Who am I?
The three big strands that have run through my life have been art, sustainability and people. For the longest time these threads seemed disparate, unconnected, compartmentalised and I wasn’t sure what I really ‘was’.
It was when I studied for my MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility at Ashridge (2014-16) that I at last began to understand the deep importance of creativity - at individual level and at organisational level - as a practical measure to help us imagine – and create - the future we want, while staying light and inspired along the way.
I also began to understand that in order to heal our world we need to heal ourselves, and that the challenges facing us today, personally and collectively, are an indicator that we are more than ready to take those steps. Studying coaching and Processwork opened new doors to work dynamically and therapeutically with the practices I love the best, to deepen my exploration of myself and to extend these practices to others.
Bingo! My three strands started to weave into a tapestry.
My work as a coach speaks to my deep belief in human potential. I am constantly surprised by the amazing people I meet as a coach and facilitator and I know that we are all equipped to respond to our challenges creatively.
I have two wonderful grown up children and live with my husband, our cat and chickens in Oxfordshire.
Qualifications
Association for Coaching and Institute of Leadership and Management accredited Advanced Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring, Wise Goose Coaching
MSc Sustainability and Responsibility, Ashridge.
Project title: Relationship to Self, Other and Group as a Sustainability Inquiry
BA(Hons) French (Italian Subsidiary), UCL
Art Foundation, Central St Martins.
Continuing Professional Development
The Body, Psychotherapy and the World, One Year Course, Processwork UK
Your Dreams, Body and Dreambody’s Message for our World. Arnold and Amy Mindell for the Jung Club, London
Dreams and Dreaming, Processwork South West
Leadership and Facilitation: All Our Relations, Processwork South West
Understanding Yourself and Your Team using DISC, Government Knowledge Training Ltd
Jungian Learning
Psychic Inheritance: What Does it Matter From Whence We Came? Penny Boisset, IGAP
Humility: The Way of the Ordinary, Jim Fitzgerald, Guild of Analytical Psychologists
The Slow Place, Siri Ness, Jungian Lectures, Oxford
Individuation and the Kizaemon Tea Bowl, Chuck Schwartz, Jungian Lectures, Oxford
The Role of the Old Gods in Psychic Illness Today, Dr Anne Maguire, Jungian Lectures, Oxford
Memories of Jung by Those Who Knew Him, Ean Begg, Jungian Lectures, Oxford
Whither Eros, Dr Anne Maguire, Jungian Lectures, Oxford
A Fresh Look at Projection, Ribola/Mercurio, Jungian Lectures, Oxford
Individual analysis: 200+ hours with Carmen Reynal, IGAP
Career
Coach and facilitator | Workshop tutor, Helen Tyrrell Coaching and Hawkwood College Current
Association of Sustainability Practitioners: Director and Treasurer 2019-21
Conscious Organisations: Founder 2019-current
Anthesis Group: HR Advisor and Sustainability Lead, 2013-19
Best Foot Forward: Operations Manager, 2008-13
Oxford Art Society Secretary | Exhibiting Artist | Represented by Taurus Gallery, Oxford, 2005-9
Parent | Le Club Français Teacher |Art Tutor, Queen’s Park Arts Centre | Volunteer 1994-2004
Voyages Vacances Intl,: Bilingual Reservation Manager, 1992-4
Globalthinking: Co-Founder (not for profit to save the Rainforests), 1992
Books and Publications
Tribute to Jessica Begg, 1968-2011, poems, pictures and memories
Poems by Helen Tyrrell
A Sabbatical Tale by Simon and Helen Tyrrell