Our story
We first came together during a week at Plum Village Monastery, where shared practice and reflection drew us into conversation, and lit a fire that we have been tending ever since. While there, we sat with a deceptively simple insight: how we are in each moment, within ourselves, with each other, and with the living world, shapes the future through everything we do. In the stillness of monastic life, mindful being felt natural. But as we prepared to return to the complexity of the outside world, we found ourselves wondering: how do we hold that quality of being while also engaging in the decisive doing our times demand?
We came together as mothers, as fellow travelers, and as thought partners searching for the nurturing conditions we long to see in our own ecosystems. As we experimented in our personal and professional lives, we began sharing what we were learning with each other. Slowly, we realised these explorations, this practice of noticing patterns, questioning assumptions, and reshaping the stories we live by, might offer something meaningful to others moving through similar transitions.
Though our paths and experiences are very different, we share a deep desire to transform the systems that shape our collective future. Again and again, our work brought us to the same insight: power, and harm it can carry, often follow the flow of capital through our ecosystems. Having each spent years within the climate funding landscape, we became curious about what it might take to nurture regenerative economies within this space. Whether we are working with ancestral wisdom or emerging technologies, we return to a set of guiding questions: Who is this serving, and who might it harm? How is power shared? What does enough look like? And where does reciprocity live in the system?