

Nina Burrowes
May 2, 2023
Arriving
We've arrived. We're in the place we couldn't have known when we left our last front door, shutting it behind and stepping into the...


Nina Burrowes
Feb 7, 2023
Talking in circles 15: Future echo
We're living in a future echo, spending a month living in the town where this journey will end. We're feeling into what life here might...


Cynthia Ellis
Nov 26, 2022
Talking in circles 14: In search of equanimity
We start this conversation tentatively as we try to take it all in. Try to see it in its fullness. Sitting with the jarring impact of...

Nina Burrowes
Nov 16, 2022
The end of the beginning
We knew the energy was changing, as sure as we could see the leaves mark the turning of the season. Something was coming to an end, and...


Nina Burrowes
Oct 6, 2022
Talking in circles 13: Mother Tree
Sometimes you don't realise how much you were in need of help until someone says 'How can we help you?'. Sometimes life teaches you the...

Nina Burrowes
Sep 24, 2022
Stories to celebrate a year of being on the road
A year ago, when we closed the front door of our old home for the last time we could not have imagined what we would be doing today. All...


Nina Burrowes
Jul 29, 2022
A lesson on ambition
Life and this journey we are on is teaching me so much and the resonant lesson of the moment is about ambition. I've always had an...


Nina Burrowes
May 21, 2022
Talking in circles 12: The unfolding
A toss of the coin sent us on the path to Scotland and here we talk about the unfolding we've seen and felt in this land. Our journey is...


Nina Burrowes
Mar 29, 2022
Deepening roots with the tide
My body resonates at the deeply felt memory of the smell. The smell of dark mud mixed with seaweed and salt in the air...


Nina Burrowes
Mar 22, 2022
A postcard from Brighton with Survivors' Network
We're on home ground. The land of familiar places and familiar faces. So it was such a pleasure to have a chance to catch up with...


Nina Burrowes
Mar 11, 2022
Talking in circles 11: The sea was large today, just as any other day
We've been unsettled. Off-balance. Struggling to find our feet. Our own unease has met global unease. Catching us already off-balance....


Cynthia Ellis
Jan 27, 2022
Talking in circles 10: Finding the stillness
There’s a rhythm to what we’re doing. It’s still new to us in many ways, and probably it will always feel new. We’re continuously...


Nina Burrowes
Jan 23, 2022
Having less, experiencing more
We're heavily into the housesitting part of this adventure and I'm sitting here smiling back at myself, remembering my hesitation as it...

Nina Burrowes
Jan 12, 2022
A postcard from Birmingham with the Rape and Sexual Violence Project
One of my favourite parts of this trip are those moments when we make the time to pop in to see friends, old and new, and find out how...


Cynthia Ellis
Dec 31, 2021
Talking in circles 9: Wrapping up 2021 one step at a time
Although it’s not possible to summarise 2021 in any great detail (there were simply too many moments to capture or even to remember), it...


Nina Burrowes
Nov 29, 2021
Talking in circles 8: On fertile ground
On our second day staying in Ceres we met a local woman whilst we were walking in the hills and asked her about the name of the village....


Nina Burrowes
Oct 29, 2021
Talking in circles 7: Rage
In a journey full of the unexpected, nature gifts me a lesson on rage. As a theme it has been bubbling up for months. It has a sticky...


Cynthia Ellis
Oct 25, 2021
Talking in circles 6: The power of circle
How has the first month on the road been and how did it feel to hold our first in person circles? In this episode of Talking in Circles,...


Nina Burrowes
Oct 10, 2021
Living in the flow
We are surrounded by the flow of water. It falls from the sky. It rises from the ground. It creates brooks, streams and rivers running to...


Cynthia Ellis
Oct 1, 2021
Talking in circles 5: London, Yoda and discovery
It has been with kind familiarity that we spent this week in London, our first week away from what was home in Brighton only a short 6...


Cynthia Ellis
Sep 24, 2021
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...


Nina Burrowes
Aug 30, 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 21, 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 12, 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...


Cynthia Ellis
Jul 17, 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...


Nina Burrowes
Jun 21, 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...


Cynthia Ellis
Jun 18, 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...


Nina Burrowes
May 30, 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 20, 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...