You’re a deep thinker with a big job and (almost) no one gets you.

I work with deep thinkers with big jobs to be more in touch with their wisdom. 

You're a deep thinker.

You find it hard to play along with binaries.

You know that there are many ways to know.

You’ve done more than the regular share of thinking about power and oppression and freedom.

You realize that intervention (in the part of the world you influence) needs to be, at minimum, at the systemic level.

You learn from leaves and moss and mushrooms and octopuses and stars and movements, elders and poems. 

You borrow principles from over there and see corresponding patterns over here. 

You also hold a really annoying, compassionate understanding for Past You who got/gets seduced by superficiality and for others in the same boat.

I don’t know about you, but I get more in touch with my wisdom when I listen to or read the words of Krista Tippett and her interviewees, Padrig O’Tuama and his poets, Bayo Akomolafe, adrienne maree brown, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Mariame Kaba, Brené Brown, Indy Johar, Rebecca Solnit, Sonya Renee Taylor, Prentiss Hemphill. 

When I'm walking with these people and their wisdom by my side, I remember to be in touch with my wisdom.

Yeah, you're a deep thinker. 

You've got a big job. 

You either are a CEO or someone in charge of complex projects 

Or…

you're a public philosopher, a writer, a convener, a facilitator, a coach, or something else that's indescribable. 

Your job in the way that you do it is, at its root, probably hard to describe, even though other people place a narrower label on it. 

You know that you intervene in lots of visible and less visible ways. 

Yup. You've got a big job.

Almost no one gets you.

Maybe a couple of colleagues partially do. Maybe some of your friends are able to hold parts of your experience and thinking. 

But not all of it, not all of the time, and, having lost some of your certainty and drive in the face of the mess and complexity of the world, you feel alone and get lost.

You too easily get pulled into smaller conceptions of what you should be doing when there’s no one around you who really sees you.

Most people around you think you should be doing more of what you don't think makes a change, and less of the bigger work that you know you should be doing.

And therefore, sometimes you lose your fire and strength and connection to wisdom. 

That's where I come in. 

I offer accompaniment.

Accompaniment is an ongoing conversation about what's going on for you, what you're thinking about, what you're thinking through, what you're planning, what you're doing, how it went, what you're reading, what it's making you think, what you're listening to, what it's making you think, the conversations you’ve had, what they’re making you think.

And I am with you.

I accompany you every (working) day, in that conversation, basically via an exchange of text and voice notes.  

That's my job: accompaniment.

Accompaniment being walking by your side.

Accompaniment being playing along to your solo to create different harmonies. 

Accompaniment being relish.

And we work together. 

I sometimes ask you, you know, coaching questions.

I sometimes share your enthusiasm with you.

I sometimes reflect.

I sometimes remind you of something you said before.

I sometimes offer you a quote, a framework, an author, a podcast, a chapter. 

Sometimes I just listen with my full attention and an open heart and tell you I'm listening, because sometimes what you need is witnessing.

The details

I’m by your side every working day. 

We work together for three months at a time. 

We start each three months with a Depth session to breathe and think about where you are.

Then we swap to voice notes and texts. You can message me literally any time day or night, 24/7. I respond within 24 hours Monday-Friday.

If you feel the occasional need for a more synchronous chat, there's a link for you to book in a 20-30 minute Zoom.

If there's something you want me to read or listen to, once a week you can send me a link and I review it within a few days, give whatever reflections you've requested/whatever I think is good for you to hear ☺️

At the end of three months, we breathe together again in a Depth session and reflect on how accompaniment has been for you, and then together we decide if it's something we want to carry on doing.

Fees

It's £3000 GBP for three months (c. $3600 USD), unless you're a solo business person or you work totally for a non-profit, in which case there's a bit of leeway (just ask).  

If accompaniment calls to you, here’s the link to a couple of questions to express interest.