Programme · Consultancy · FacilitationYou're here to learn to shift power—together.
Welcome to a community for people committed to shifting power. Here you'll find the Shift Circle programme and community workshops, participation + lived experience consultancy, and facilitation. Because if we want collective change, we have to learn to get there together.
This work is a commitment to learning and power-sharing.
What ties it togetherToo often, organisations doing good work unwittingly reproduce the very inequalities they set out to redress. All strands of this work — the Shift Circle programme, consultancy, and facilitation — value different types of experience and distribute knowledge and power, so we can learn more deeply and make decisions more equally.
Three ways we might work together
Programme & workshopsShift Circle Programme
A facilitated peer learning community for people shifting decision-making in their organisation towards lived experience and community leadership.
ConsultancyLived experience & participation
Helping organisations move towards
decisions genuinely grounded in the communities they exist for, without being extractive or tokenistic.
FacilitationWorkshops & learning programmes
Helping organisations move towards
decisions genuinely grounded in the communities they exist for, without being extractive or tokenistic.
Working togetherHello, I'm Theo
I'm interested in doing things with people, not for people.
I'm a participation consultant and facilitator with expertise in peer learning. I'm grassroots at heart, and have worked across charities and the public sector — from a youth-led movement I grew up in, to founding Xenia, to working at the GLA and then going independent.
I'm driven by learning with and from others towards collective liberation.
Featured writing & resources
ReflectionReflections on peer learning
What emerged through the Climate Migration Collaborative peer learning journey.
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field notesFrom the CircleDesigning the first Shift Circle
An ongoing series on designing, recruiting and facilitating the Shift Circle programme.
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practiceLearning through facilitation
A short piece on constantly learning through my ongoing facilitation practice.
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Trusted by organisations doing this work
Who I've worked with
Programme“Shift Circle is a safe and uplifting space for change-makers to come together and work through sticky issues together.”
— Current Shift Circle participant
Consultancy“Theo helped build champions of participation across the organisation, including the most senior decision-makers — fostering a genuine commitment to embedding lived experience in all work.”
— Lived Experience Strategy Lead
Facilitation“Theo is a skilled facilitator and very knowledgeable about participation. Her practice is rooted in a keen sense of social justice and solidarity with those experiencing systemic injustice.”
— Head of Participation
Get in touch — and tell me what it's about
Whether it's the programme, a consultancy project, or a facilitation brief, a quick line about what you're after helps me respond with some next steps.
When you're ready