Geoff Brown

At the beginning of every piece of work I help you articulate a clear purpose and recruit a core team of people that bring different questions and diverse perspectives to the design process.

I seek to work with my clients over many years and I deeply value those long term relationships where learning has flowed both ways.

I start with the end-in-mind; which means I support you to design for both tangible products and the relational outcomes that help to sustain efforts beyond one-off events.

How I work has been influenced by many people and fields. In anthropology and the arts they use a word – Bricolage. Bricolage is ‘the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new’. My practice as a consultant, informed by my teachers and mentors, has been to weave together different models, theories and practices from fields including:

• Groupwork and psychology practised as a therapist across many rehabilitation settings

• Applied Improvisation over many years through the AIN

• Art of Hosting – which is both a community and an approach to leadership, inviting and hosting conversations

• Complexity science here and here

• Systems Thinking

• Design Thinking