Claire Milne

Claire is on a long and intimate inquiry around conflict’s transformative potential. Having worked within the social and ecological change movement for more than two decades she has witnessed and participated in the full kaleidoscope of the good, the bad and the ugly.

Claire is deeply committed to cleaning up her own act around conflict. This has involved learning how to feel and alchemise both her fear and vulnerability, and her fiery rage – and an ongoing process of radical inclusivity. This 'healing and wholing' process involves learning to love all parts of ourselves, and especially those our patriarchal culture finds hardest to accept. This liberatory path sees Claire more and more able to embrace the rupture and repair needed for healthy and transformative relating and collaborating.

Claire's professional experience ranges from working for NGOs like Global Justice Now! War on Want and Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, through to; co-founding Transition Bristol; coordinating the internationally renowned No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign; Sustainable Food Coordinator for Bristol City Council; living and working as an activist facilitator for 2.5 years at Ecodharma, a buddhist community and education centre in a wild and remote part of the Catalunyan Pyrenees; and most recently working for Transition Network as the Inner Transition Coordinator, integrating the inner dimension of change across the international Transition movement. Currently Claire works for Starter Culture, a new initiative cohering alliances around radical inner-led change to help return the inner dimension of life back to the epi-centre of our individual and collective experience. As part of this work she convenes the Art of Activism a year-long programme supporting participants to resource radical change from the inside out.

Alongside ongoing embodied awakening work, Claire is also apprenticing as a soul initiation and underworld Guide with Bill Plotkin and Animas Valley Institute, in her commitment to supporting people to reveal and live as their unique soul purpose.