Conversations That Create Change
If you work in leadership, learning, or roles where communication shapes daily life, these talks offer a clear and grounded way to explore the moments that define how we understand ourselves and others. Each session helps people make sense of what they think, feel, and do — and why it matters for their teams, communities, and wider systems.
Why These Talks Matter
Real conversation is more than speaking. It’s the place where insight happens where we notice patterns, name pressures, and understand the forces that shape how we lead, collaborate, and navigate complex situations.
These talks use dialogue as a tool for reflection and connection, helping people see themselves and their roles with more clarity and confidence.
What You’ll Experience
Each session is built on a simple idea: deeper conversation leads to deeper understanding — and deeper understanding supports healthier teams, more inclusive communities, and more humane systems.
Whether the focus is identity, leadership, communication, or collective change, the aim is the same: invite people into conversations that shift how they see, think, and relate to the world around them.
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Understanding the Inner Patterns That Influence Your Communication
This session helps people understand what shapes their inner voice — the values, emotions, and experiences behind how they communicate.
What You’ll Gain
Learn to tell the difference between your grounded voice and the protective habits that appear under stress. Build clarity, emotional steadiness, and confidence in expressing what you think and need.
Who It’s For
Ideal for universities, workplace teams, leaders, youth programmes, and neurodivergent communities — anyone wanting to communicate with more honesty and less fear.
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Conversations That Lead to Understanding
This talk gives practical tools for speaking so people truly hear you and listening in a way that helps others feel understood and respected.
What You’ll Gain
Using whole-voice communication, participants learn to:
• build trust in a grounded, sustainable way
• navigate differences with less conflict
• stay steady under pressure
• strengthen relationships across teams, universities, and communities
Who It’s For
Any group seeking clearer communication, stronger rapport, and more resilient connections.
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How to navigate the rules you live, study, and work under.
Understanding Systems: How Structures Shape Communication, Behaviour, and Conflict
Systems aren’t abstract — they’re built from human pressures, motivations, expectations, and fears. This talk helps people see the link between individual experience and the wider structures they work within, making everyday challenges easier to understand and navigate.
What This Talk Helps With
Participants explore:
how systems shape behaviour, communication, and decision-making
why frontline staff and leadership often misunderstand each other
how identity and lived experience interact with institutional logic
how to advocate effectively within a system without burning out
how to recognise when the system — not the people — is creating tension or conflict
Who It’s For
A transformative session for anyone working inside complex structures including educators, leaders, frontline teams, non-profits, public services, and community organisations.
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Strengthening Team Relationships Through Clear, Calm Communication
This talk explores why even well-intentioned teams can slip into tension, silence, or misunderstanding — and offers practical tools to help groups reconnect. Participants learn how to communicate with clarity, recognise early signs of conflict, reduce stress in difficult conversations, and rebuild trust when relationships feel strained.
What This Talk Helps With
The session supports healthier day-to-day interactions, smoother collaboration, and a more grounded team culture. It’s well-suited for non-profits, charities, businesses, and community groups who want stronger relationships and more humane communication across their organisation.
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Emotional clarity. Intellectual integrity. Human connection.
Leadership today requires relational intelligence — the ability to guide people with presence rather than pressure.
This talk helps leaders:
communicate honestly without harming
stay grounded in complexity
build trust without performance
understand how systems shape behaviour
simplify communication without losing nuance
Ideal for managers, senior teams, and emerging leaders.
Communicating Across Difference With Clarity and Care
This talk helps teams and communities see what sits beneath tough conversations — identity, values, and safety — and how to shift from defensiveness to real understanding.
What You’ll Gain
• insight into how culture and emotion shape listening
• why disagreement can feel threatening
• ways to move from reactive to cooperative communication
• how to spot the incentives behind resistance or conflict
Why It Matters
People aren’t just sharing ideas — they’re protecting their worldview. This session builds steadier, more thoughtful communication.
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Whole-Voice Leadership
Leadership is ongoing negotiation — where trust, needs, and expectations are constantly shaped. This talk shows leaders how to navigate those dynamics with clarity, honesty, and grounded communication.
What You’ll Gain
• understand the incentives and pressures behind team behaviour
• negotiate clarity without control, avoidance, or overwhelm
• recognise the emotional contracts within organisations
• communicate in ways that align honesty, stability, and trust
Why It Matters
Whole-voice leadership strengthens relationships, reduces conflict, and helps teams stay steady in complexity.
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Example Talk
In April 2024, I took the TEDxBrighton stage with How to Build Your Drawful House—a talk introducing a new kind of framework for communities. It explored how we can move beyond mere survival and create environments where people feel psychologically empowered, connected, and capable of real healing. At its core, the talk is about the inner foundations needed for conversations that deepen our understanding of ourselves and the communities we belong to. It's an invitation to imagine—and build—communities where growth, honesty, and collective strength are not just possible, but expected.