"Before you can work with other people's stories, you need to understand the stories you carry yourself."
No experience is lived in a single line. I've moved through several professional lives: historian, systemic consultant, narrative practitioner, facilitator. Each chapter has been shaped by the same underlying question: whose story gets heard, and what becomes possible when the quiet ones are invited in. That question started in colonial archives, where I was asking whose voices made it into the record and whose didn't. It followed me into organisations across Europe and Latin America, into facilitation rooms and leadership conversations, and eventually into founding INP.
My work sits at the intersection of narrative, systemic and participatory approaches. I design and facilitate spaces where lived experiences become visible, patterns can be explored and new perspectives for action emerge.
I accompany people and organisations in workshops, retreats and longer-term development processes. My role is not to deliver ready-made answers, but to hold and facilitate processes in which insight, clarity and co-creation can emerge from within the system.
At the core is listening. To experiences, tensions, uncertainties and moments of change. From there, narrative practice becomes a way to surface what matters, reveal dynamics and open spaces for collective orientation.
I believe that narrative competence is one of the most under-used capacities in the organisations and systems we're navigating. Not because people don't care about stories, but because the stories that shape what people see as possible, what they believe can change, what they feel responsible for, mostly go unexamined.
The work I do is not about crafting better narratives. It is about creating the conditions for the ones that matter to surface. That distinction is everything.
None of this is fast, and I don't promise it will be comfortable. But it is durable. Because it works at the level where meaning is actually made.
