Collective Intelligence & Agency in Complex Systems
Helping groups sense, make sense, and act together
I am a practitioner–researcher working at the intersection of systems change, collective agency, and embodied ways of knowing.
I work with teams, networks, and multi-stakeholder groups navigating complexity—particularly when the way forward isn’t clear, perspectives differ, or familiar approaches to strategy and decision-making aren’t enough.
My work creates spaces for groups to slow down, widen their ways of knowing, and better sense the systems they are part of. Through systems sensing, embodied and relational practices, and collective sensemaking, groups can surface patterns and possibilities that help them develop greater shared awareness, find orientation, and move forward together.
From collective awareness to collective agency
Many groups don't lack ideas, expertise, or commitment. The challenge is bringing these capacities together in ways that allow people to see the larger system, understand what is emerging, and recognize their own role within it.
Rather than beginning with solutions, I work with what is already present in the system: different perspectives, lived experience, relationships, tensions, knowledge, and forms of intelligence that may not yet be connected.
The aim is not simply agreement. It is to strengthen a group's capacity to sense together, make meaning together, and act with greater agency and coordination.
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Researching how groups move forward together
My doctoral research explores collective decision formation: how embodied sensing and relational ways of knowing influence shared perception, collective orientation, agency, and sustained coordinated action.
I am particularly interested in what changes when groups widen the forms of intelligence available to them—cognitive, emotional, somatic, relational, and ecological—and how these different ways of knowing shape participation, collective authorship, and what happens after a decision is made.
This research both informs and is informed by my work with groups navigating real-world complexity.
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Ways to work together
I design and facilitate systems sensing and sensemaking processes for teams, networks, organizations, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. These can range from a focused experiential workshop to a longer process supporting a strategic question, transition, or emerging direction.
I also work with individuals who are navigating complexity and change and want space to sense more deeply into what is happening, what is emerging, and how they want to respond.
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If your team, network, or initiative is sitting with an important question—or sensing that something wants to shift but the way forward isn't yet clear—I'd be glad to explore what kind of process might be useful.