A Year of Questions — A 12-Month Programme for Living Differently

We live in a time that demands something new from us. Not just new policies or new technologies — but a genuinely new way of being in the world. A different relationship to growth, to community, to the future, to uncertainty, and to the living systems we are part of and utterly dependent on.

Most of us can feel this. And most of us, at least some of the time, feel alone in feeling it.

This 12-month programme is an immersive journey for a small group of people ready to stop outsourcing their questions and start living with them. Drawing on the Work That Reconnects, the wisdom of the fungal kingdom, and the hard-won insights of climate science, we will move together — slowly, honestly, and in community — through twelve questions that have the power to change not just how we think, but how we live. Two gatherings a month, one year that could shift something in you.

Next cohort begins November 2026. Places are limited.

We ask twelve questions, not questions with fixed answers, but questions that, if we sit with them long enough and honestly enough, begin to reshape how we see.

We will draw on two unlikely but profound sources of guidance: Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects, one of the most powerful frameworks available for transforming ecological grief and overwhelm into grounded, collective action — and the wisdom of the fungal kingdom, whose strategies for survival, collaboration, and radical interdependence offer a quietly revolutionary set of metaphors for living and working differently in these times. Mycelium does not compete for dominance — it builds networks. It does not hoard — it shares resources. It does not impose a centre — it operates without one. It transforms what has died into the foundation for new life. There is something here worth learning from.

Alongside these sources of insight, I bring my own: years of professional expertise in climate science and energy modelling, as well as my own profound journey through climate despair and burnout. This means that this year begins with a courageous and honest look at where we actually are — what the science tells us about our future, and what that means for the choices available to us. Not to induce despair, but because clarity — real clarity, without denial — is the foundation on which genuine hope can be built.

How it works

Each month consists of two online gatherings:

• The Workshop — 2 hours. Each workshop takes us into the month's question through a combination of teaching, reflection, guided practice, and group conversation. These are not lectures, they are held spaces for thinking together — carefully facilitated, intellectually serious, and emotionally alive.
• The Practice Session — approximately 30 minutes. Two weeks later, the same group reconvenes to practice together. Each month I offer a concrete, embodied practice drawn from meditation, somatic work, dream work, yoga nidra, or nature-based inquiry — a tool to carry the month's question from the mind into the body and into daily life. The practice session is where insight becomes available as new habits.

The twelve questions

The questions we move through across the year won't be fully revealed here. But they touch, among other things, on:

• How did we get here, and where are we actually headed?
• How do we develop our very own personal ethics?
• How do we make decisions — and whose voices do we include?
• How do we relate to what is dying, and what is being born?
• What does it mean to belong — to a place, a community, a species, a web of life?
• How do we live with uncertainty?

What this year is not

This is not a course with a curriculum you consume and then complete. There are no certificates, no right answers, and no arrival point where everything is resolved.

What I hope we can create, together, by the end of a year: a community of people who have genuinely thought, felt and practiced together, and a set of tools that are yours to keep throughout life. A relationship to uncertainty that is more spacious than the one you arrived with. And, most participants find, a clarity about what matters — and what to do next.

Who this is for

This programme is for anyone who senses that the way they have been living is no longer working for them — and who is ready to do something about that, not alone, but together. You do not need to be an activist, a therapist, a meditator, or even in any way knowledgeable about the state of our world. You need only to be genuinely curious and honestly willing to show up — for yourself, and for the group.

Practicalities

Places are limited to twenty participants in order to protect the depth and intimacy of the group. The programme runs from November 2026, with two online gatherings per month.

If this speaks to something in you, I would love to hear from you.