About Me

I started my working life as an ethnographic researcher, working in northern Pakistan looking at labour migration and gaining a PhD in 1995. I have worked for the last 25 years as a social development researcher, continuing to engage in my passion for understanding the experiences of individuals who are often at the margins of society. My experiences of being a father to children reaching their teenage years led me to attend the first Mankind Project (MKP UK) weekend in Scotland and to subsequently join a men’s group, which has provided lasting support to me. In these years I found support and encouragement from other men who were actively engaged in men’s work, which gave me the confidence to set up and run men’s groups and to get involved in supporting work with teenage boys and young men through Journeyman UK.

In response to a number of years dealing with family bereavement and long term illness and care for older family members, I wanted to explore further and sought out and experienced Shadow Work. I immediately saw the potential that it had for me to both explore the roots of my own blocks and limitation and opened up ways for me to become more fully myself. Encouraged by my own experience I trained as a coach with Shadow Work Europe (https://shadowwork.eu/), continuing to explore my own shadows and in the process discovering my own passion to share this journey with others.