Three fields, one sensibility.

Conflict is part of living and working together. And it is often necessary for things to move. Most of it the people involved work out on their own. It gets difficult when a conflict becomes stuck, is not even recognized as one, or starts to escalate. That is when an outside view and a clear framework help.

I work mediatively — with individuals, teams, and organizations. Holding emotions without smoothing them over too quickly. Staying open to the outcome without imposing a solution. Guiding a process rather than deciding it.

Not every conflict calls for a formal mediation. A mediative sensibility and the craft of understanding help from the first misunderstanding to the entrenched dispute.

I worked in institutional monitoring for many years. There, institutions carry responsibility for people, and power is unevenly distributed. What accountability and harm prevention mean in practice, I know from the inside. I bring that experience in where it helps.

Much is decided not at the level of what is said but beneath it — in the way we are here. How do we stay clear and present when things get difficult, when much is at stake, when we are in transition? This is the question I work on, one-on-one and in small groups, in advising, in conversation, in teaching. Often the work is to create and hold a space where what is essential can show itself.