Tony is one of the most practised conflict resolution, personal development and safety experts in the UK. He has decades of experience in working with violence, challenging behaviour and aggression in culturally mixed communities throughout Europe, plus training adults who face these issues in either their voluntary or employment roles.

When not working, Tony is an avid gym enthusiast and family man.

Katharine is a facilitator and coach with a background in theatre, conflict awareness and group facilitation. As a trained yoga teacher and performer she enjoys bringing a somatic awareness into her work as well as supporting people to connect with their innate sense of play, especially when exploring more challenging issues.

Originally from London Katharine has lived and worked in the Caribbean, France and West Africa. She is now settled back in her city of origin and lives with her partner and two children.

Petra is a creative facilitator with a background in social pedagogy, group facilitation and mediation. She is also a poet and writer and interested in the stories we tell ourselves; she believes in the power we all have individually and collectively to change the script at any given moment.

Originally from Germany, Petra has worked in countries and communities all over the world including Bosnia, South Africa, Uganda, Sudan, Afghanistan, London and West Yorkshire. 

René has 35 years experience as a facilitator/trainer in conflict resolution, coaching, self-leadership, staff team development and has worked in a variety of settings spanning the voluntary sector, government institutions to the corporate sector with many well known organisations. His passion is that people live the best they can for the environment and communities they co-exist in and for those communities to flourish. 

He is also an avid artist specialising in portraiture painting.

Jassy is an accredited workplace mediator, trainer and supervisor, supporting teams in prison, educational and faith settings to develop new responses to conflict. She is a practitioner in the tradition of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bringing mindfulness into the work of dismantling race and racism, and with a particular interest in understanding our past in order to create a new future.

Over the past ten years Jassy has developed “white awareness” networks within the UK and Europe, coming together with other white people to see, understand and transform the legacy of colonialism.

Ali has been coaching, training and facilitating groups for over 34 years. Ali uses the power of her own lived experience and has seen the impact of others understanding and owning their own.

She enjoys helping people identify the drivers of their behaviour and supporting the change they want to achieve. She is an NLP Practitioner and is currently studying trauma in the context of Neurocoaching.

Outside work, Ali enjoys renovating her home and spending time with her dog.

Ezimma Chigbo (Ez) is a highly skilled consultant, facilitator and coach with wide ranging experience working on issues of social justice and anti-oppressive practice in a variety of settings.

Her interest in this work stems from lived experience, coupled with her devotion to collective healing through social change.

Ez has worked across the third sector as well as consultancy in public and private sectors, delivering coaching with c-suite and leadership teams.

Ez designed and facilitated a co-design process on behalf of the Film and Television Charity, working with a panel of experts from across the screen industries to decide on how to allocate a £1M fund dedicated to tackling racism within the screen industries.

Ez’s attention to process allows her to work across different interests, identities and power dynamics; relying heavily upon her skills to centre care whilst building trust and action through tension and challenge.