THE ANSWER
IS CO-CREATION
We’re in a moment of transition and upheaval.
We can’t wait for slow-moving systems.
We can’t rely on higher powers.
And we can’t go it alone.
Stella McKenna - Guide | Strategist | Faciliator | Curator
For almost all of human history, we lived in close-knit communities, sharing in stories and rituals to coordinate, make community agreements and constantly respond to our environment. Isn’t it time we went back to that way of living?
My name Is Stella and I dream of a world where effective, personally invested communities gather to tackle the urgent challenges we all face.
Away from hierarchies, hypothetical goals and KPIs. Beyond dictated collaborations and job titles. Towards communities of co-creators – people connecting and acknowledging one another’s unique, individual contributions: our histories, families, knowledge, and experiences. Spaces to ‘be’ together differently.
Stella's skills of holding space and allowing exploration and healing are among the most valuable things we can do right now.
Hannah Temple - Founder, TealCo
How I work
Together, we are powerful.
I am a community builder, facilitator and curator working to foster the connectivity we need to navigate this turbulent time of transition.
Individualism, competition and the story of separation brought us here, co-creation and community will carry us where we need to go.
Whether we work together for a week or a year, we will be guided by commitment, resilience and a deepening relationship with our inner and outer nature.
Who I work with
We are all unique — that’s a powerful asset, not something to be controlled.
Working with organisations and communities, from nonprofits and international events, to sharing circles in living rooms and around camp fires, I seek to co-create spaces for the individuals within. Think of this not just as group objectives, but a place for head, hands and hearts. Unlike so many places where we find ourselves talking about what the future might look like, the rooms we share are for the work itself: building the future together.
I hold space for communities that meet for an hour, a day or even years at a time, from my home town of Sheffield, UK and online.
We’re asked to decide, now what are you going to be? Are you going to be an earthy person, practical, down-to-earth and get to it? Or are you going to be a dreamer, a visionary? We’re going to be both. And we can’t be, we shouldn’t be, talked out of it.
I’m both.
Don’t tell me I have to choose.
I don’t have to choose.
I am both.
I live in the crossing point.
M.C. Richards – Poet, potter, creative philosopher
