Toni Spencer

Toni is a curator with The Emergence Network, leading on Vulture, Courting the Otherwise in a Time of Breakdown. 

She’s interested in where the intersections of personal, political and poetic can offer new ways of being together. One way this shows up is through her work with and as ’the pause’, “...a radical act, an invitation to stop in the midst of action, to disrupt our normal modes of being, to collectively fall silent and become aware of the moment we’re in.”

She is a Deep Adaptation Advocate since 2018, including a new course re-designed for the Covid era Living Deep Adaptation as well as Kissing The Void; Deep Adaptation and the Creative Spirit.

Toni has taught on the faculty of Schumacher College (Educational Practice, Ecological Facilitation as Leadership, Embodied Eco-literacy, Sacred Activism, Ethical Entrepreneurship) and at Goldsmiths, University of London (EcoDesign) as well as hosting workshops and grief tending in to activist and community spaces. She is a tutor, trainer and mentor on Call of the Wild with Schumacher Collage/Wildwise. 

Toni’s work as a facilitator, poet and mentor seeks to enable a richer engagement with the ecological, cultural and social issues of our times. She creates spaces where grit, grief, messiness, and laughter are welcome and where new kinds of wisdom and power can emerge.
https://www.tonispencer.co.uk/