Jeremy’s mission is to support people in all fields of life to thrive in diversity and to build community.  Diversity is happening everywhere and we can either retreat to our laagers or come out and play.  Which is more fun?  Community is a natural result of embracing diversity;  it’s also the only way we will get through the socio-environmental challenges coming our way.

He brings several disciplines to bear – farmer and Permaculturist, dancer and healer, environmental designer and conflict facilitator.  He can be more interested in questions than answers - the right question will keep you going a lifetime;  answers clog the arteries.

In recent years Jeremy has presented the Natural Step interventions (that’s a model for business sustainability, not a dance) for a wide variety of organisations in South Africa including Woolworths, Afrox and several metropolitan municipalities.  He was project manager for the IUCN World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and ran a Zero Waste training program in the run-up to the World Cup.

He has also become increasingly drawn to conflict facilitation and organisational challenges, using the insights and methodology of Process Work. Here he has worked primarily in the informal sector with NGO’s and community groups seeking to heal racial, ethnic, gender and other divisions, with some corporate interventions particularly in the banking sector.

These two passions now come together in the Resilience Process. This combines the principles and tricks of sustainable development (individual, group, corporate or community) with the insights and wisdom of Deep Democracy.

Jeremy is currently completing an MA in Conflict Facilitation and Organisational Change at the Process Work Centre in Portland, Oregon.

• Sustainability/resilience - what does this look like in real life? - in my own life, in this community, this company, this city . . ?
• Be here now (be in the flow), vs create my own reality (be a good goal achiever): how to hold both polarities into my daily being?
• How do I develop the right questions for leadership?  - If I lead with just my answers I deflate your creative genius.  Can I lead by questions rather than solutions?  Where do questions come from, anyway?

Jeremy likes an informal style, interacting with audiences so as to keep relevant to your experience.

There is an interesting boundary between what fascinates us and what we actually act on, to effect change.  Jeremy will probably challenge you to explore this boundary.  Whether it’s the environment of your home or of your community or your planet, you will be invited to question the way you conduct your life.

Community:  What works?

Connecting the dots:  how do money systems, sustainability, personal health and creativity relate?

The natural way:  how is Life, or Nature, gently guiding us in all aspects of our lives?