Rachel facilitates collaborative and participatory workshops in both rural and urban places, and community, schools and academic settings – across the UK and internationally.

Over the last 15 years, these workshops have focused on finding positive ways to think about the future and respond to climate and environmental change. Using art and craft making to explore how we can connect with nature, community and ecology using innovative and imaginative practices.

Rachel’s workshops are often unexpected, innovative and multi-layered. Rachel’s expertise combines sensory, embodied, performative, emotional and poetic artistic approaches with robust understandings of data, science and technology. She has developed unique methods for bringing together multi-cultural, intergenerational, mixed ability and socio-economic groups with researchers and experts from different disciplines, as a way to explore complex and ‘wicked’ problems such as climate and environmental change. 

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.