Conscious Food Systems Facilitator (based in East Africa) — weaving inner work, community convening, and regenerative practice into real-world food systems change.

I’m a Nairobi-based facilitator and movement-maker. I host meditation sanghas, curate meditative pottery workshops, founded Give a Scrap — playful, reconnecting community meals — and help organisations weave inner development into real-world food systems change.

Creativity for me it's an inescapable yearning to produce, to play, to immerse my soul in a golden moment of raw vulnerability - whether in visioning workshops, collaborative food events or in the kitchen and studio.

I was raised in rural Scotland and have since been lucky enough to live and work in three continents, most recently in Kenya. I am a potter and painter with a reverence for the the written word. I can happily spend hours devising recipes from whatever’s at hand (or foragable)! We grew up close to the land, and that sense of interconnection runs through my work - whether I’m in an office, on a farm, at the pottery wheel or by the stove.

The thread through my story is an unwavering curiosity about food and health - kept alive through my work and the magical, imaginative journey of @giveascrap, where we remember eating as medicine. @earthyplates is deeply rooted here too: ceramics grew from agriculture’s need to store and share food. Perhaps you’ve even noticed that when you eat out of an imperfect handmade creation you subconsciously slow down and hold a greater appreciation for what is before you?

“When we change the quality of our attention, we change the quality of our food systems”

Weaving inner development into real-world food systems change

I’m interested in how we can better approach systems change by nurturing human vitality and the inner capacities needed for today’s dynamic, interconnected challenges. With this, the through-line in my work is inner practices that shift how we relate, paired with practical pilots that move food systems on the ground.

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