Client Feedback
For over a year, Clare attended regular meetings with the Starfish educational activism’s Core Group to help them assess the culture and interpersonal issues within their own environment. Her way of noticing provided powerful self-learning processes and adjustments, within the field of how they work together, that mirrored the changes they were working together to achieve in their professional outreach. *To learn more about how she might work with you, contact Clare directly. Read what her client Starfish have to say, below:
[Clare specialises in music, art, education, ecology, and activist industries, groups, and organizations. She consults regularly with London-based Arts college, Central St. Martin’s in their Applied Imagination MA Program]
Process
Clare’s contribution to our organisation has been absolutely invaluable. At the start of nearly every meeting she has brought a joyous, bubbling and contagious energy. Just her presence as an energy-watcher and extra pair of eyes and ears (and heart) would have made a difference.
Clare adds an amazing capacity to notice emotions, beliefs, and messages moving beneath the surface of the group, and its members. She is completely unafraid of asking questions that may seem uncomfortable.
Clare’s boldness and matter-of-fact approach, informed by a sense of curiosity, care and genuine interest, help us all to remain calm and brave in our inquiries. We perform these inquiries together, based on Clare’s open and insightful questions.
Clare’s focus is on what’s best for the group and its members.
Clare has a way of sensing things and articulating them that is somehow direct and yet non-confrontational. It helps us to see things more clearly and to go deeper.
Clare’s perception and courage were matched only by her care for our development…
in a thoughtful balance between challenge, and safety.
The value to the group of Clare’s noticing, naming and investigating cannot be overstated. Her work with us has been exclusively online, which is incredible in hindsight. Clare’s energy and presence completely transcend screens and time zones.
Dynamic Emergence
The basic training on Dynamic Emergence Clare facilitated for us not only gave the group a shared language, but also new lenses through which to view our interactions and thereby change our dynamics for the better. Dynamic Emergence also has many other practical applications for us as educators and change-makers.
Clare’s specific insights using Dynamic Emergence with our team were also beneficial for our individual and personal development.
Though our conversations were sometimes difficult, they were always rewarding and we looked forward to them.
On a more personal level, Clare brings a warmth, honesty and joyous energy which make her a delight to work with.
We cannot recommend Clare’s work highly enough. She brings incredible insight and value to any team that is open to honesty, reflection and growth.
Music
Clare’s singing is astonishing and deeply powerful
Clare’s music is a beautiful and memorable way to bring focus, clarity and presence to the start of a meeting or other gathering, that our coworkers have appreciated very much.
Her musical performances work extremely well online, bringing an incredible level of physical presence and embodiment to an online space.
The Starfish Collective
*Starfish is a swedish-founded collective focused on deconstructing patriarchy in the world of business, education and social structures. Clare worked with them closely, for over a year, helping them to become autonomous in their ability to perceive and deconstruct patriarchy within their own system as well as in how they facilitate others’ group work. This relationship is ongoing. In their words, they are ‘Educators, researchers and activists for gender equity and climate and environmental justice’.