How do we stay human in a world that asks so much of us?
Welcome! My name is Anel.
I help people change how they see and meet their lives.
The Western world runs through screens and at a speed that treats feeling, need and slowness as obstacles. Many of us are more connected than ever and feel more alone.
To be human is to be touched by life and to answer it in a voice of your own. That takes a body, other people, beauty, grief and play, and it takes range: fierce and tender, useful and gloriously purposeless.
As Wendell Berry put it:
"It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines."
Three Ways We Can Connect:
Free Range Human
Long conversations about aliveness and re-enchantment, with people who are living them. Read or listen at your own pace.
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Living in the Field of Beauty
A course for people who want to practise meeting life through beauty, with structure and company along the way.
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Symbolic Mapping and Thinking Sessions
One-to-one work with me. We map what you are living through and look at it from a new angle, so you can change how you see and meet your life.
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Workshops for Teams
Facilitated sessions for groups who want to work with more presence and less guardedness.
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Workshops for teams that want to remain human under pressure
Under pressure, people protect themselves, conversation becomes more careful, and a surprising amount of intelligence never makes it into the room.
I design practical, participatory workshops that help teams create the trust needed for honest conversation and better thinking. The work is shaped around what is actually happening in the room, and people leave with language and practices they can still use when Monday arrives.
