the times we’re in and what message it might be telling us
How to talk about the god-awful times we’re in with family, friends and colleagues
Why it’s hard to talk about the political reality we’re in, how isolation deepens hopelessness and ways in which we can practise being with it together.
Learning to better cope with unjust conditions is not resilience – it leads to burnout
On the fallacy of meritocracy, why resilience is an inherently collective issue and dancing in the streets of London in protest against the far right.
It’s not about the mistakes you make but how you respond
Thoughts on perfectionism as a form of dehumanisation and conflict avoidance and how we are our own best practice ground to shift how we navigate our fallibility.