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Empty house, full heart
It’s been weeks of getting ready for this trip. Packing boxes, sign writing a van, planning visits across the country, finding places to...

Cynthia Ellis
Sep 24, 2021


First day of filming
So much of preparing for this journey has held the magic of happy coincidence. As if the universe is conspiring to ease the path and make...

Nina Burrowes
Aug 30, 2021


Talking in circles 4: The shadow
When you're doing something that hasn't been done before there's no road map, no one who can lead you along the way and warn you about...

Nina Burrowes
Aug 21, 2021


Talking in circles 3: The vessel
Vessels have always been important in our work. We need the right containers for our passion, our pain, our hope. Containers keep us...

Nina Burrowes
Aug 12, 2021


Every river tells a story
In many ways, we’ve already started leaving our Brighton home and this week was a dip of the toes into the journey ahead. We spent the...

Cynthia Ellis
Jul 17, 2021


How do people heal from injustice?
Heal v. from Proto-Germanic hailjan, literally 'to make whole' At The Consent Collective our ways of thinking and working are informed by...

Nina Burrowes
Jun 21, 2021


Talking in circles 2: Picking up pebbles along the way
In this spiralling conversation, we stop to admire the pebbles along the way. We pick up the ones that are catching our eyes in this...

Cynthia Ellis
Jun 18, 2021


Talking in circles 1: Trusting the adventure
Adventure from adventurus, future participle of advenire meaning 'to come to, reach, arrive at' Our first wandering recorded conversation...

Nina Burrowes
May 30, 2021


Leaving in order to arrive
Paradox n. A statement that seems to contradict itself but may nonetheless be true We have a dream. A seed of an idea that we'd love to...

Nina Burrowes
May 20, 2021
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