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Courses, workshops, & retreats to nurture your whole being

Feel resilient, inspired, purposeful & connected in turbulent times

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 Becoming a 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 are held with fierce 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 is essential to our ability to thrive as individuals, teams, neighbourhoods, families, businesses, and organisations. It is key to resilience, harmony, creativity, innovation and aliveness: it is intrinsic to how life itself works. Yet, instead of wholeness, many of us experience a sense of separation, fragmentation, segregation, polarisation, disconnect, overwhelm, stress and burn-out.

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It is a programme that just keeps on giving, there is so much information to learn and unlearn. It is not for the faint-hearted. How you enter is not how you leave: you walk into a chrysalis and leave as a butterfly.

Helen Jeffrey

Roots 4 Change feels like a new way of learning. Very grounded, open-minded, open-hearted, expansive. Wholesome and organic. There was equality in contribution and healing among us. It felt like a growing tree: completely open to the flow of life. Roots 4 Change is a safe and loving space. Welcoming everything that comes up with accountability for our thoughts, words and actions.

Annabel Jones
Creative Entrepreneur

Roots 4 Change is a container with deep reverence to Mother Earth and awareness of our part in helping, restoring and protecting for the good of the collective. It’s a loving but disruptive container, with the invitation to plant seeds as they call to us. It’s a place to learn and unlearn, as well as to inspire and support as we each sow our seeds and embark on our changemaker path.

Claire Harvey
Educator

Once in a while the gift of deep reflection and learning presents itself – this 28 day journey to become better ancestors is both beautiful, heartbreaking and so very essential! I highly recommend you to participate – it will change how you see life and yourself!

Tatjana Harttung
Organisational Development Consultant

I am a root worker. A shadow dweller. A loving interruptor of degenerative patterns.

Perhaps like you, I was once a Wounded Changemaker trapped in the wheel of ‘never enough’ – fixing, rescuing, pleasing and perfecting – leading to multi-layered stress and frequent exhaustion. A series of stark losses stopped me in my tracks, forced me to surrender, and invited me on an adventurous homecoming journey to embody – one day and one breath at a time – the life-giving ways of living, leading and inspiring change I wish to see in the world.

I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE DARK. YOURS OR MINE.

Saying yes to a whole world means be willing to face painful truths -personal and collective – to sit together with grief, discomfort and imperfection. To look ourselves and each other in the eyes in loving accountability. And to say yes to embracing joy, emotional intimacy and thriving too.

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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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