Weedwork: On Land, Love and Leadership
Organisational leadership, parenting, supervision, aunty-ing / uncling, coaching, counseling, art making, mentoring, neighboring, story telling, teaching, - these diverse forms of leadership are rarely recognised in their visionary, world building potential.
In nature there are many examples of plants classified as ‘weeds’, contributing to the restoration of ecosystems, often sacrificially. Weeds can soften the ground, fix nutrients, stabilise soil, provide protection and clear the way for more vulnerable species to establish themselves. Leaders committed to cultural restoration and systemic transformation, are required to make similar, invisible sacrifices.
Weedwork is a groupwork cycle through four weeks, where participants explore the rigour, devotion and grit of liberatory leadership - from any place one leads and loves - alongside the cost, sacrifice and the strategy required to stay steady and unwavering in the work.
Roles in leadership, facilitation, relational design and cultural care work - require deep commitment to self knowledge, self honestly, criticality, humility, patience and grace - dignifying processes that are so often unrewarded within individualistic social structures.
Leadership can be a form of love - the delicate negotiation of giving just enough support to nurture and just enough challenge for growth. Liberatory leaders (parents, supervisors, therapists, teachers etc..) are often vilified for sacrificing comfort in the present, for capacity in the future. People opt for the visible performance of healing, growth or liberation, over the invisible and excruciating processes of recovery, integration and restoration.
STAY TUNED FOR WEEDWORK LAUNCHING IN SEPTEMBER 2026
