Hey Changemaker

It's time to nourish yourself!

Leading, activating, creating, guiding, holding, educating, innovating for change, is not for the faint-hearted. It takes courage and patience. Wisdom, purpose and strength.
It also takes boundaries, focus and commitment to nourishing ourselves.
It can be tough out there, in the trenches of every-day life. Depleting our resources and burning out is part of the old way of doing life and work.
Only when we thrive can we help other people and the planet to thrive too.
That’s when we can show up with both intention and integrity!

This journal is especially for you who identify as a changemaker. You are likely someone who cares about people and the planet, and want to make a difference through the work you do. You also care about how you show up in the world. This journal has been carefully designed to support your well-being and self-leadership this season.

REFLECT * RESTORE * REGROUP

THE WISH TREE SUMMER JOURNAL

12 POWERFUL SELF-NOURISHMENT PRACTICES

To rejuvenate your mind, body & heart inside-out

STRENGTHEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF AND NATURE

Feel connected, grounded, calm and confident

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Take your journal with you on your days off, choose the practices that you are drawn to

The Wish Tree Summer Journal invites you to take some time out this summer to nourish your mind, body and heart

Through powerful practises that will help you connect with yourself, your body and with Nature, you are able to rejuvenate, inside-out, and thrive just that little bit more.

In Wish Tree, we work with 4 Pillars of a regenerative self-leadership: self-nourishment is one of these.

Self-nourishment is about choosing to look after yourself well, so that your energy, focus, creativity and motivation can last a long time. And so that you can enjoy your life, even when the going gets tough.

I have lovingly created 12 bespoke practises that will leave you feeling more connected, grounded, calm and confident.

When you thrive as a changemaker, you shine! And you can become a guiding light – for yourself, and those around you.

It’s our mission to support you as a changemaker to take action on your purpose, walk your talk and show up with integrity, so that you can make an even bigger positive impact in the world, especially at this extraordinary time of change on the planet. This is only possible from a place of feeling nourished, centered and resilient, inside-out.

It's time to nourish yourself!

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About Emily & White Supremacy

Emily is a space holder and self-leadership coach to changemakers. She has over 20 years experience in the field of human development, learning and growth, and leads the coaching and consultancy company Wish Tree since 2011. Her work centres around wholeness – whole humans, whole communities, whole organisations, whole ecosystems. A whole world. Her changemakership is therefore dedicated to clearing distortions and fragmentations that relate to our perceptions of separation.

Emily has been exposed to and ‘sat with’ systemic issues around race, racism, privilege and injustice her whole life. She was born in Camden, London, in the late 1970s to a Swedish immigrant single mum and spent her first formative years in a highly culturally and ethnically diverse setting. As a baby, Emily and her mum lived in a bedsit in a shared house with a Black British family. Her first memory of Father Christmas was of him as a Bangladeshi man. Emily’s mum worked with refugee families and in Children’s Homes in inner city London, and since she had no access to child care opportunities, Emily joined her at work. For a while, Emily had an older Black British foster sister called Debbie. She was very often the only white child in the community of children of which she was a part.

Emily moved to Sweden with her mum as a child and as a teenager became involved with, and led, antiracism youth work in her local town through her school and council-initiated networks in the 1990s.

Her mum, who was active in the peace-and- environmental movement and who had been involved as an ally in the civil rights movement in the US on her travels there, introduced her to Black feminist and activist writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lord, and actively taught her about white privilege, white supremacy and the truth of colonialism. She was also taught about the importance of learning from Indigenous wisdom keepers in order to heal and evolve as humanity, and to (in those days) stop climate change.

In contrast, on her father’s side, Emily is of British Colonial descent. Emily’s grandmother was born in Zimbabwe to Scottish sheep-farmers. Her grandfather came from a poor English background but won a scholarship to Cambridge University to study law. As many young British men of his time who sought “adventure, a good job and travel”, Emily’s grandfather joined the colonial service in the final days of the British Empire, and served in several African countries as a high-ranking colonial officer. He spoke Zulu and Emily’s father spoke Swazi and Swahili before being sent to Britain as a child to attend boarding school, thousands of miles away from his parents.

Although Emily did not grow up with her father or his family, she eventually came to know them and have a relationship with them, which involved taking responsibility for understanding and healing her own familial and ancestral relationship to colonialism and white supremacy.

In this process, she came to see, feel and understand first hand and close up, the deeper psychological workings of the system of white supremacy, the colonial mind and its intimate links with narcissism, perfectionism, patriarchy and extractive economies and behaviours.

Between 2003-2015, Emily worked as a learning researcher and Access, Diversity and Inclusion enabler in the Arts & Cultural Sector, deeply rooted in the Convention of the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Convention. She worked across the U.K and Scandinavia contributing to a number of large scale change projects, self-evaluation initiatives, conferences and trainings such as “Access for All”, “Inspiring Learning for All”, “Belonging – the Voices of London’s Refugees”, “The West Indian Front Room”, “Kultur och Fritid för Alla”, “Vidgat Deltagande”, “In this curriculum I don’t exist”, “In between two worlds – London teenagers’ ideas about Black History, Belonging and being British” to name a few. She worked with a wide range of marginalised communities as well as with leaders and directors holding white privilege, facilitating necessary and brave conversations challenging the status quo.

Emily has worked across many cultures and languages around the world from Sri Lanka to South Africa, Costa Rica and India to Romania and Denmark, continuously reflecting on and challenging white saviour tendencies. In this process has come to observe how white supremacy and racism works differently in different countries depending on context and history.

In 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Emily became a loud voice in the Wellness industry by calling in leaders bypassing white supremacy through ‘love and light’ rhetoric, exceptionalism, colourblindness and virtue signalling. She closed down several online coaching circles because white participants were unwilling to dive deeper into their own internalised white supremacy, and rendered the spaces not only additionally unsafe, but traumatising for BIPOC clients. Her platform and large facebook community for coaches and wellbeing facilitators centred BIWOC-led anti-racism conversations as a response.

Emily is a skilled and fiercely loving coach and space-holder with many years experience of creating safe spaces for accountability, healing, integration and growth to take place.

She is dedicated to her own ongoing learning, healing and unlearning of covert white supremacy. Examples of this are continuous learning from a wide range of anti-racism educators, authors and activists from around the world.

This bio has not been written with the intention of centring Emily in the context of Me & White Supremacy, but to transparently share about her background, values, skills and experience in order for you to make a conscious decision to choose her as a space-holder, or not.

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