We are
A systemically trained practice team with a shared way of working. We work in an interdisciplinary way, bringing together psychology, science, leadership, coaching, and embodied practice into coherence. Between us we hold doctoral depth and many years working in or alongside leaders, teams, and whole organisations. Our common grounding is in systems-psychodynamics: the study of how people take up their roles, and how the forces in a system, seen and unseen, shape what they do. We attend to the connection between body and mind, and how that influences us all. We have spent much of our working lives across cultures and with difference, and we continue to learn about, and work with, our experience of connectedness. And we share one conviction: that what a group most needs is usually already present between its people, waiting to be seen and developed.
Rebekah O'Rourke, PhD
Director
Rebekah specialises in group and team dynamics and whole-of-organisation transformation. A social psychologist by training and an EMCC-accredited supervisor, she integrates psychology, science, systemic constellations and systems-psychodynamics with embodied practice, drawing them into a coherent whole that helps leaders and teams see and shift the patterns shaping how they perform. She is the creator of Synastria, the studio's collective-intelligence platform, and brings the analytic rigour and steady presence that hold complex change together.
Michael Parkes, PhD
Senior Adviser
Michael is a systems scientist and practitioner who works across the ecological, physiological, human and organisational systems that shape how we live and work. His doctorate in energy systems and background in environmental and medical science sit alongside more than a decade in social innovation, group relations and organisational analysis, and deep training in somatic and embodied practice. He brings a rare whole-systems view of how change happens, and how it affects the health of people and organisations alike.
Olivia Margo, MPhil
Senior Adviser
Olivia works with leaders and executive teams on the core work of leadership: managing dynamics, open dialogue, high-quality decisions, and finding steadiness in uncertain conditions. A systemic practitioner, she attends to all the forces at play, seen and unseen, drawing on systemic constellations, systems-psychodynamics, adult development theory and somatic coaching, working one to one and with teams. She has worked across global contexts and sectors.
Julia Fernando, MSc
Senior Adviser
Julia is an organisational psychologist with over a decade of international experience across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. A research-practitioner, she designs and delivers evidence-based leadership and organisational development, specialising in psychometric tools and systemic approaches that support behaviour change and collaboration. She is passionate about preserving what makes us human in an increasingly digital world of work.
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