The vision, structure and broad direction of The 11 Illuminations™ had already been established by Jenna — a body of work she has tended to for almost 20 years. Her own labour of love, which, in her words, needed “a midwife.”

I feel honoured to be working alongside her to bring it to life in a way that feels grounded and authentic.

What we are creating together is the container that will hold the work and the detail of the experience itself - how people move through it, the way it is held, and the practices, reflections, rhythms and relational elements that create the conditions for safety, growth and change.

We are passing the clay back and forth, bringing different perspectives, experiences and ideas to something neither of us would create in quite the same way alone.

This collaboration asks something personal of me too. Alongside my professional experience, I am drawing on my own lived experience of healing and transformation. I am immersed in the work alongside Jenna, bringing our whole selves into what we create and how we hold it.

This doesn’t feel like work for either of us. It is a labour of love - an expression of our own journeys and experience, shaped into something that can be shared with and hold others. There is joy and inspiration in the making of it, and a shared sense of the possibilities it holds for healing and change at scale.