Rachel facilitates collaborative and participatory workshops, working with diverse communities and people, locally, nationally and internationally.

Over the last 15 years, she has been developing artistic workshops and learning methods, to help us find positive ways to think about the future and respond to climate and environmental change. These methods explore how we can connect with nature, community and ecology using imaginative, creative, ritualised and artistic practices. Following an interdisciplinary and innovative approach. She is currently running a series of public workshops exploring the theme of Creating the Future as part of The Commons Residency Project in Finsbury Park, London.

Rachel’s workshops are designed to bring diverse communities together through creative and artistic activities and experiences, particularly bringing together people from different disciplines or sectors, as well as experts and non-experts, to share knowledge and thinking about the future. This work is often unexpected, implicit, sometimes mysterious and often multi-layered. Rachel’s expertise combines sensory, embodied, performative, emotional and poetic artistic approaches with robust understandings of data, science and technology. This work opens up opportunities for the new and unexpected to happen.

These workshops aim to:

• Develop ‘What If’ thinking, that helps us understand and change the narratives and myths we hold about the future.
• Bringing diverse groups of people together to share knowledge, build resilience and respond to uncertainty.
• Explore how sustainability, imagination, creativity, interdisciplinary and ethical thinking can help us address wicked problems (such as climate and environmental change and developing ethical and responsible technologies for the future).
• Explore how we can develop reciprocal systems, that can function in modern society
• Explore the role of myth and ritual in helping us to transform thinking and create new opportunities for sharing, learning and understanding.