Programme · Consultancy · FacilitationYou're here to learn to shift power—together.
Welcome to Shift Circle. Here you'll find the full programme and community workshops for people shifting power in decision-making, consultancy specialising in participation and lived experience coproduction, and facilitation.
Because if we want collective change, we have to learn to make it happen together.
What ties it togetherThis work is a commitment to learning and power-sharing.
Too often, organisations doing good work unwittingly reproduce the very inequalities they set out to redress. All strands of Shift Circle — the programme and workshops, consultancy, and facilitation — are about valuing different types of experience and distributing knowledge and power, so we can learn more deeply and make decisions that align better with our values and vision.
Working togetherThree ways we might work together
Programme & workshops
Shift Circle
A facilitated peer learning community for people shifting decision-making in their organisation towards lived experience and community leadership.
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Consultancy
Lived experience & participation
Helping organisations move towards decisions genuinely grounded in the communities they exist for, without being extractive or tokenistic.
What this looks like
Facilitation
Workshops & learning programmes
Facilitating workshops and programmes for organisations who are looking for an experienced power-aware and trauma-informed facilitator.
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Hello, I'm TheoI'm interested in doing things with people, not for people.
I'm a participation consultant and facilitator with expertise in peer learning. I'm grassroots at heart, and a lifelong volunteer and activist. I've gone from growing up in a youth-led movement, to working with charities of all sizes, founding Xenia, working at the GLA, and now independent freelancing since 2018.
In everything I do, I'm driven by learning and working with others towards collective liberation.
Who I've worked withTrusted by organisations
Programme"Shift Circle is safe and uplifting space for change-makers involved in various aspects of co-production and community wealth building to come together and work through sticky issues together."
— Current Shift Circle participant
Consultancy"Theo helped build champions of participation across the organisation, including the most senior decision-makers. The learning programme she developed did not just raise awareness; it fostered a genuine commitment to embedding lived experience in all of our work.”
— Lived Experience Strategy Lead
Facilitation"Theo is a skilled facilitator and is very knowledgeable about participation. She has supported us on our journey to embed participation as an approach in our work, and her practice is rooted in a keen sense of social justice and solidarity with those experiencing systemic injustice."
— Head of Participation
Next StepsGet in touch — and tell me what you’re looking for
Whether it's the programme, a consultancy project, or a facilitation brief, a quick line about what you're interested in helps me respond with the best next steps.