I wasn’t used to wearing such revealing clothes, but I caved to the peer pressure and picked a pair to transform.

The next morning, I wore my new pants to school. As my new neighbor and I walked down the garden path to catch the bus, I felt extremely self-conscious and a bit anxious about what people would say.

I said to her, “I feel really self-conscious wearing these.”
Her response?

“That’s what you get for wearing pink trousers.”

Whaaaat?
Pink trousers? That was the issue for her?
Not how tight they were? That hadn’t even occurred to me.

That one comment—“pink trousers”—triggered something big in my brain.
And I mean really big.

It might sound silly, but in that moment I had a full-on worldview epiphany.

“Oh my God,” I thought.
"The rules here are completely different. Which means all the rules everywhere are just made up by people. And if they’re made up by people… they can be changed by people."

That understanding has stayed with me ever since.

And it kept being confirmed—again and again—as I traveled and lived in different countries, towns, and communities. People’s beliefs about themselves, each other, and the world shaped the rules they agreed to live by. Sometimes, reality even seemed to bend to those beliefs.

(Ask me about coffee culture sometime. It’s wild. But that’s another story.)

So what does any of this have to do with sociocracy?

Everything.

When I question the power-over status quo, I often hear:
“Well, that’s just the way it is.”

And I always want to say:
“But it doesn’t have to be. We can change it.”

What I learned that day in Scotland is that we can change everything—if we want to.
But wanting change isn’t enough.

Buckminster Fuller said, "Create systems that make the old ones obsolete," because to change a system, we need something better to replace it with. 

For me, sociocracy is that something. It’s how we change and heal power.

And having lived inside so many different "realities," I know this with my whole being:

We can change the way things are—by believing we can, and acting on that belief. Literally. 

Training That Changed Me 

The Sociocracy Consulting Group

• 2020 - 2022  Online 6 week Foundations of Sociocracy x 2 

• 2022 - 2023  Online 6 week Sociocratic Facilitation x 2

• 2023  3 day In Person Implementation with a  non -profit, Activate, in Western Australia. 

Sociocracy For All

 2024  6 months Consulting and Training Certification Academy

International Network of Sociocracy Centers

2025 - 2026  "The Art of Sociocracy Implementation" 

Teaching Around the World 

2020 Golden Bay Community Gardens 

• • Foundations 

  • Facilitation 

2023 - 2024 NeighbourGood Ecovillage Start Up

• • Foundations

  • Facilitation

2024 - 2025 Light Way Learning 

2024 Oceania & Western Europe Tour

• • New Zealand 

    • Riverside Community, Motueka

    • New Zealand National Time Banks

  • Australia

    • Crystal Waters Ecovillage, Brisbane

    • Narara Ecovillage, Sydney

    • Byron Bay Change Agents

    • Pinakari Community, Perth

    • Witchcliffe Ecovillage, Margaret River

  • Portugal

    • Nomad Farm hosted at Traditional Dream Factory

  • Spain

    • Los Portales Ecovillage

  • The Netherlands

    • Ecodorp Boekel

  • Sweden 

    • Global Ecovillage Network Gathering

  • Italy 

    • Damanhur Ecovillage Design Education Sociocracy Trainer

Sociocracy in Action 

Golden Bay Community Gardens, Golden Bay, New Zealand

As a sociocracy neophyte, I took on the transformation of a struggling community garden trust in New Zealand’s South Island. I was just beginning my training with The Sociocracy Consulting Group (TSCG), but I already knew when meetings weren’t working and momentum was stalling.

Using the tools I was learning in Sociocracy LIVE, we cleared the overstuffed agenda, formed circles, and elected people into clear roles.

The result? Five years later, sociocracy is still in use—and the gardens have evolved into the thriving Golden Bay Sustainable Living Centre.

NeighbourGood EcoVillage Startup

In late 2022, I was talking with one of the co-founders of the NeighbourGood startup project. He was sharing the vision with excitement, and then paused:

“But how do we govern it? What system do we use?”

Without missing a beat, I said, “Sociocracy, of course.”
It aligned perfectly with the ethos of collaboration and equivalence the project was founded on.

From that moment through to the end of 2024, I served as Vision Catalyst, guiding the implementation of sociocracy from day one and co-writing a constitution that embedded its principles at the core.

Light Way Learning Home Educator Academy 

By December 2024, I was ready to tap into my other deep passion: education transformation.

As co-founder of Light Way Learning, it was a natural choice to use sociocracy as the governance model for our conscious business startup.

It’s been a journey for our small team. One member reflected:

“It took me a minute to adapt and start taking on more responsibility.
This is a whole different way of working from what I’m used to… and I love it.”

That’s the beauty of sociocracy: it doesn’t just change how we make decisions—it changes how we show up in shared purpose.