A Mycelial Practice is the name I have given to a way of working that has been emerging throughout my life and career.

Across social work, community development, systems change, leadership development and organisational transformation, I found myself returning to the same questions: What helps people build meaningful relationships? What enables collective learning? And how do we create the conditions for change in complex and uncertain environments?

Over time, I began to recognise that my role was rarely to provide answers or solutions. More often, it involved helping people notice patterns, connect across boundaries, learn together and develop the relationships, structures and capacities needed to navigate what comes next.

The metaphor of mycelium helped me make sense of this practice. Just as mycelial networks support exchange, communication and reciprocity beneath the forest floor, I am interested in the networks of relationship that help people, communities and organisations flourish.

The image below and this website is an initial attempt to explore this and to tell the story of the principles, influences and ways of working that continue to shape my practice. These include the importance relational integrity, collective learning, systems thinking, psychodynamic approaches, social imagination and the role of love, care and reciprocity in creating the conditions for change.