What I’m doing now

This page was updated on April 16, 2026

This page is where I share what I'm actively working on. Most of my time goes to a small number of projects that I co-founded, or that I am deeply embedded in. If any of these resonate, I'd love to connect.

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: July 2025, February 2025, September 2024.

After years of backstage work, I'm stepping out to engage more directly with the world. My theme for 2026: how to seed ideas, and what makes them germinate?

In terms of focus, my attention is currently split across five areas: Shapeshifters Group, the World Ethic Forum, the Future of Governance Agency, Collective Transitions, and My Practice supporting individuals and organisations to reach greater clarity.

SHAPESHIFTERS – HOLDING THE SPACE IN BETWEEN

In 2025, I gathered a small team around Shapeshifters Group. Our mission: give voice and visibility to the people who do liminal work, in organisations and ecosystems.

Since then, quite a bit has happened. We incorporated as a non-profit, spoke to a wide bunch of people, held a series of events online and in person, and crystallised our model in a simple website.

In 2026, we’re launching the Shapeshifters Commons: a wiki sharing our model, tools and practices for individuals and organisations, and a growing list of signals and precedents. We also contributed a submission to an Australian Senate Committee on productivity, highlighting the shortcomings of the labour market for generalists.

More at shapeshifters.group

WORLD ETHIC FORUM – A SANCTUARY FOR RADICALLY SHARED ALIVENESS

In late 2025, I formally joined the World Ethic Forum (WEFo) as in-house writer and editor. WEFo is a Swiss regenerative think tank exploring the preconditions for radically shared aliveness: if we wanted to foster a culture of care and kinship, nurturing relationships with everything alive in our organisations and communities, what would it actually look like?

After rewriting the WEFo website, I’ve been working with co-leads Anaïs Sägesser and Luea Ritter on a series of posts capturing key aspects of what WEFo’s practice and methodology.

Soon, I’ll be engaging with our Firekepeers – an extended group of practitioners, activists and thinkers from around the world – and in June, I’ll be attending the 2026 Firekeeper gathering and public event, Regenerative Impulses, in Kenya.

More at worldethicforum.com

FUTURE OF GOVERNANCE AGENCY – TOOLS FOR WORLD-BUILDERS

I co-founded FOGA with Corin Ism and colleagues in 2018. After coordinating the world's largest prize competition in the social sciences, seeking new models of global governance, we noticed a gap in literacy. So many of us simply don’t know how the systems of power that shape our life work, let alone how they could work differently. That includes activists, politicians, journalists, and leaders in large institutions.

After eight years of work across multiple iterations, we developed a solid ‘toolbox for world-builders’: an accessible set of tools to track power systems at all levels, and develop alternatives. We're close to release. Check out the teaser at foga.org – and stay tuned.

More at foga.org

SOUND-TRACKING – TOWARDS SYSTEM COHERENCE

For the past two years, I've been working closely with Luea Ritter, co-founder of Collective Transitions, to demystify the elusive inner work at the heart of transformative practice. Weekly conversations turned into a book project, and now a complete manuscript.

We're in the final stages of revision, and exploring how the model could inform facilitators, and help process stewards with recognition and mandate. If you'd like to be an early reviewer, or if you can facilitate introductions to publishers, please get in touch.

More at collectivetransitions.com.

My practice – towards Greater CLARITY

A core part of my work is supporting organisations and individuals towards greater clarity and coherence. I recently finished an engagement with the Australian Ballet. I continue to support a cybersecurity project in France, a regenerative finance organisation centred on PNG, a spiritual literacy project in Spain, a global carbon finance initiative, the Kumara node of Enspiral, a progressive Think Tank, and a social services organisation in Melbourne.

If you’re looking for someone to help unblock you or articulate a project in the making, please reach out!

More at My Services

EXPLORING VIRTUE – A FRESH TAKE ON STOICISM

Through 2025, I shared a weekly post my Substack exploring the four stoic virtues: wisdom, moderation, justice, and courage. In October, I spoke at the Stoicon conference, and became a regular participant in the Melbourne Stoa.

The year ended with a piece in the final online issue of Meanjin – Against Tragedy: Staying Human in the Polycrisis – on virtue ethics as a potential guardrail against polarisation. With gratitude to outgoing editor Esther Anatolitis for the commission.

That’s it. This page is partly 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!