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Through a diversity of life-giving opportunities such as online & in-person immersions, courses, workshops & coaching we nurture you as an agent for change to feel resilient, connected, inspired and purposeful in turbulent times, so that you can lead yourself well and create ripples of wholeness across our world.

Wholeness Immersions & Courses

We find ourselves at a crucial time in the history of humankind and of our planet. One where we have the potential to steer ourselves in a new direction. A direction guided by wholeness- in heart, mind and action. In the way we show up and live our lives, work, make decisions, run organisations and businesses.

As such, all of us are invited to become changemakers, each in our own ways. Our immersions and courses invite us to take radical responsibility for who and how we want to be, here now. They take the shape of online circles and gatherings, often linked to seasons and Nature’s cycles, but also centre the necessary skills and approaches we want to practise for a resilient, inspired, connected and purposeful changemakership.

Longer online journeys such as Roots 4 Change, The Wounded Changemaker or The Good Ancestor invite us to go deeper and look ourselves with even greater courage so that we can alchemise, let go and choose life-giving ways forward- all held with love and compassion.

During in-person workshops and retreats we get to spend time together physically in community, heal, grow rest and receive.

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Wholeness Immersions & Courses

We find ourselves at a crucial time in the history of humankind and of our planet. One where we have the potential to steer ourselves in a new direction. A direction guided by wholeness- in heart, mind and action. In the way we show up and live our lives, work, make decisions, run organisations and businesses.

As such, all of us are invited to become changemakers, each in our own ways. Our immersions and courses invite us to take radical responsibility for who and how we want to be, here now. They take the shape of online circles and gatherings, often linked to seasons and Nature’s cycles, but also centre the necessary skills and approaches we want to practise for a resilient, inspired, connected and purposeful changemakership.

Longer online journeys such as Roots 4 Change, The Wounded Changemaker or The Good Ancestor invite us to go deeper and look ourselves with even greater courage so that we can alchemise, let go and choose life-giving ways forward- all held with love and compassion.

During in-person workshops and retreats we get to spend time together physically in community, heal, grow rest and receive.

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Self- Leadership Coaching

The old ways are simply no longer working. More and more of us are re-evaluating our lives and our contribution and asking ourselves why we got here in the first place.
NEW THRIVING PATHWAYS DEPEND ON OUR WILLINGNESS TO SAY YES TO EMBRACING A GREATER SENSE OF WHOLENESS: IN OUR OWN INTERNAL LANDSCAPES, BODIES, BEHAVIOURS. IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS, COMMUNITIES AND WORKPLACES. 

Self-leadership rests on the principle that change ‘out there’- in the world, in our organisations, in our communities, workplaces and families, begins with change ‘in here’. If we are burnt out, we cannot care for a burning planet.

Strengthened self-leadership can only come about in a nurturing environment where you are seen, heard, emotionally held and supported. A space where you are safe to bring your whole self and what’s alive for you here and now. This is what happens in all our offerings and more intimately in our 1-2-1 sessions.

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Wisdom Contribution & Facilitation

EVERY SECTOR – FROM ARCHITECHTURE TO AGRICULTURE, ENGINGEERING TO EDUCATION, FINANCE TO FASHION, DESIGN TO DEMOCRACY IS RE-DEFINING ITSELF, AND EVERY ORGANISATION IS LOOKING WITHIN. LOOKING FOR WAYS TO NOT ONLY SURVIVE BUT THRIVE IN THESE TURBULENT TIMES, AND BEYOND.

With a solid advisory background in strategic and  organisational developement, we collaborate with start-ups, organisations & businesses on a journey to become more equitable, heart-centred and regenerative. We also participate in projects that seek to hold space for organisational and societal shifts through capacity building. If you are looking for in-depth eyes on a new initiative and want a creative sounding board, or facilitation to go deeper in your team conversations, just ping us a message and we’ll talk more! Recent collaborations and partnerships include Edge Sustainability Architechts, The British Arts Council, Future Making Academy, Taking Up Space & Regenerators Academy with global changemaker Laura Storm.

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Free Resources

In alignment with our mission is to nurture changemakers everywhere,  we believe in both equity-centred pricing and offering a range of resources and opportunities to strengthen your self-leadership, where some are accessed free or at a low cost. To receive fully,  all you need is an open heart, mind and willingness to show up fully.

Our no-cost resources are crafted with as much tender love and care as all other offerings, so we hope you look after them well and spend time soaking up what’s shared in them. Enjoy!

The Wish Tree Summer Journal

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. The Wish Tree Summer Journal includes 12 self-nourishment practises to rejuvenate and strengthen your mind, body & heart. For changemakers everywhere living & leading in extraordinary times. Published in July 2021.

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Imbolc Ritual Guide

Imbolc is an ancient Celtic festival celebrated on the 1st and 2nd of February, and means: ‘in the belly’.  This is a beautiful time for us to feel into the quality of our inner soil and prepare it to welcome new life. Give yourself the gift of engaging in an Imbolc ritual, which will support you to tune into your inner compass, nourish yourself, let go and have clarity on your next steps, as you gently move into the next season of your life! Published in 2023.

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‘It starts with you’ – reflection guide

Saying yes to being a changemaker means saying yes to embracing our self-leadership in a bigger way. If we want to be able to live and work in integrity, we need to become intentional about how we show up. Intentionality begins with reflection. This self-reflective resource is here to support you (and/or your team) in the early stages of your self-leadership journey, so that you can have greater clarity on where to focus your attention next, and be able to move forward with a greater sense of direction. Published in 2021.

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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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