THE GOLDEN POND
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Specialised behind-the-scenes support for leaders, creators and experts who are working on the creative edge of transformative projects.Helping you access and articulate your core intuitions, insights, inspirations and innovations—when something vital is stuck, murky, tangled, or tantalising just out of reach.Breaking through more quickly, richly and crisply, than by yourself.To go from the brewing place to crystallising the core 'aha'.And to go from the core 'aha' to a way of structuring and organising everything important around it.Particularly suited to high-stakes, high-sensitivity, structurally complex environments that demand trust, discretion, synthesis, and clear thinking.

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THE EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH ME
I had the privilege of being companioned by Luke... and it was one of the most powerful, clarifying conversations I’ve had in years.In one session he created such a deeply curious and attuned container that I found myself articulating, with surprising ease, what I most deeply care about in my work — and why I’ve been struggling to bring it into the foreground.Luke’s way of listening, questioning, mapping, and mirroring back nuance helped me understand not just what I do, but why it matters... I left with both clarity and sadness — a recognition of how long I’ve held back the work that most wants to be shared through me. But more importantly, I left with a way forward.Luke has a rare gift for drawing out the golden threads that want to emerge — with clarity, care, and quiet brilliance. He’s not just facilitating a method, he’s holding space for deep articulation and transformation.This process is something truly special.Nicola | AustraliaLuke is very good at getting the essential shape of things, and giving it back to people... a highly talented, caring person with tremendous creative energy.Rob | Scotland
This work is emancipating and creative. And very rare.In the process with Luke, I noticed that I actually have words for this... that there are places to enter... sensing the deeper layers, almost like time dimensions between the things that came up.What I absolutely loved about it was that it had a continuum… of not leaving the process, that it could be fed… It pulled me in, and Luke's steady questions of tell-me-more kept that going, keep me in it. The tiny steps given in each next questions, were crucial especially with any resistance lurking in me. Such great questions, thanks for guiding me through it. This was precious.Anna | FinlandLuke is my go to expert for insightful, revealing and big-picture advice.I particularly turn to him in the early stages of my creative education and technology projects to get design and 'sense' feedback, and I've always found Luke's input saves me reams of time I would have otherwise spent on redundant or unnecessary elements.Jonathan | Australia
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WHAT I BRING TO THE PROCESS
When companioning of others, I draw upon a rare blend of advanced skills: empathic embodied listening, analytic systems mapping, vast and fast pattern recognition, and a very practical, enlivening process-generative and process-hacking capacity.Over the last two decades I've worked with hundreds of people in the formative phases of creative change, across many diverse fields. Because of this, I'm able to connect with anyone in their uniqueness of their context, their craft, their vocabularies, and their personality.My experience spans://// practice-oriented research methodology (teaching, tutoring and supporting over 200 researchers, across a dozen disciplines in arts, design, media, humanities and education, and covering all the major research approaches in theoretical, empirical and practical domains, QUT Creative Industries 2006-2010),
//// experience-oriented creative arts (music, performance, immersive installations, multi-arts community collaboration showing in festivals, arts venues and public spaces across Australia in into the US and UK, including co-directing of Compost Composers 1997-2001, Super Critical Mass 2008-2016 and Theatre of Thunder 2016-2023),
//// systems-oriented visual design and mapping (acknowledged with a global Information is Beautiful infographic award 2019),
//// innovation-oriented cultural research (for local government, universities research centres and community agencies, in innovation and arts policy and education, creative cities, community-led disaster coordination and more),
//// conceptually-orientated scholarship of philosophy and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin (including landmark research on his entire 60+ years of publication, and foundational discussion papers of his Thinking At The Edge approach),
//// immersion in embodiment-oriented expressive practices (Butoh, Jungian expressive therapy, theatre improvisation, wholebody Focusing, ideas whispering).All this goes into supporting and serving people in the "golden pond" of their inner wellspring of possibility—the brewing place from which all good things come, including love, care, play, wisdom, vital innovation, genuine transformation, and creative action.