What I’m doing now

This page was updated on July 28, 2025

This is a ‘now page’ - a cool concept by Derek Sivers, which I discovered thanks to my friend Jessamie. In short, this is where I’m sharing what’s happening in my life at the moment, in the form of a friendly and somewhat informal update.

Past editions: February 2025, September 2024.

As 2025 unfolds, I’m getting out into the world to share my writing, and launching a new major initiative: Shapeshifters, a community of practice to give voice and visibility to the people who look after the work in between. Meanwhile, I continue to support a broad range of orgs around the world, to reach higher levels of clarity and coherence.

Sharing my writing

For decades now, writing has been my primary pursuit. I’ve published books, essays and fiction, as writer and editor – and I’ve shared a large number of texts, on various project blogs. Formally, I like to think of my writing as akin to a landscaped garden, inviting the reader to repeat promenades, revealing different perspectives on each visit. In terms of topics, my interest clusters around collective action, the fine-grain exploration of cultural diversity, and our human capacity for transformation.

Check out this page to get lost in my blog, read past essays, or buy books!

Speaking of buying books… I recently published a small booklet with my friends at Subversion Imprint in Brussels.

The more we recognise that things have complex genealogies, the more we can imagine different futures. On Change: Twelve Meditations is a collection of philosophical fragments, taking a personal lens to reflect on large-scale societal transformation. It invites readers on an introspective journey through life in the 2020s, as external shifts meet internal confusion in the lingering aftermath of the pandemic. Each section offers a series of vignettes that weave together intellectual commentary with personal memories of the late 20th century. Sounds intriguing? Would make a great gift? Buy it here!

Shapeshifters – holding the space in between

In the past few months, I’ve gone back to founder mode, and gathered a small team on a new project. Under the label ‘shape shifters’, we’re aiming to support the people in charge of liminal work in organisations and ecosystems – those who look after what falls between the cracks – by giving them voice and visibility.

Concretely, we developed a profiling tool (use the code ‘shapeshifters’), released a booklet articulating core competencies, and will be gathering a community of practice, for regular exchange and knowledge articulation. Check out our website at shapeshifters.group, and follow us on LinkedIn.

Sound-tracking – towards system coherence

For the last two year, I’ve been working with Luea Ritter on ecosystem stewardship. We set out to demystify the elusive ‘inner work’ that is central to our practice – and most models of transformative change or coherence building. A weekly conversations turned into writing. The first draft of our book is now in revision. We’re hoping to share it with the world soon.

If this appeals and you’re interested to help us as an early reviewer or by facilitating introductions to publishers – we would love to have a chat! Please contact me!

supporting organisations through change

A core part of my practice is to work with a broad range of organisations and individuals to reach higher levels of clarity and coherence – through focused engagement, or ongoing light-touch support.

Since late 2024, I’ve been supporting the Australian Ballet to navigate a period of transition. Through my friend Luea Ritter, I’ve now started some work with the World Ethic Forum – a global organism centred on Switzerland, and exploring the preconditions for a culture of radically shared aliveness.

As for smaller engagements, the past little while has seen me with a circular economy project in the Netherlands, a cybersecurity project in France, a regenerative finance organisation centred on PNG, a spiritual literacy project in Spain, a global carbon finance project – as well as learning to facilitate The Adaptation Game (TAG), an extraordinary role-playing game for local climate adaptation, and supporting the organisation of the 2025 Enspiral Winterfest.

On the horizon

Work with The Future of Governance Agency is continuing behind the scenes. We’re ring-fencing it, but anticipate really cool stuff coming. Clues: AI, China, and positive visions of the future. So, you might expect to see more of me!

That’s it. This page is in part to connect with people, and in part to keep my own brain in order. Working across a broad range of things, it’s easy to feel like my days are idle and empty. Putting things in order, as I do here, is a way to counter this dangerous illusion. Thanks for being with me on this journey!