About us
We work with organisations, individuals and initiatives to put relationships at the heart of systems change.
We do this by:
Listening
Listening
Listening
Consulting with our clients to support them to achieve the systems change they desire through relational leadership.
Learning
Listening
Listening
Co-producing evaluation and research that puts evidence at the heart of everything we do.
Acting
Sharing
Sharing
Offering opportunities for encounter through getaways, training, workshops and community-building events.
Sharing
Sharing
Sharing
Communicating to strengthen relational connections through publications, speaking engagements, organising events, multi-media productions, media engagement and social/organisational outreach.
Our team
Dr Ruth Armstrong
is a lawyer and criminologist with over 20 years of experience in working with education, criminal and social justice organisations in the UK and internationally. Ruth has won many prizes for her writing, the impact of her research, and her criminal justice work.
Ruth is passionate about co-producing solutions to intractable social and organisational challenges and thrives on bringing people together, listening, understanding, and generating and sharing evidence.
Her expertise lies in supporting individuals and organisations to understand where and how they are, so they can chart a strategy towards where and how they want to be. Rigorous evaluation and effective communication form the backbone of her practice.
Because she knows from her own research that relational connections drive systems-change, Ruth works in ways that make this real.
Ruth is fluent in Spanish and English and is happy to work in either language.
Dr Ingrid Obsuth
is a clinical psychologist and internationally established researcher bringing together a wide array of collegiate practice from across the world (e.g., Switzerland, Spain, France, Norway, USA). She puts relationality, her expertise in attachment theory and ways to build connections at the heart of what she does and how she does it.
Ingrid has extensive experience evaluating therapeutic, criminological and educational programmes. Her work has led to the development of innovative and reliable assessment tools to measure the impact of initiatives designed to achieve social justice outcomes. Ingrid has used her research findings to develop and then evaluate manualised trainings with parents, prison officers and university lecturers.
Ingrid is a senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Edinburgh, a certified trainer in observational coding of interactions, and delivers training on a wide range of topics, including a range of quantitative statistical research methods. She makes leading randomised control trials utilising propensity score matching tools and developing validated measurement scales understandable and accessible and is a magician when it comes to turning observations into numbers that explain realities. Ingrid is a rare breed of statistical genius and emotional intelligence, gently bringing her expertise to the table and always working with people in ways that always communicate ‘I see you, I hear you’.
Dr Caroline Parker
is an anthropologist who has spent over ten years exploring the human and cultural dimensions of carceral states and their practices. Caroline is a skilled institutional ethnographer and is committed to bringing anthropological concepts and methods to bear on contemporary social justice problems. Her expertise lies in incarceration and structural drivers of racial inequality, and she has published many articles in journals of anthropology and social science. Caroline helps organizations “see structure” with a view to identifying (and acting upon) modifiable dimensions of social and racial inequality.