Hi, 
I'm Elaine

About Me
I hold practices that support people, organisations, and communities to re‑orient how they imagine and enact change — from belonging, place, and relationship with Nature.

My work sits at the intersection of futures literacy, collective imagination, and regenerative practice.

It has grown out of more than 30 years working across social change, education, community engagement, and futures‑informed processes — and from a growing recognition that many approaches to sustainability and regeneration no longer match the depth of change being asked of us.

Rather than helping people “do sustainability better”, I work with what lies beneath: how we relate, how we make sense of the future, and how we act together when certainty is no longer available.
How I Work
I do not work as a traditional consultant or strategist.

Instead, I hold:
  • reflective and futures‑led practices
  • learning and sensemaking spaces
  • facilitated processes rooted in care, relationship, and responsibility

My work supports you to stay with complexity without rushing to solutions, and to imagine futures in ways that do not reproduce extraction, domination, or disconnection.

​Across contexts, the work is grounded in:
  • belonging as the starting point for change
  • futures literacy as a lived, collective capacity
  • place as relational, cultural, and ecological
  • imagination as an ethical practice
  • Nature as participant, not resource
My Experience & Grounding
My practice is informed by decades of work across:
  • sustainability and social change initiatives
  • education and learning design
  • entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial contexts
  • community and place‑based processes
  • futures thinking and foresight

I have worked with people and organisations across public, private, civic, educational, and community settings — often at moments of transition, tension, or uncertainty.
What connects this experience is not sector expertise, but a sustained attention to how change is imagined and enacted — and who carries its cost.
What I’m Known For
People often invite me into work because I am able to:
  • create thoughtful, inclusive spaces where difficult conversations can be held
  • support collective sensemaking when futures feel unclear or contested
  • notice the invisible labour, assumptions, and narratives shaping decisions
  • work across difference with care, without collapsing it
  • bring futures thinking into contact with lived experience and place

This is quiet, relational work - but it is foundational.
My Practice Ecosystem
I've created a practice ecosystem that includes:
  • an ongoing Substack community for futures, belonging, and collective imagination
  • facilitated practices and learning spaces
  • foresight and sensemaking reports
  • community and place‑based engagement
  • education work with youth and learners
  • specialised place‑based practices, such as Futuring With Mountains

People enter this ecosystem in different ways — and stay for different reasons.
My Mission
My work exists to support you to: imagine and enact futures without losing relationship — to yourself, to others, to place, and to the more‑than‑human world.
This is not about speed or optimisation.
It is about orientation, care, and responsibility.
Values
Belonging - change begins in relationship — not performance.

Inclusive - creating dynamic spaces where all beings are included.

Love as a Social Mission - placing love for Nature and people at the heart of how we imagine, explore and create. 

Imagination - as a collective, ethical capacity - not a resource to extract.

Care - For people, places, and the living world we are part of.

Responsibility - Acting with awareness of consequence and interdependence.

Fully Human - Refusing Anthropocene narratives to move to the Symbiocene.​
"I have learned so much, the processes we have been going through, they have been really eye-opening.
I was able to reflect on the way I have been doing things…and I have learned that developing an idea into reality is a long journey that one has to take very carefully.
That is a thumbs-up. You did a wonderful job for Lesotho."
Master Trainer Training, Lesotho, July 2021
You can also become part of my Substack community, where we imagine, learn and explore more together. ​